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If you look up you may see hundreds of chickens coming home to roost. As many of us have been predicting, including on Labourlist, the introduction of individual voter registration in the UK has been an utter disaster. As the last few days…
2016 may be a year of political surprises but one event is certain. In the autumn (and probably September just in time for the party conferences) the Boundary Commissions will be publishing their provisional recommendations for…
Labour owes Jim McMahon a big debt of gratitude. After weeks of dreadful coverage the success in Oldham provided a rare moment of positive headlines. Needless to say success in politics has many fathers but what are the real lessons for…
In the end it was probably too much to expect the House of Lords to take on the Government twice in one week. So last week whilst we were celebrating George Osborne’s defeat on working families tax credits we also saw the confirmation of…
London – a world city with a growing population of 8.5 million and expected to reach 10 million within the next decade. Strange then that the same city is expected to lose a dozen MPs from its present contingent of 73 in the forthcoming…
Well no can say that they weren’t warned! LabourList has been a consistent Cassandra warning of the implications of the rushed and ill considered introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER) by the Electoral Commission. So…
Sometimes it’s not good to be right. I and several others have been concerned for some time on the way that the Electoral Commission has gone about introducing Individual Voter Registration. Well the draft electoral registers for all local…
For those of us who believe in progressive taxation the last few weeks in London Labour have been pretty dismal. We seem to have an array of Labour MPs (mainly wannabe London mayoral candidates) and council leaders rushing to the press…
Now that may seem a strange question for a Party that has both Chuka Umunna and Sadiq Khan in its Shadow Cabinet but something troubling is emerging from the current round of Parliamentary selections. Of the 100 constituencies where Labour…
Here’s a question for your next Constituency Labour Party (CLP) pub quiz – when was the last time the Labour Party appointed a local Labour Leader as a working peer. Well you have to go back to the last century – 1999 – to answer the…
Last week the Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission addressed the Annual Conference of the Association of Electoral Administrators in Blackpool. All good people, but all now involved in creating a dangerous culture of complacency over…
Labour doesn’t have an ‘open door’ immigration policy. We never have had that approach. It is therefore surprising how many supporters and potential supporters think that we do. To be fair we gave them a lot of evidence during our period of…
