Peter Watt is wrong: Labour needs its members
Peter Watt’s insistence that Labour should stop attempting to recruit members is wrong. The success of local models of party organisation, in Birmingham, Oxford and Gedling is proof of this.
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Community campaigning is Labour’s messy future
Our guest writer is Dr Jon Wilson, senior lecturer in British Imperial and South Asian history at King’s College, London. Local community campaigning is messy; there is no right or wrong way to do it. It forces us to fundamentallytest
Billy Bragg: Mr Miliband must be brave and bold on voting reform
Billy Bragg, in an exclusive article for Left Foot Forward, argues that the new Labour leader Mr Miliband must be brave and bold on the AV referendum next year.
Labour’s poll performance is a red herring
Several of my Labour-supporting friends have a spring in their step – level in the polls at last, as revealed by yesterday’s Reuters/Ipsos-MORI poll.
Socialism is Democracy: Labour should accept AV
This week MPs have voted in support of a Bill which would mean that next May the country would get to decide on whether they want to stick with FPTP (first past the post) or switch to AV (Alternative Vote). While this may not have been the choice many of us who support a more proportional system wanted we shouldn’t underestimate its significance.
What Guido won’t tell you about Britain’s Chancellors
George Osborne is the most popular Conservative Chancellor ever. But he has not reached the heights of either Labour’s Denis Healey or Gordon Brown.
Guardian buries Labour resurgence
Today’s ICM poll for the Guardian puts the Labour party on level terms with the Conservatives for the first time since October 2007. But as noted by UK Polling Report’s Anthony Wells, “the Guardian’s report concentrates upon the findings ontest
Labour’s shrinking C2 and DE vote
In his Fabian Essay, reported in this morning’s Guardian, Ed Miliband has written that the loss of less-affluent voters cost Labour the general election, and said that his rejection of “New Labour nostalgia” made him the modernising candidate in the leadership election.
Labour members and public disagree on election defeat
Labour members and public disagree on Labour’s election defeat. While the recession is common to both, the public put immigration & Gordon Brown ahead of other factors.
Labour no longer loves Mandy
In today’s YouGov Labour leadership survey, Lord Mandelson is the only Labour figure to have a negative net asset rating – a result, no doubt, of his memoirs being released.