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"Labour is not simply a machine that kicks into gear at election time"
20 July 2015
It’s a number of months since we lost the election in May but still, for many of us, the pain of losing is unabated. With five long years stretching ahead of us, watching the Tories dismantling the welfare state, demoralising...
Continue Reading“We need to challenge the idea that England is natural Conservative territory”
20 July 2015
Is this as bad as it gets? In 2010, when we scraped just 29 per cent of the vote, Labour’s worst performance for almost a century, we told ourselves it was. It couldn’t get any worse. But five years later,...
Continue ReadingThe deputy leader must be a champion for members
17 July 2015
I've just come back from my local branch meeting. We had one of the highest turn outs we've had in a long time, our (predominantly new and female) members engaged and willing to learn and debate about the values and...
Continue ReadingBreaking the mould
17 July 2015
'One nation' Labour didn’t work. It was nothing more than a brand, with no intellectual innovation; a cheap attempt to package some of the obvious established truths of the modern labour movement into a bland inoffensive narrative, that claimed to...
Continue ReadingDevoManc: A rush to devolve political blame?
16 July 2015
Fabians have been intensely involved in the NHS since its birth and long may our engagement – as clinicians, NHS staff, analysts and political supporters of the collective interest in good health – continue. Our aim is, at one and...
Continue Reading HealthThe Local Health Service?
15 July 2015
To succeed over the next 10 years,the National Health Service must also be a local health service. A public service dedicated to the health and wellbeing of every person in England cannot be run as a bureaucratic offshoot of Whitehall....
Continue Reading HealthFabian membership
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