I should say that I am not a member of the Labour Party, but I hope that my support for the petition can be accepted.
In my ward the 2014 local elections resulted in exactly equal votes for Labour and the Lib Dems, but the Tories took all 3 seats. In 2018 I decided to split my vote and emailed the Labour Party, who had a completely new slate, asking which candidates they considered better. They refused to reply. In the end the Lib Dems were dominant. taking 2 seats off the Tories, with Labour nowhere.
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Robert Good
8 years ago
In the absence of proportional representation the Labour Party should be supporting progressive alliances, not opposing them. The Tory Party only has the support of 1/3 of the elctorate. Two thirds are opposed to them, particularly as it is in hoc to their right wing.
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simon thorpe
8 years ago
Expelled from Labour for trying to help get Labour into government. Sheer insanity.
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Mark Williams
8 years ago
A progressive alliance seems the best way forward to end this negative governments agenda.
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Ian Hodgkinson
8 years ago
The Labour Party needs to be part of a wider progressive alliance to take on the Tories and right-wing forces. This alliance is very much appropriate and relevant to the current left Labour leadership as it aims to be Britain's next government.
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Jim Stewart
8 years ago
If we rid ourselves of the Tories I'm all for it.
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Caroline Roaf
8 years ago
Good luck!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Any alliance which rid us of key politicians looks Hunt, Davies, Fox et all is worth pursuing
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Lucy gardner
8 years ago
This is outrageous
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Sue L
8 years ago
Labour would show it's class by acknowledging that there are other individuals in other parties with great ideas (socialist ideas). Caroline Lucas being a case in point. This kind of behaviour diminishes them. Reinstate, and stop being so silly!!!
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Chris Tucker
8 years ago
We do not want our political parties to be straightjackets. Look outwards and see that no one group has a monopoly of great ideas.
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Janet Seabrook
8 years ago
In my mind there is a lot more which could be opposed against this appalling Conservative Government.
Too many people believe the Daily Mail!
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Nathan Olsen
8 years ago
A progressive alliance is the only way forward!
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Stephen Tauroza
8 years ago
The national Labour Party massively overacted to this issue. There needs to be a more nuanced approached to supporting left of centre candidates in constituencies where it is extremely unlikely that a Labour candidate will win.
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Andrew Hutley
8 years ago
He is a curse on everyone his actions impact and as health secretary that's the whole country that doesn't have private health insurance
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Robin Gill
8 years ago
Labour needs to abandon its gut defensiveness and embrace the democratic value of progressive alliances in an electoral system paralysed by FPP.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Come on Labour Party get with progressive alliances to unseat right wing MPs and think and act strategically not tribally
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Politics as we know it is broken, we need a new way forward which avoids expelling people from their parties.
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Paul Pettinger
8 years ago
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Had the attitude to the Godalming Three been copied in 1997, Neil Hamilton would *still* be the MP for Tatton. The expulsions were a massive mistake, both politically and morally. At the very least, please reinstate their memberships and, ideally, say 'sorry'.
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Glenn Meredith
8 years ago
I am not a member of the Labour Party, but I do not see why this should preclude me from commenting.. I am appalled, but not surprised, at the short sighted nature and total lack of political imagination which characterizes the decision to suspend these members. But then again, when did the Labour Party display any grasp of the problems it needs to overcome if it wishes to form a government. If it wishes to do so in the future it has to accept that it will have to form a coalition with other parties, one of which is certainly the SNP. The Labour Party shows no sign of recognizing why its support in Scotland collapsed. Also it persists in running against Caroline Lucas in Brighton, even though, to any outside observer she is worth about ten of the many functionaries who occupy the PLP. Again the Labour Party failed to take up Comapass's concept of a Progressive Alliance. At bottom, the Labour Party has failed to take up the question of constitutional reform, by being prepared to advocate PR in voting, and devolution for the English regions. Even under Corbyn the Labour Party remains a highly centralized Westminster-centric party, which clings to the romance of the "Spirit of 45", not realizing that that majority was built upon the votes of service men and women based in rural areas.After 1951 the case for PR should have been blindingly obvious.
I should say that I am not a member of the Labour Party, but I hope that my support for the petition can be accepted. In my ward the 2014 local elections resulted in exactly equal votes for Labour and the Lib Dems, but the Tories took all 3 seats. In 2018 I decided to split my vote and emailed the Labour Party, who had a completely new slate, asking which candidates they considered better. They refused to reply. In the end the Lib Dems were dominant. taking 2 seats off the Tories, with Labour nowhere.
In the absence of proportional representation the Labour Party should be supporting progressive alliances, not opposing them. The Tory Party only has the support of 1/3 of the elctorate. Two thirds are opposed to them, particularly as it is in hoc to their right wing.
Expelled from Labour for trying to help get Labour into government. Sheer insanity.
A progressive alliance seems the best way forward to end this negative governments agenda.
The Labour Party needs to be part of a wider progressive alliance to take on the Tories and right-wing forces. This alliance is very much appropriate and relevant to the current left Labour leadership as it aims to be Britain's next government.
If we rid ourselves of the Tories I'm all for it.
Good luck!
Any alliance which rid us of key politicians looks Hunt, Davies, Fox et all is worth pursuing
This is outrageous
Labour would show it's class by acknowledging that there are other individuals in other parties with great ideas (socialist ideas). Caroline Lucas being a case in point. This kind of behaviour diminishes them. Reinstate, and stop being so silly!!!
We do not want our political parties to be straightjackets. Look outwards and see that no one group has a monopoly of great ideas.
In my mind there is a lot more which could be opposed against this appalling Conservative Government. Too many people believe the Daily Mail!
A progressive alliance is the only way forward!
The national Labour Party massively overacted to this issue. There needs to be a more nuanced approached to supporting left of centre candidates in constituencies where it is extremely unlikely that a Labour candidate will win.
He is a curse on everyone his actions impact and as health secretary that's the whole country that doesn't have private health insurance
Labour needs to abandon its gut defensiveness and embrace the democratic value of progressive alliances in an electoral system paralysed by FPP.
Come on Labour Party get with progressive alliances to unseat right wing MPs and think and act strategically not tribally
Politics as we know it is broken, we need a new way forward which avoids expelling people from their parties.
Had the attitude to the Godalming Three been copied in 1997, Neil Hamilton would *still* be the MP for Tatton. The expulsions were a massive mistake, both politically and morally. At the very least, please reinstate their memberships and, ideally, say 'sorry'.
I am not a member of the Labour Party, but I do not see why this should preclude me from commenting.. I am appalled, but not surprised, at the short sighted nature and total lack of political imagination which characterizes the decision to suspend these members. But then again, when did the Labour Party display any grasp of the problems it needs to overcome if it wishes to form a government. If it wishes to do so in the future it has to accept that it will have to form a coalition with other parties, one of which is certainly the SNP. The Labour Party shows no sign of recognizing why its support in Scotland collapsed. Also it persists in running against Caroline Lucas in Brighton, even though, to any outside observer she is worth about ten of the many functionaries who occupy the PLP. Again the Labour Party failed to take up Comapass's concept of a Progressive Alliance. At bottom, the Labour Party has failed to take up the question of constitutional reform, by being prepared to advocate PR in voting, and devolution for the English regions. Even under Corbyn the Labour Party remains a highly centralized Westminster-centric party, which clings to the romance of the "Spirit of 45", not realizing that that majority was built upon the votes of service men and women based in rural areas.After 1951 the case for PR should have been blindingly obvious.