Unalloyed goodness is a rarity in politics, especially when it comes to labour movement politics. But the decision handed down by the Supreme Court this morning ruling that employment tribunal fees are unlawful is some of the best industrial news seen in years. Implemented by the Tories with Liberal Democrat support in 2013, it was […]
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Peter Willsman reports from Labour’s July executive
Jul 20th, 2017 by Peter Willsman.National Executive Committee 18 July 2017 There was a very positive and constructive attitude all around the table. Everyone was fully aware that Labour had had a bigger increase in our vote share since 1945. Also everyone was fully aware that Jeremy was the key to our success. As of course were all of our […]
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What Tony Blair gets wrong
Jul 18th, 2017 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Taking time out from hanging with Bono and advising Central Asian dictators on how best to spin repression and executions, His Blairness has condescended to return to British politics to tell us things. And there are two things on his mind: Brexit and the election result. To save you the trouble, I’ve read his essay […]
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Vote Seema Chandwani and Billy Hayes for Labour’s CAC
Jul 16th, 2017 by James Elliott.Labour Party members can vote to elect two representatives to Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC). The election is a One Member One Vote (OMOV) ballot, with ballot papers starting to be emailed out in the week commencing Monday 17 July. The Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance is urging members to vote for Seema Chandwani and Billy Hayes.
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Yvette Cooper’s “Alternative Vision”
Jul 10th, 2017 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.That’s a bit embarrassing. There you are, the personnel are appointed and your team is ready to go. And then the Labour leader spoils it by defying expectations, winning extra seats, throwing the Tories into their most wretched state for 20 years and surges ahead with poll leads last seen since before the Iraq War. […]
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Labour MPs put internal divisions on public display again
Jul 5th, 2017 by Hounslow Momentum.This article from the Hounslow Momentum website expresses a widespread alarm at the behaviour of the 50 Labour MPs who chose to make a very public display of Labour disunity. Being the website of a local group it discusses a local MP who chose to support the Chuka Umunna amendment. Similar points can and should […]
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The end of Progress?
Jul 2nd, 2017 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Consolidating Corbynism involves the transformation of the Labour Party from a vote-catching bureaucracy into a movement capable of winning power by prosecuting its class interests. This in mind, the decision of Lord Sainsbury to pull funding from Progress shows, if you like, some progress towards this goal. Needless to say this, which was apparently announced […]
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The General Election 2017: What happened and why?
Jul 2nd, 2017 by Peter Rowlands.As someone who gives a somewhat greater credibility to polls than many, I was not among those of the true faith who never doubted that Labour would do well, and indeed was, until late April, in despair as polls had consistently for about five months indicated a Tory landslide, for which the poor local election […]
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Disband Momentum? Alan Johnson is as forgetful as he is hypocritical
Jun 26th, 2017 by James Elliott.Despite now being out of Parliament, Alan Johnson doesn’t seem to want to stay out of politics. This weekend he made a typically unastute intervention into Labour’s post-election debate, saying, “Momentum, by now, should have disbanded. Jeremy Corbyn by now is very safe”, and that, “I don’t see the point of a separate organisation which […]
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How the gods destroy Tory governments
Jun 26th, 2017 by David Osland.Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. And when the fancy takes them, they sadistically subject Tory governments visibly on the skids to cunningly-designed symbolic torment, calibrated perfectly to maximise exposure of the unwilling victims’ manifold ethical shortcomings. In their ways, the Profumo scandal, cash for questions and Grenfell Tower are all modern-day […]
