Has Labourhome become a principal mouthpiece of Labour politicians who seem to be cut off from reality?   

Associate Editor of Labourhome.org David Rowntree was last night selected for the parliamentary candidacy in the Cities of London and Westminster.

With me installed as the candidate in Chelsea & Fulham, it looks like Labourhome's plans for world domination are advancing nicely.

It appears that Guido Fawkes (aka Paul Staines) is threatening legal action against a fellow blogger, an action that he has threatened before when aspects of his time as a member of the FCS at Humberside FE College were called into question.

Why does LabouHome still persist in having a link to the Guido gossip blog?

If you still link to the blog of Mr Staines can I ask that you think again?

Hi all! My name's Sunil Prasannan, and I my only claim to fame (so far) is that I went to school with a certain Alex Hilton! Anyway, this is my first political blog ever, so here goes. I think I became politically aware just in time for the 1987 General Election. I had turned 11 the previous year, had done my 11+ (though back then, merely saw it as a daunting exam rather than a political football), and by then I pretty much had an opinion of Margaret Thatcher's government. I do remember specific events from the early and mid '80s, like the Falklands, Brighton and Lebanon, but by 1987 I first took a real interest in politics and elections. I knew that I had socialist leanings and had no real sympathy with Maggie's "share-owning democracy" nor with her treatment of the miners. I also felt some affinity with Mikhail Gorbachev's "new" Soviet government, and remember being not too impressed with that rapid turnover, mostly due to ill-health, of Soviet leaders during the early 80s. I remember being not to impressed with US president Ronald Reagan either, and I felt that the time had come for the Cold War to end.

Anyway, when I was in my final year at primary school (Newbury Park, in Ilford North), during season '86/'87, our year were drafted into "prefect" duties, such as monitoring younger classes if a teacher had to pop out for a few hours, or maybe lead out the younger classes to school assembly. One other duty was watching the staircases leading from ground to upper floor , during break-times and lunch times. We had to make sure everyone kept to their left-hand side of the staircase to avoid any collisions. So every thirty seconds or so, we would call out from our watch-points, "Keep to the left!". And this leads me neatly onto the title of this entry, because during the run-up to the '87 election, when I was on staircase duty I called out, yes, you've guessed it, "Keep to the left - vote Labour!" For a few days I didn't get much feedback either way until Mr. Rowley, who I knew must have been a Labour man (youngish teacher with a beard and all!) walked up the stairs and told me, I think, can't remember his exact words, but must have been something on the lines of, "No party political broadcasts on the stairs, please!"

Anyway, thus endeth my first entry on LabourHome.org.

Sunil 

 

I have applied for the Liverpool West Derby selection. I'm not out to unseat Bob Wareing, but his CLP has decided to hold an open selection and I'm convinced a working class area of a city is where my energy would achieve the most good.

I have decided to start seeking selection for a parliamentary candidacy. I'm going to start posting here details of my progress. I hope other readers in the same position will use these pages in the same way.