I read Jackie Ashley's column in the Guardian this morning and couldn't find the apology anywhere.
Only twelve months ago she headed up the media dinner party circuit that urged upon the Labour party the strategy of "the smooth transfer of power" from Blair to Brown. Ms. Ashley and vitually all the other media commentators arrogantly dismissed a leadership election enabling ordinary party members to engage in an honest political debate about the future of Labour as just a distraction.
This morning she urges the party to dump Gordon Brown and states that "the party desperately needs a debate about its future direction."
Just as Ms. Ashley and other media commentators were part of the process last year of preventing party members having a say over the leadership of the party now their articles over the last few days are already trying to limit that debate and limit the participants in the debate.
Already elements in the media have selected for us ordinary party members and trade unionists who will be on the shortlist for any future leadership election. The range of potential candidates has already been restricted by these media commentators to those, who like them, supported Gordon Brown and the thrust of New Labour policies over the last decade. The media is reducing the most important debate about Labour's future into the equivalent of a political fashion show catwalk for the sole enjoyment of the gliterati of central London.
What this fails to appreciate is that the vast majority of party members understand that it is a radical change of politics that is needed and not just a new face. Labour Party members must not allow the debate about the future of our party to be dictated by the small clique of media commentators.
That is why the discussion of Warwick 2 is critical. From what we now know about this weekend's agreement, Warwick 2 may contain some very limited advances in the preparation of a policy agenda that could limit the damage to our party at the next election but it is equally clear that it does not go anywhere near enough. Indeed in some areas such as the endorsement of the Government's reactionary welfare reform programme and support for academies it is a retrograde step towards the loss of even more of our supporters.
Over the coming months in the run up to the LRC's confrence in November my role will be to promote a rank and file discussion about the future political direction of the Labour party. This will be led by members not the media. If that discussion leads us to the conclusion that the debate about the future of our party should include a change of leader that that decision will not be determined by media commentators but by ordinary members of our party and our trade union supporters.
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This is definitely the right strategy, John. I would, of course, be an enthusiastic support for John4Leader 08, 09 or 10, but we should maintain a dignified distance from the current unedifying spectacle of personality politics being played out in the media.
I do now think that we are probably in a place where a) there can be no great change in direction without a change in personnel and b) there could be a leadership election whether we start it or not. But, be that as it may, a contest should be activist-led (unless a leadership election comes before then, started by the actions of others - in which case I assume you will be ready to bear the burden for us once again).
The unions must use their influence to get a change of policy back to working class policies and socialism. How the General Secretaries must now regret their support for Brown - there won't be any change of policy without change of leader - but the parliamentary party is stuffed with fools, rogues and robots - they not only have no socialist prionciples but most also have no brain - picked for loyalty to the machine over anything else. Good luck John - you'll need it!!
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Unite rep in NHS
The Guardian is so behind the times - they're just catching up with Obama after finally letting go of Clinton's bid and the same with the UK leadership issue. That's why you have to read The Mirror as well as a "quality" (so-called!) newspaper.(Independent quite good on detail but still too right wing for me at times!) to find out what many ordianary people are thinking (It's not that I agree with all The Mirror does but it's cuts ot teh chase on politics,great for teh time-poor and balances the Guardina's perspective; it has has a great anti-smoking stance and parenting/healthy eatin pages though the problmen page woman is rather sexist towards wome I find an dthre's still too much emphasis on women's slimness etc etc but compared to Th eSun it's brillinat , it even had a whole page on things yo can do to boycott Zimbawean products and it always covers important things like Martin Luther King's legacy or something similar.. Sunday Mirror not as good though, still pretty tacky in places and Sat falls down anbit..but tabloids are what you will alwyas see being read in your workplace canteens/builders vans etc etc etc, not just The Guardian!
