{"id":10426,"date":"2011-06-10T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2011-06-10T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:39:38","slug":"transform-labour-into-a-democratic-pluralist-and-confident-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/10\/transform-labour-into-a-democratic-pluralist-and-confident-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Transform Labour into a democratic, pluralist and confident party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassonline.org.uk\/news\/item.asp?n=12942\" target=\"_blank\">Wise words from Neal Lawson of Compass<\/a> on the 'Volvo' plot and Labour leadership:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So despite its lazy error about my non-part in Blair's downfall, the Daily Telegraph offers an important lesson to today's would-be plotters in Labour's ranks. Stop thinking it's all about you. Instead, start to build a vision of the good society and develop a policy programme that will stop the poor getting poorer and the planet burning. Start an open movement to transform Labour into a democratic, pluralist and confident party that trusts its members and those in other parties who share its vision for change. Then and only then will you deserve the leadership of this once great party \u2014 and, what is more, you might just be able to lead it and the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay! I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wise words from Neal Lawson of Compass on the &#8216;Volvo&#8217; plot and Labour leadership: So despite its lazy error about my non-part in Blair&#8217;s downfall,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/10\/transform-labour-into-a-democratic-pluralist-and-confident-party\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}