By Mike Phipps Mike Phipps reviews New Labour: Was the Gain Worth the Continuing Pain?, by Dr Gaye Johnston, published on Kindle by Edition Publishing. This is an ambitious book.…
A timely book about the Labour Party by CLPD Chair Gaye Johnston
New Labour: Was the Gain Worth the Continuing Pain: What the New Labour Heresy Did to a Democratic Socialist Party and how that impacts on Corbyn's Labour Party today by…
NEW LABOUR SHENANIGANS
THE BLAIR SUPREMACY UNDER SCRUTINY FORMER NOTTINGHAM SOUTH MP ALAN SIMPSON REVIEWS LEWIS MINKIN’S NEW BOOK THE BLAIR SUPREMACY, MUP, 2014* Lewis Minkin is nothing if not meticulous. Reading The Blair Supremacy is like…
The Blair Supremacy
A thorough account and analysis of the shenanigans perpetuated by the New Labour machine is set out in The Blair Supremacy by Prof. Lewis Minkin, Manchester University Press, 2014.
On illegitimate interference by party staff into our internal elections
By Peter Willsman As Jon Lansman previously reported here, there is clear evidence that full time Labour party officials in most of the country (including Yorkshire, the East Midlands and…
Conference 2013 Shenanigans
Why CAC election result is not safe It is with deep regret that we learned yesterday that the oversight of the CAC elections has fallen short of the "open, transparent…
Shining a light into Labour’s shadow
Peter Willsman’s reading of Banana Republic UK? by Sam Buckley, published in 2011, prompted another look at the parliamentary selection scandal and subsequent cover up in Erith & Thamesmead in…
Report exposes ‘Progress’
A report has been published this month on Labour's right-wing 'Progress' organisation. The heavily funded organisation campaigns for the Labour Party to tie itself to a Blairite policy framework. It…
Conference 2011 Shenanigans
ShenanigansSunday at a Regional Briefing, delegates were treated to another dose of ‘liaison’ or the dodgy and illegitimate practice of telling delegates how to vote. The Regional Director started off…
Shenanigans at Conference
Every year angry CLP delegates complain to us about the way regional briefing meetings are being used to shepherd delegates in a pro-platform direction. On Sunday, at the South West…
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