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JC SPELLS IT OUT “The Forde Report called out the horrific sexism and racism expressed towards Diane Abbott and others, by senior members of the Labour Party staff who were fractionally opposed to my leadership…Months on from the Report’s publication it is appalling that anti-black racism and Islamophobia are not being treated seriously enough by […]
Resource Labour activists – for the many, not the fewA briefing looking at how CLP activists can make a difference at a local level.
on 21.03.23 Article Tel’s Tales, February / March 2023AS CIVILISATION DEVELOPS, THIS IS EVEN MORE VALID “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members”. Mahatma Gandhi THE TORIES NEED LESSONS FROM GANDHI “I suspect that what most people want is to see the establishment of safe and legal routes for those fleeing harm in […]
on 17.02.23 Article Tel’s Tales, January/February ’23DAILY 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.