Yesterday morning, Mark Ferguson at Labour List said “it felt like the Labour leadership and Unite were locked in a Mexican standoff, both sure they were in the right, and neither willing to back down,” but by the end of the day, the heat was still rising and Progress and their media friends were still […]
Posts Tagged ‘Falkirk’
Progress have been stoking the flames but it’s time for Ed & Len to turn the heat down
Jul 5th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.
Tom Watson – an outstanding backbencher even when he was on the front bench
Jul 4th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The resignation of Tom Watson from the Labour front bench is a great disappointment. Especially on Murdoch and phone-hacking, he has been an outstanding backbencher even when he was on the front bench. It is tragic that he should be a casualty of the unnecessary fracas over the Falkirk selection, and no doubt this will […]
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Falkirk, and the developing row between Labour and UNITE
Jul 1st, 2013 by Andy Newman.The placing of the Falkirk West CLP into administrative measures is the latest battle in what George Eaton at the New Statesman describes as “a war” between UNITE the union, and the Labour Party. In fact the Blairites in the party, are engaged in a concerted campaign to challenge trade union influence more generally. This became apparent in the synthetic “outrage” that […]
