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Related: About this forumHere is the website for the new organization deriving from the Corbyn leadership campaign:
http://peoplesmomentum.org/What does Momentum want to do?
Organise in every town, city and village to create a mass movement for real progressive change.
Make Labour a more democratic party, with the policies and collective will to implement them in government.
Bring together individuals and groups in our communities and workplaces to campaign and organise on the issues that matter to us.
How will Momentum do this?
Organise events, rallies, meet ups and policy consultations to encourage mass mobilisation for a more democratic, equal and decent society.
Encourage those inspired by Jeremy Corbyn's campaign to get involved with the Labour Party. Assist members in making their voice heard in Labour Party debates.
Facilitate and coordinate people to build new and support existing organisations that can make concrete improvements to people's lives. Through these actions, we aim to demonstrate on a micro level how collective action and Labour values can transform our society for the better.
Who runs it?
Formed as a successor to the Corbyn campaign, Momentum is in the process of setting up governance arrangements to represent its supporters amongst the Labour Party membership as well as the wider social movement which is springing up. As it grows, Momentum will develop democratic governance structures at every level of the network.
What is the relationship to Labour and Jeremy Corbyn?
Momentum is the successor entity to the Jeremy Corbyn for Labour Leader campaign but it is independent of the Labour Party's leadership. It will work with everyone who supports Jeremy's aim of creating a more fair, equal and democratic society.
Just thought I'd post this here so people could see what the Next Left in the UK is really about, free of Tory sneers and cynical Blairite dismissiveness.
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T_i_B
(14,737 posts)Whilst I certainly think that there are a few Labour MP's who aren't going a very good job, why target Stella Creasy? She might not be on the left wing of the Labour party but her work campaigning against loan sharks is exactly what you'd want from a Labour MP.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/02/airstrike-backing-labour-mps-receive-threats-and-deselection-warnings
In a statement published on Facebook during the marathon Syria debate in the Commons on Wednesday evening, Corbyn said he accepted that a mass membership party would not always agree on issues.
“But democratic debate comes with responsibilities – the responsibility of respect for others, even if they don’t agree with you. Over recent days I have received a number of reports that there have been some incidents where Labour party members and MPs have been abused. Unfortunately the prime minister took part in this himself by downgrading this debate by calling those who vote against extending airstrikes ‘terrorist sympathisers’,” Corbyn’s statement said. "I want to be very clear – there is no place in the Labour party or from those that support us – for bullying of any sort, from any side of the debate. It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.”
Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, and Diana Johnson, MP for Hull North, were among the most prominent members who received warnings that their positions were vulnerable if they voted in favour of airstrikes.
Ironing Man
(164 posts)i thought the message to Liz Kendall was illustrative. something about a final solution..
the antics of this bunch of misfits and swappies, as well as those of the Beloved Leader, have cost the Labour Party a full one third of the support it enjoyed when it crashed to election defeat a mere seven months ago.
they're already at it this morning - calls of 'traitor', 'warmonger' etc.. to Labours Foreign Affairs spokesman who gave a speech that made Corbyn look utterly inept and out of his depth even to those who supported his view in parliament.
momentum will do to Labour what these political geniuses did the Scottish Socialist Party, to the SWP, to TUSC etc..
what is the betting on an increased Tory Majority in the GE in 2020..?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)None of the other possible Labour leaders stood for anything.
And Kendall wanted the party to move further right...a step that would have made voting Labour forever pointless(there is no point to Ed Miliband's right that is distinguishable from Conservativism).
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The first byelection result under Corbyn wasn't exactly a setback.
If you don't like Corbyn, you should try calling on the anti-Corbyn MPs to at least propose compromise with Corbyn's massive bloc of supporters. It's not possible to go back to the old days of Labour caring more about defeating leftists than about defeating Tories.
The Third Way is dead, and nobody wants it back. And if Labour had done what you wanted and whipped a vote for bombing, it would have meant that Labour could never have significantly disagreed with the Tories on anything else later.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)... with "New Labour" representing the Conservative "alternative" and no other shows in town.
The Skin
Denzil_DC
(7,227 posts)Oldham West & Royton by-election (Michael Meacher's old seat):
Labour: 17,298 62.2% (+7.5)
UKIP: 6,487 23.3% (+2.7)
Conservatives: 2,596 9.3% (-9.6)
Liberal Democrats: 1,024 3.7% (+0.0)
Green: 249 0.9% (-1.0)
Monster Raving Loony Party: 141 0.5% (+0.5)
Turnout: 40%
A disappointing night for UKIP. And a few other people.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The result was a humiliation for Cameron and an embarassment for the LibDems(as an opposition party, there was no excuse for them not increasing their vote share at all.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)I don't think Oldham would ever be natural Tory (or LibDem) territory, but under 10 per cent for the Tories is quite bad.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)... or of our Churchillian wartime leader.
The Skin
The victorious Labour candidate Jim McMahon is very much on the right wing of the Labour party and backed Liz Kendall for Labour leader. This is a great result for both factions of the Labour party, although you can be sure that both factions will try and claim all the credit for this result.
And the right wing press, who've been gleefully predicting UKIP to romp home for weeks, have been left with quadruple omelette on their faces!
