If you want more reason for dealing with the political elite’s career structure in the Labour party, just look at who represents Yorkshire in Labour’s shadow cabinet. Labour has 32 MPs from Yorkshire (the Tories having gained 10 seats in 2010), just 12% of the 258 won by Labour in 2010, but it has 37% […]
Posts Tagged ‘Careerism’
The political elite in action: who represents Yorkshire in Labour’s shadow cabinet?
Oct 13th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.
Things Labour needs to do to beat UKIP #1: destroy the political elite’s career structure
Oct 13th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.One comment on the website of a Clacton local paper this week summarised the attitude of so many: If it means that the lying, corrupt political elite of this country finally wake up and realise that they must start to serve the people of this country and not themselves then maybe some good will come […]
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Politics as a career
Nov 4th, 2013 by Andy Newman.The Labour Party was formed to ensure that the voices of working people were heard in parliament, which hitherto was the preserve of a professional political class. This aspiration is still reflected in Clause 1.2 of the party’s constitution that “its purpose is to organise and maintain in Parliament and in the country a political Labour […]
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Careerism – the cancer in the heart of Labour
Jun 13th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.This morning, the Times (“Hewitt ‘cashes in’ on Bupa job” – £) revealed that Patricia Hewitt, former Labour health secretary and sometime Bennite, has taken a job with Bupa — £52,000 a year to attend ten board meetings. She did much to enlarge the role of the private sector within the NHS and her experience […]
