This edition of Fabian Review focuses on
how Labour needs to reshape the economy, with Michael Jacobs, Chi Onwurah MP, Caroline Flint MP, Andrew Cumbers and David Walker, plus Kate Murray interviews shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler MP.
Not exact matches
There was no discussion of the
need to lower income taxes to increase savings and
labour force attachment, and
how this could be achieved through tax simplification and an increase in the GST.
So,
how can a parent negotiate the
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labour?
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How did we come to put the
needs of care givers those of the
labouring woman?
«So clients are going to have to think very creatively: where are the constituencies that
Labour needs to win and
how can clients» case be made relevant to
Labour in 2017?»
But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the
need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as New
Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and
how George Osborne impressively framed one about
how Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.
I agree that the redistributive settlement
needs to be embedded within society's concept of
how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New
Labour did.
You
need only take a look at the stream of supportive tweets from
Labour front benchers to see
how isolated he is.
Could you explain to me and my friends (many of whom rely on housing benefit to work, many of whom
need ESA because they cant)-
how Labour are our best hope?
If they want a few tips,
Labour advisers only
need to look back a few years to see
how the Tories accused Brown of dithering at every opportunity.
The final report of the Small Business Taskforce — a group of leading businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics commissioned by
Labour to examine
how to support small businesses to thrive — highlighted widespread dissatisfaction with the ability of the big banks to meet the financing
needs of small businesses.
David Blunkett said tonight that
Labour and the Lib Dems
need to «work out a way... of
how we can work together.»
For example, if
Labour is serious about radical economic change then it
needs to consider
how it can build an alliance of social and political forces to support it.
Of course, we will hear much in the hours and days ahead from Scottish
Labour about the
need to listen and learn and rebuild but with swathes of the party's traditional support having deserted it for both the SNP and the Tories, it's difficult to see
how it can start that process.
If they cocked this up so badly we
need to hear a little less from them in the immediate future about their insights as to
how Labour could win a general election, not that many offered much before beyond vague talk of the «centre ground».
If a
Labour politician can't take people criticising
how little they are «shifting» while saying we, the people,
need more a voice then they're a hypocrite, simple as that.
How can I support a
Labour leader who doesn't want to form a
Labour government when working people, the old, the young, the poor, the country,
need a
Labour government above everything?
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How big a lead does
Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?
Labour needs to illustrate
how jobs held by British workers would cease to exist if Britain exited the EU.
How big a lead does
Labour need in the local elections to be on course to win the next general election?
Titled, «Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters
need to answer», Jones argues
Labour are heading for a disaster due to a lack of strategy from Corbyn's team, and asks supporters the following:
How can the disastrous polling be turned around?
We
need to ask, for example,
how it could be that an important section of the
Labour left could ever have entertained the idea that Angela Eagle is a left candidate for Deputy Leader.
And this history is important precisely because it demonstrates, as with the later «education, education, education» nonsense,
how New
Labour was, right from the very beginning, much more interested in importing salesmanship from abroad than in policy
needs at home.
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Labour needs a leader who understands
how to regain people's trust and support and who has the vision, experience and courage to be our next Prime Minister.
On the donations we've given the party over the last year, and has now asked for some more, I wonder
how many
labour members angry at our own party for spending money we didn't have in the late 2000's which has seen this recession be worse than it
need be, feel obliged to give to our party additional money,
He added: «
Labour is at a moment where it hasn't really quite discovered what its future is and
how it
needs to move out of its past and if we can get that transition right.
Over the next few weeks as she expands on
how she will deliver a
Labour victory that puts the country first, we are confident that she will be seen as the fresh start the
Labour Party
needs.»
I think the main task for
labour is to convince people of the economic case for their plans to increase spending and why austerity measures
need to be less and
how this relates to the national debt.
Can I firstly completely support David Pavett's reply to John Penney.Indeed I find it amazing that someone (John) with a sophisticated understanding of the policies
Labour needs to develop has no understanding at all of
how to get
Labour in a position to implement those policies.Indeed you fall at the first hurdle, by accepting that
Labour can not win in 2020 following a major split.
How about that guy who stood for election on the basis that we «
need a living breathing party ``, who thought last time round «
Labour felt as if it was in government despite its members, not because of them ``?
I have to admit I am rather surprised at
how early The Times has been so critical of Cameron - New
Labour must be quite rattled if Alastair Campbell has felt the
need to unleash the hounds so soon.
It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting
Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on
how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he
needs on the
Labour benches.
Labour needs to work out
how it can emotionally reconnect with the working class working in the wealth creating private sector.
While this research gives us some indication of
how successful each candidate might be if they became leader, they would still
need to get elected by the
Labour membership to get there.
I suppose the last would give us the problem of
how to exclude members of other parties (if we're sure we want to) but while that's an understandable worry, I doubt we
need really fear Conservatives organising nationally to donate to
Labour and elect Diane Abbott.
Elsewhere in the interview, Streeting provides his take on why
Labour lost the last election and says the party now
needs to pick a leader who is «thinking about
how they win the country» not just
Labour supporters.
As well as the business secretary's Cabinet colleagues,
Labour leader Ed Miliband has also repeated the mantra of supporting the treaty without seemingly feeling a
need to explain
how it address concerns about the UK's own arms sales.
We
need more data on who really showed up to the polls before we can say this conclusively, but it's difficult to see
how Labour got the numbers it did without a big increase at least in youth turnout.
Yes and the winner could be given a job as a New
labour MP, well in opposition we hope next year, or even how about the winner become leader of the Labour party, well we will need one of them nest
labour MP, well in opposition we hope next year, or even
how about the winner become leader of the
Labour party, well we will need one of them nest
Labour party, well we will
need one of them nest year.
Over recent days we've also heard my shadow cabinet colleagues, Emma Reynolds and Tristram Hunt, talk about
how a
Labour government will ensure we get the house building we
need to strengthen our economy and improve people's quality of life, and about
how we raise standards in our schools to ensure our children are equipped to succeed.
«It is with deep regret that I walk away from this role, but no - one who has spent the last six weeks in daily conversations with voters in the North of England, as I have in Chesterfield, could be under any illusions about
how urgently the
Labour Party
needs a change at the top.
Little attention was paid to energy and food prices until last year, when
Labour highlighted
how the cost of fuel was wrecking household incomes and Ed Miliband ignited the issue by arguing prices
needed to be frozen to give ministers time to construct a new market structure.
Speaking following the resignation of
Labour leader Ed Miliband the politician ruled out taking on the leadership role himself but said there was a
need for the party to think about
how they appeal to the public in the wake of Thursday's election night defeat.
Normally the thing we look at with boundary changes is what the party - partisan effect is,
how the new boundaries would change the sort of swing that
Labour need to win a general election.
Labour needs most of all to rediscover
how to put together a political programme that connects with 51 + % of voters and the determination to make it happen.
On the old boundaries
Labour could win an overall majority with a lead over the Tories of 3 %, but given they win far more seats in Scotland and Wales than the Tories do, we really will
need to wait for the other Commissions» reports before we can make any estimates about
how their target will change.
The party
needs to work with liberals and social democrats across the party divide to restate its position as a voice of the centre - left, and this is best achieved if we clearly communicate
how our vision of a fairer, greener Britain differs from both Tory and
Labour parties» current stance.
He pointed towards the closure of special
needs schools when explaining
how the number in children in special schools had fallen by 9,000 since
Labour came to power.