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At the TUC conference this week in Brighton, RMT union boss Bob Crow asked his colleagues to back a British referendum on the EU. His call for a referendum was roundly rejected. On the internet, the group Labour for a Referendum has posted…
If you are a Labour Party member you have probably received the party e-mails asking you “Could you be a candidate?” for a parliamentary by-election and shrugged your shoulders – of course I cannot be a candidate in Rotherham if I live in…
If anyone in the Labour Party should know how the European Union works it's Peter Hain. A member of the Convention of the Future of Europe in the early 2000s, Hain will have seen how sensible proposals, compellingly argued, can lead to…
The political debate around the legacy of the Olympic Games over the last few days has revolved around whether every kid in every British school should have to do two hours of compulsory sport every week.Cameron thinks not, while Boris…
Everyone’s favourite damp-rag bashing rumbustious politician Nigel Farage has been at it again, claiming today that he “could not care less” who wins the next general election as the UK. “The penny is beginning to drop [...] that we are no…
So William Hague has launched the FCO review of the competences of the EU (essentially, an examination of the powers the EU has an how they are used). It's no surprise that just a few days earlier the EU Fresh Start group of Tory MEPs…
Labour’s website lists 115 MPs and Lords* in the Shadow Cabinet and shadow teams that assist them. Yet which of those people is responsible for internet politics for the party? I ask this because the SPD in Germany has such a person – Lars…
Now I've freed myself from the nightmare of participating in the process personally, I'm at my liberty to examine the absurdities of the system for the next important selections in the Labour Party, namely for candidates for the European…
Mark Ferguson was quick off the mark with his post profiling candidates who could be in the running to be Labour's candidate for Mayor in 2016. The problem is that before we ask who the candidate should be, we need to ask how to position…
The good news: President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz seems to have confirmed his commitment to a single seat for the European Parliament in a Swedish radio interview (very short summary from EUObserver here ). Problem: he wants…
Obama taught us one major thing in how to use the net for politics: done the right way, online activism can be a great way to engage and motivate people who are already - largely - on your side. The Obama team had a rather wide appeal…
At one level I can't get very worked up about Roger Helmer MEP defecting from the Tories to UKIP today. Helmer has long held views on the EU-phobic right of the Conservative Party, in many ways closer to UKIP, so his defection is not a…
