Archive for 2010
Shadow cabinet: vote for Eric
18/09/2010, 01:08:43 PMDear Colleague
I know you’re getting bombarded with these, but I want to ask for your
support in the Shadow Cabinet elections. Let me explain why.
Shadow cabinet: vote for Alun
18/09/2010, 12:50:53 PM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Fiona
18/09/2010, 12:38:18 PM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Mary
18/09/2010, 12:23:35 PM
Saturday News Review
18/09/2010, 07:56:32 AMAnother Lib Dem defector – How many is that now?
Solihull Lib Dem councillor Simon Slater has defected to the Labour Party. At a press conference in Solihull High Street on Friday Ian Austin, Labour MP for Dudley North, welcomed Coun Slater to the Labour fold and hinted there could be more defections to come across the West Midlands. – Solihull News
The Mirror’s final pitch
So we urge MPs, Labour Party members and those in affiliated trade unions and socialist societies to cast their votes, online or by post, for David Miliband before the ballot closes next Wednesday. Supporters of Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott should consider giving second preferences to David Miliband. The head must rule the heart. It might appear cool to vote for Ed Miliband but the sensible choice is David Miliband. – The Mirror
“If we make the wrong choice we’ll leave Labour stuck in opposition for many years, that’s why this is too important a vote to ignore and it’s the reason the Daily Mirror has backed David. The people who really want him to lose are the Tories.” – Alan Johnson, The Mirror
Kinnock wades in again
Kinnock airs their differences publicly when he tells a Channel 4 docudrama of his surprise at David Miliband’s behaviour towards his younger brother, saying: “David’s response to Ed running has, to my astonishment, been deeply resentful. David’s people are spreading all kinds of bloody bile about Ed being in thrall to the left and he would be in the pocket of the unions and all kinds of crap like that.” – The Guardian
Shadow cabinet: vote for Alan
18/09/2010, 04:01:33 AM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Stephen
18/09/2010, 01:17:55 AM
Shadow cabinet: vote for Barbara
17/09/2010, 04:42:32 PM
From: KEELEY, Barbara
Sent: 17 September 2010 16:17
To: KEELEY, Barbara
Subject: Barbara Keeley for Shadow CabinetBarbara Keeley for Shadow Cabinet
Barbara Keeley MP
Shadow Minister for Care Services
Shadow Deputy Leader of the House
Dear colleague
We will shortly have a new Leader and this election gives us the chance to elect a revitalised Shadow Cabinet to support the new Leader.
We need a team in the Shadow Cabinet who can take the fight to Tories and Liberal Democrats, campaign strongly across the country to win seats for Labour and develop new policy solutions. I want to be part of that team.
I have 21 years of experience of campaigning for Labour, including 9 years as a councillor and cabinet member in Trafford. I was twice Trafford’s Campaign Co-ordinator ensuring we hung on to marginal seats to retain control.
First elected as an MP in Worsley in 2005, I gained experience in the Cabinet Office, DWP and working with Harriet Harman on Equalities as both PPS and Government Whip.
I was Deputy Leader of the House and have deputised for Harriet at the Warwick Policy Forum and at conferences and seminars. Since May I have been Shadow Minister for Care Services in the Shadow Health Team combined with covering as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.
In Parliament I have been a strong team member and a hard-working and effective Shadow Minister, Minister and backbench MP. I was also chair of the Women’s PLP.
In the Party I have been an effective and hard-working member of the Health Policy Commission, have chaired working groups on policy development and have fought many
by-elections locally and nationally.
In my career before Parliament, I worked as an adviser and consultant on health and social care and on regeneration projects. I was also a Systems Engineering Manager working for IBM, managing a team of 10 people.
I want to use all my experience and skills in the work of the new Shadow Cabinet team and I hope you will use one of your votes for me in this election.
Best wishes
Barbara Keeley MP
Shadow Cabinet elections: the astonishing technical complexity of writing x
17/09/2010, 04:21:04 PMPLP secretary, Martin O’Donovan, is worried that Labour MPs are going to be thrown into disarray by the stressful business of receiving, completing and returning their shadow cabinet ballot papers. All crazy-crammed, break-neck and irresponsible, into a mere, madcap seven days of voting.
In his email below, you can hear the fear in O’Donovan’s voice. He just knows – for sure – that he’s in for massive grief.
Because the best and the brightest are going to forget to vote. And they’re going to vote for people they didn’t want to vote for by mistake. And they’re going to change their minds three days after they’ve cast their votes and want another go. And several will want to cast their votes after the ballot has closed.
And it’s all going to be his fault. All of it. So he’d better be able to explain himself. That’s why he’s writing to them every 25 minutes explaining the rules. Poor Martin. Most sophisticated electorate in the world? Yeah, right.
