It’s finally here and took me literally all afternoon to make. It’s my Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party, as part of the House of Twits PEB competition, where I could stand to win an amazing £20.10, more than twice the cost it took to make! As you can see, I went with the [...]
The Labour Party last week launched an interesting social media experiment. (Tories in the audience will now be yelling “Because you have no money!”) The idea was to let ordinary members create a poster for billboards, as the Tories attempts from high-up ad companies were getting hammered on the internets with their three campaigns ruthlessly [...]
I have been working for our French colleagues in the Parti Socialiste for 6 months now, and though I don’t know what a Jedward is, I have been able to experience ‘continental democracy’. The debate about electoral reform in Britain has always been “PR or not to PR”, with the third way of AV or [...]
Tom, I’m glad you start your reply (to my reply of your reply to my article) by acknowledging that “this topic arouses passions.” As you will have noticed, it is a topic that not just arouses passions but makes my blood begin to boil, mainly out of sheer frustration that I’m not getting through. I’m not [...]
Recently I wrote a piece denouncing the Labour Party’s No Platform Policy and its attitude towards the BNP. (Link to that) Shortly afterwards, fellow Labour Colleagues came forward with their own pieces agreeing with me, including Bryony King, Adam Connell, James Alexander and Olly Deed. (Each name links to each post) Even on the Right, [...]
The rise of the BNP is an issue that strikes a strange nerve in the Labour movement, one that triggers a huge sense of panic and hysteria. It is time to confront this phobia so we can confront the problem head on. Our first act must be to renounce the No Platform Policy. Those in [...]
Less than a month in France and I have already been making news! Today I was featured in the local newspaper, Nice-Matin, on page 4. See below the article and below that, my translation: Un jeune travailliste au stage au PS La fédération socialiste des A.-M. accueille, pour un stage de six mois, Hadleigh, un jeune [...]
Health Secretary Andy Burnham wore a black tie to the funeral of several careers last night, calling the election of two BNP MEPs “a sad day for British politics”. The Twitterati and Facebookers were the first to console themselves with the notion that the BNP actually had fewer votes than in 2004, and that the [...]
My good friend Simon Budden has written in to give his account of the event on Friday. Here he tells us what happened from inside the building. By Simon Budden While Hadleigh stayed outside during the protest at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute (BRLSI), I managed to make my way into the building [...]
Further to my previous posts here and here regarding the controversial decision to invite the BNP to speak at a debate on the European Elections of June 4th 2009, this is my account of what occured at the meeting. Arriving at about 1830 (I had aimed to get there at 1800, but the bus hit [...]
