tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post5688983034326367431..comments2023-10-27T07:50:27.411+01:00Comments on Next Left: Will anybody notice Labour this Autumn?Tom Hampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05917325958130851128noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-35774585095766319112010-05-13T14:49:21.143+01:002010-05-13T14:49:21.143+01:00Chris
- thanks. I misunderstood: do agree. The p...Chris <br /><br />- thanks. I misunderstood: do agree. The party audiences are engaged now, and we should open up to party, activist and engaged audiences as much as we can.<br /><br />- The party conference 'final' will also reach the broad 6 and 10 o'clock news audience and have a good media and public profile.Sunder Katwalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06671411534003530927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-73942105458251194732010-05-13T11:47:12.491+01:002010-05-13T11:47:12.491+01:00Sorry to have been unclear - I didn't mean tha...Sorry to have been unclear - I didn't mean that it should just be the place where the result is annouced but that, in reference to the idea of television debates and all, while it should be the final, it would be a shame if most people only tuned in for the final and ignored the qualifying rounds. <br /><br />It would also be a shame if it was just a couple of leader and deputy leader TV debates. I think it went a bit unnoticed in Cleggmania but for me and people I know the other TV and radio debates on policy areas ended up being a lot more interesting.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704184269919666572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-78562072278558745592010-05-13T11:19:53.614+01:002010-05-13T11:19:53.614+01:00Chris
Thanks. I am arguing the opposite to you on...Chris<br /><br />Thanks. I am arguing the opposite to you on that. <br /><br />If we simply use conference to announce the result, we will have a shorter, less deep and lower profile summer contest which will engage fewer people - and the framing around our Autumn conference outside the party may well already become about X's struggle to break through and get noticed.Sunder Katwalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06671411534003530927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-75526217273366025102010-05-13T10:21:53.856+01:002010-05-13T10:21:53.856+01:00Maybe, but conference as a platform should be the ...Maybe, but conference as a platform should be the end of the process not the main part for everyone to concentrate on. There's no reason that by the time conference comes around there shouldn't be hours of debates and speeches available for all online.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704184269919666572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-68633833555104843252010-05-13T09:33:21.566+01:002010-05-13T09:33:21.566+01:00There will also be plenty to 'oppose' in t...There will also be plenty to 'oppose' in the traditional way, and our opposition needs to take something of the multi-media campaign seen in the election. We can't take our eyes off the ball. Yesterday, even as the Downing Street love-in was provoking BBC reporters to coo over the sound of birdsong in the background, the notion of the 55% majority requirement was slipping out - only to be predictably and entirely overlooked by the commentating media. Our opponents are still the Tories, and it seems they have forgotten nothing of their traditional ruthlessness.Ian & Nina Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979829048922350453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-45173305024844327662010-05-13T09:20:17.820+01:002010-05-13T09:20:17.820+01:00The next Labour leader will need to be overtly lib...The next Labour leader will need to be overtly liberal/democratic republican... in order to win back centre-left votes that defected to the liberal democrats over the last decade. Civil liberties and constitutional reform must be high priorities. ID cards should get scrapped for sure.<br /><br />People aren't going to want an administrative and technocratic party that expounds on neoclassical endogenous growth theory constantly._______https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750073111707564700noreply@blogger.com