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Letters from a Swing Voter This week I took myself at my own word - I went out, I met people of various political persuasions, I listened, I queried, I debated and I considered. One evening, my friend pointed out that it would be more…
By Tim Nicholls / @tim_nicholls The other night, during a passionate and rousing speech, Neil Kinnock reminded the gathered crowd of the Prime Minister's words: "take a second look at us, and take a long hard look at them." As the audience…
By Diana Smith / @MulberryBush Last year I had a trip to a local museum, the Museum of Cannock Chase. This little unpretentious museum traces the social history of this mining area. In the downstairs room there was an evocative exhibition…
By Damian Talbot / @blackburnlabour Seven years has passed since that grim day when the BNP won a seat on Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, representing Blackburn’s Mill Hill ward. As joint election agent, I remember clearly the…
From @LabourList Following Baroness Stern's report, published yesterday, which showed that a focus on the proportion of rape cases that result in conviction has left victims' needs neglected and stopped women coming forward, this post was…
Full Name: David Rowntree Age: 45 From: Colchester PPC for: Cities of London & Westminster Website: www.davidrowntree.org CV: I was born in Colchester, Essex, and my first job was working for Colchester Borough Council as a computer…
By Ian Robathan As I posted in a previous article on the Walsall South selection, I have a major concern over the control from the centre down to the local party. On Friday I went to my first ever selection meeting not knowing quite what to…
By Grace Fletcher-Hackwood If you spend a lot of your time phone canvassing - and I spend so much of my time doing it that I now find it difficult to ask a question over the phone without using the phrase "on a scale of 0 to 5..." - you…
Letters from a Swing Voter As part of my new life as a Swing Voter, last week I had a heated debate about whether or not elections were won on personalities. My sparring partner asserted that she had only ever voted for the party, for its…
By Ian Robathan A couple of weeks ago, my local labour MP, Bruce George (Walsall South), decided not to stand for election again after being the MP for 36 years. To his credit he sent all local members a 4 page letter explaining his…
Full Name: Emma Bishton Age: 42 From: Nayland, Suffolk (grew up in Somerset) PPC for: South Suffolk Selection Result: Unknown Member of the Labour Party since: 1998 Website: www.emmabishton.wordpress.com (active from 3/3/10) CV: I grew up…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last week, Douglas Alexander spoke about Labour's intention to harness the strength of on-the-ground activism and networks of support within the Labour community during the election campaign. I called it a…
