The Labour Leadership elections seem to be less inspiring than 2015. We should all remember and recognise that Corbyn’s victory in the 2015 Leadership election was the result of revolutionary change in British Politics, he surfed a wave; it was
I wrote to one of Lewisham’s Councillors on the results of the Democracy Review and pointed them at things I have written and published, on Mayor’s and power in the council. https://davelevy.info/lewishams-democracy-it-could-be-better/ … what i thought was needed https://davelevy.info/what-is-to-be-done-with-lewisham-council/ …
While building my evidence to the Lewisham Democracy Review, I made a wiki page to hold my notes. This has been updated to record my first impressions. The head line, Does this report challenge the status quo? I think not
Finally I have submitted my thoughts on Lewishams’ Democracy Review. Lewisham Democracy Review by Dave Levy V1_1. My initial thoughts were published in this article on this blog. Three things, I am shocked at the true legal position, we elect
Writing up what I think for Lewisham’s Democracy Review is proving harder than I thought, the source material i.e. Lewisham’s Constitution [www] is very long(483 pages), it’s .pdf, can’t easily be indexed or highlighted, so item No. 1. is to increase
Lewisham Council is conducting a review of its governance which it calls a “Democracy Review”. In Lewisham Deptford Labour Party we have a policy position of abolishing the executive mayoralty; however, this paper from the LGIU documents both how and what
In my many articles on Labour’s Democracy Review, and in a preview I talk about the Information Technology implications of Labour’s coming rule changes. I have extracted the following quote from my article, The denoument, as I’d like it to
… of the Democracy Review This is a report on the debate at the Democracy Review. It is best read in conjunction with Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC) Report 1, pages 28 to 55. This article describes the proposals, the debate
I have [slightly] amended my first thoughts on Labour’s proposals to introduce e-voting. I have also added two comments.
In Labour’s Democracy Review, they argue for more IT and remote access and online balloting, they say Carers, disabled members, shift workers, women and young members have argued it is the poor, disadvantaged and already under-represented who are least likely