I got back home this morning from a really well attended meeting of Labour Party Members and Trade Unionists in Halifax last night. The political discussion was superb and enthused us all in our campaign.
Alice Mahon and Linda Riordan MP came along to support me. It was good to see Alice who following her retirement from Parliament has thrown herself into political campaigning in the real world outside of Parliament like Tony Benn. Linda is such a political find. She is a solid principled, socialist and such a worthy successor to Alice in this constituency. If, as they say, you are judged by your friends, these are the people I call my friends and by whom I would want to be judged.
I am taking a break over the Christmas holidays to spend time with my family. This largely involves my wife Cynthia and I playing football, tennis, snooker and virtually every sport you can think of with our ten year old son Joseph.
I will be back on the blogisphere on 1st January.
I would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
Thanks to all those who have worked hard in support of my campaign and all those who have contributed to this website and participated in the blog discussions.
I have really enjoyed the last 6 months, campaigning and engaging in the political debates and discussions both at the various meetings I have spoken at and on the website.
I hope that my leadership campaign so far has stimulated people into greater political engagement, debate, discussion and activity.
Have a good Christmas and see you in the New Year.
Best wishes,
John
12 Comments:
Yes, it was a really enjoyable and encouraging meeting in Halifax last night.
Merry Christmas, John!
Merry Christmas, John. It has been a real privelige to campaign for you this year and I look forward to doing more of the same in 2007. I
Merry Christmass John keep raiseing the issues & we will wesr them down.
Hope you made the flight, John.We'll get you that phone number for Dick Gaughan. Thanks for coming to Halifax and redoubled efforts up hete in the New Year.
I was a bit worried that this campaign might be suffering from the mid-term blues until I read the above messages!
On festive matters: prize for the most festive house goes to the house with incredible Xmas lights, characters like Smow White etc etc in John's constituency which raises money for Great Ormond Street and is a sight to behold!
Did anyone see the guide to blogging in The Mirror a few days ago, it had some interesting hints and tips!
John you are the heir apparent to Tony Benn so you will walk it next year once the real campaign starts.
Merrie Christmas to you all from a very busy Santa this year!
A Merry Christmas from me too!
A good time to point out that those of us lucky enough to be in work are really so much better off than we would be under Tory rule and associated repression with constant threat of redundancy.
And with the heating contributions I am hoping that most pensioners are having a better time of it too.
Let's all promise to work hard next year to remind the party where its roots lie, what its founding principles are, which direction it should be heading and to bring everyone to a state of reasonable comfort and lifestyle.
Season's Greetings
Looking forward to seeing you in Lewes on January 19th. Watch local press for details.
Dear John,
We expect your postive support for Tamil Eelam .
Tamils are harassed by Sinhala Srilankan Government.
Self-Determination of Tamils is a must under UK or UN role.
Hi John,
A Happy New Year.
Even if you end up like Ken (not getting the reqired nominations) or Tony4Leader (few votes, unlike his Deputy Leadership contest), I hope that Hayes United start winning so that you can switch off for a while. Even if that ia not your style.
Hope that you follow up today's key news which I have posted on my blog. It is your type of issue.
See you sometime.
maybe Hazel Blears will attend one of your campaign meetings now John!!
One of the various protestors I met outside Labour conference in Manchester told me she was in danger of losing her seat but where was she (Hazel I mean) at our PublicServices Not Profit/Keep Our NHS Public fringe meeting with UNISON North West in attendance I ask you??!
When I sat in the UNISON lunchtime fringe immediately before Dave Prestis' cut off speech Harriet Harman was in the audience looking very worried indeed as five union leaders including Dave got up and denounced the government's policy on NHS privatisation while the sound of drums and shouts from a protest outside reverberated around the tent the fringe was being held in (the noise was from the pensioners demo outside though I'm not sure if Harriet Harman et al knew this at the time, they may have thought it was anti-NHS privatisation demo or anti-war demo; anyway they knew it was definitely not a govt friendlydemowasalso quite bizarre as while getting a cup of tea before the fringe began I found out that the people pouring it and catering at the fringe were wait for it all temps on contracted out terms, probaly graduate ones as well so I had a good chat to them (s I've had similar work experiences) and in fact encouraged them to join a trade union as of course none of them were unionised...even the conference organisation seems to have been New Labourised what with the pass office fiasco as well and what happened last year to Walter Wolfgang. Then the party announced all the many redunancies of it's own staff at Head Office but tried to pretend this was all right as they had a "nice financial recovery package in place " or similar garbage so it would all be rosy never mind about the poor human beings who sre losing their jobs. Apart from our political differnces with New Labour their incompetence at organising things epsite their managerialism ought toi be called seriously into question, (e phrase they couldn't organise something in a brewery comes to mind I'm afraid) and I just see red when they do things lihe treat Walter so badly and spend so much on glossy brochures that they have to make party staff redundancies; how dare they do this in my name as a (hopefully decent") human being and LABOUR PARTY MEMBER??!)
It's nearly enough to make me despair with the current state of politics and go and tackle my second msot importnat New Year's resolution after the one to help this leadership campaign to succeede of course which is to FINISH THE WASHING UP! (more difficult than it sounds as so many different recyclables to sort)
At least washing up dosen't have a grovelling or haughty or even worse joky answere for everything like the Balirite faction; not many of whose hardcoare supporters still exisit now by the looks of conference.
And Happy New Yeat to you all, let's win this campaogn and then get a socialist Democratic candidate into the White HOUse in 2008 to work with him!
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