I am speaking at an event called Left Platform on Saturday at University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1. The brief is as follows:
Left Platform is a roundtable discussion being hosted on the 7th of February 2015 with aim of bringing together Left MPs, PPCs, Left Trade Union Representatives, Elected Local Government Members, representatives from Left Labour organisations, and a number of key Left academics, policy analysts, commentators and activists to discuss and determine the key bottom lines in policy terms that we will be campaigning for Labour to adopt in Government and as base lines in any coalition negotiations if Labour goes down that road.
I have been asked to introduce discussion on tax justice and the tax gap and will be speaking soon after 11, and unfortunately have to leave soon after 12.
But it looks like an interesting day is forecast.
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Sounds like a great event – would be good if they had invited some key personnel from the Green Party as well. I think the best way forward after the election lies in some kind of “Red/Green” merger or at least a loose alliance.
I agree
I am happy to speak to both on the issues I see that we face
Richard -why is this still linked to some sort of ‘left(over) notion’ of the Labour Party. The Labour party is as dead as the dodo as far as meaningful change is concerned. Anybody on the left of Labour (not many) should have left(!) the Party by now and either joined the Greens or operated as independents.
labour have signed up to austerity and the “where is the money going to come from” myth -and I haven’t heard too many of those on the left vociferously opposing this and trying to get some ‘real’ information across to the public for fear of their Party loyalty and the vox populi. It is beyond disgraceful.
The ‘bottom line’ that might exist for the Left Platform is many rungs higher than where Labour are at present- in their race to the bottom they are touching magma. Where is there a voice as clear and articulate as Varoufakis within Labour??