But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons
which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.
The independent former Conservative Malcolm Grimston is also standing in the key West Hill ward,
which Labour needs to win.
I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions
which Labour need to consider:
Not exact matches
Once that expired, he
needed a temporary work permit to remain in the country,
which required him to obtain a
Labour Market Opinion.
At the second stage, you will
need to apply to Immigration Refugees, and Citizenship Canada for a new work permit with the permission obtained by your employer,
which can take the form of a Provincial Nomination Certificate, positive
Labour Market Impact Assessment decision or approval under the Global Talents Stream of the TFWP, for instance.
They came to meet a
need for
labour after the war in
which many Britons had died.
Let us have done with the stupidity
which makes a stumbling - block of the endless eras of expectancy imposed on us by the Messiah; the fearful, anonymous
labours of primitive man, the beauty fashioned through its age - long history by ancient Egypt, the anxious expectancies of Israel, the patient distilling of the attar of oriental mysticism, the endless refining of wisdom by the Greeks: all these were
needed before the Flower could blossom on the rod of Jesse and of all humanity.
Only 28 % of the women in the date eating group
needed prostin / oxytocin (for inducing / augmenting
labour),
which was significantly lower than the 47 % who
needed induction in the control group (p = 0.036).
By automating a previously
labour intensive operation Endoline has increased the efficiency and productivity on a production line
which has an annual volume output of a quarter of a million bottles, while reducing the
need for manual
labour.
When I qualified, a staff midwife started as an E-grade; to be a community midwife, you
needed an F,
which meant acquiring skills such as suturing, cannulation, scrubbing in theatre, and being in charge of the
labour ward if no G - grade were available.
In Dr Amy's picture the variability is absent
which is very abnormal, but another trace may have normal variability (a nice squiggly line) with some quite impressive decels
which you could wait on for a while, try dome position changes etc. it's not uncommon to think «crap, we're going to
need a C Section», but then the problem resolves and you can continue with
labour.
My OB saw me as a private patient FOR FREE because he's a family friend, and if I had opted for a natural
labour which had gone swimmingly he wouldn't even have
needed to attend because the midwives would have looked after me.
Garrison (personal communication) reports that Narcan,
which is sometimes
needed by the baby to counteract the sedating effect of pain - relieving drugs such as pethidine (demorol), given to the mother in
labour, can be effectively administered via the mother's veins in third stage, waking up the newborn baby in a matter of seconds.
But it added: «Women
need to be counselled on the unexpected emergencies — such as cord prolapse, fetal heart rate abnormalities, undiagnosed breech, prolonged
labour and postpartum haemorrhage —
which can arise during
labour and can only be managed in a maternity hospital.
, and her aura was not one
which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in
labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously
which was a concern, and that my partner
needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces
which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.
What does
need to be considered is the much more serious impact on the environment of cotton nappies (25 % of all pesticides are used on cotton and the use of child
labour plus draining of the Aral sea for Uzbekistan's cotton industry is terrible scandal) compared with bamboo or hemp,
which I really didn't know about when I bought mine.
«If we're to get a strong and balanced recovery
which everyone benefits from we
need Labour's plan to tackle the cost - of - living crisis and reform our economy for the long term,» he commented.
Based on observation of the behaviour of the government I'd say they've already made up their minds on that one: the
Labour party is convinced that in order to stay in power it
needs to be seen to be tough on crime,
which usually translates into advocating random outbursts of arbitrary state power.
FoE director Tony Juniper said: «New policies are urgently
needed to cut UK emissions,
which have risen under
Labour despite promises of substantial cuts.
This is what it takes to offer
Labour a fresh start,
which - after 13 years in government - is perhaps what the party
needs most of all.
Labour backbencher Steve Rotherham called for the original inquest,
which concluded on the advice of its pathologist that it
need not consider what occurred after 15:15 on the day, to be quashed.
The Health Minister designate also pledged to engage
labour union within the health sector to amicably address their concerns and where
need be propose at least six months within
which time issues that may arise will be dealt with.
The NHS made efficiencies of 1.7 % a year from 2009/10 to 2014/15 -
which included making service cuts such as restricting access to hip and knee replacements - but the Health Foundation warned that
Labour would
need to make bigger savings, of 2 - 3 % a year, to close the funding gap.
