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Welcome to the Labour International website. You can connect to other Labour sites and other LI branch sites, including our Red Rose Forum, using the links in the Contents panel..... |
Special Announcement
We want your Views
Dear L.I. Member,
We are trying to stimulate a number of debates in LI on topics of greatest political
interest to our members. The main objective is to establish a consituency-based
political agenda. The debates will be conducted through the LI's own Red
Rose forum where members can exchange views
easily and promptly and be automatically notified when new responses / issues
are posted on the forum. Ultimately, if there is enough interest in a topic it
might be feasible to form a Constituency based submission to
the NPF, or a resolution. It is important for the LI to make itself heard; to act
as a full Labour constituency, despite having no elected representation in
Parliament.
The political issues perhaps should not be only of particular interest to LI members, e.g. voting rights. Rather,we should be attempting to gauge which matters are of the greatest importance to the full LI membership, If LI members are like other Labour members we would hope topics would be extend over a wide range of current political matters in which the country, government and the party are involved.
Jeremy Millard, LICC Secretary attended a fringe meeting at Conference on taxation - always a highly charged issue for all parts of the political spectrum. Here is what he had to say in a recent exchange of emails with me....
'Dear John
At Conference, I
attended a Guardian fringe chaired by Polly Toynbee on "Fourth term or bust"
with Ed Miliband, Tessa Jowell and John Crudus. (You can guess who had the most
"values"). Thinking of Labour values on greater social justice, I asked a
question on whether we should tax the super rich (i.e. with incomes over £100k
or £150k) up to 50%, comparing UK to Denmark where the Danes do this and it is
accepted by everybody, even the current rightwing gov, as part of the price for
social cohesion and good services. And, Denmark is probably the most
competitive economy in the world. The super rich (apart from a few oddballs)
aren't frightened away. As long as overall taxes aren't extreme, and other
conditions are right (such as good employee skills and low crime because of high
social cohesion), taxes aren't that important even to the super rich! Needless
to say, Ed and Tessa were very evasive. Polly put it to the vote and 99% of
attenders voted for doing this (there were at least 200 in the hall). Just shows
where members' values lie!
Jeremy'
John MacKay, LI Web Manager
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