Internal Affairs

One of Blair’s insights was that to appeal beyond Labour he had to be seen to oppose and master his Party. This is why he changed Clause IV and bowdlerised the policy development process. It may be seen in the future, that Jeremy Corbyn has done the same, by facing down the PLP. …

Secrets

We need to thank Lord Buckethead, one of Theresa May’s opponents in her Maidenhead constituency who produced a manifesto consisting of a 15 point plan, seemingly compulsory these days. His promise on the Nuclear deterrent is hilarious.

A firm public commitment to build the £100bn Trident renewal system together with an equally firm private commitment not to build it. They’re secret submarines, no-one would know. It’s a win win.

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Micro-targeting

It seems the Tory submarine offensive, i.e. the secret social media advertising was spent on various anti-Corbyn attacks, which may of course lead them into problems if like some of the attacks on Dianne Abbott was based in lies about him. Their other problem, is that this isn’t what Obama (or the leave.eu campaign) did; they ran micro targeted messages and it maybe that the crude smear around Corbyn’s anti-nuclear power position helped in keeping Copeland but it could have been much worse although we don’t know it all yet. Remember Zac Goldsmith’s campaign statements about family jewelry and the garden tax smear must have come from somewhere. I had also assumed that the prominence of Labour’s plans to reverse the Tory’s inheritance tax giveaways came from this source.  It wasn’t discovered by reading the Manifesto. …

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.

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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.

Vote Left 2017

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. …