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My heart sank when I heard that Labour-run Brent has decided to ban all fracking in the borough. There is no evidence that there are any shale gas reserves in North West London. Also because it is a throwback to the gesture politics of the…
Six years ago the Australian Labour Party (ALP) was all-powerful. As a party, it controlled every single state government and had just achieved a stunning Federal Election result which even saw the Liberal Prime Minister, John Howard, lose…
Remember the crocodile in Peter Pan? Just when you thought it was safe – ‘tick tock’ came the crocodile. Well it’s a bit like that with the Labour Party and the move towards individual voting registration. I don’t blame you if you switch…
It is interesting to see that the Labour Party is returning to the vexed issue of its parliamentary selection process. The changes may be well and good. But maybe we should be asking a bigger question – are we witnessing the end of working…
On Saturday I went to the Conservative Home ‘Victory 2015’ Conference. It actually proved quite a tonic for a Labour supporter and I was tempted to invite John O’Farrell to cheer him up. The pleasing note came from the polling provided by…
The US Presidential election results were a tremendous boost to progressive politicians worldwide. But let's be clear whilst we can learn massively from Team Obama's GOTV and ground operations our electoral targets are very different…
Hands up if you know your National Insurance number. If you are telling the truth much less than half of you actually do. Does it matter? Well in two years time, if you don’t, you won’t be eligible to register to vote. Some of you may have…
Welcome to the local politics section of LabourList. For the party it’s been a long time coming. As someone with a reasonable party record (joined 1973) it’s fair to say that Labour local government lost its way in the 1980s (the failure of…
