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One Nation Labour Modernisation - Audio

Friday, May 17 2013

This series of three debates centred on the theme of One Nation Labour Modernisation and was organised by the Labour Policy Review, Progress and ourselves.

To listen to the recordings of these events just click the play buttons below:

How do we create a good society?
When: Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: Committee Room 11 - Houses of Parliament
Speakers: Jon Cruddas MP, Andrew Simms (New Economics Foundation and Author of Cancel the Apocalypse: the new path to prosperity) Chair Ruth Davis

New or Blue, Radical or Conservative?
When:
Tuesday 23 April, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: Committee Room 14, Houses of Parliament
Speakers: Phillip Collins (The Times) Maurice Glasman (Labour peer) Chair Mary Riddell (Daily Telegraph)

To listen to the recording of this event click play below:

What should a modern state and public services be like?
When:
Tuesday 14 May, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Where:
Committee Room 14, Houses of Parliament
Speakers: Hilary Wainwright (author, Public Service Reform…But Not As We Know It) Andrew Adonis
(Labour Peer) Chair Polly Toynbee (The Guardian)



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Posted by comenter 
on 18 May 2013, 2:03:49 PM
The attempt to revive and reinvent ethical socialism by Jon Cruddas should be welcomed as it resonates with the UK's political history and common culture. Maurice Glasman's patrionising and academic blue labour should be largely ignored and Ed Miliband should not fall prey to him or be distracted from contemporary issues and voters common sense concerns.
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on 28 April 2013, 12:43:37 PM
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Posted by John Jackson (Maidstone)
on 25 March 2013, 1:20:57 PM
Spot on comment from both Brian Lynch and Denis Calnan.

I am, afraid that the Labour Party needs to make up its mind: either it can start to properly represent the people whose votes it has been taking for granted for the past 16 years; or it can continue it's decline into a Red Tory, B.Liarite, neo-liberal, NEW Labour abyss and kiss a lot of those votes (mine included) 'goodbye' !!

And if the party genuinely wishes to make a constructive start - SACK THAT TORY, LIAM BYRNE !!!
Posted by Denis Calnan (Watford)
on 25 February 2013, 2:08:22 PM
Brian Lynch's comment from this morning is spot on. Sadly, with the stealthty re-takeover of the Labour Party by the Blairites of Prospect, the chances of such a programme are next to nil. Whats even more depressing is that these policies are not even that radical. Most of them are simply logical and practical ideas for dealing with the economic and social crisis thats overwhelming the UK.
Compass needs to refocus itself on the struggle with the Blairites within the Labour Party and move away from this wishy-washy "broad progressive thinktank" approach. The Blairites are winning and the fight (possibly the last one) is on for the soul of the Labour Party. If it is lost, then I think the unions should be encouraged to abandon the party and re-establish a "real" Labour Party of our own. I for one would support them in that.
At the moment there is a huge political gap between the Labour Party's official sub-Blairite position and the fringe Trot parties. Sadly, if we're not careful, that space will be filled by UKIP and the rest of the Far-Right, who will end up taking a large working-class protest vote and channeling it in a xenophobic direction.
Posted by Brian Lynch 
on 23 February 2013, 9:50:44 AM
How about; a living minimum wage, bank transaction tax, private rents cap, end tax breaks for private landlords, social housing building program, amendment to the lisbon treaty, thus reversing neo liberal economics in the UK and throughout europe, cap on gas, electricity and petrol prices, renationalise the railways, rediscover democracy in the labour party and throughout the country.
I could go on but the chances of any social type policies being adopted into the so called "one nationism and "policy review" and dare i say labour manifesto are nil.

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