Labour: Coast & Country

  • Let’s fire up Labour’s local elections campaign by twinning London members with activists in the countryside | Hywel Lloyd

    Let’s fire up Labour’s local elections campaign by twinning London members with activists in the countryside | Hywel Lloyd

    To govern the nation well means being in touch with the realities of the whole of the nation. To have a chance of representing the nation at the very least means being present in every community – whether you see representation as just providing a voice or an elected representative. Both can be of help…

  • We urge you to vote REMAIN on June 23rd

    We urge you to vote REMAIN on June 23rd

    Given the momentous vote of the 23rd June, and its implications for communities of coast and country, we urge every citizen to vote REMAIN. Labour: COAST & COUNTRY believes in the principles of cooperation and mutual support. The public sector has a vital role to play investing in a safer, more productive, more sustainable future, and…

  • Engaging and supporting the new Leadership team

    Just a few months before the former Labour Leader Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation’ conference speech in 2012 I discussed with colleagues the right name for what is now Labour: Coast &Country, we even wrote down  ‘One Nation Labour’ as a part of the route to power in 2015 . . . . . Yet the…

  • Meeting the Knebworth Branch Labour Party

    Knebworth! Scene of many historic rock gigs, and last month an excellent Labour Party branch meeting – new, old and returning members met for an evenings discussion of ‘non-urban’ issues and how Labour could approach them on the road to winning in 2020. As is often the case many of the issues here – poor…

  • LCC Fringe – Conference 2015

    Sunday lunch-time of the first day of Conference 2015 saw over 40 members from across England and Wales gather to reflect on what next for Labour in communities of coast and country.  After moving to a larger room to accommodate everyone more comfortably, a wide ranging discussion occupied those present for almost two hours. That discussion…

  • And so the next stage in the journey begins . . .

    Sadly it isn’t a journey of engagement with a Labour led government, but a renewed period of opposition – lets hope it doesn’t become unduly introspective as we all endeavour to work out what worked, and what did not – and more importantly what’s required to win in 2020. As a Co-Founder of Labour: Coast…

  • Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | Target Seat 20

    An early train to the South West and we are soon in Plymouth, joining Luke Pollard (Plymouth Sutton & Devonport) and Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Moor View) as they welcome Harriet Harman and the Pink Bus for some local campaigning. They and 30+ activists brave the blustery weather to promote our local conversations with the voters…

  • Sympathy to all Agents!

    This is my first, perhaps only, foray into the role of Agent. This is for an excellent candidate in a safe Tory seat, with probably less than a dozen Labour activists across the whole sprawling constituency. No experience; no people; no money; no realistic hopes beyond unashamedly showing Labour’s colours and values to the heathen;…

  • Norwich North – the first seat of an overall majority!

    Friday and we join a mass of volunteers, the Progress team on their last ‘Final countdown’ campaign days and Jess Asato our candidate.  You can read more about her campaign here. Winning Norwich North and we are in overall majority territory so key to our national campaign as well as giving Labour voice to those who live in a…

  • Milton Keynes South | Target Seat 69

    As with many of the new towns created by the Attlee and Wilson governments, Milton Keynes is a very green and pleasant land, with much rural fringe in the immediate vicinity of the city centre, ranging from Stoney Stratford to Bletchley.  It makes for an interesting setting for a huge number of apple trees, dotted…