One of the issues raised while considering Venezuela, is the suggestion that since Jose Guaido’s party, Voluntad Popular is a member of the Socialist International, Labour Party member’s should be supporting him and his party; interestingly the Labour Party is no longer a full member of the SI, having downgraded its membership in favour of…
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Let’s see if I can make it three in a row, here’s my document repo, for #lab18, Labour Conference 18.
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I attended the IUSY 77 Congress in Stuttgart, as part of the Labour Students delegation and stayed for the summer camp. I still remember some of the fabulous conversations I had and the amazing campaigning comrades that I met from the (West) German JUSOS and other parties across the world. Were you there? Do you…
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The Labour Party are moving from the Nationbuilder web site to a customised wordpress environment. Here are my notes …
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I made a document archive of Labour Conference 2016, and thought I’d see if I could do so for 2017, it might take some time since I wasn’t a delegate this year, although I built the 2016 archive from membersnet.
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Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015 and published an economic manifesto called the “The Economy in 2020”. This disappeared from Jeremy’s site at some point. Richard Murphy pointed me at the wayback machine copy, and I have also posted it to this site as a mirror.
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They have it here, my copy is here .. Labour Manifesto 2017
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An unfinished white Paper by Emmanuelle Avril of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. The paper is called, The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour: Party Leadership vs Party Management in the British Labour Party. and was presented to the Political Studies Association 2015 conference, in March so before the election. The abstract states,
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Last Month, Harriet Harman writes, As well as mounting a strong opposition to the Tories and understanding the lessons from our election defeat, we need to get on and elect a new Leader and Deputy Leader. The NEC met this afternoon to decide on the timetable for the leadership election, …. This leadership election will…
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The Labour Party is undertaking a process to choose a candidate to run for Mayor of London. This process is in four parts, Application Stage – now complete Nomination Stage – closes 10th June Selection Panel Stage – currently advertised as complete on 13th June Voting – starts 12th August, finishes Noon 12th September The…
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This is my Labour Party Rules Page. It contains links to various Labour Party rules, policies and guidelines. This page has a bitly alias https://bit.ly/labourrules . …
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The NPF’s programme only mentions the digital economy once, and this is to promise more speed, everywhere it can go. There are two internal pressure group style swarms/groups/initiatives.
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Decided to try and draw a graph of the Labour Party’s membership over time, not as easy as you might think. Here are some links I found that might help me, Wikipedia, Labour Party #membership Electoral Commission, Party & Election Finance Registers Electoral Commission, Party & Election Finance Search If i get some good data,…
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