Simon Phipps comments on Oracle’s decision to close down the SPARC and Solaris business units. He was close to the politics of Sun’s “Dash to Open” in the mid noughties. My feeling is that Sun had failed before Schwartz was appointed; there was no longer room for differentiated hardware company; Oracle’s failure to monetise the SPARC product line may have been caused by management hubris, but the long term economics …
I bumped into another Corbynista who’s left the Party over Labour’s Brexit light policy. Think he’s been out for over 6 months. Says he knows he should come back. …
I calculate that 75 members of the PLP, 29% were appointed as candidates by the NEC. Although some of the 46 members first elected in 2017, had previously won constituency selections in 2015. See also (too long). …
I am supporting Paul Bell to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Lewisham.
I urge you to vote for him here, his manifesto is here, or otherwise available via his campaign website. …
Paul Bell, one of the people seeking to be Labour’s candidate for Lewisham Mayor has announced his education policy and promises. …
The Labour Party’s Lewisham Mayor selections ballots have been issued, by post and email. Ballot papers for eligible Labour Party members in Lewisham to vote for who our candidate for Mayor will be will reach you over the next few days.
It’s crucial that to get out the strongest possible vote to help the Corbyn-supporting candidate, Paul Bell, win.
Paul is the only candidate
Unsurprisingly, all five candidates are talking left – but it’s necessary to look beyond warm words to politics and policies.
Paul’s full manifesto is published here, on his web site and visible via this http://bit.ly/PB4M-Manifesto SURL. …
Paul Bell, one of the people seeking to be Labour’s candidate for Lewisham Mayor has announced his education policy and promises.
He promises,
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The Labour Party are running three hustings meetings in September for you to hear from the five candidates to become Labour's candidate for Mayor of Lewisham. Attendees will hear from each of the candidates in turn telling you why they should be your preferred candidate followed by a Q&A session. ....
Today I added Labour’s Social Media Code of conduct to my Labour Rules page. I cannot find this in member’s net, and would be unsure about publishing it if it were there. I have made a mirror copy which comes from Labour List. The key phrase would seem to be,
Harassment, intimidation, hateful language and bullying are never acceptable, nor is any form of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Two other points of interest, include the rule that anonymous online accounts are not to be used for the purpose of abuse and that people,
……. with privilege, whether due to their volume of experience, party position or status in society should have regard to how their actions may be felt by those in different circumstances to themselves.
I am supporting Paul Bell to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Lewisham.
This morning he made the following statement on community and diversity.
An injury to one is an injury to all – Stand up for migrants’ rights!
I’m standing for Mayor with a clear pro-migrants, international solidarity stance and policies.
A strong stance on supporting migrants’ rights is essential for two reasons. Firstly, because as socialists we must believe in human compassion, in welcoming the oppressed, and in human rights and equality for everyone. And secondly because British and migrant workers have the same interests, and we cannot fight for these interests if we allow the elite in this country and their political representatives to divide us. We must stand together in solidarity or we will all continue to lose.
We cannot allow our migrant sisters and brothers to be targeted. That’s why, despite my disdain for the neoliberal policies the EU pursues and promotes, I voted “remain” in the referendum. I’m proud to have signed up to the Labour Campaign for Free Movement, which pledges to defend and extend free movement, and I’m pleased to see at least one of the other Labour mayoral candidates has followed me in doing so.
We must never go back to the situation pre-Corbyn where the Labour Party pandered to, and let us be honest helped create, anti-migrant feelings. A Labour Lewisham council led by me will take a clear stand for migrants’ rights. We will be a powerful voice for migrants’ rights in the Labour Party, labour movement and wider society.
And we will do our bit locally too: there will be no more applications to the Controlling Migration Fund and proposals to harass rough sleepers, many of them migrants, will be dropped. The council will do everything it can to hinder rather than cooperate with immigration raids. We will provide services by working with grassroots charities which seek to empower migrants, including those with no recourse to public funds (NRPF), instead of continuing to commission larger organisations which pay their CEOs six figure salaries and are actively collaborating with the government’s anti-migrant agenda.
An injury to one is an injury to all, that’s why my vision for Lewisham is one that will serve the needs and interests of British citizens and migrants alike.
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