The last few weeks have thrown up example after example how those with power have run rings round those who are supposed to call them to account. Yesterday we learnt that the police, shortly after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, tried to ‘smear’ his family, his friend who witnessed the murder, and campaigners protesting at […]
Posts Tagged ‘Accountability’
Who will spy on the spies, regulate the regulators and police the police?
Jun 25th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Prince Charles: tax dodging, accountability and arrogance
Jun 17th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The royal family, opinion polls told us last year, is enjoying its highest ever level of support – 80% favour the country remaining a monarchy including 74% of Labour supporters so this is not a propitious time to launch a campaign for a republic in Britain. However, Charles Windsor seems to be doing his best on […]
Michael Meacher attacks the secrecy of Bilderberg
Jun 7th, 2013 by Newsdesk.But just so you know who was there:
Why are the most powerful Labour politicians also the least accountable?
Jan 18th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Directly elected Mayors in England are, without doubt, the most powerful English politicians around, with the exception of the Prime Minister. They have unparalleled executive powers, sufficient powers of patronage to ensure they are untroubled by dissenters in their own parties, and the comfort of knowing that it requires a two-thirds majority to overturn their […]
Let’s make Young Labour accountable
Oct 23rd, 2012 by Conrad Landin.As elections for the national committee of Young Labour loom on the horizon, young members will be asking: what did they ever do for us? You might think this unfair. It’s possible that the committee members work very hard (I know, in fact, of a number that do.) But with no accountability and no sense […]
Some basic demands the left must start to make
Dec 29th, 2011 by James Bloodworth.Ever since the inception of New Labour, the left in Britain has been characterised by timidity when faced with an electorate ready to embrace change. The reluctance to break with a right-wing status quo has not been confined solely to the British labour movement either, but has become a commonplace right across the contemporary European […]
What really matters about Labour Leadership elections?
Feb 17th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s review of its structure is right to include the way it elects its leader but public attention has so far been drawn to the wrong things. That’s happened because Ed’s recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother’s supporters, and some of Ed’s people see a need to spin away the […]
Accountability breakdown: they keep getting away with it
Jan 24th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Four breakdowns in the last three days all point to the same central flaw which is now endemic in British society. Public order policing is out of control and clearly would have remained so for many years had not the undercover police spy Mark Kennedy gone native. Phone hacking of public figures we also now see has […]