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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
As Christine Shawcroft reported in Labour Briefing Gordon Brown assured the NEC in June 'that recent setbacks are due to terrible global economic conditions not of the Government's making'. Of course there is truth in this, when citizens standard of living deteriorates they blame the government. The New Labour philosophy which was built around neo-liberal economic policy and market mechanisms...
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Union Futures (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Unsurprisingly Ellie (who ended up on both slates!) topped the poll so well done to Ellie, Im personally very pleased to see that Christine Shawcroft has been relected again. All of the Campaign Labour Grassroots Alliance apart from Mohammed Azam got elected which is good news that the "left" slate took 5 out of the 6 seats but lets have a more democratic way to decide who our CLGRA candidates...
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grimmerupnorth (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Unconfirmed reports on LabourHome suggest that four out of the five Grassroots Allliance candidates have made it on to the NEC. So well done to Ann Black, Peter Kenyon, Pete Willsman and Christine Shawcroft. The bad news is that it therefore looks as if Mohammed Azam didn't make it. Which is a serious shame. Walter Wolfgang, who never pulled his punches in challenging the leadership,...
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Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The NEC election results for 2008 have been announced. The following were elected: National Executive Committee, Constituency section: Ann Black Peter Kenyon Ellie Reeves Christine Shawcroft Peter Wheeler Peter Willsman National Executive Committee, Local Government section: Jeremy Beecham...
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A reliable source has told me that the results of the constituency section of the Labour Party NEC elections are that the following six got elected: Ellie Reeves, Ann Black, Christine Shawcroft , Pete Willsman , Peter Kenyon and Peter Wheeler. This maintains the previous 4-2 balance between Grassroots Alliance candidates and those supported by Labour First, but means that men called Peter...