Nominations are now open for the most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11 - please send in yours
It’s time for the annual Left Foot Forward poll of the most influential left-wing thinker. Last year, Tony Benn topped the vote on 44%, followed by Ken Livingstone (34%), Caroline Lucas (33%), Noam Chomsky (30%) and Ed Miliband (24%) – who priescently came ahead of his brother David (18%).
We are now taking nominations for the title of the most influential left-wing thinker of 2011. You can send in your nomination by emailing us at daniel@leftfootforward.org and putting “Nomination:” followed by the name of the person you wish to nominate. If you would like to argue for your nomination, please send a 150-250 word article in support, which we’ll look to run over August. They don’t necessarily:
- Have to be left-wing in a conventional sense
- Need to be someone whose views you personally agree with
- Widely perceived to be ‘political’
They do
- Have to have had a discernable impact between September 2010 and August 2011 on British Politics
We will then draw up a short list of 20 which will then be put to the vote.
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47 Responses to “Nominations are now open for most influential left-wing thinker in 2010/11”
Claire Price
Nominations are now open for most influential left-winger in 2010/11: http://bit.ly/n8P8O0 writes @danielelton – please send in yours!
Tony Burke
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Grahame Morris
@leftfootfwd: Nominations now open for most influential left-winger in 2010/11: http://t.co/AEh29Ey -plz send in yours for @TheGreenBenches!
dm
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Selohesra
How about Johann Hari?