We have nothing to lose on the left if we do a leadrship bid. No-one villifies the right-wing of the Conservative party for doing what they wan tso whey shodl we be treated as pariahs? We wil have to deal with the fact that the press think that Jon Cruddas is a possible cnadidate if only with an "ouside chance" but mnay in the party have cottoned on to the fac that eh is a "phoney" politically as my ward chair put it, James Purnell dosen't cut the mustard and Miliband dosen't live in the real world - he neglected to bring wellies for himself adn his entourage while visiting an agricultural college recently....!(to take one small mischevious example!) an dif it was Straw etc we would also go ot sleep or die of boredom - no offence but we need to raise our game with our next leader... a mad telegraph jouro on BBC News 24 has just compared teh Camerons to John and Jacqueline Kennedy purely on the strength of them wearing trendier outfits than Gordon on their holidays...! - the Tories are obviously desparate for cameron to be seen as the British Obama - dream on Tories !
we do need to start NOW and I have alrady recieved an email relevan tto this as leaving ot to another conference entirely run by Brown's machine will miss the boat by years. I think obama's strenght is tha thw knows when to go on to teh next stage in Politics without regretsor too much self-doubt (or he wouldn't have run against Clinton) but he is firmly in touch with his grass roots and most importantly the real world in general and he has the perspective to remain positive - 9I think Cameron would soon start whinging and blaming others if the tide turned against him like most Tories!). These strenghts of positivity while remaining grounded and good leadership are what I see in John, who has I think just teh right amoun tof experince for teh job - not too much or too little - coupled with a very human ability to drive people sligthly up the wall sometimes for something minor such as saying he would return to his constituency in Hayes and be don ewith natiomal politics as he would probably lose his seat at teh next election teh way things were going....It was salong meeting with many wanting to contribut so I didnt get a chance to join in o this topic as they had made teh fatal mistake of leavin gthe poitical discussion to teh end so everyone sits there burstin gto sound off and so the yall try at once..so I'l say what i woudl have said now i..e
John as Barry Obama woudl say your're no tgoing to lose your seat "ANYTIME SOON!". But we need to raise expectations agian and yo an go further so tha twe can all do better. We must make one big attempt at getting teh British peopel to pull back from teh brink of the Tory abyss -if not it will be five years ahenad after opposiiton...
leaving typos as too late and my cat is trying to sleep!
Helen Ingram
What about the millions of lives the PM has saved in Africa. That was left wing. And it hardly won him any votes in Henley with thoese BNP voting scum bags. So he did have some guts to do great stuff.
I know this is controversial thing to say but i wonder if glasghow east is the PM's backyard It is a Irish - catholic scottish seat he scottish proddie. The seat surprisingliy has a large ammouint of support for independende as high 50 %. So this was not the back yard seat people thought it was. A scottish proddie might be as alien to the seat as an english man.
Well said Duncan. John - don't be pressured by attention seekers trying to ride on the back of your candidacy. You played it exactly right last time - the movement called on you to stand, and you ran a great campaign. However, the forces were too great against us - and I'm not sure what's changed since.
I hope you do get on the ballot paper for any future contest and I would back you, but unless that's very likely, just concentrate on representing the movement in Parliament, on the picket lines and in protests - don't waste your time trying to be leader of that shower.
John,
there will be a leadership contest (though you rightly will not call for it)
when there is you have to run
it's obvious
we need a socialist candidate in such an election if we are to organise for socialist policies within the Party
if you try you may fail
if you don't try you fail every time
good luck!
I agree with jon rogers 100%. John, your leadership bid last time round was exciting and bold. What must be true now is that out of all New Labour M.P.'s, John has got at least the greatest know how in running a leadership campaign. (can't be sure as to who is still around from the Blair campaign).Granted, that doesn't guarantee success against the crawling,waste of spacers but it's a decent enough platform. I wonder what our enlightened trade union leaders would do this time? I'm sure we all learned alot from last time. Therefore, should a leadership battlecome your way again, then carpe diem and we'll all do what we can, whether from inside the party or, quite likely, from without.
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