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By Matt Bryant Last week I cast my postal vote for John Adams, the Labour candidate for Dartford. That won't come as a massive surprise to those who know me. I'm a Labour councillor, a party activist, and have grown up with the party. But…
By Paul Wright I have always been a Labour supporter, but I only became a member in the last few weeks. I decided to come out of the shadow primarily to thank Labour, the party which enabled me to have an education and the pathway to a…
Letters from a Swing Voter Three months ago, I made a decision. If this election is going to be as significant as people were telling me, then I wanted to be a part of it. My story was similar to thousands of others - family history of…
By Sarah Milne / @Sarah_E_Milne A film made by the campaign group Don't Judge My Family was released yesterday to highlight the potential consequences for widows and single parents of the Conservatives' proposed marriage tax break. The…
By Margaret Hodge Join Barking Labour for our big campaigning weekend this Saturday and on Bank Holiday Monday in Dagenham. This is the final weekend of what has been a four year campaign to see the back of the BNP in Barking and Dagenham…
By Chris Worsey It's been nearly 4 months since I was selected to represent the Labour Party for a seat on the district council. The seat itself, Cannock West, is a something of a Tory stronghold. The last few elections the Conservative…
Letters from a Swing Voter There's a joke doing the rounds at the moment: if we end up with a hung parliament, who do we start with? It makes us laugh because, ho ho, don't we all wish we could string the damn bastards up by their…
By Dannie Grufferty Liverpool Wavertree is a hotly contested seat at the moment, and both Labour and the Lib Dems are pulling out all the stops for the battle on May 6th. I've never had a huge problem with the Lib Dems - I actually voted…
By Dominic Campbell In every political campaign, we are presented with a pretty one dimensional view of politics, policians and their policies. The parties put their case forward, the mainstream media reports according to the politics of…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last night, with LGBT Labour, London Young Labour and the Young Fabians, LabourList co-hosted a hugely successful debate watch party, with over 100 people joining us in London. We were joined by Labour's…
By Mike Harrison Campaigning in Yorkshire, God's own county, is going pretty well. In Brigg and Goole, Labour's candidate and MP since 1997, Ian Cawsey of MP4 fame, is proving a valuable asset to the Party's campaign to hold the seat. He is…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Some of the first tweets we've had - about a brighter future for us and our families under Labour - are now at the bottom of this post. When Labour came to office in 1997 it did so under the slogan…
