Posts Tagged ‘ Campaigns ’

The Candidates’ Manifestos

Sep 1st, 2010 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles

The Dronfield Blather blog has run a three-month campaign to get manifestos from the Labour leadership candidates. This week it published the responses of all five Labour leader hopefuls.
‘On 16 June we commenced a campaign to get the candidates in the Labour Leadership Election to issue what we called “Manifestos of Intent”,’ says the website, run [...]



Desperate times

Jan 4th, 2010 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles

Could this be the last Labour government? DAVID CONNOLLY looks at the Compass group’s call for electoral reform

The left wing pressure group Compass has an impressive record of campaigning on a wide range of issues, attempting, with some success, to challenge the neo-liberal agenda that shapes much of government policy. Whatever the outcome of [...]



Stop the BNP

Oct 22nd, 2009 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles

If you haven’t already done so you can protest about the BBC extending a hand of friendship to the BNP via the Hope not Hate website.
On Thursday afternoon (22 October) Hope not Hate are going to the BBC to deliver the Question Time presenter, David Dimbleby, thousands of messages of hope from supporters. “Your stories, [...]