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Labour needs to shape the debate, not reflect conventional wisdom | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Labour needs to shape the debate, not reflect conventional wisdom. July 31, 2015. July 31, 2015. I remember reading an interview. With the aspiring deputy leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, about how he thought Labour should rebuild itself in the wake of its May electoral defeat. It began. She didn’t really think we should microchip all immigrants; what she was trying to say was that the system isn’t working, insists Tom Watson.

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Grammar and politics, or: why grammar is more than just a set of (stupid) rules | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Grammar and politics, or: why grammar is more than just a set of (stupid) rules. December 24, 2014. December 24, 2014. 8216; Man dies in police taser shooting. What, I think, is most interesting about the offending headline is the grammar. When you talk about grammar, people often think of fusty old rules, of Lynne Truss’s book,. Eats shoots and leaves. Something – to have some effect on the world. Forget clothes pegs, let’s ...

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Forget clothes pegs, let’s get rid of the bad smell | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Forget clothes pegs, let’s get rid of the bad smell. December 10, 2014. December 10, 2014. Yesterday, I read Polly Toynbee’s piece. Of Toynbee’s piece seemed off the mark. The Labour leadership’s ‘big reforms, smaller spending’ line is in practice austerity lite. Even if Miliband wins the election and pursues this course, he will suffer the same fate as Hollande and the French socialists. It all comes down to why, as Toynbee puts i...

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Labour need to break with the politics of austerity, not rehabilitate the discredited orthodoxies of the past | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Labour need to break with the politics of austerity, not rehabilitate the discredited orthodoxies of the past. May 13, 2015. Well, I’m devastated. Pop Tarts. Op-ed eerily similar to a piece in the same paper by Tony Blair. Is probably the leadership contender who most represents this view. Of course neither he, Alan Johnson, John Reid, Peter Mandelson nor any up-and-coming. Not enough people are saying it, but for the last 18 years...

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Some late thoughts on Labour & the welfare bill | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Some late thoughts on Labour and the welfare bill. July 22, 2015. July 22, 2015. Whether or not you support Jeremy, but whether or not you support austerity. This amounts to the observation that by putting the politics first, you create a broader alliance than by putting a leadership candidate first (which makes intuitive sense to me, and is the underlying rationale behind any united front). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Keep remembe...

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Owen Jones is right: Vote Labour, fight the Labour right | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Owen Jones is right: Vote Labour, fight the Labour right. April 29, 2015. April 30, 2015. Which calls on people to vote Labour on 7. May, has attracted the ire of several people and organisations on the far-left. Bother me because I want Labour to win and this is a knife-edge election (I also think Jones’s assessment of the situation is basically correct). Plus, even if these articles aren’t really that important, I...Inadequate&#4...

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Labour must take a stand against austerity: The SEB and the choices for Labour | The Retrofit Lefty

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039;Whoever wants to help the waverers must first stop wavering himself'. Labour must take a stand against austerity: The SEB and the choices for Labour. July 22, 2014. As I began writing, delegates from CLPs, socialist societies, affiliated Trade Unions and the Labour Party leadership were meeting at the Party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) to lay the foundations for Labour’s 2015 manifesto. Miliband’s speech. Angela Eagle, the chair of the NPF, here. And Jon Cruddas, here. And shareholder payouts are at...

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Free Education Demo - Student Assembly Against Austerity

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Stand up to racism. Stop Trident: books not bombs. End Austerity Now National Demo. Free education national student demo 2015. Protest at the Tory Party Conference. Fight the Student Loan sell-off. What we stand for. Set Up a Local Group. NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR FREE EDUCATION. A coalition of student groups and campaigns – including the Student Assembly Against Austerity. And the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts. Have come together to call a national demonstration. On Wednesday 19 November.