As I say in my LDV article, «Few
Labour members in the 1980s were violent, and nor are the vast majority of Corbyn supporters».
Yesterday
Labour members in Falkirk gathered for their annual general meeting.
Corbyn won a huge mandate among
Labour members in 2015, and almost 130,000 more people have joined the party since the referendum on Britain's EU membership, many of them thought also to be Corbyn supporters.
Labour members in the south - London constituency will decide on Saturday from one of four candidates to compete in by - election
The candidate selected by
Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, that is, not the one rejected by
Labour members in Tower Hamlets, Helal Abbas.
Moreover, a third (31.4 %) of the new members are not completely new to the party, since they had been
Labour members in the past.
Beyond moderate
Labour members in general, the hard left's specific bugbears are the Blairites.
I am
a Labour member in the Eastleigh constituency.
«The priority for
every Labour member in the next few months should be to ensure we win elections across London, England, Scotland and Wales and not more internecine factional warfare.»
Ms Bailey claims she was raped by
a Labour member in 20111 and advised by a senior party official not to report it as it could have damaged her career.
Jeremy Hardy said he paid # 3 to become
a Labour member in order to become eligible to vote, but that he has supported other parties in the past.
Omar Qureshi,
a Labour member in Birmingham who is pictured wearing a Corbyn T - shirt, wrote on Twitter: «Congratulations to Sajid Javid, the first coconut Home Secretary».
Not exact matches
Matt Kellway, the federal NDP
Member of Parliament for Beaches - East York will be adding to Canadian efforts
in Bangladesh as he accompanies media and
labour reps from UNIFOR, CUPE, PSAC, the UFCW and USW there later this month.
But
in this competition, even the winners are losers: Only 60 % of women over 25 are
members of Canada's
labour pool.
Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist
in the opposition
Labour Party by a senior party
member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers
in parliament.
The talks
in Tokyo starting Monday are expected to iron out technical differences on rules for the treatment of
labour and intellectual property but unlikely to yield a conclusive statement that
member countries will quickly sign the pact.
Yussuff and one of the other task force
members, Alberta Federation of
Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference
in Bonn.
In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included
members from business,
labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.
And for those of us who come under the Public Service
Labour Relations Act, a minority of bargaining unit
members can decertify a union: a 55 % vote of the unit would be required to keep the union
in place.
-LRB-...) Keidanren, the largest and most influential business lobby group, seems willing to recommend that its
members prepare for the first increase
in base salaries since 2008, when they enter spring negotiations with
labour unions.
For this end, wee must be knitt together
in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other
in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together
in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight
in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together,
labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community
in the worke, our Community as
members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit
in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us
in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.
... and thus the reciprocal prayer of all the
members still
labouring on earth will ascend to the Head who preceded them into heaven,
in whom we have forgiveness for our sins» (Ibid., 2.8.16).
She has authored several national clinical practice guidelines and articles on evidence - based midwifery practice
in low resource settings, and was a
member of the Midwifery Task Force that led a Delphi process to draft the 2012 Joint Statement on Physiologic
Labour and Birth.
I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're
in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family
members or friends.
A systematic review of 22 studies [40] found women who had continuous support
in labour (either from a nurse, midwife, doula, childbirth educator, family
member, partner, or stranger) were more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth, a shorter birth, and to be satisfied with their birth.
«It may not go down well
in international diplomacy... but
in the
Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior
member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.
The Minister of
Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is set to hold a crucial meeting with the President and executive
members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
in Abuja to resolve the strike action currently being embarked upon by the union.
Labour in the City, a networking club for people who work
in the UK financial services industry and are supportive of the party, now boasts 600
members.
Both Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have said they will not seek to interfere, arguing that it is up to party
members in Leeds Central to decide who
Labour's candidate should be.
Two Muslim
members of the
Labour parliamentary party abstained, and the others voted
in favour.
When he explained to
Labour members why he was backing David Miliband for the leadership, left - wing figurehead Jon Cruddas specifically mentioned this as a major factor
in his decision.
Some are
members of the Commonwealth and the National Liberal Club but one senior
Labour minister reckons: «That is an automatic ticket to being slagged off
in the diary column of Tribune, when Stephen [Twigg] joined the NLC, it was used as a sign he was going to defect to the Libs.»
But
in surveys conducted over the summer by The New Statesmen,
Labour's
members were 75 % ABC1 voters, 57 % degree holders and 15 % London dwellers.
Among those said to be
in the firing line from local activists is Hilary Benn, someone Jarvis says is «an outstanding
Member of Parliament and a great ambassador for the
Labour party».
And the election, and likely re-election, of Corbyn is very much part of that phenomenon: from reports, few of the enormous number of new
Labour members and supporters are keen to become
in the hard tasks of attending planning meetings or delivering leaflets.
The Arts Club
in Mayfair has seduced a few of the younger side - burn flashing
Labour members.
In 1993, Harriet was elected by a national ballot of
Labour Party
members to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the
Labour Party and was re-elected each year till
Labour came into government and she became a minister.
In a statement trumpeting her Corbynite credentials, she declared: «Jeremy Corbyn has opened the door to a new kind of
Labour party, one which sticks to its principles, opposes neoliberalism and utilises the knowledge and experience of its
members.»
Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have
members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at
Labour's conference
in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.
The deputy
Labour leader wrote
in the run - up to a regional Cabinet meeting
in Exeter: «This will be a chance for me to hear directly from you as party
members in a private meeting to talk about the issues and campaigning activity.
That's hardly surprising; having been promised
in Labour's 2005 election manifesto a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and having seen other
member states hold one, the public is eager to have its say.
Anne McGuire, the
Labour MP for Stirling, says
in Scotland there are regional
members of the Scottish parliament.
The government
in a statement on Monday said it has noted the attempt by some
members of the Nigeria
Labour Congress and the Nigeria Union of Teachers to expose staff and students to danger arising from the ongoing court action against their
members.
«Many quiet, moderate
members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off
in the current climate,» a
Labour MP told the New Statesman.
A fellow - traveler
in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote
in his first message to its
members that he, too, thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude
in the form of wage
labour: «For he,
in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.
The former
Labour MP won the support of 71 per cent of
Labour Party
members in his head - to - head contest with former city councillor Steve Bedser.
politicalhackuk, a
Labour member and activist
in Birmingham, writes: «I'd like to thank Derek Draper for the contribution that he's made to
Labour.
«But if we are to go out and convince thousands of working class men and women that they want to sign up to be associate
Labour Party
members they will not be interested
in the rule - book, or even the history.
Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party
members want either a coalition deal with
Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement
in which the Lib Dems prevent a
Labour administration from falling.
Members of the House of Lords came
in for criticism
in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes
in the upper house was 55 per cent for
Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.