Just a heads up to those who didn't see the entry on the Yeovil CLP blog about the May Manifesto petition, which outlines the following changes to policy: Nailing the 10p tax mistake by the introduction of a fair tax system removing the low paid from… more »

Things are just going from bad to worse for the government, it would be an immense misreading of the situation for New Labour ministers to dismiss this result as simply mid-term blues. The Prime Minister's relaunch after the disaster of the local electi… more »

Nationally the share of the vote looked like this: Tories 44% Labour 24% In London, with a socialist candidate the share of the vote looked like this: Johnson 42% Livingstone 36% Grimmer mentions their candidate, Janet Oosthuysen, falling s… more »

John Wiseman, the prospective parliamentary candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale has picked up some attention for his recent entry on Labour Home where he made a plea to Gordon Brown to reinstate the 10p rate of tax. He's running into a lot of flak,… more »

I was invited to attend the Yeovil Trades Council meeting yesterday. I was pleased to see the discussion was very open and it sparked a debate about being in or out of the Labour Party, one I've had with myself prior to joining for many years. I wasn… more »

So in the wake of this whole Abrahams thing, the New Labourites are plotting to destroy the Union link, something they've been keen on doing for years but have so far been unable to. This will prevent Trade Unions from funding the Labour Party, their… more »

This evening the Yeovil Labour Party held its hustings event to select a candidate to stand in the next general election. Three candidates stood for the position, Colin Counter, and Colin Rolfe who stood for us at the last election and lastly myself.… more »

Update: The date for this appears to of been shifted to the 25th of November. The Yeovil Labour Party will decide their candidate for the next generation election in under four weeks time, on the 15th of November the hustings will be held, and hopefu… more »

Well, thanks to the positive feedback on my last post, I've fired the letter off today announcing my intentions to face selection. Due to the nature of Yeovil, my name will go onto the short list automatically. Hopefully we won't have to wait too lon… more »

So the deadline for nominations for Yeovil Labour candidate is soon. Obviously I think we need a left-wing candidate. One who if won the election, would support the Trade Union Freedom bill, vote against anymore imperialist wars, resist the increasin… more »