It looks like the Labour Party plan to go ahead with Candidate selections for the 2021 local authority elections and possibly the 2022 whole council elections. This is despite the lockdown, and due to the 2019 Conference Rule changes which
Labour’s NCC Election
There’s some excitement going on inside the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance today. Here is the CLPD/JVL/Labour CND slate leaflet.
Labour’s internal elections
Lewisham Deptford CLP has a General Committee tomorrow; it will be making nominations for the Labour Party’s national committee vacancies. I have advertised the names, here & here. Here is a leaflet for the meeting, it can be reused for
The subversion of democracy by big data
The fabulous Carol Cadwalladyr brings us the next instalment of undoing the surveillance states control over our democracies. In an article “The Great British Brexit Robbery”, she and the Guardian showed how the Tories and the Brexit Leave Campaigns had
Osterley
A day out in Brentford and Isleworth campaigning for a Labour Victory; this is the second most marginal Labour seat in London. Fab company, the team came from all over London. I met my first voter who loved Corbyn but
Campaigning
A quick trip around the Lewisham Deptford constituency canvassing for the Labour Party. A couple of accusations about getting Brexit wrong, i.e. the nuance in Labour’s front bench position upsets i.e. pisses off London remainers. Labour’s candidate for re-election, Vicky
Manipulation
Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus explore the latest in Election winning software as sold by Cambridge Analytica and used by the Republican Party in the US General Election. It was also seemingly used by the Brexit campaigners in the UK.
Big Data & the populist right
This is one of the Stories from storify. The Motherboard article, the first below, brought to my attention the confluence of psychological personality theories, pyschographs and big data and how this had been used by Cameron, Trump & the Brexit
The struggle of the class
I stayed up the People’s History Museum after the meeting and had a quick wander round the standing exhibition. Since it’s a museum of the working class, it’s stronger on the period after the industrial revolution and focuses on the
Keep your vote
At the beginning of the summer, I got a letter saying that I was to be kept on the electoral register, and yet over the weekend I received a letter addressed to the occupier, demanding to know, who lived there