SAVING THE LABOUR PARTY......

Blogs are not popular with Labour Party apparatchiks. And it seems that if you're privileged enough to be on the NEC you are not supposed to blog at all.....not even if you are the eminently reasonable and scrupulous Peter Kenyon who for many years has pursued a dogged path to make the Labour Party more open, transparent and attractive to new members. I applaud his honesty, his blog and wish him well in future NEC endeavours. Despite political differences, he has always been very supportive of my own concerns over Party democracy and we worked together for several years in Save The Labour Party. If only all NEC members had his admirable resilience, as Tribune reports........

http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/08/14/if-i’m-in-the-dock-what-are-the-charges/

http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/08/06/embrace-financial-openness-or-face-annihilation-labour-leadership-is-told/