New Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto group chairs appointed.

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The Labour Party has named 6 new Party Vice-Chairs and 14 Manifesto group chairs.




Welcoming the appointments, Harriet Harman declared: "I  look forward to working with this high calibre team of vice chairs in the Party on these important challenges.
"It is also great that the Manifesto Groups have been set up as an important move to harness the talent, experience and energy within the PLP to feed in to Labour's Partnership in Power policy making process"



The people appointed are:

Party Vice Chairs

Joan Ryan MP    Campaigns
Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP  Faith Groups
Stephen Ladyman MP  South East
Ian Cawsey MP   Animal Welfare
Martin Salter MP   Environment
Dawn Butler MP   Youth

Manifesto Groups

Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP  Europe
Rt Hon David Blunkett MP  Voluntary Sector
Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP  Children
David Hamilton MP    Scotland
Nick Ainger MP   Wales
Alan Whitehead MP   Local Government
Chris Bryant MP   Constitutional Reform
Jon Trickett MP   Housing
John Mann MP    Drugs
Sion Simon MP   Law and Order 
Barbara Keeley MP   Social Services
Eric Joyce MP    International Security
Ann McKechin MP   International Development
Mary Creagh MP   Public Health


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New Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto group chairs appointed. | 13 comments (13 topical)

Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#1)

by jkitleft on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 11:25:08 AM GMT

Good to see Jon Trickett and Dawn Butler appointed.


Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#2)

by doctordunc on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 11:34:39 AM GMT

Seems a pretty poor pay-off to me.  For David Hamilton too.


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#3)

by jkitleft on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 11:48:46 AM GMT

I didn't notice Hamilton, that's good as well.


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#4)

by otware on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 01:01:30 PM GMT

At least Salter, Trickett and Hamilton are being represented. It could be worse, these groups could be packed with a load of random special advisors.

 I would have expected to see Cruddas in there though, especially at housing.


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#5)

by doctordunc on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 01:42:13 PM GMT

Well he was offered one of those Vice-Chair positions and turned it down.

Which is, in itself, quite interesting.


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#7)

by otware on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 01:54:24 PM GMT

That is surprising. Why would he do that?


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#8)

by doctordunc on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 02:52:42 PM GMT

Your guess is as good as mine.  I'd like to think it was because he wanted to be free to campaign on the issues that he took up in his election campaign...  I'm not sure I believe it's that (I can't see why Jon Trickett take up such a role and Cruddas not in such circumstances) - so I rather suspect he was expecting something a bit better and took his bat home.


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Re: Party Vice-Chairs/Manifesto group chairs (#9)

by MM on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 04:16:42 PM GMT

It seems a poor effort to me to buy of those Minister who have been demoted i.e Stepten Timms, Joan Ryan and Stephen Ladyman.  Also gives a non-job to those that have been sacked such as Patricia Hewitt and Hilary Armstrong.  Allows Brown to reward those that helped him into power such as Sion Simon and Chris Bryant.  Let's face it whatever is wrote by these individuals well have little or no impact on the manifesto.  The manifesto will come from Ed Miliband and Brown's old Treasury team now in No 10. 


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Blunkett & Voluntary Sector (#6)

by rwendland on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 01:44:39 PM GMT

I think it's unfortunate that Blunkett has the Voluntary Sector manifesto area, as he took a £15-20k paid post from the international charity World ORT (in part leading to his 2nd resignation as it wasn't cleared by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments).

World ORT claims that  individual donations are hugely supplemented 20:1 by government and international agency funds. That such a funded organisation hires recent ex-government ministers is in my opinion dubious. I don't like the government-charity revolving door when significant money flows both ways. It would have been better if someone more independent covered this policy area.


Re: Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto group chairs (#10)

by Peter Kenyon on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 06:26:17 PM GMT

Oh, dear. Is someone spoiling for a fight?
 
http://petergkenyon.typepad.com/peterkenyon/

What is it about our Labour Party leaders that they like to indulge in fiction?

http://petergkenyon.typepad.com/peterkenyon/2007/06/party-chair-pos.html

Is Labour a democratic socialist party, or not?


Re: Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto group chairs (#12)

by rwendland on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 09:43:27 PM GMT

Appalling. Brown seems to be riding rough-shod over the Labour Party constitution worse than Blair with this unelected Party Vice-Chair nonsense. The constitution of course already provides for one single vice-chair elected by the NEC:

Labour Party Constitution Clause VII.1B - Chair and vice-chair

There shall be a chair and vice-chair of the party elected by the NEC from among its own members in accordance with the provisions set out in procedural rule 4B.3.

I had hoped for much better from Brown - profoundly disappointing. So much for following proper procedures. Not a good sign that proper cabinet government will return rather than un-minuted sofa government by the few.

 


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Re: New Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto (#11)

by davidfloyd on Sat Jun 30, 2007 at 09:14:21 PM GMT

With all these people plus PPSs, how many ordinary bankbenchers are going to be left?

How's Gordon going to find enough policies for everyone who supposed to be making them?  


Re: New Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto (#13)

by oratorhunt on Mon Jul 02, 2007 at 03:23:28 PM GMT

who else will sit on the Manifesto groups?  Just members of the PLP?


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New Party Vice-Chairs and Manifesto group chairs appointed. | 13 comments (13 topical)