Labour

Brown's Labour Party Tribalism Has Wrecked Our Country's Economic Influence

angels in marble (Free subscription) | yesterday

That is the kindest way to put it. Spite, viciousness, self regard, aiming for a cheap headline, incompetence, and the disadvantages of lack of awareness of others is probably more accurate. France and Germany will take the economic prizes, the positions and powers that mean so much more within the European Union, and for the status of London as a world financial centre. In return for placing a New...

My Defection to the Labour Party (by Libby, aged 2)

Little's Log (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Do you believe in "signs" ... Imagine being a Tory Councillor and the local PPC, when you walk into your dining room to find out that your darling, sweet, gorgeous 2 years old had gotten hold of your "lucky" Conservative rosette (the one you worse winning each of the last 5 local elections) and had coloured it in using a felt-tip pen. Then imagine - as you react calmly and lovingly...

Sir Jeremy will stand down as Labour leader of local government and from the NEC

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Sir Jeremy Beecham announced yesterday that he will not be seeking re-election as Leader of the Labour Group of the Local Government Association, or as Vice Chairman of the Association, at its annual meeting next July. He will also stand down as a member of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee. Sir Jeremy, who turned 65 on 17th November, has been a Newcastle...

Yet another mistake in Labour's "Against the odds" video

Tory Outcast (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Guido Fawkes' latest "Guy News" segment starring Tory Bear and Emily no mates can be found here . It gives Labour's latest party political broadcast (the against the odds video ) a thorough going over and is well worth a watch. Still there is one innacuracy they don't seem to have picked up on. It comes about 40 seconds into the video when the slightly creepy sounding voiceover man says the...

Poll boost for U.K.'s Brown as Tories' lead slashed

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Labour Party has slashed the main opposition Conservative Party's opinion poll lead to six points, giving the government its best showing in almost a year as voter confidence in the economy recovers.

• Poll boost for Brown as Tories drop - Metro.co.uk
• Poll boost for Brown as Tories drop - icWales
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Economic optimism is inflated and there is a deficit of clear thinking

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

With no signs of green shoots, Mervyn King is right to be downbeat - whatever the Queen said So: the government has a fiscal plan, confirmed by the Queen, under which it will halve the budget deficit in four years and eliminate it in due course. It will happily be committed by legislation to do so. Of course, it may not be the government after next June. But relax, you neanderthal deficit-watchers,...

The People's Charter

The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | yesterday

I attended the People's Charter event today at Camden Civic Centre. The Charter is a rather neat idea to collate the ABCs of left policy into six main points, like the original nineteenth century Chartist document, and then get lots of people to support it. That means it includes loads of good stuff that happens to be part of Green Party policy already (green jobs, renationalising the railways, scrap...

Cameron Conservativism, 1895-style

Next Left (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ethnic minority representation in the House of Commons did not begin with the important post-war breakthrough of the class of 1987. In a piece for the history section of the latest issue of Total Politics , I look at how the long history of black and Asian MPs in the House of Commons has reflected a range of shifting - and politically contested - ideas about race and representation in British politics....

These are the moments that define us

Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Ralph Baldwin Many people in history have been recorded for doing extraordinary things in difficult and very challenging circumstances. As Labour heads forward toward the general election in Barking and Dagenham, we know we face a test. I walk down the Dagenham Heathway I see a little boy in a pram waving at an object in the distance as his mother pushes him along. His eyes are bright and his little...

Better will come - Samuda

Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Karl Samuda, says the two-year-old Bruce Golding administration is adamant that the remainder of the political term will be used to undo much of the damage wrought...

Campaigning on affordable housing

Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | yesterday

I was out in Horsham’s Carfax again this afternoon with colleagues from Horsham Labour Party to try and persuade shoppers to sign our petition about affordable housing.Although Labour are not always well-received in Horsham (or at least rarely voted for) our continued campaign on affordable housing gets a lot of sympathy. Of course a lot [...]

Second class Eu Foreign Minister

The Red Rag (Free subscription) | yesterday

News is emerging from Brussels that the second class foreign minister and Labour lackey Baroness Ashton is to feature on the second class Eurostamp. The Red Rag has obtained an exclusive draft of the new design. This will no doubt boost the extraordinary arrogance of the woman who has already declared 'She is the best person for the post" this despite her entire career being based on Labour Party...

The BNP in words and pictures

The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | yesterday

I've just watched the BNP TV ad from Barking presented by the chuckle brothers Nick and Dick putting on a display of unity to cover up the fact that Dicky Barnbrook has just taken one for the team and been firmly ejected as Parliamentary candidate by the beastly one. Not an entirely convincing display of brotherly love, although I did enjoy the moment when Barnbrook said that to win the constituency...

Keeping promises

Owen's musings (Free subscription) | yesterday

On 29 September 2009, Gordon Brown told the Labour Party Conference: (my emphasis) And let me say what was once an aspiration – 0.7% of national income spent on international development aid, has become with Labour a promise, and will in future become a law. We will pass legislation that the British government is obliged to [...]

Affordable Housing Petition

Horsham Labour (Free subscription) | yesterday

This afternoon Horsham Labour Party were out in Horsham Town Centre, collecting more signatures for our petition on affordable housing. The petition calls for Horsham District Council to stick to its agreed policy of allocating 40% of new large developments to affordable housing and not to give in to the developers of the new site near Broadbridge Heath who have asked for the affordable element