Tag: Labour Party
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Never let a bully win
I was told when I signed up as a Labour Party officer that I should ‘never let a bully win’. I looked at the situation in the Party and agreed that it was true. The evidence was manifold. We lefties inherited an organisation that was impossible to steer because it had, for several decades, been…
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Are we being honest, yet?
***Long read*** I have two blog posts that I shut down a few years back, because members of my Labour Party Branch were in danger of dying of apoplexy. That’s a joke okay – I know people do that in Victorian novels when they get very upset but… you know, even as a child reading…
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Talking to council candidates
(Interim comments) on the options for my ward in Hastings There are, according to the council nominations list, five candidates for my ward in the May 5th council elections. Like many people, I’ve lost faith in party politics so I decided (also like many people) to make my own list of questions to ask candidates…
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Left in the Middle with You
It has been a very wearing experience being a woman doing battle for the Corbyn movement in Labour, and then a woman doing battle with the remainder of the left in Labour after Corbyn. (Yes I had to stop and read that sentence back, too.) This is an article about solidarity In the Corbyn years…
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A new definition for passive aggressive
… and a big question I have just noticed what this particular phrase has done over the last few years. Here are two examples of me getting accused of being ‘passive aggressive’. Attempting to talk about women In online conversations about GRA reform and how it impacts on women, every way I could think of…
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Beware the Thatcherite Greens
I was in the Green Party once but, it feels like a lifetime ago. Just about all the socialists in the Green Party left to support the Corbyn movement in Labour – it seemed the best opportunity in our lifetime to bring both socialism and environmentalism into our government. Unfortunately, that failed. Many of the…
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A message from Mrs Mouthy
We were all anxiously talking about the founding of a People’s Assembly for our town: It’s the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. The purpose is to facilitate a group coming together in each and every town in the country, to defend our services and demand the resources to provide for our people and our environment. It…
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Make lousy politicians a minority
We could do this. Here’s how… There are millions of people in this country who, like me, have used the phrase ‘politically homeless’. They have been thrown out of, or lost faith in, their ‘natural’ choice of party. There are also increasing numbers of people who, like me, have realised there’s more to politics than…
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Please check whether you are part of the problem
The government are robbing us blind, and you know it. While every single one of us watches our climate slipping to the no-return stage of climate crisis, we are each of us spending a large proportion of our energy fighting against the slipping away of our personal income and opportunities as bills go up. the…
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I have invented retrospective resignation
I believe people are allowed to join in politics. I joined the Green Party when the BBC said Nigel Farage could be all over the telly all the time because his then party had more members than the Greens. So did around 60 000 other people – people want to have an effect in politics.…
Kay Green 