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Labour Leadership campaign

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  • Started 9 years ago by sallyhinch
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  1. sallyhinch
    Member

    We (POP) are asking all the labour leadership and deputy leadership candidates about their cycling policies http://pedalonparliament.org/our-question-for-the-scottish-labour-leadership-candidates/

    Obviously there's more to a politician than their policies on active travel (I imagine...) but for those with a say in the election, might be worth a read.

    Sarah Boyack has responded first http://pedalonparliament.org/reply-from-sarah-boyack-msp-to-our-question/ (she got a slight head start because I met her last week at a meeting she'd called for environmental NGOs)

    We'll see who else responds, and how. A couple of them have graced POP in the past

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I just got my ballot papers in the post! I will of course be voting for the maddest, most dysfunctional candidate available to humanity.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    IWRATS - you joined the Labour Party to get a vote? Given your criteria deffo Katy Clark for Depute.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    http://pedalonparliament.org/reply-from-neil-findlay-msp-to-our-question

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    Ah, no. I'm no joiner alas. My vote comes through my union membership.

    Looking more closely at the papers, they require a declaration that I support the aims of the Labour party and don't belong to any other party.

    I don't suppose they thought about quite how recondite a question the first part of that is. I think a socialist workers' republic might well be a good idea. I support the nationalisation of any industry which has become a de facto monopoly. Do I support the aims of the Labour party? Who knows...do they even know?

    So I can't vote with a clear conscience, but it would have been Murphy/Dugdale. Those two combine low cunning and low intelligence in a quite spectacularly disfunctional and incendiary manner.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. Ed1
    Member

    I wonder if my union membership gives me a vote remember something about political affiliations payments or something I assume its for labour.

    Not sure there is a great deal of difference between labour and conservatives, was it labour , or conservatives that are considering scrapping JSA for under 25s etc., I can't recall think it was both be better if affilation was with the green party or something may be. Imagine in the 1980s or even much of the 1990s would not need to google to find which party wanted to cuts benefits.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. sallyhinch
    Member

    Just reading Chris Mullin's diaries (very very junior minister in the Tony Blair government, courtesy of SRD). Interesting that almost on the first page he says something along the lines of 'If we want people to cycle in our cities then we need to provide them with those kerbed tracks they have in Europe'. He then gets into an enormous battle NOT to have a ministerial car (Charles Clarke only managed to avoid getting a car by claiming he had to walk on health grounds). Sadly he had nothing to do with transport apart from privatising Air Traffic Control. His other policy seems to have been curbing Leylandii hedges. It's a bit of an eye opener on life in public office...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I think Morningsider referred to it as 'house training by the civil service'. Must take a will of steel to refuse the car, security and crushing workload that keep you from the real world.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. SRD
    Moderator

    @sallyhinch

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1306#post-12010

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    Just reading Chris Mullin's diaries (very very junior minister in the Tony Blair government, courtesy of SRD)

    SRD got Chris Mullin a job in the cabinet?

    Perhaps I read this wrongly? It is known in cognitive psychology circles as a Garden Path sentence

    Chris Mullin does not have a telly, he is weird

    Posted 9 years ago #

  11. sallyhinch
    Member

    apologies, closing parenthesis was in the wrong place. I *think* you know what I meant, but for the removal of all doubt SRD lent me the book; she did not as far as I know have any say in the make up of the lower reaches of the Blair government.

    Mullin appears to have been a fully paid up member of the awkward squad, brought into the tent in order to keep him from making a nuisance of himself on the Home affairs select committee

    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    Spectacular front page on the Socialist Worker today. Headline. - Racist Filth and three separate pictures with their own mini headline.

    Reckless - Bigot, Carswell - Bully, Farage - Banker

    Put me in mind of Lord James Douglas Hamilton coming out of the House of Commons and telling Morag his driver he had made a terrible mistake in the house. He had meant to say merchant Banker but he made a mistake with the second word.

    Rhymes with banker for sure

    Posted 9 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    Lord James Douglas Hamilton - a previous version of "Old Etonian"

    Posted 9 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    Was he at Eton? I know he was at Cambridge or Oxford but mostly he did boxing. He was not blessed with braincells, though his family have owned SCOTLAND since at least mary queen of scots days

    Posted 9 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    "

    @SpokesLothian: Go to #POP by #tandem and become #Scotland party leader
    @kdugdalemsp or Shadow Sec of State @IanMurrayMP!! #FoP2015 http://t.co/u53lnqsndT

    "

    Posted 8 years ago #

  16. LaidBack
    Member

    Ms Dugdale in charge of a Helios tandem. Only happened once before on our test rides as 'convention' dictates...(!)
    I think this was SRD's one?
    'Better Together' came next which signalled the current situation where Labour don't have enough Scottish MPs for a two seater.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  17. wee folding bike
    Member

    Did Kezia have to go for this gig?

    They're already getting in the excuses for May 2016 and she is likely to have the same trajectory as William Hague without the entertaining pronunciation of Benghazi.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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