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Interested in serving on Labour’s NEC? Register your interest here and be part of a democratic revolution
Call for expressions of interest. Names of those applying will be included in a preliminary poll of Labour members to create ‘slate’ that truly represents member majority Despite the best […]
Momentum 'failed even to turn up' to left NEC slate selection meeting
CLGA members fear Lansman’s organisation set on going it alone The SKWAWKBOX reported on Wednesday that the stalemate between left grassroots group CLGA and Momentum over National Executive Committee candidate […]
Vital CAC/NCC nominations deadline approaching. Be sure to make yours – and to vote in key elections
Committees play crucial roles and nominations will help support campaigns of best candidates The nominations deadline for nominations for crucial Labour Party positions is approaching and Labour members whose CLP […]
W Brom West CLP asks Formby for urgent investigation into suspect Brandhall affiliations
The SKWAWKBOX has been covering at length the issue of suspicious attachment of delegates to CLPs (constituency Labour parties) in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell – the heart of […]
Exclusive: interview with new NEC member Izzard
This interview was first published during the election of three new, additional members of the NEC, in which comedian Eddie Izzard was standing as an independent candidate, though backed by […]
Exclusive: Izzard on his NEC bid, Labour democracy, the chicken-coup and more
Famous comedian, marathon-runner and Labour Party member Eddie Izzard is running for one of three new places on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) as an independent candidate and is considered […]
DWP’s top psychologist to be investigated over fake test
Since I revealed in April that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and its Jobcentre Plus ‘subsidiary’ were forcing jobseekers, under the threat of sanction, to take a fake […]
DWP ‘nudge’ chief: none forced to take fake ‘test’. DWP FOI: yes they were
Last month I exposed the fake psychometric test the DWP was forcing candidates to take for behaviour-manipulation purposes, under threat of losing their benefits through ‘sanction’ if they did not […]
DWP just can’t get its story straight re fake psych ‘test’
Last month, I revealed that the DWP was forcing jobseekers to take a fake psychometric ‘test’ – under threat of losing their benefits – as part of a sinister ‘behavioural […]