Local councillors meet Labour chiefs

8:00pm Wednesday 13th March 2013 in News

Harriet Harman MP, Ed Miliband MP, Cllr Julie Young, Cllr Tim Young, and Hilary Benn MP. Harriet Harman MP, Ed Miliband MP, Cllr Julie Young, Cllr Tim Young, and Hilary Benn MP.

LABOUR councillors took their concerns right to the top when they met the party top brass.

Husband and wife team councillors Tim and Julie Young, met Labour leader Ed Miliband, along with deputy leader Harriet Harman and shadow minister Hilary Benn.

The group leaders, Tim at Colchester Council and Julie at Essex County Council, raised local issues at the meeting.

Comments(10)

Bert_Stimpson says...
9:52pm Wed 13 Mar 13

"A promise made is a debt unpaid..."

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Boris says...
11:55pm Wed 13 Mar 13

Pass the sick bag please....

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Reginald47 says...
12:08am Thu 14 Mar 13

That'll make a lot of difference then! Labour hasbeens.

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Hamiltonandy says...
12:16am Thu 14 Mar 13

Let them have a bit of glory meeting their political masters. Would be interesting to know what local issues were raised. Perhaps asking for more housing or invitations to foreign fact finding visits.

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ALIUK1 says...
1:54am Thu 14 Mar 13

Hopefully they were discussing some of the abysmal housing in Colchester that some tennants are having to put up with

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6079 Smith W says...
8:28am Thu 14 Mar 13

In the 1980s, the Trotskyite Militant group was expelled from the Labour Party, for being a party within a party. Fair enough, but what of the malignant Progress group, that dominates the Colchester party? It seems entryism from the Trots is unacceptable, but entryism from a bunch of loony right Tories is fine.

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Hamiltonandy says...
9:01am Thu 14 Mar 13

Not heard of the "Progress" group. What are they trying to do? Also unsure of what "entryism" means. Sorry for my ignorance!

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jim_bo says...
3:39pm Thu 14 Mar 13

Tim & Julie Young voiced their concerns to the Labour Leadership:

Tim: How can we get power in Colchester?

Ed: Don't ask me, we'll never get in !

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6079 Smith W says...
6:14pm Thu 14 Mar 13

Hamiltonandy wrote:
Not heard of the "Progress" group. What are they trying to do? Also unsure of what "entryism" means. Sorry for my ignorance!
Until fairly recently I was also unaware of the Progress group. It is an ultra-Blairite group committed to ensuring the Labour Party remains a hardened Thatcherite party, pro-privatisation, pro-austerity dogma, selling off council housing, and of course here in Colchester, selling off the council's sheltered housing stock, and leaving vulnerable older people to the cut-throat world of the not so 'free' market.

As I hope the above suggests, entryism means to enter an organisation in order to completely subvert it from its original ideals. It would be like me joining the catholic church, with the aim of turning it into an athiest organisation.

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6079 Smith W says...
6:30pm Thu 14 Mar 13

jim_bo wrote:
Tim & Julie Young voiced their concerns to the Labour Leadership: Tim: How can we get power in Colchester? Ed: Don't ask me, we'll never get in !
As if the Young's have any interest in Labour gaining 'power' in Colchester. If they had, they wouldn't have destroyed the local party by expelling all those with any socialist leanings. Like all good Thatcherites, their real interest is money, and despite the party's pathetic standing locally, they milk the councillor gravy train very nicely.

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