An attack on our rights to privacy? Now they think they’re free from the EU, our security state, encourages the government to roll back those privacy rights that were underwritten by the EU treaties and the Human Rights Act. Here are some links and notes … Continue reading “Privacy, another Brexit benefit”
The Unite GS election and the new GMB GS’s introductory statement in the Morning Star have brought the questions of syndicalism and auto-labourism to the fore. Personally I wonder if this is a rehashing of the debates around the service model vs. organisational model. Here are my notes? Continue reading “Service Model vs Organising Model”
I attended the AEIP National Committee yesterday and now have some more reading to do, about SEO, and other campaigning organisations. Here are some links. Continue reading “After the AEIP strategy day”
I want to read Citrine’s ABC of Chairmanship on my tablet; who owns the copyright and when does it expire? Continue reading “ABC of Chairmanship”
The German Federal elections must meet the requirements of Article 38, §1 of the German constitution, “the delegates of the German Parliament (Bundestag) […] are elected in a general, direct, free, equal and secret vote.” This article talks about how Germany does proportionality, overhang seats, inverse success values and their threshold rules. It also looks at how problems represent themselves in the UK. … Continue reading “On Germany’s election system”
I discovered co-incidentally that some one had marked wikipedia’s Red Flag Anti-Corruption page as of not significant interest, and has now been deleted. They were a party formed in Tower Hamlets and one of their leaders, Andy Erlam was party to the election court case that voided the 2014 election of Lutfur Rahman. I might restore it, here are my notes. Continue reading “Red Flag (in Tower Hamlets)”
Finally reading the Liverpool inspector’s review, here are my notes and links. … Continue reading “Liverpool City Council, Part Deux”
I have had to think about this too much over the last year; and it keeps coming. Here are my notes, mainly about, Boris Johnson as PM & Mayor of London and the Nolan Principles. … Continue reading “Misconduct in a Public Office”
Jane Ramsey has been appointed by the Labour Party as as a Senior Advisor on Standards and Ethics responsible for the implementation of the EHRC’s recommendations. Who is she? … Continue reading “Who is Jane Ramsey?”
We need to do something about Legal Aid. The ECHR Article 6 guarantees funding for a defence in a trial; it seems the sea-lawyers in the MoJ feel that de-funding Judicial Reviews and civil cases is OK then. While benefit disputes and immigration are key areas, everyone should have the right to go to the Supreme Court. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Legal Aid”
More I need to catch up on. Here my, as yet very unfinished notes on local govt. monitoring. … Continue reading “Local govt. monitoring”
Further reading on making Brexit work. On vaccine availability, politics, immigration and the future of the EU conference, and Trade. Enjoy! Continue reading “Making Brexit work”
Analysing Starmerism as new Fabianism is becoming popular, at least at least at a very public sociologist | all that is solid. I recently debated with one of Starmer’s supporters who among other things argued that grass roots campaigning didn’t help achieve power. In the attached video, Ed Miliband explains why so-called single issue campaigning is essential to making an effective Labour Govt. Enjoy! Continue reading “Changing the State”
I made an aggregation of the NEC blogs I could find, it’s not finished as I need to install some margins, make it responsive and possibly reposition the meta panels. I looked at my snip, Planet (Venus) themes (CSS) and revised it slightly, otherwise here are my notes. … Continue reading “NEC blogs, an aggregator”
Someone asked how to chair a motion debate in the Labour movement. Here is how I do it. … Continue reading “Chairing a debate on a motion”