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It’s that time of the month when we conduct our “State of the Party” survey – the number one monthly barometer of how Labour people feel about their party.Make your voice heard, and vote on how your party is performing. This month we want…
A couple of years ago the thought of being involved in politics hadn't entered my mind. But in May this year I stood for election for the first time in the council elections in Barnsley. I comfortably won the seat back for Labour and now I…
A stately, plump man answered the door whilst I was canvassing yesterday. His hair had and oaky hue, his face was of equine length, and he appeared to me in an ungirdled yellow dressing gown. He peered at me through his outer glass door…
Spotted in Tesco this afternoon by Jonathan Roberts. Feel free to use this as a caption contest, or just chalk this off as another sign of an impending apocalypse...
Like many geekier political folk I spent a lot of Easter Monday glued to the BBC Parliament channel 20th anniversary re-run of the 1992 General Election results programme. I missed some of the coverage at the time as I was a counting agent…
“You don't know a thing about their lives/ They live where you wouldn't dare to drive,” warbled Morrissey on the track “Reader Meets Author” back in the mid 90s. I was reminded of the words when I read the bloggetariat/commentariat in force…
I joined the campaign full time 2 weeks before the election, and spent every day campaigning at the office and out canvassing and door knocking. Obviously we thought we were going to win, we were never complacent, and we worked our hides…
Fresh on the heels of our trip to Reading and Slough, my tour of the south-east picked up pace last week with a visit to Southampton. Delays on the Jubilee Line (#sackboris) might have raised our stress levels, but nothing was going to stop…
There's post from Dan Rickman - a Jewish Ken supporter - over at Huffington post today that's worth drawing attention to. The crucial part of the post is this: "I want to give Ken the benefit of the doubt and be able to vote for him on 3…
One of the major questions thrown up during Refounding Labour was how do political parties retain a sense of relevance to diverse communities in the modern world. With traditional voter allegiances less secure and class based voting on the…
I have joined the party twice. The first time I joined, I received a couple of things in the post and that was it. So I didn’t bother renewing my membership. When I rejoined in 2008, it was because at the time, I was looking for a way to…
The creation of a Members and Supporters Directorate is a chance to radically change the way the Labour Party is structured and how it treats those who volunteer their time, energy and money to support it. To say that the Labour Party is…
