Author: Richard

The Labour party’s members (excluding registered supporters and affiliates) make up approximately 0.5% of the electorate, if you add in registered supporters and affiliates this still accounts for less than 1% of the population, so having a lot of support within the Labour Party, does NOT mean having a lot of support within the country. […]

I don’t care if someone thinks I am a Blairite, but they are simply wrong, I am a Labourite I am a socialist and I believe in socialist values. Attlee was a Keynesian and make no bones about it, he would’ve undoubtedly been a Brownite, he believed in minimal state intervention with public spending, which […]

At every election since 1979, more than 60% of the electorate have voted for a party to the right of the previous Labour leadership and therefore Jeremy Corbyn. They didn’t do this because secretly they want a left wing government. There are now less than 14% working class in the UK, there are less than […]

I do no disagree that there are loads of non-voters out there, but the TUC’s own polling shows that these fall into three main groups, those that see nothing to vote for, those that don’t vote because they never will and simply can’t be bothered, and those that don’t vote because they are happy with […]

I’m sick of hearing so called Labour supporters accusing their own MPs of being Tory-Lite, or Red Tories, so let’s have a look at the policy achievements post ’97 and someone tell me which ones were Tory ones then; Minimum Wage? Sure Start Centres? Child Tax Credits? Working Tax Credits? Banning Fox Hunting? Building New […]

Please don’t call me a Blairite and don’t refer to what I say as Blairite, that infers I’ve not studied my history and only formed my views post Blair. I was campaigning well before Blair was known by the country, my views are Labourite, my views are those shared by many Labour members and supporters […]

I keep on seeing comments about sticking to Labour’s values, principles or roots, and I’m really confused, I’m not sure a lot of people realise the roots they are actually talking about, for instance, looking at all previous Labour PM’s before Blair: Ramsey MacDonald, first Labour PM, 1924 & 1929-31, career politician who actively pursued […]

A message from Steve McCabe MP (Lab Selly Oak) It seems to have become received wisdom in the media on social media within the Labour Party and among our fiercest opponents to try and argue that Labour didn’t oppose the Welfare Bill the other evening. I’m including the text of the Labour amendment just so […]