It seems a long time ago since Diane Abbott was in the running to become the
Labour candidate for mayor of London, but in the top spot this week is our report from last year on comments she made during her campaign in
which she suggested the capital didn't
need another white middle - aged man in charge.
I've argued on my own blog (http://hands-of-the-many.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-
labour-will-change-be-moderate-or.html) that New
Labour represented an understandable compromise with the upper class so that the overwhelming hostility to the party in the press would be lessened, and the party could communicate its message to a wider audience - and then, build the coalition
which brought the party to office, and enabled the much -
needed social democratic reforms to take place.
«At a time when Britain is led by a government
which appears unable to recognise, let alone overcome, the enormous challenges facing it,
Labour needs to be outward - looking, united and engaged with the issues that matter to voters,» said Progress.
... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-
Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of
Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters -
which puts the «they
need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?
The
Labour Party faces a country
which needing less government without the resources to adjust.
Nuneaton is the first big
Labour target
which needed just over a 2 % swing for
Labour to gain it.
Labour,
which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain
needs to do is change its government.
Labour also
needs open debates on difficult questions, of
which immigration is very high up that list.
That hardly
needs restating after weeks of a leadership campaign during
which he has signalled his intention to return to the pre-Tony Blair era, when
Labour was pure and unsullied by tawdry compromise.
David Cameron lacked judgment in holding the referendum, but also to blame for the result was the lack of
Labour leadership in promoting a vigorous campaign to expose the distortions and lies the Tories were using to blame Europe for the policies they had instigated,
which had damaged schools, hospitals, social services and housing
needs.
Although this scenario roughly corresponds to the «SNP kingmakers or wreckers» wedge
which has a 14 % chance in the electionsetc.com graphic, because the smaller parties might also play a role and the SNP alone might be sufficient to sustain
Labour in power, there is only an 8 % chance that
Labour would
need the Liberal Democrats as well as the SNP.
Only 25 % of the voting public supported the Tories,
which has been conflated as a massive victory over
Labour, in reality it means that the majority of people see through Tory duplicity but do not yet understand what is actually happening around them, that is where we
need to focus on.
Left Futures recently published an article of mine,
Labour needs to rediscover comprehensive economic planning, in
which I argued that
Labour, and the radical Left generally,
needed to rediscover the centrality of the
need for a comprehensive Left Economic Programme both as a core policy offer for
Labour, and as a guide and implementation tool -LSB-...]
«That's a shared responsibility and a shared burden and you don't
need to create a new faction in the
Labour party
which has been susceptible to entryists and
which has at times resembled the mob.»
Essentially, we will
need to articulate the public policy on immigration under
which we claim the right to limit the free movement of
labour.
Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base,
which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and
needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.
Instead Miliband will insist the switch to an opt - in system, in
which trade union members actively choose to affiliate with
Labour, is
needed because it could restore
Labour's status as a mass membership party of the people.
The research forecast that the SNP would get 53 seats,
which together with
Labour's 268 would leave the two parties just short of the 323 votes
needed to lock - out a Conservative government.
But
Labour is still expected to be quite some distance from a bare majority,
which is 326 seats, and would
need closer to 340 to sustain a workable majority in the House of Commons.
If the Tories are serious in their bid to claim the mantle of opposition, then they would
need to win this seat,
which Labour worried about losing in 2011 (given the Conservative favourable boundary changes).
Labour now faces a similar conflict of opinion, made worse by the
need to hold a leadership election using a system
which highlights the divisions in the party.
Now the party
needs to get over the intellectual defensiveness
which has afflicted it for decades — and reach out to people in English constituencies who have no tribal loyalty to
Labour.
The case for investment not cuts
needs to be championed — breaking from the framework on
which Labour fought the election.
The weekend's policy decisions -
which will still
need to be properly formulated in Westminster and then passed in the party convention - will probably find their way into the
Labour manifesto.
The government maintains a referendum is not
needed on the EU treaty, as it is an amending treaty and not the original constitutional treaty upon
which Labour promised to hold a referendum.
The discussions do not
need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we
need to find out what views on
Labour's future direction exist within the
Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in
which the candidates and those voting understand each other.
We
need a commanding narrative
which is going to persuade our voters - they're just fed up that they don't feel the
Labour party is strongly enough supporting their interests, and I think they're right.»