Confidence of the House

Prime Minsters come but always go. It’s meant to be one of the advantages of a parliamentary system but how many have we lost because they lost the confidence of the house. Here are my notes. …

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EU-UK trade & co-operation agreement

The UK Govt. and EU Commission have agreed a treaty to govern the UK’s 3rd party relationship with the EU covering trade, some programmes, security and governance. I put my first thoughts on my blog, inspired by Tom Kiblasi’s instant reaction, but I needed to go further. Here are some links and notes. …

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Army Helicopters

My planned defence piece led me to look up the British Army’s Helicopters; I think there is a joint helicopter command now,  but otherwise here are my notes. …

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Fair Trial and Labour’s ‘fast track’

A note on Labour’s ‘fast track’ disciplinary process and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Labour’s disciplinary determination process for complaints that allege prejudice or harassment were changed at Conference 2019. The investigation is conducted by staff, who then present a charge and proposed sanction to a panel/sub committee of the NEC…

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Iain McNicol, once Labour’s GS

He was appointed in July 2011, and resigned on 23rd Feb 2018. The NEC by-election that led to Jon Lansman, Yasmine Dar and Rachel Garnham being elected was announced on 15th Jan 2018. There is more overleaf, but not much.

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ECHR Article 11, Freedom of Association

I am brought to consider Article 11, of the ECHR and “Freedom of Association”. The second thing totalitarian parties do is register, regulate and then ban opposition political parties. And so I am concerned about the over-regulation of political parties. Here as ever are my notes.

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Labour’s Money

I feel the need to document my findings on Labour’s finances. I have written about it here and on my blog. In 2020, the LP did not publish their 2019 annual report to the members and so I had to get it from the Electoral Commission. At the time of first writing, this is an…

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Labour, local government candidates and women

This is a note on Labour selections, specifically around positive action programmes for women. I live in a London borough which elects all its council every four years from multi-member wards using FPTP. Certain by-elections must be selected using all-women short (AWS) lists. Here are my notes …

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War Pensions

While researching issues surrounding the Ovcerseas Operations Bill, I did some reading on UK War Pensions, where there seems to have been a failure meet promises. Here are my notes …

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Cross Border Data & Brexit

The Daily Mirror commented on the impending end of the Brexit transition period and SME compliance with any new data protection rules. They have a couple of Govt. officials and ministers saying that people had better get ready. In my linkedin post on the topic, I suggest it might be a  bit late and we…

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Spycops and Data

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill aka the spycops bill is the continuation of the efforts of the intelligence services and the police to return to a pre-snowden/pre-ECJ dripa ruling legal state. Here are my notes and links …

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