Tory ministers in denial over the predictable shambles of voter registration
If you look up you may see hundreds of chickens coming home to roost. As many of us have…
Paul Wheeler
A beginner’s guide to the Boundary Review
2016 may be a year of political surprises but one event is certain. In the autumn (and probably…
Jim McMahon: Labour’s respectable radical?
Labour owes Jim McMahon a big debt of gratitude. After weeks of dreadful coverage the success in Oldham…
A vote too far? How we lost the vote on electoral registration
In the end it was probably too much to expect the House of Lords to take on the…
Parliament and the missing voters
London – a world city with a growing population of 8.5 million and expected to reach 10 million…
Electoral registration: for the sake of our democracy we must get it right
Well no can say that they weren’t warned! LabourList has been a consistent Cassandra warning of the implications…
The fragile franchise just got weaker
Sometimes it’s not good to be right. I and several others have been concerned for some time on…
The mansion tax is a progressive tax and Labour in London should support it
For those of us who believe in progressive taxation the last few weeks in London Labour have been…
Does Labour have a problem with black men?
Now that may seem a strange question for a Party that has both Chuka Umunna and Sadiq Khan…
We need more local Labour leaders in the Lords
Here’s a question for your next Constituency Labour Party (CLP) pub quiz – when was the last time…
