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The Party Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
That's that then. Jack Dromey has tonight been reappointed Treasurer of the Labour Party. I have said here before that Jack 'n' Harriet appear to be the indestructible political couple de nos jours Knowing nothing about dodgy party loans and dodgy donations through third parties was enough to get Jack voted through for another term as treasurer. Hats off to him, too!
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
HUNDREDS OF Labour Party supporters from Kerry who had been denied votes in this weekend's selection of the party's European Parliament candidates in Munster have been granted a last-minute reprieve.
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David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Shadow policing minister, David Ruffley, is miffed to discover that security at this year's Labour Party conference will cost the taxpayer 63 per cent more than when it was held in the same location two years ago. "Figures I have unearthed show that the cost of policing the Labour conference in Manchester has risen from £3.98 million in 2006 to £6.5 million this year," he tells me. "Meanwhile, the...
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Greater Manchester Fabian Society (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Celebrate 60 Years of the NHS Special Guest - Rt. Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health Al-Waalis Restaurant, Old Farm Place, Levenshulme Manchester 7.30 pm for 8pm on Thursday September 11th 2008 To reserve your tickets/table please contact the event organiser, Luthfur Rahman by Friday 5th September 2008 Tel:0781 0513308 or Email: luthfurrahman@hotmail.com
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Mask of Anarchy (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
So, you thought that the Labour party represented a left-wing constituency did you? Of course not, that boat has long since sailed east. Whilst the new crackdown on those that claim welfare (by those that claim thousands to furnish their second homes) is deeply troubling, the willingness to open welfare up to the private sector is even more worrying. What was once the preserve of the state has now,...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
A kind soul has emailed me the agenda for Thursday night's General Committee Meeting of Vauxhall Labour Party. It looks like there is going to be another attempt to deselect the local MP Kate Hoey. 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of last GC 3. Reports from Kate Hoey MP 4. Reports from CLP Officers 5. Resolutions Vassall Ward Branch Vassall Ward calls on Kate Hoey MP to state when she accepted the...
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Turbulence Ahead (Free subscription) | yesterday
If there's one thing we can be fairly sure about in relation to the outcome of the next general election in Ireland it is that the Labour Party will be one of the parties in government. This has nothing to do with their likely manifesto or 'success' so far. It simply has to do with economics. Evidence from different countries shows that economic downturns tends to lead to increasing demands for re-distributive...
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Make My Vote Count (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Prior of the Green Party raises some important tactical questions for the Left inside and outside the Labour Party, ahead of September's "Convention of the Left" in Manchester: "This is really the heart of the problem facing the left...
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
–A rather good response to the current right-ward shift around the welfare state. The Neo-Labour Party needs to take heed here. The people do not want reforms that hurt the deserving for the sake of catching a couple more undeserving recipients. Welfare is not a weapon against laziness, it is support for people who have [...]
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Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jonathan Wallace has highlighted what must be one of the poorest attacks ever in a political leaflet which highlights the problems the Labour Party face at the moment. In Jonathan's ward in Gateshead there is a by-election taking place , and the Labour Party have taken it upon themselves to attack the Tories for failing to support the NHS 60 years ago ! "Whilst I am a proponent of using an opponent's...
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janestheone (Free subscription) | yesterday
it seems that getting the Labour Party to write a letter on your behalf about David Davis' by-election stunt, as Mr Salter and Ms Dodds have just done, has rather backfired . They really should have written their own letter, especially as neither has websites that function or any e-interactivity at all. The Reading East MP has an e-newsletter which I have seen and it is pretty good too - why can't...
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Norfolk Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iain Dale raises a story brought up by David Ruffley MP asking why the Labour Party conference costs £2million more to police than the Tory conference. Let's put it another way and see if David Ruffley can work it out. Why does it cost £2million more to police the conference of the governing party ? W hy does it cost more to protect cabinet ministers ? Why are there more protesters , marches and campaigners...
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Neil Clark (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot celebrates his 95th birthday today. Michael is the longest lived leader of a British political party in history- and on top of that he's also the oldest currently registered football player in Britain (playing on the left-wing of course!) You can read my piece on what might have happened had Michael Foot's Labour Party won the 1983 election here ; while here...
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Daimnation! (Free subscription) | yesterday
A British professor, writing in a journal of the UK Labour Party's "principled left", thinks Terry Glavin's position on Afghanistan is worth emulating by his fellow Brits: Last November, 10-year-old Alaina Podmorow got together with 18 of her fellow grade...
