Labourhome - Stories by glass house

[Blogs] Ed Miliband writing Manifesto

2007-07-15T16:16:10-05:00

The BBC are reporting that Ed Miliband has been asked to get on with writing the next Labour Party Manifesto - fuelling talking of an early election.

[Blogs] 10 Weeks to a General Election?

2007-07-11T13:30:26-05:00

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Benedict Brogan says that the Tories have put themselves on a ten week election alert

How likely do people this an early election is?

I can certainly see the benefits

[Blogs] Iain Duncan Smith's Policy Proposals

2007-07-10T16:41:32-05:00

IDS's 'Broken Britain' policy proposals

I'm sure everyone's heard about IDS's 'Broken Britain' report published today. For those of you who have only seen the news in passing, you'd be forgiven for believing that the report focused entirely on marriage.

The report actually had 188 policy proposals under the headings 'Family Breakdown', 'Economic Dependency and Wordlessness', 'Educational Failure', 'Addictions', 'Gambling', 'Serious Personal Debt' and 'Third Sector'

You can find the 188 policy proposals here and the individual detailed sections of the reports here

[Blogs] Al-Qaeda and the Rushdie honour

2007-07-10T16:21:32-05:00

Osama Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened to retaliate against Britain for giving a knighthood to novelist Salman Rushdie.

Leaving aside whether you think his books are any good, what does everyone think?

Should we honour who we like and not pay any attention to men like al-Zawahiri? Or should we be careful not to provoke?

Does this go some way to proving that these people are not, as some believe, just motivated by 'injustice' wrought upon them by the west (Kashmir, troops in Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.) but are actually driven by an ideology which demands retribution for something as innocuous as honouring an author they disapprove of?

I know some people think it was a deliberate attempt to provoke a response. Does anyone here?

Thoughts?

[Blogs] Clare Short wants back in

2007-06-29T05:09:31-05:00

Please tell me no one wants her back?

BBC are reporting that smug traitor Clare Short is hoping to return to the PLP before she leaves Parliament at the next election.

She feels that, providing Labour policy changes enough, she might consider us worthy of rejoining.

I hope Brown tells her where she can stick it.

[Blogs] OK, who's voted for who?

2007-06-11T08:39:45-05:00

Or should that be "whom"? I can never remember.

I guess most of us will have recieved our ballot papers now and many of us will have voted. Who's voted who?

In a follow up to the amazingly popular "Current Voting Intentions" thread, here's a place to post who you DID vote for.

Please only post if you have voted - either online or by telephone or have actually posted the ballot paper).

GlassHouse voted for (in order of preference)

1. Johnson
2. Benn
3. Blears
4. Harman
5. Hain
6. Cruddas

[Blogs] Proof that the "Left is on the rise" In the Labour Party

2007-06-03T19:18:17-05:00

Does anyone have any evidence?

A recent thread on the board suggested the "the left" is becoming stronger in the Labour party. My view is that there is no evidence of this.

So, can anyone present any evidence of a leftward trend in the Labour party?

Because people seem a bit shakey about what a "trend" is - you need to show movement from right to left over time. Presenting a poll that shows how "left" the party currently is does not do that - unless you post another poll that shows that the party used to be more significantly more rightwing.

In case anyone wonders - anecdotal evidence is also worthless.