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• Against the Odds is an obituary for Labour

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 794
  A nostalgic YouTube video about socialism called “Against the Odds” is being used by Labour as a party election broadcast. Here it is:According to the New Statesman:The decision by Labour to capitalise on the film is a victory for bloggers, especially the student Ellie Gellard who has been leading the campaign to ...
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• Harriet Harman: “Now is a time for optimism, not pessimism”

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 506
  Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader, responding to Nick Clegg’s pointless political posturing on the Queen’s Speech today said: “Nick Clegg is wrong to say it’s “a waste of everyone’s time” to help carers, make the banks more responsible, and secure Britain’s economic growth and jobs. ...
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• Gilmore Backing Off?

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 481
  More flesh on the bones of his plans from Eamon Gilmore yesterday, as reported in the Irish Independent . He seems to be backing off from the attitude reported previously. But Mr Gilmore yesterday continued to stick to the line that his party wanted to reduce the €20bn public sector wage bill through changes in ...
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• Tories vs smackheads in Glasgow

  
  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 596
  Chris Dillow makes an observation about the Glasgow North East that is considerably more arresting than most of the analysis I have seen: The Tory Party is less popular than heroin. That - if anything - is the  lesson from the Glasgow North East by-election result. The Tories got 1075 votes. The best estimate ...
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• THE RADICAL LIBERALISM OF TONY BLAIR

  
  SOCIALIST UNITY — Authority: 141
  The biggest intellectual challenge for the left in Britain is to come to terms with understanding the degree to which Blairism, the phenomenon we know as New Labour, has transformed the Labour Party. Certainly any such transformation has been mediated by the degree to which the Labour Party still has an organic and ...
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• No Scottish Seat Vulnerable Says Labour

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 531
  Barbara Follett, MP for Stevenage One of those on the list Labour is giving up on vulnerable seats and diverting resources to defend constituencies in its heartlands, according to MPs. Serious financial problems have left labour having to reorganise their election strategy and some MPs are saying ...
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• Betts and Blunkett welcome extra £1m to help Sheffield’s long-term unemployed

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 506
  The Labour Government has announced an additional funding of £1,093,270 for Sheffield to tackle long-term worklessness, and ensure that no-one is left behind during the recession and everyone can benefit as the upturn happens. While the number of long-term jobless families across the country has been reduced by 13 ...
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• British MP calls for cancellation of Queen’s speech for democracy’s sake

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov. 16 (ANI): Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called for the cancellation of the Queen’s speech that would mark the beginning of the new parliamentary session, by saying that her address would be sheer “waste of everyone’s time.” He has demanded that the speech should be replaced by an ...
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• Times: Blog: Be Cross, Yourselves

  
  Dr In?. Patrick Attard: Library of Articles on Gay-Rights in Malta and Beyond — Authority: 134
  http://www.timesofmalta.com/blogs/view/20091115/andrew-borg-cardona/be-cross-yourselves Sunday, 15th November 2009 by Andrew Borg Cardona [Excerpt from the article] ... Nothing to do with anything Ive written so far, but I was a bit dubious about the Labour Partys establishment of a LGBT Section , since I tend ...
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• MaltaStar: “Gay people need to believe in change”

  
  Dr In?. Patrick Attard: Library of Articles on Gay-Rights in Malta and Beyond — Authority: 134
  http://maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=5457 14.11.9 14 November 2009 23:06 “Gay people are expecting to be protected in case of discrimination, they want to have something to look forward to in the form of civil unions … they want to lead a quiet life free of bullying and ...
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• Socialism 2009 – what future for the Left?

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 534
  For session 2 of last Sunday’s Socialism 2009 conference, organised by the Socialist Party, I decided to attend probably the most prominent debate of the event, the discussion around a new workers’ party and what way forward for the Left. Taking place between 1pm and 3pm, the debate was well attended, in the ...
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• Gilmore warns Government against creating class conflict

  
  The Cedar Lounge Revolution — Authority: 481
  Times Change . Oh, and by the way, Eamon, it’s the very nature of the economic and social system itself that means the Republic is facing “a dark abyss of serious social division”. Serious social division is a fact of life in this country. It didn’t just emerge with the current crisis. Just ask the children ...
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• Rebel Labour MPs plot openly in pact to oust Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Left-right allliance working on plan to install an anti-PM party chairman Rebel Labour MPs are attempting to forge a Left-Right alliance in a bid to persuade Gordon Brown to step down as prime minister in the new year, according to senior figures inside the party. In a potentially ominous move for Brown, MPs are ...
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• Times: Pandoras Box is opening [Labours LGBT Group]

  
  Dr In?. Patrick Attard: Library of Articles on Gay-Rights in Malta and Beyond — Authority: 134
  http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091114/opinion/pandoras-box-is-opening Saturday, 14th November 2009 by Josie Muscat The Labour Partys decision to provide a home for Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transexual groups (LGBT) comes as no surprise. The setting up of an LGBT Section within the PL has been ostensibly done ...
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• Socialism 2009: Eight questions to a Labourite

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 534
  This was an interview I did with a Labour Party member from the south-east, who attended the Socialist Party’s Socialism 2009 event, to see what he thought of the whole thing from an outsider’s perspective. So, Dan, tell us about your role in the Labour Party and about what wing of the party you stand in. I am ...
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• The real story from Glasgow North East

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 683
  The story of the Glasgow North East by-election is not that Labour won an overwhelming victory , although it would have been if they’d lost, in what is a modern rotten borough for the party. It also isn’t that the Conservatives received only 1,075 votes , or indeed that the British National Party was only 62 ...
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• Socialism 2009: Thoughts on the Vestas campaign

  
  Though Cowards Flinch — Authority: 534
  In between sessions at Socialism 2009, I took some time to chat to some of the attendees, including a Socialist Party member from the Isle of Wight. I figured a good topic would be the recent campaign around Vestas, where the labour movement tried to intervene to protect the jobs of a bunch of workers who specialize ...
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• Jack Dromey: this isnt the first time Labour has tried to impose a grandee on Leyton

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 794
  After my story yesterday about alleged attempts to “parachute in” Harriet Harman’s husband, Jack Dromey, to the safe Labour seat of Leyton and Wanstead, someone from the Leyton Labour Party emails to remind me what happened last time Labour tried imposing a grandee in Leyton. (And no, I didn’t know members of ...
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• The Jedward factor

  
  Next Left — Authority: 643
  The Jedwardisation of political debate continues apace. And the Labour party must have been secretly relieved when Simon Cowell sent the X-Factor run-off into deadlock last week, allowing the public to save the tone deaf Jedward twins. The Mirror reports a new online advertising campaign portraying the boys George ...
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• Gordon Brown praises India-born MP Virendra Sharma

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 13 (IANS) British Premier Gordon Brown Thursday praised Virendra Sharma, fellow-Labour MP for the Indian-dominated area of Southall, saying Sharma epitomised the best in immigrant contributions to Britain.“Virendra’s own story - first coming here to better himself on a scholarship and today ...
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