Tag: Labourshambles

The Past Couple Weeks of British Politics: Some Rambling Thoughts

By Dave Brockington

In General

On September 22, 2019

This piece ran in the New York Times a couple weeks ago, as an attempt to characterise the brains behind Boris Johnson’s approach to governance as an evil genius: Mr. Cummings deliberately framed and precipitated the confrontation with Parliament, intending to lose the vote so that Mr. Johnson could instantly call an election as the […]

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Battling for the soul of my party

By Dave Brockington

On July 16, 2016

So, in my inimitable way, I went out last night and got happily drunk. Said drunk excursion commenced with chatting with several of my MA students. It turns out that one is a member of the Labour

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An Organised Opposition, Ready to Govern

By Dave Brockington

On July 13, 2016

Hah. Who am I kidding? The Labour Party National Executive Committee, a relative obscure body to most until yesterday, voted 18-14 following a six hour meeting last night to allow Jeremy Corbyn to b

Rules and Labourshambles

By Dave Brockington

In Dave Brockington

On July 12, 2016

Javier Sajuria posted this over at the UCL Constitution Unit last week while I was busy finding new and efficient ways to haemorrhage cash in Geneva. It’s worth a read, and applies some political sciency-type stuff to the situation that the Labour Party finds itself in. Rules matter, they aren’t neutral (implied), and the Labour Party […]