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 »