Quentin Davies defects from the Conservative Party, a lot of Labour Party fans are cheering. Why? This is a guy who voted against the minimum wage, is pro-Fox hunting, anti-gay, anti-trade unions, and is hardly what I'd call Labour Party material. We've got enough of these Tories hanging around, we don't need anymore.
After a waste-of-time election we've got Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, both solidly New Labour. You only need to look at the turn out, half of Labour Party members, and just 8% of affiliated Trade Unionists. I certainly couldn't vote for somebody who didn't nominate John McDonnell. I'm sick of right-wing politicians talking the socialist talk while busy selling off public services, the deputy leader election really brought some of this out....
It's nice to see the House of Lords, messing around with democracy again. They've recently amended the GLA bill, limiting the Mayor of London to two terms. As you can imagine the Tories and the Liberal Democrats are behind this, they know they can never defeat Ken Livingstone in an election so they call on their unelected buddies in the House of Lords to stop Ken from running. Pathetic. Abolish the House of Lords, simple....
Great just great, the guy is not even in the Prime Minister yet and he's already got people working away to see if privatising Channel 4 is an option for him, from the Torygraph. Asked if Mr Brown might sell Channel 4 to raise an estimated £1 billion, a Treasury spokesman described the idea as "speculation" but declined to rule it out completely. [...] However, she is likely to be moved from her post when Mr Brown becomes Prime Minister....
One hundred and thirty six years ago today, the first attempt to create a truly democratic society was strangled by capitalism. The people of Paris took power into their own hands, establishing a participatory democracy in which the people of Paris themselves took part in government, from the bottom up. The Paris Commune was ruthlessly crushed by the armies of capitalism, at least fifty thousand people in Paris were slaughtered, one hundred and forty seven Communards were executed along a wall now known as the Wall of the Communards....
For the sake of the CLPs, here are all the Labour MPs that nominated Gordon Brown. I have to disagree with the People's Commissar who says the following: The sheer volume of MPs nominating Gordon speaks volumes about the unity in the PLP and it is time for all Labour members to get behind him and his new administration. The sheer volume of MPs nominating Gordon speaks volumes about the amount of Tory deadwood in the PLP and the lack of internal democracy and it is time for all Labour memebers to throw every MP who did not represent them out into the rubbish....
John McDonnell has 27 nominations so far, and requires another 18. I see over at People's Commissar of Enlightenment there's a list of 18 potential MPs who have yet to nominate. Hopefully we'll reach the 45 by Thursday.
Here's a recording of a debate carried out on Sunday between Labour Party leadership candidates Gordon Brown, John McDonnell and Michael Meacher organised by the Fabian Society.
News has just come through a few minutes ago that Michael Meacher will stand down and recommend support for John McDonnell in the Labour leadership election. The next hurdle is getting on the ballot paper, the deadline for this is Thursday. So if you haven't already written to your Labour MP asking them to nominate John McDonnell, now is the time.
In an ongoing discussion I've had with Mr Anthony, I used Venezuela as concrete examples of nationalisation of international companies, and reducing the working week without impacting production or pay. 5. I wonder about your Venezuela example. It is true they nationalized the petrolium industry. But Citgo functions worldwide. And even though it makes up 80% of the governments revenue has it really changed the country. I was actually referring to Venezuela taking majority ownership of Chevron, Exxon Mobil and BP property within Venezuela....