My campaign for the leadership of the Labour party was launched this morning with wide ranging coverage in the media. Following the principles of Tony Benn we have emphasised time and time again that this campaign is a debate about policies not personalities.
The reaction from the emails, phone calls and phone-ins to radio stations has been a massive wave of support. Ex Labour party members are contacting us to say that they are re-joining. Others have welcomed the opportunity of being able to vote for something they believe in again. The launch has generated real excitement.
Naturally we expect everything to be thrown at us and the spin doctors are already out their trying to undermine confidence by arguing that the support isn't there.
I believe that sceptics are in for a real shock. There is real climate for political debate and policy change.
We will now build on this launch by stimulating the most wide ranging and dynamic political discussion our party has experienced in decades.
We need supporters to come forward now and help us organise this programme of political engagement.
We are about to demonstrate that another politics is possible to make another world possible.
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Best of luck John: it's about time the membership had the chance to choose a leader who will really represent the interests of ordinary working people.
John, I commend you for the admirable role that you played in opposing the disgusting Armed Forces Bill - but less than 20 MPs supported you, that says it all about how many socialists remain in the Labour Party!
Wouldn't it be better and more effective if you and the extremely tiny number of socialist MPs still remaining in the Labour party left to build an alternative with other socialists.
If Tony Benn, McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn and similar MPs teamed up with people like Respect & Blaenau Gwent Independent MP, Dai Davies to launch a left alternative this would have far more impact on British politics and take things forward more than chasing the wind.
Not worth trying to reclaim the Labour Party, best place for you is in RESPECT.
Well done, John, this is just what is needed to save the Labour Party. I joined Labour in 1993 because I was disgusted by the Tories sleaze amd arrogance, they seemed to regard their main task was to give as much of taxpayers money to their friends in big business, I then left Labour in 1998 as it was clear that they were going to end up exactly the same as the Tories. Despite 20 years of propaganda saying how great privatisation is, the vast majority of the electorate are opposed to it - this needs to be repeated as many times as possible because the press will never mention it on their own.
Go for it John - You'd make a good Prime Minister. I was heartened by your speech at the PCS Annual COnference - at's good ot know that it is still worth voting Labour (always the furthest right I'd ever vote.
Nice one John,
Well said
I'm really looking forward to the LRC conference on the 22nd July and can't wait to get stuck into the campaign.
Its just what we need to rejuvenate
the party!
Nice to see the poll on Radio 2 is currently registering 82% support for you standing!
Good luck to you John. I hope your campaign can spark some kind of renewal on the Left.
It's refreshing to hear someone who wants to lead the Labour Party refer to himself, openly and proudly, as a socialist.
Because I was so disgusted and disillusioned with Tony Blair following Bush in invading Iraq after having bombed Afghanistan just before, I resigned from L-P having joined just in 1997. We got his 'bag-carrier' next, as an M-P in my Constituency! I have looked at LATW as a 'drowing person's straw' am still on it. Please help us depose such impostors! zarbha
Well done!
I left my membership of the LP lapse about 5 or 6 years ago, since the ward meetings were dead and the CLPs were full of people who were against Blairite policies but utterly demoralised.
I am thinking about rejoining but I think this can only work if this effort is organised and coordinated.
For socialism!
Your brand of Bennite politics is what almost sunk the Labour Party last time round. Rather than this type of grandstanding, your time would be better spent getting behind the government that has delivered economic stablility, record investment in public services and more schools, doctors and nurses than ever before. Hope you crash and burn and take the Campaign group with you.
I see the pundits are already pouring scorn on this campaign. Labour Party members know better. Many of my Branch(Calder Valley CLP) will be supporting you. Many more, I hope, will re-join Labour as a result. I hope you can make it up to West Yorkshire during the campaign.Good luck!
Susan Press
Calder Valley CLP
John, I wish you good luck in your bid for the leadership. I hope you get the backing you deserve from your parliamentary colleagues, and that they allow us to have a real say in our parties future.
Jonathan Millins
Equalities Officer
Kent Labour Students
Good luck to you and your principles. I agree, its about policy, not personality. Let us see what policies you offer in an already crowded political smoking room. Too many of our politicians are sitting around having a fag break rather than addressing crumbling public support and faith in them.
I sincerely hope this isn't just "New" New Labour or the lefts answer to Cameron.
As someone who is not a member of any political organisation, I hope my comments are permitted on a blog already filled with praise. Its also about balance
This is great news. My family have been staunch Labour voters for years and we may finally get a real Labour government, instead of the neo-liberal, almost Thatcherite policies of Blair and his sleazy cronies.
I hope for your victory and cannot wait to see the end of Blair and Brown, the pretenders to the Labour throne.
Although I am not a Labour supporter, I am a keen follower of politics and delighted to see you come forward. Thank you for the principled stand you have taken - I hope that your courage is matched with success.
Best wishes from a Lib Dem party member!
I saw his speech on BBC News 24 yesterday and could agree with a lot of what he said. Please do not elect Brown - he will be a disaster for the country.
John, I think you are a principled politician, but I am distressed that you are calling on people to join the Labour Party. Young people in particular have only known Labour as a party of cuts, privatisation and war.
Every minute that you spend in the Labour party is holding back the millions of workers in this country who need their own political party. The credibility that you could give to the idea of building a new workers' party by leaving Labour would do far more good for our movement than your leadership challenge.
The best of luck John - I've been a LP member for 54 years and active at many levels for most of them - and know that you, with your socialist principles and organising flair, are the right candidate for the true socialists in the Party. At last, as a branch membership officer, I have an incentive to make members again and persuade those who have left to re-join with more conviction. Yours for socialism
Rosalie Huzzard
John
The following branch officers of Islington UNISON (in a personal capacity) would like to welcome and support your candidacy for Labour Leader and believe your policies and practices reflect not only our branches policy but also UNISON national policy.
Fiona Monkman, Branch Chair
Jane Doolan, Branch Secretary
Andrew Berry, Deputy Branch Secretary
Mike Calvert, Assistant Branch Secretary
Fred LePlat, Vice Chair
Keith Facey, Young Members Officer
Cliffe Obaseki, Black Members Convenor
Pam Woods, Labour Link Officer
Rosemary Plummer, Education and Schools Convenor
Denise Facey, Homes for Islington (ALMO) Convenor
John
The following branch officers of Islington UNISON (in a personal capacity) would like to welcome and support your candidacy for Labour Leader and believe your policies and practices reflect not only our branches policy but also UNISON national policy.
Fiona Monkman, Branch Chair.
Jane Doolan, Branch Secretary.
Andrew Berry, Deputy Branch Secretary.
Mike Calvert, Assistant Branch Secretary.
Fred LePlat, Vice Chair.
Keith Facey, Young Members Officer.
Cliffe Obaseki, Black Members Convenor.
Pam Woods, Labour Link Officer
Rosemary Plummer, Education and Schools Convenor.
Denise Facey, Homes for Islington (ALMO) Convenor.
Listening to many conversations at Tolpuddle it was clear that a significant number of participants view your candidacy as the last chance for their continued support for Labour.The feeling of disappointment and betrayal by TB is clear - there have been a few rights but so, so many wrongs.
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