I suppose we must thank the Mail for exposing so starkly and vividly just what a despicable purveyor of poison it is, so consumed by bigotry and hatred of all things progressive in British life that it can so grossly misrepresent Ed Miliband’s father who fought for Britain in the war when the Mail sided […]
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On Ian Aitken, “Red Ed”, being bold and winning elections
Oct 6th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.I haven’t always agreed with Ian Aitken, but the Guardian’s former political editor who’s 86 and still writes regularly has a cracking piece in this week’s Tribune (to which Left Futures readers would do well to subscribe). In it he reminds us of some earlier dark times when bold, radical promises were made at a Labour […]
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Conference report: Housing and transport
Sep 26th, 2013 by Gaye Johnson.Before launching into a report of the Housing and Transport policy debates held on the morning of the 24th of September, two issues of Party democracy which arose before them should be mentioned. As usual the establishment Candidates swept the board in the Conference Arrangements Committee elections. The victors include Heidi Alexander and Tom Blenkinsop […]
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Post-crash inequality has really hit the fan
Sep 22nd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.It seems almost indecent to recount that the richest 400 Americans now own, staggering as it may seem, no less than£1.4 trillions, a collective fortune slightly bigger than the Russian economy. The latest figures also reveal that in the US 95% of the gains from the recovery have gone to the richest 1% of the […]
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Ed Miliband proving himself “a brave and adroit leader”
Sep 18th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Peter Oborne’s article in the Telegraph about the political strength of Ed Miliband is very welcome. I do not agree with Oborne on the question of Miliband’s proposed reforms of the party’s relationship with the unions, but his article is a very useful corrective to the erroneous “common sense” that Ed is a weak leader […]
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GMB cuts Labour Party funding
Sep 4th, 2013 by Andy Newman.The response from GMB, one of the Labour Party’s largest and most loyal funders to the changes proposed by Ed Miliband have long been anticipated, and will come as no surprise. GMB statement following CEC meeting yesterday Tuesday 3rd September 2013 “The GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of […]
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Labour attack on Tory pay cuts would resonate more if MPs took pay cuts too
Aug 27th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Labour’s at least half right to explode the Tory economy bubble by exclaiming: Recovery? What recovery? OK for bankers’ bonuses, OK for City private equity, OK for investors’ share indices, OK for Treasury austerity enthusiasts. Yes, fine for the top 1% – that’s 300,000 individuals out of the UK’s 40 million adults. But what about […]
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Investment down, wages down – but bosses get 133 times as much
Aug 9th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.It’s good to know that the latest figures show that industrial production (which includes North Sea output and domestic energy) rose 0.6% in the second quarter of this year. What is not broadcast quite so loudly is that manufacturing is still more than 10% below its pre-crash peak, and likewise GDP is still 3.3% below […]
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Is Brighton Pavillion CLP on the brink of selecting an extremist bigot?
Jul 15th, 2013 by Andy Newman.This screen capture is extremely worrying: Next weekend Brighton Pavillion Labour Party will be selecting their prospective parliamentary candidate for the next general election. One of the front runners is the extremist anti-Islam bigot, Anne Marie Waters. She recently spoke at the Oxford Union, arguing that “Islam is not a religion of peace”, which brought […]
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Ed Miliband – guilty not of Blairism but of wishful thinking
Jul 11th, 2013 by Peter Willsman.When they joined the party, most Labour members had a belief that they would have some influence in their party. But under the Blairites, power was centralised and members were patronised. In the future, in the mooted new model party being cobbled together, individual members would be expected to pay some £45, work hard and […]
