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DAILY MAIL IN (USUAL!!) TOTAL CONTRADICTORY MODE! (PER PRIVATE EYE) “Doom-mongering is a dangerous game…predictions of (economic) catastrophe become a self-fulfilling prophecy… taking Britain into a recession – that would be the height of irresponsibility.” Daily Mail, Editorial, 14 January 2023. “These are dark economic times. The public finances are a wreck, Britain’s debts are […]
on 21.01.23 Article Tel’s Tales, December ’22 / January ’23RIGHT WING HISTRIONIC GARBAGE VIS- À-VIS REALITY “Rishi can prove himself a man of steel by standing up to the ‘strikers’.” Sunday Express, 4 December 2022 “This autumn the company owning the Sunday Express offered a 3% pay rise. After one day of strike action the company sued for peace. Subsequently pay increases of between […]
on 18.12.22 Article Tel’s Tales, November/December 2022SUNAK AND HUNT DO NOT HAVE ‘JOINED-UP POLICY’ ‘A tighter fiscal policy and tighter monetary policy is not the right mix…we have yet to see the government put forward a joined-up policy to address the UK’s fundamental problems of a lack of investment and low productivity growth. Indeed, following the EU Referendum, of over six […]
on 09.11.22 Article Tel’s Tales, October 2022TORY VOTERS ARE NO LONGER BEING LED UP THE GARDEN PATH SO EASILY ‘For a very long time, Tory electoral success has been based on a time- honoured trick: persuading the social middle that it has nothing in common with the bottom and indeed kicking poor people around just to reinforce the point… Now many […]
on 29.09.22 Article Tel’s Tales, September 2022WHAT LABOUR’S MEMBERS THINK A YouGov poll of the views of members a couple of years ago, revealed the following: *Labour Friends of Palestine was viewed favourably by 47% of party members and unfavourably by only 12%. *In contrast, Labour Friends of Israel was viewed favourably by 17% of party members and unfavourably by some […]
on 28.09.22 Yellow Pages Labour Party Conference 2022 – Yellow Pages – Wednesday 28th SeptemberHealth Composite: Miles Better than the Position of our Frontbench This year’s Health motion is a hard-won victory for the Left. The composite proposed by the frontbench and party hierarchy did not even mention – let alone oppose – privatisation and the Tories’ Health and Care Act. By contrast, the agreed composite commits Labour to: […]
on 27.09.22 Yellow Pages Labour Party Conference 2022 – Yellow Pages – Tuesday 27th SeptemberToday’s NCC Vote is Important Since 2018, the majority of elected members of the NCC have been elected on a centre-left platform of support for natural justice and fair- ness in Labour’s disciplinary processes. It is a majority that respects the principles: that judgements about complaints should be based on evidence and that those sitting in […]
on 26.09.22 Yellow Pages Labour Party Conference 2022 – Yellow Pages – Monday 26th SeptemberWhy we Are on Strike by Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF Union Train drivers who are members of ASLEF – the train drivers’ trade union, which represents 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland, and Wales – will strike at twelve train operating companies on Saturday, 1st October and at 13 on Wednesday, 5th […]
on 25.09.22 Article Campaign Briefing Edition 82 – PDF DownloadDownload CLPD’s annual publication, Campaign Briefing below.
on 25.09.22 Yellow Pages Labour Party Conference 2022 – Yellow Pages – Sunday 25th SeptemberVote Against Factional NEC Rule Changes: Defend OMOV Rather than focus on fighting the Tories, the NEC has been spending its time trying to unwind some of the democratic gains for members in recent years – and showing total disregard for members and our engagement in the Party. ● First, it is proposing to change […]
on 23.09.22 Candidate Report Ann Henderson reports from the 20 September NECAnn Henderson reports from the 20 September NEC, including updates on rule changes, the Forde report and equality conferences.
on 12.09.22 Article Report from NEC Equalities Committee from Ann HendersonReport from NEC Equalities Committee Ann Henderson, NEC CLP representative, September 2022 The NEC Equalities Committee met on Thursday 8th September 2pm – 3.45pm. With a number of apologies, and a light agenda, the meeting was poorly attended and not as focused as the wider Party membership might reasonably expect an Equalities Committee to be, […]
on 09.09.22 Campaign Briefing Enough is Enough! Labour’s Broad Church Must Include JeremyThis year’s Labour Party Annual Conference seriously needs to address the deepening cost of living crisis and set out how the Party will tackle it. It should also halt the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn as these divert attention from addressing this crisis. The Party is a broad church and Jeremy should be a Labour candidate […]
on 06.09.22 Article Forde cannot be ignored“The report demonstrates just what an impossible situation Corbyn’s Leadership was in. When they tried to work through staff they were met with obstruction. When they tried to go round existing structures, they met huge criticism.” Read an analysis of the Forde Report by Rachel Garnham, Vice-Chair of CLPD, on Labour Outlook: https://labouroutlook.org/2022/08/01/forde-cannot-be-ignored-rachel-garnham-clpd/
on 06.09.22 Article Tel’s Tales, August 2022TORIES AT SIXES AND SEVENS ‘Since the Brexit referendum the Conservatives have been facing two directions: towards their old voters and towards their new ones. Boris Johnson won such a stinking majority in 2019 General Election, because he was able to unite both halves of that coalition… Sunak is winning 46-41 among Tory members who […]
on 31.08.22 Campaign Time to submit motions to Labour Party ConferenceModel motions for Labour Party Conference 2022.
on 30.08.22 Model motion Model motions for Labour Party Conference 2022Please find below suggested model motions for Labour Party Conference 2022. The deadline for submissions is Thursday 15 September 2022 at 5pm Cost of living crisis Conference notes The July TUC report which says that: real wages in the UK are forecast to shrink by 6.2% (£1,750) over the next two years – the tightest […]
on 29.07.22 Article Tel’s Tales, July 2022DIVERSITY – TORY APPEARANCE VIS À VIS TORY REALITY ‘Having an appearance of diversity without the policies or intention to provide any change for the better is what the Tories are all about. The same can be said of their “two women prime ministers” boast, as both these women presided over periods that made life […]
on 28.07.22 Report Gemma Bolton NEC Report – 19th July 2022Please see here for Gemma Bolton’s report from Labour’s full NEC, held 19th July 2022.
on 25.07.22 Article NEC reportLabour NEC Report July 2022 Ann Henderson, NEC CLP section The full NEC met on Tuesday 19th July. We met online, due to the heatwave, rather than in hybrid format. The day was dominated by the publication of the Forde Report, a copy of which was supplied to NEC members half an hour before we […]
Resource How Should I Vote? on 17.07.22 Article NEC reportLabour NEC report – Meetings held 5th July 2022 Ann Henderson (CLP Section) The NEC Complaints and Disciplinary Committee, and the NEC Organisation Committee, both met on Tuesday 5th July. These Committees have specific remits and are composed of all NEC members. The Complaints and Disciplinary Committee takes updates on numbers of cases coming through […]
on 12.07.22 Campaign Labour Party NEC elections: Vote for the Grassroots 5Support the Grassroots 5 candidates in the Labour Party NEC elections 2022.
Jess Barnard
Gemma Bolton
Yasmine Dar
Mish Rahman
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
‘STARVE AND SHIVER WITH SUNAK’ ‘In the 1948 winter crisis, the then ministers of food and fuel, John Strachey and Emmanuel Shinwell, were lambasted for their failure to do more. “Starve with Strachey and shiver with Shinwell” was the jibe. Much more will have to be done to prevent another harsh, cruel winter of austerity, […]