Organising
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Deputy Leadership candidates answer C&C questions
Thanks to positive engagement from both Deputy Leader campaign teams please see their responses to our Coast & Country questions; we hope that helps you decide how you will vote; and will give us a Deputy Leader we can work with to continue Labour’s presence and representation of communities of Coast & of Country. Bridget’s…
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What have coast & country ever done for us…?
Ant Reid You’ll remember the scene from Life of Brian, where the character Reg ends up listing out a long, long, list of what Romans bring for the people in the city. It’s worth having a quick refresher, John Cleese at his best, most dismissive…! It got us thinking. You see, with summer here and much…
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Winning May’26 ….. the on-going ‘Slo-Mo Rural general election’: Learning from the USA
Jack Risbridger “We are basically all the same people we just live under different systems” This was said to me at the end of this informative event, and I can’t stop thinking about what it could mean for us moving forward. The intent of the comment was to highlight how “rural” campaigners across different countries…
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The Long Campaign
Part three of John Haywood’s journey In my previous two blogs I described the build-up to the 2019 local elections, when Labour had three town councillors elected in Ringwood, and the start of the period between 2019 and 2023 when we used that platform to build a Labour presence in the New Forest. Labour local…
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You make your own luck
Part two of John Haywood’s journey Cllr John Haywood In the previous instalment of this blog, I covered the 2015-2019 period of local campaigning in Ringwood. At the 2019 local elections, due to the Tories not having enough candidates to maintain their usual near-stranglehold over Ringwood Town Council, we managed to get three town councillors…
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Taking the opportunity, of boundary changes and palpable unpopularity!
James Coldwell Chew Valley, the largest and most rural ward in North East Somerset, may not be a Labour stronghold. Yet at this year’s branch AGM members left upbeat and energised, determined to play their part in Labour’s effort to unseat Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. I attended the meeting, as a guest speaker, to lead a…
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Labour needs a SeaWall Taskforce to win and deliver for coastal communities
Cllr Polly Billington, Endorsed by Labour Coast & Country for South Thanet As a child, one of our family New Year traditions was to pile into the car and drive out of South London to the coast and eat fish and chips – in the freezing cold, bright, sharp, sunlight of an English seaside town.…
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October NPF Report — Alex Mayer
Alex Mayer is an LCC supporter and member of the NPF for the Eastern Region This week saw the first full meeting of the new National Policy Forum in a zoom meeting chaired by Ann Black from the NEC. There were 127 representatives on the call from right across the country, from regions, trade unions,…
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Politics Returns — LCC at LPC22
While we wait, with some trepidation, for this week’s imminent announcements from a government without mandate, conference in Liverpool gives all the Labour family an opportunity to show it is the bedrock of a government in waiting, ready to meet the nation’s needs in this dark hour. For our part we will continue to promote…
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Winning some Towns of England, in June, in 2022 – Ant Reid
There is a by election happening in Tiverton and Honiton so political pundits have been busy googling the place, and many in the Labour Party have been gearing up to fight a “rural” election. After all the big thing the constituency is famous for thanks to its dodgy MP is sexy tractors. So bring out…