Blue Labour
@blue-labour.bsky.social
Labour’s radical tradition. bluelabour.org
If you're a Labour member, you should now have your ballot for the National Executive Committee election. We back @andyachilleos.bsky.social to put working class people back at the heart of our Party. As the PM says, hard hats as well as graduation caps!
Blue Labour@blue-labour.bsky.social · last wk.Voting in the election to Labour's National Executive Committee begins next week. If you're a Labour member, @andyachilleos.bsky.social is worth a look. Proper Labour.
Voting in the election to Labour's National Executive Committee begins next week. If you're a Labour member, @andyachilleos.bsky.social is worth a look. Proper Labour.
It’s time for Keir Starmer to set out a timetable for his departure. Nothing has convinced us that he is able to rise to the challenge confronting this country. As the process unfolds, no candidate should be blocked from standing; the job is too important for factional warfare and NEC machinations.
A noble decision and the right one for our party and our country. Thank you.
Labour has a fundamental choice: whether to become more firmly entrenched as the party of the well-off in a few liberal cities, or reorient itself to working class people and places. Overturning the Brexit vote would be a historic mistake and tear the country in two.
"Revolutions don’t always come from the pits of despair, they come when rising expectations are checked." writes @OvePM in intro to the new issue of FotL. Includes: @arisroussinos.bsky.social on Mandelson @LabourRealists on Chagos @aled_mj on 🇬🇧 fables @DespoticInroad on sovereignty
“No wonder the public are sick of us all." Superb from @markmcvitie.bsky.social on Peter Mandelson and the moral decay of Westminster.
This week exposed the moral and intellectual rot at the heart of our party. Glib arrogance, vicious court gossip and a culture of conformity. A willingness to look the other way for factional reasons, blind to how it looks to the outside world.
"To govern without an overarching vision in a disorientating age is a profound mistake." Excellent from @dsnorthnorth.bsky.social unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
"To govern without an overarching vision in a disorientating age is a profound mistake." Excellent from @dsnorthnorth.bsky.social unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
As we wrote in November, the central machinery of the party lacks clarity and direction. That is why they have resorted to administrative and procedural methods to block Andy Burnham. It is a profound mistake.
Fantastic article from @preetkgillmp.bsky.social "I am Labour, and I am Blue Labour because I believe politics must once again be rooted in responsibility, contribution and the courage to confront difficult truths." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Labour must go blue
The party must recover the kind of moral seriousness displayed by Shabana Mahmood if it is to govern well
telegraph.co.uk
A New issue of our friends at Future of the Left with intro from Jason Cowley 🗞️ Includes: John Bew on US Foreign policy Jonathan Rutherford on the PMC Also includes pieces on critical mineral strategy and institutional decline. futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/newsletter...
Newsletter #7: If you don’t know, now you know
Whether we like it or not the world has changed, and we must change with it.
futureoftheleft.substack.com
The US’ recent actions show the fragility of the international order, and should serve as a wake-up call: international law is not enough on its own. Defending sovereignty requires hard power. For Britain, that begins with the rebuilding of our industrial and military strength.
“In a world that increasingly operates on a might-is-right logic, those without hard power do not get a vote." @dancardenmp.bsky.social is right on the lessons from Venezuela. 1/2
We are now over a year into this government and it, like the country it is attempting to govern, is febrile and unsure of itself. Complacency and cynicism jostled for position at Labour’s annual conference, and though the government reasserted its authority, the country will not be so easily soothed
