An obscure organisation called Save the Labour Party (in which I declare an interest as Chair) is holding its AGM on Saturday 7 November. Keynote speaker is Jon Cruddas MP and NEC chair Ann Black is planning to be there too. The main issue is: Can Labour reposition itself to win the 2010 election? All Labour Party members are welcome. ...

... % of the vote, compared with only 9.3% in Dagenham against Jon Cruddas, whose constituency covers the other half of the borough where the BNP have 12 councillors. Moreover, Cruddas is a centre-left MP, someone that many anti-fascists would feel ... in social housing and blamed new migrants for failing to fit in. Even Cruddas declared his colleague's comments were "not only ...

... , on my travels look what I have found on the staff list of Jonny "three houses" Cruddas: Nick Parrott - Self-employed campaigner on a contract basis for: Jon Cruddas Campaign, Searchlight Information Services, Trade Justice Movement, Corporate Responsibility Coalition, Unison, Christian Aid, ActionAid, Traidcraft Exchange (all not- ...

... thinkers, politicians and activists from across Europe will publish their views on Building the Good Society, a document written in June 2009 by Labour’s Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles of the SPD. Articles will be posted both here and on the Social Europe website, but to make a comment you will need to click on the link for Social ...

... for ‘Beyond Crisis‘ conference, go to: www.tuc.org.uk/beyondcrisis. Speakers include Rowan Williams, Brendan Barber, Pat McFadden, Ruth Sunderland, John Kay, Jon Cruddas, Ann Pettifor, Richard Layard and many others. Adam Lent is Head of Economic and Social Affairs at the TUC.

... . And the Commons voted against amendment 2, 286 to 236. And you can see the scroll of shame here. And congratulations to Jon Cruddas for finally doing the right thing (well, there’s a first time for everything….!) and voting for the amendment. What to me is a touch of irony is that this specific Lords amendment came from Lord David Freud. ...