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Tag Archives: Labour Party
Notes for the New Year from Plague Island
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Today, in the UK we live on a plague island (with some of the highest rates of Covid infections and deaths, globally), politically isolated from … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, politics
Tagged climate change, ecology, economy, Labour Party, national politics, overshoot, pancrisis, Tory government
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Leaving Labour, again
I’ve just left the Labour Party, again. I wasn’t at all active but did pay my sub, contribute to policy fora, and did some foot slogging and door knocking in the 2017 and 2019 general elections. I originally left in … Continue reading
Theses on the 2019 General Election
Here is my attempt to cast some light on the General Election defeat. I’ve written it as a set of “theses” to try and make the fairly complex argument concise. I haven’t covered everything and some of this has already … Continue reading
Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.
I’m rather aware that I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. It’s not because I’ve been inactive, the opposite, in fact. So here is a list of the most important things I’ve written over the last year and a bit. “Properly” … Continue reading
Could Labour implement a post-growth economy?
Here is the full version of the article published, in rather truncated form today, on Left Foot Forward. I will be posting a fully referenced extended version in the near future. pdf version of the full text Could Labour implement … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, ideology
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister. What could go wrong?
How things change! Within the space of a few weeks, there is now a real possibility of a Labour government with a left wing leadership. That is the result of the snap UK General Election that resulted, not in the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, degrowth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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The General Election in Greater Manchester: what do the results mean?
What happened in Greater Manchester on June 8th? Here is a map showing the swings in Greater Manchester’s parliamentary seats. Red figures indicate a Labour victory while Blue figures indicate a Conservative was elected. Positive figures mean a swing from … Continue reading
Posted in Manchester, politics
Tagged GE2017, Labour Party, Manchester, politics, UK General Election
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Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economy, Labour Party, Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy, socialism
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Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative
This is a short post to note Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership re-election and ask some fundamental questions. Despite some misgivings in the last post, I’m delighted. This is all about rejecting the politics and economics of the last … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, Labour Party, socialism
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Labour’s post-Brexit woes and a possible solution
Updated, 30 June, 2016 It turns out that the party’s rules make my suggestion unfeasible in its present form: the leader of the party is ex officio the leader of the PLP (Chapter 1 clause vii). However, there appears to … Continue reading
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