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Progressive Middlesbrough: September 2011

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Thursday, 29 September 2011. This is our faith. Our fight. John Healey to the LP Conference. Conference, the health bill has been through the Commons but the battle is not over. The NHS was built by the people. It is cherished by the people. It belongs to the people. Let us tell David Cameron today: We will give voice to the dissent of people who heard your promises, saw your posters; people who wanted to believe you before the election but are now seeing the truth. By Eoin Clarke, from T. Regrettably, a...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: October 2011

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Thursday, 27 October 2011. The Left needs to find its voice on the EU. But there is a real danger in the left abandoning a critique of the EU to the right. It should not only be knuckle-dragging right-wingers who have a problem with the EU as it is currently constituted. The left needs to be making these arguments about the EU, because they have real implications for working people in this country. Too often, the left has been paralysed on the issue, for fear of being lumped in with the UKIP brigade&...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: Twigg's surrender

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Saturday, 15 October 2011. Last week, I predicted in the Independent. That Ed Miliband's appointment of Stephen Twigg as Shadow Education Secretary would mark a capitulation to Tory policies on free schools. A few Blairites took me up on this over Twitter: I was wrong to pre-empt him before he'd even got his feet under the desk. My initial panic was whether I'd keep my lunch down. Indeed, a Guardian study. As I suggested in the Independent, if we are going to look to a Nordic education system, it should ...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: May 2011

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Tuesday, 31 May 2011. Tories take greed and selfishness it to another level - latest onslaught against safety in the workplace. Many of us have long since concluded that the ideology of the Tories was detrimental to the prosperity and well being of ordinary working people but their naked attack on the safety of workers so as to increase the profits of their friends, takes their greed and selfishness it to another level. Posted by Andy McDonald. Monday, 30 May 2011. Our right to the city. Guardian article...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: Why social housing is necessary and important

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Friday, 21 October 2011. Why social housing is necessary and important. Crush the cliché Opinion Inside Housing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). NHShttp:/ 1.bp.blogspot.com/-wAtgITDjS40/TjPgwuYdttI/AAAAAAAAAGU/mMbI22XoMKM/s200/boyle.jpg. Sir Stuart Bell MP. Join the Labour Party here. Labour Fresh Ideas Consultation. People's Republic of Teesside. The Guardian World News. Picture Window template. Template images by johnwoodcock.

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Progressive Middlesbrough: Reflections on the economic situation

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Wednesday, 28 September 2011. Reflections on the economic situation. Let us look at a troubled world. It seems that international capitalism was on the verge of meltdown. The collapse of the banking system in recent months sent shock waves through Europe, bringing governments to their knees and thousands out onto the streets of London, Paris and Berlin and Athens. With the banks refusing to lend, and millions of people thrown out of work, capitalism itself seemed utterly discredited. But in the summer of...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: Councils should not take the flak for cuts

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Tuesday, 25 October 2011. Councils should not take the flak for cuts. Local government has been a force for good in Britain and shouldn't be forced to take the blame for the government's 'brutal' cuts. Tuesday 25 October 2011. Communities secretary Eric Pickles has a lot to answer for on local government cuts. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA. One of Eric Pickles. S first acts as secretary of state for communities. Last December, the local government. Settlement meant that we had to make cuts equivalent to &#1...

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Progressive Middlesbrough: The Labour Party Future Candidates Programme

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Thursday, 23 June 2011. The Labour Party Future Candidates Programme. The Labour Party is seeking a new generation of campaigners and activists to join our Future Candidates Programme. The Labour Party Future Candidates Programme will provide training and support to a group of individuals through a summer school and mentoring programme involving experienced elected representatives and trainers. Successful applicants will be notified by mid July. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sir Stuart Bell MP.

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Progressive Middlesbrough: June 2011

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Thursday, 30 June 2011. The time is right to set out a different vision. These are challenging times economically and politically. But after just over a year of the coalition government, and with the Labour opposition beginning to understand why it was so roundly rejected by the electorate - by. 8220; Labour core voters. 8220; direction of travel. 8221; can grate somewhat, but nevertheless it is becoming all too clear where this Tory-led government is heading. The Government has made it abundantly clear ...