NEC Report
My report on yesterday's NEC meeting is available on the Progress website:
http://www.progressives.org.uk/columns/column.asp?c=681
posted by Luke Akehurst at 11:35 am
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
http://www.progressives.org.uk/columns/column.asp?c=681
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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.
2 Comments:
Are you people thick or something?It does not take rocket science to see the bank bail pout costing 1.3 trillion and the 2 trillion cost of the wars that the Tories pushed through parliament has caused the debt, if we got our money back from the Tory bankers then the deficit would be cleared up over night with 300 billion spare change.
9:32 am, May 19, 2011
Luke, off thread but relevant to Labour's future, perhaps you should take a look at the blog site of a new Labour district councillor down in Thanet.
Under the name redthanet.blogspot he holds forth and, under the title of Queen Goes To Ireland, in very uncomplimentary language about the royal family.
Ok, it is his opinion and we live in a democracy, but with the royal family generally riding quite high in popularity after the wedding, is this what the Labour party wants its representatives putting on line.
Already Tory bloggers have picked up on it and are spreading it far and wide. Perhaps as a member of the NEC you should have words with this man.
2:33 pm, May 20, 2011
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