The announcement of Conservative aspirations to scrap housing benefit for under 25s is yet another example of the thoughtless vandalism of the government, as they degrade the nation’s social infrastructure. Jon Trickett’s recent pamphlet for Compass on the “Conservative Dilemma” is therefore a timely contribution to the debate about why the government acts as it does, and how it should be opposed. Continue reading
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Winning Labour sets its sights on winning back Labour’s lost 5 million votes
Last weekend Yorkshire-based trade union-backed Labour campaign, WinningLabour, held its first national day conference. Set up last year, it aims to promote radical and practical debate about how to win back the 5 million votes Labour lost between 1997 and 2010, embracing three core themes. Continue reading
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It’s too late to build a Two-Ed-ist coalition against the Two-Ed detractors
It is a paradox that the coalition building skills necessary to be a successful party leader are often not the skills of persuasive and decisive determination necessary to be a successful prime minister. Sadly, it seems that Ed Miliband may not have the attributes to be succesful in either role. Miliband is certainly ill-served by his advisors, because the 2012 pay negotiations for public sector workers are of the absolutely highest importance for the key union leaders of UNITE, GMB and UNISON. Yet these key pillars of his own support are the very people that Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have sought a confrontation with. Continue reading
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Compass and the Leadership
“By this week-end, three quarters of the votes in the 2010 Labour leadership election will have been cast. The contest will effectively be over.” So Dan Hedges at Labour Uncut points out. And the effective end of the contest neatly coincides with the announcement of the result of the Compass ballot on who they’re going to back. Or would have backed had they decided in time. Continue reading
