Questioning Trident has been a big taboo in Labour Party policy circles for a couple of decades or so. Every other commitment seems to have been reviewed except the ‘need’ for a nuclear ‘deterrent’. The reluctance to question this particular piece of weaponry was beginning to seem irrational. So it’s good to see from Jon […]
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Labour Democracy – real or imaginary?
Oct 7th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.All the leadership candidates argued that party members needed a great voice in party decision-making. Today, Pat McFadden (who may yet lose his shadow cabinet place and the chair of Labour’s national policy forum) asks for submissions from party members to what he calls “a review of our policy making process”. Have we been here […]