Labour’s new leader has been in office barely two months, yet this hasn’t stopped a motley collection of ex Ministers, frustrated David Miliband supporters and it would seem some party officials, from moaning in the ear of one Dan Hodges, who last week launched into print in the New Statesman, giving vent to their – […]
Posts Tagged ‘Alan Johnson’
On Alan Johnson and the unions who put him in parliament
Nov 22nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Alan Johnson is a former General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union. Without their suppoprt and that of other unions, he would not be in parliament. Now he wants to cut or even eliminate union influence in the Labour Party. He wants to take away the votes of two-thirds of the people who voted in […]
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Ed Miliband needs to get a grip
Nov 22nd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.“If a week is a long time in politics”, as Harold Wilson once said, two weeks away from politics on paternity leave is clearly an age. Ed Miliband returns this week to Parliament after a fortnight helping to change nappies, only to find that some on his own front bench have been busy doing some […]
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Alan Johnson: could do better?
Oct 21st, 2010 by Jon Lansman.The most repellent aspect of watching the Chancellor yesterday was the schoolboy cheering as he finished. A new era of austerity ushered in by the Bullingdon bovver boys. Alan Johnson did respond: Members opposite are cheering the deepest cuts in public expenditure that have taken place in living memory. For many of them, this is […]
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Welcome to Austerity Britain
Oct 21st, 2010 by Mark Seddon.This today is the scene from battle-ground Britain, as the Government announces the biggest austerity and cuts programme in living memory. The Markets reacted well, but then they would. The rest of the country is simply reeling. The Chancellor, George Osborne, said: “today is the day Britain steps back from the brink‘”. Many think he […]
