Sinn Fein MPs are flying to London, it is reported … to abstain in person? …
TWAT
The election and its results should make us all think about the fight against terrorism, and how a free society succeeds in this task and defends its freedoms and citizens.
…I regret the militarisation of the fight against terrorism, we need to defend our rights and freedoms and ensure that suspects are subject to the same rule of law as the rest of us. Their actions are criminal and the response should be appropriate in that light.
Confidence
Ian Smart, not always right, but on Scottish Politics more knowledgeable than me, in this article on his blog suggests that neither the SNP, nor the DUP will vote No, on a No-Confidence vote in Parliament. The SNP are frightened of a second election and the DUP are frightened of Corbyn led Government. …
Centre Left Grassroots Alliance
The Left slate for the open national positions in the Labour Party. These are for the Conference Arrangements Committee and the National Constitutional Committee.
Conference Arrangements Committee
The Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) has a crucial role in influencing the running of conference, and therefore requires candidates who will represent the wishes of members.
The center left candidates requiring nomination are Seema Chandwani and Billy Hayes for the two CLP reps on the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC).
Seema Chandwani is a CLP Secretary (Tottenham CLP, Labour Party Membership Number: L1187007); and Billy Hayes is the former General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union (Mitcham and Morden CLP, Labour Party Membership Number A065571).
The election for these reps will be by a One Member One Vote ballot this summer.
National Constitutional Committee.
The Left Candidates for the two CLP reps on the National Constitutional Committee (NCC) are Anna Dyer and Emine Ibrahim.
Anna Dyer is a sitting member of the NCC (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn CLP, Labour Party Membership Number L0081865) and Emine Ibrahim is a CLP rep on the London Region’s Labour Party Board (Hornsey and Wood Green CLP, Labour Party Membership Number L0150489).
The election of these reps will be by CLP delegates at the Annual Conference in September. The nomination process will be for most CLP’s the mandate for the delegates.
Click here for pdf leaflets: Billy Hayes; Seema Chandwani; Emine Ibrahim; Anna Dyer. …
Bye-elections
The play, “This House”, gives an idea as to what happens next. Bye elections count and South Thanet could be first. The winning MP is to be prosecuted for electoral fraud for the 2015 campaign. …
Scalar
How did we win Canterbury & Kensington & not win a majority? …
GE2017: Facebook
In reply to this at the BBC. I wasn’t expecting the article to be that good, or interesting. Amongst the highlights, I like,
You can’t buy likes or shares! (Actually, you can buy likes but it is against Facebook’s terms and conditions). BTW this means that our keyboard warriors activities are positive and important acts of campaigning.
Filter bubbles are both powerful manifestations of persuasive conversation and can also be merely an echo chamber of the converted or worse, an echo chamber of bots (that’d be funny). Let’s also remember that echo chambers of the converted may well have motivated offline activity, like voting.
My reading of other’s research suggests that there’s not a lot of cross partisan conversations going on online, it’s difficult to reach your opposition and that’s why you have to pay for it; free motivates your own people.
Paid Ads aren’t as effective as we’d feared, and micro targeting seems not to have worked, although the Tories held Copeland (the BBC article has an example of a Tory ad. slagging JC off for opposing nuclear power!) I am also curious as to where the opposition, seen on the doorstep & phonebanks, to Labour’s rolling back the Inheritance Tax giveaway’s came from.
Facebook is owned. It can not be trusted as a guardian of free speech, privacy or progress. The world needs something else. …
Kensington
Kensington goes Red. Some of you may remember I used to live there. In fact I ran a committee room there during the 1983 general election, and had only just moved there; I had to travel to Camden to vote, for John McDonnell. What goes around. come around. I’ve not been back for a long time. …
Party Unity
Let’s unite the party …..
…EVEL
One of my tweets suggests that with 13 Scottish Tories and 10 DUP MPs, that English Votes for English Laws may well bite the Tories in the arse. It also may be the opportunity for some disruptive parliamentary mischief. Although on closer inspection since the 34 SNP MPs can’t vote either, it probably hasn’t got any legs. …