At October’s Young Labour national committee meeting, committee members, including chair Simon Darvill and NEC rep Bex Bailey, voted to reject two motions as agenda items: on the grounds that it was not the committee’s place to pass substantive motions, and that this should be left to the biennial policy conference. This has a very […]
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Young Labour committee votes to discuss policy no more than every two years
Nov 12th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.
Roll back the State? No – We must roll back Austerity
Nov 5th, 2013 by Katy Clark.The Chancellor of the Exchequer was recently heralding a 0.8 per cent increase in gross domestic product as a recovery. Growth of any amount should not be attacked in the context of the longest recession since the Victorian era. However growth of this level is pitiful, and no sign that the government’s policies are working or that […]
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Take action against the student loan book privatisation
Oct 10th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.Students have declared next week a “week of action” against the proposed privatisation of the student loan book. On Friday 18th October, students will gather outside the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to protest the plans, which have worrying implications for students past, present and future. An Early Day Motion (no. 542) has been […]
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Aspiration Nation: where the young don’t even have a safety net
Oct 5th, 2013 by Holly Ashby.There are 1.09 million people between the ages of 16 to 24 who are neither earning nor learning. They can’t find jobs, but are unwilling to retrain. There are some who have, since leaving school, actively refused to improve themselves through the dignifying act of work and plan to live, forever, on jobseekers’ allowance. This […]
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The reality of low-hour contracts – zero is just the surface
Aug 6th, 2013 by Holly Ashby.This week, it seems that everyone is talking about zero-hour contracts. Yet the problem is far wider – with many workers facing similar insecurities through agreements of slightly different shapes. At the supermarket where I work, many of us are on contracts of ten hours or less a week – in my case, four hours. […]
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Belfast, riots and class: a tale of two cities
Jul 10th, 2013 by Jilly Luke.The arrival of Swedish students to my Northern Ireland school was cheerfully described as an ‘exchange’ trip. But the closest we ever got to Stockholm was a jaunt down the road to IKEA. No – the icily beautiful Swedes would breeze into our lives, ruffle everyone’s feathers by saying our blazers and ties were “like […]
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Young Labour chiefs Simon Darvill and Bex Bailey vote against their own pledges
Jun 20th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.Young Labour. Long derided by European allies as “the Blair Witch Project”, but 2013 was the year it was all supposed to have changed. At the organisation’s annual conference in March, delegates were promised by candidates of all the party’s shades that things could only get better. Even candidates of the right, allied as ever […]
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Paris Brown shows the need for real youth representation
Apr 12th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.It’s been a tough week for Paris Brown. Britain’s first “youth police and crime commissioner” is hardly the first to be on the receiving end of a Mail on Sunday hatchet job. But at 17, she’s among the youngest. The “foul mouthed teen crime tsar”, so called by the same paper, found square miles of newsprint […]
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Only a proper alternative will defeat the “nice guys”
Apr 2nd, 2013 by Megan Davies.Last Thursday I attended a charity gig run by students from my school. It was a great event: young bands from the local area showcased their talent and the audience was largely made up of fellow pupils – many of whom had recently reached, or were close to reaching voting age. It came as no […]
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Labour supports Tory sanctions on job-seekers – but 40 fight back
Mar 19th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.A few months ago two young workers at Poundland appealed to the courts against being forced to work there for no wages at all or else forfeit all their benefits. The judge in the Court of Appeal decided in their favour, but also ruled that existing back-to-work schemes, of which Poundland was just one of […]
