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Bill Longstaff (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Everyone knows why China appeals to corporations seeking a site to manufacture their goods -- cheap labour. Coerced labour actually. Chinese workers are spared the burdens of freedom of speech and freedom of association and are, therefore, also spared the burden of forming independent labour unions and negotiating their working conditions. They are at the mercy of their employers. China has labour...
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Odd that there hasn't been more attention paid to the Labour parliamentary selection result in Birmingham Ladywood (currently Clare Short's seat, notional Lab majority of 6215 over LD) on Saturday. The new candidate is 27 year old barrister and Oxford graduate, Shabana Mahmood. I gather from people in the West Midlands that she is likely to be a very bright and talented addition to the PLP. I find...
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John Tyrrell Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
To be quite honest I have found the debate on the Ladywood selection by New Labour tedious in the extreme. How could any one of the candidates bear comparison with Clare Short? The problem is New Labour don't want anyone...
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MicroShaft Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
According to Ed Balls writing in the Independent, Labour will make a happy childhood a reality for all Next week they will be nailing jelly to the ceiling of the Houses of Parliament. What Mr Balls is writing is amazingingly similar to his name. He is in fact asking us to accept a greater and greater role in the upbringing of our kids by the state, as us poor parents, are all incapable of doing
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Disgraced MP David Benson-Pope may stand at this year's general election as an Independent Labour candidate, urging voters to give him the electorate vote and to tick Labour for the party vote. Mr Benson-Pope lost the contest to...
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Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
...all part of some fascinating revelations on Food and politicians in this week's Observer Food monthly. Nick Clegg is in there too, talking about his love of Mediterranean food. Also featured are Clare Short, Theresa May and David Blunkett. But it is Paddy who provides the most interesting culiniary information: 'I was sent off to fight in a little war in Borneo in the Sixties. I had to
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Transition Culture (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
Clare Short: Birmingham should become a transition city. May 13 2008 By Clare Short. From the Birmingham Post. Just before Easter, I accepted an invitation to contribute to a course on development at Schumacher College which is situated in the grounds of Dartington Hall, near Totnes. The college is famous for [...]
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A Conservative's blog (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Rather amusingly Labour took enough seats of the Liberal Democrats to put Liverpool into No Overall Control. Then this afternoon they signed up an independent Labour councilor and regained control. Bizarre but true. See the BBC here .
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nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
I rather under-sold the Lib Dems' success in Butetown. They polled over 40% as a result would have won (just) even without a split between independent and Labour candidate.
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nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
I have been told that Butetown is likely to go to the Liberal Democrats. The ward in Cardiff South has recently seen a split between Labour and what you could refer to as "Independent Labour". It looks like the split may have allowed the Lib Dems to come through the middle.
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Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
An Independent Labour councillor has joined the Liberal Democrats, tonight, meaning the party has retained its control of Liverpool city Council. The move means that the Liberal Democrats have 46 of the 90 seats in Liverpool. Nadia Stewart decided it was in the city's interest to give the Liberal Democrats an overall majority rather than half the council seats. Liberal Democrat Chief Executive, Lord...
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EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
SUFFOLK'S only black councillor has resigned the county's Labour whip, in a row over his future prospects as a black politician. Harold Mangar, one of the most respected figures in Labour politics in the county, will now sit as an Independent Labour councillor, and says: “Black men will not get very far in the Suffolk Labour Party.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Reacting to the recent report by the Lords Economic Affairs Committee of the strains imposed by immigration, commentators on the BBC, and even members of the Committee such as Clare Short, immediately reached for the role of "Polish plumbers and Polish waiters" in driving down the wages of British workers. This is just the latest example of the unreasonable and ill-informed comment about Polish immigrants...
