Progress has today announced that it is making a number of “changes” which it claims make it more open and transparent and introduces some elements of democracy into its structure. The announcement was timed to coincide with the meeting of the organisation committee of Labour’s national executive which will receive notification of the rule change […]
Posts Tagged ‘Progress’
Progress dispute can’t be resolved without action by Labour’s executive
Jul 3rd, 2012 by Jon Lansman.
Blair still in state of denial
Jun 28th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.For some reason the Evening Standard made Blair guest editor yesterday — perhaps only a Russian oligarch-owned paper that attacked Ken Livingstone at every opportunity would offer Blair extensive publicity to broadcast his desire that he wants to re-enter British public life. Perhaps that indicates that they perceive Blair more as New Tory than New […]
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Which way for Labour?
Jun 26th, 2012 by Len McCluskey.As the Levenson inquiry is the latest to show, and the MPs expenses scandal proved earlier, we have an out-of-touch, self-satisfied, mutual back-scratching elite who look after themselves while ignoring ordinary people as much as possible. Maybe we could put up with that if this elite took the right decisions on behalf of us. But they don’t. Everything from the […]
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Progress are an obstacle to a Labour victory
Jun 17th, 2012 by Andy Newman.I have certainly had a busy week at GMB Congress in Brighton, with not only the usual hectic conference schedule, but also a series of meetings with activists and officials within the union to plan the next steps in our industrial action against Carillion. In addition, on Monday I moved a motion from Southern Region committing GMB […]
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On Progress newspeak and rebuttals that don’t rebut
Jun 14th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.We are all familiar with NewLabourspeak — Orwellian but Modern — that language New Labour used so persistently in government to imply that it was doing something it wasn’t actually doing at all. And then lots of New Labour types repeat it again and again, until you lose the will to live. So it is […]
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On invoking the Holocaust in defence of Progress
Jun 13th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Labour’s right appears to be panicking. That is the charitable explanation. No sooner had Paul Kenny suggested at the GMB congress that he supported a move to “outlaw Progress as part of the Labour Party” than Progress activists started to talk of a “purge“: “Seems the purges are about to start in the Labour Party! […]
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The campaign against Progress is serious
Jun 11th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.The campaign against Progress operating as a party within a party stepped up a gear today as the GMB Congress passed without dissent a motion highly critical of Progress which it compared with the Militant tendency, and calling for “the national political officer should monitor the factional activity of Progress, and report to the CEC […]
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“Blairite” – playground abuse or legitimate usage?
May 28th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Jon Cruddas recently said that “‘Blairite’ is now an orthodox term of abuse within the party; his name triggers jeers at our annual conference; many around labour appear more angry at Blairism than with Cameron and Clegg.” Progress magazine, in a piece entitled Beyond Blairite, goes rather further. It alleges that: Anyone keeping half an […]
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Progress candidate who has abused access to membership database should be banned
May 21st, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Fiona Twycross, recently elected to the Greater London Assembly and sitting member of the national policy forum, has deliberately abused her privileged access to Labour’s membership database for the second election running. She is a candidate backed by right-wing party-within-a-party, Progress, for election as a London constituency party representative, a position to which she was first elected […]
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Communique from a Leftie in the Blairite camp
May 13th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Firstly, I have to say I was disappointed. The Progress Annual Conference on Saturday wasn’t as unpleasant an experience as I’d expected. The last Progress meeting I’d attended was horrible — a crowded, hot and sweaty fringe at last year’s annual party conference, with speaker after speaker stridently promoting ideas and policies that seemed totally […]
