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Progress have put Blair's speech from Saturday online: http://progressonline.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=1377
posted by Luke Akehurst at 2:42 pm
Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
6 Comments:
May well be missing something, but I can't see any poicies in that speech.
10:31 pm, September 12, 2006
One of the audience members who asked a question did indeed plead with him to stay on... she asked for him to stay as party leader, but with a different foreign policy.
11:58 am, September 13, 2006
el dave is a former LSE hack who knows nothing
2:17 pm, September 13, 2006
El Dave is sat 2 desks away from me so I know exactly who he is...
2:24 pm, September 13, 2006
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2:27 pm, September 13, 2006
I resent the implication that I am a 'former LSE hack who knows nothing'.
I do not know anything, but am still very much an LSE hack.
2:29 pm, September 13, 2006
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