election 2010 Articles

If ever there was an article to show our party what we must and must not do after our May defeat, the piece by Joan Ryan on the runaway seats we lost in 2005 from this month’s Progress Magazine is it.

This year saw the ‘broadcast’ election. But wasn’t it supposed to be the internet election? Online campaigning may not yet have topped those live debates yet, but there is evidence that Labour’s social media effort saved the party seats.

Labour did badly in key marginals in May but even worse in seats it lost in 2005. We cannot abandon these places if we are to win next time, says Joan Ryan

Labour could reap electoral dividends by entrusting candidate selection to voters. The Obama experience is instructive, as are pre-election Conservative primaries and Labour leadership primary votes more recently.