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LabourList Julian Ware Lane disagrees and says putting the argument in factional terms shows signs of desperation...

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By Julian Ware-Lane / @warelane There is an irony in the positions of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy in that while attempting to make the internal workings of the...
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LabourList "New Labour is in a panic and extremem Blairites are using debates about PR and reform to deflect the heat" says Peter Willsman

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By Peter Willsman The public’s disgust at the goings-on at Westminster is being exploited by the supporters of proportional representation (PR). They are trying to suggest that the electoral system...
Geraint
Geraint
Electoral reform might actually return Labour back into a centre-left social democratic party and deliver a social democratic governmetn for the whole of the UK. The current system favours the Tories, the centre-right and the middle class.
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Geraint
Geraint
And that article ignores the success of PR in Wales delivering a proper and real Labour-led government in the Welsh Assembly.
about an hour ago
Geraint
Geraint
* AV may not produce a more proportional result than FPTP. For example, under AV in Alberta, Canada, one party obtained 90% of the seats on 54% of the vote.

* AV would make coalition governments more likely.

urmm am I being stupid, or do those two points clash with each other?
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LabourList Murdoch agrees with Fox News' Glenn Beck that Obama is "a racist"

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In the same week that one of his newspapers in the UK published a private conversation between the Prime Minister and Jacqui Janes, the mother...
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LabourList John Healey's just finished this speech...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Housing Minister John Healey has today urged every homeowner, developer, tenant and landlord to join a
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LabourList The Sun's shameful and shameless campaign is offensive in the extreme



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By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter When vituperative Tory bloggers can't even bring themselves to throw a right hook at the Prime Minister you know that an attack is below the...
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LabourList Our libel laws protect the rich and disenfranchise the poor - time for Labour to do something about it

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By Michael Harris An important part of any functioning democracy is freedom for the press. Without scrutiny of our political and business leaders, the electorate cannot make informed choices on...
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LabourList LiveLIST: Murdoch: I regret Sun's anti-Brown stance / Rentoul: Miliband's threat to GB / T'graph front page deleted / Why Labour should pick a fight with the Sun / Lloyds to cut 5,000 more jobs in 2010

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LabourList In his NHS column, Amanjit goes home to Glasgow to campaign for Wille Bain - and notices a big change in some areas

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The Amanjit Jhund NHS Column I’ve been up in my home town of Glasgow this weekend visiting my parents and I took the opportunity to help out on Willie Bain’s...
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LabourList This week's PPC Profile is... http://twurl.nl/gh0nj8

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Full Name: Stuart King Age: 38 From: Born in London, 1970 PPC for: Putney (Tory majority 1,776) Website: www.stuartking.net Selection Result: June 2007: I don’t recall the exact numbers, but...
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A Populus poll for tomorrow's Times shows little change amongst the main parties, with Labour (29%) and the Tories (39%) both down a point and...
Dave Postles
Dave Postles
Need to get the Labour vote out.
Yesterday at 18:13
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LabourList We need a High Pay Commission to examine the justifications for excessive pay, writes Compass' Joe Cox

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LabourList Names matter because people matter - but we should all try and lay off Gordon over the Jamie Janes letter, says Julian Ware-Lane http://twurl.nl/n3bfyx

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By Julian Ware-Lane / @warelane I have been informed that the best way to tell a genuine Gordon Brown signature from a fake is that a genuine signature is unreadable....
Dorothy Macedo
Dorothy Macedo
if I had a pound for every time my name has been misspelt or mispronounced I'd be a lot richer than I am. This is classic bereavement displacement. For once GB is not to blame.
Yesterday at 13:39
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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A couple of important stories have done the rounds in the past 24 hours about Labour's continued cash crisis, and the impact it could have...
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LabourList Former assistant head teacher Oli De Botton starts his LabourList education column...
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The Oli De Botton Schools Column The row last week about pushy parents bending the rules to get their kids into good schools was instructive for progressives. It neatly highlighted...
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The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column Today’s Guardian reports that the Government is considering a major tax reform to tackle wealth inequalities: