There's no point in kidding ourselves. In terms of our status as a serious political group, the result in Livingston was a disaster. Worse even than the...
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Neil Windle
neil_windle
Oct 1, 2005 11:34 am
If any other department or committee in the Party spent similar amounts of time and money (hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds in this case) for such...
5073
Socialist Party
socialistparty@...
Oct 1, 2005 12:12 pm
From my own experience our result at elections is always commensurate with the amount of work put into the election. As things turned out, we decided to...
5074
Brian Gardner
bgardner@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:01 pm
I'm no great fan of the Party standing in elections myself but I am surprised at some of what is being said following the Livingston result. If you'd asked me...
5075
weematttherat
Oct 1, 2005 3:31 pm
Hi Brian, Thanks for this spirited defence.Thanks for stepping in at the last moment to allow us to get out and take on the capitalist party.As you will know...
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Adam Buick
alb342@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:37 pm
Brian I agree almost 100 percent with your analysis and approach. But I'm not saying that the vote we get as such is important. It's only important in a...
5077
Brian Gardner
bgardner@...
Oct 1, 2005 3:44 pm
Yes - fair comment. I'd be lying of course if I said we werent disappointed ourselves at coming behind and independent Tory and a loony Christian. And while...
5078
wsm_mod
Oct 1, 2005 4:43 pm
... Deptartment, > however, seem to be an exception to this. Surely we could think of ... The same could be said for the printed Socialist Standard. The ...
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alan johnstone
ajsc21755@...
Oct 1, 2005 6:02 pm
Since the result at Livingston has sparked off some sort of debate i might as well add my tuppensworth . As Brian has said in a previous post , the question...
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alan johnstone
ajsc21755@...
Oct 1, 2005 6:28 pm
ooooops , just a quick correction , i must have deleted part of a sentence ....should have properly read ....the question shouldn't be about IF we should stand...
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Robert
hallblithe
Oct 2, 2005 7:17 pm
Dear Comrades, Would one of you be so kind as to send me the script to 'Capitalism & Other Kids Stuff' as the enquirer below would appreciate a copy? Thanks! ...
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anattavada03
Oct 2, 2005 7:37 pm
Comrades I think we should take part in elections of any kind only if our party has at least 5.000 members (and not 500) and we could get at least 1 per cent...
5083
Darren ONeil
gaitensdance
Oct 2, 2005 8:46 pm
Hello All, I was wondering if there was any means by which we can count the number of times the Socialist Standard is downloaded each month as a PDF on the...
5084
mattculbert@...
weematttherat
Oct 2, 2005 11:45 pm
Hi Darren, there is a mass of details and stats which I cant get my head around. Tristan when he gets back will surely be able to answer you better. The...
5085
mattculbert@...
weematttherat
Oct 3, 2005 12:11 am
Comrades, Here is an interesting statistic for you all. year #requests #pages 2004 274402 124189 --- 2005 2648702 1067237 --------------------------- Tenfold...
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Adam Buick
alb342@...
Oct 3, 2005 8:11 am
It's going to a big day when we reached 5000 members. At the first Party Conference in 1905 a member proposed that when this figure was reached we should form...
5087
John Bissett
johnbissett@...
Oct 3, 2005 8:46 am
I seem to recall we got 14% the last time we contested the Primrose ward seat in Jarrow. Just after that they changed the ward boundaries. JB...
5088
Adam Buick
alb342@...
Oct 3, 2005 10:58 am
John, According to the records, the result in Primrose Ward of South Tyneside council in May 2000 was: Labour 998, Tory 438, Socialist 184 (11.4%) And this...
5089
Paul Bennett
Paul.Bennett@...
Oct 3, 2005 11:37 am
I thought one reason we had decided to stop contesting by-elections was that they had become a bear garden, with lots of joke candidates. But I assume that...
5090
alan johnstone
ajsc21755@...
Oct 3, 2005 6:38 pm
Another excellent issue of the Socialist Standard but marred by a couple of things in my opinion ....the gremlins at work on the 50 Years Ago section , making...
5091
John Bissett
johnbissett@...
Oct 4, 2005 8:54 am
Adam, The Primrose Result in the May 2003 local elections was: Labour: 1658 Tories: 594 Socialist Party: 316 John ... From: "Adam Buick" <alb342@...> To:...
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Moss H.
H.Moss@...
Oct 4, 2005 9:13 pm
Dear Comrades, Now that election fever has died down, can I say a word about the 'human' element in campaigns. I think Brian's reaction to and analysis of...
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Adam Buick
alb342@...
Oct 5, 2005 6:35 am
Howard, The ban on candidate's photos on party election material was voted for at Conference 1989 when the following resolution was passed: "This Conference...
5094
mattculbert@...
weematttherat
Oct 5, 2005 1:13 pm
Hi all esp. Howard and Adam, Edinburgh Branch complied with this in '97 General Election but the candidate was televised by a cable tv company covering this...
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John Bissett
johnbissett@...
Oct 5, 2005 2:25 pm
Matt, My earlier reference to "Johnny come latelies" was in no way intended as a pop at Edinburgh branch. Rather it was to highlight how many - and there are ...
5096
mattculbert@...
weematttherat
Oct 5, 2005 3:18 pm
Hi John , Thanks for that.I didnt think you were popping at us . The general point is correct, which you make.This is something I am trying to address.The...
5097
wsm_mod
Oct 5, 2005 7:18 pm
Members shouldn't get too despondent about election results. They only tell us what we already know - that interest in socialism is extremely low and this is...
5098
reddeathy
Oct 6, 2005 7:24 am
Lo All, Looking at the Site stats for September, it seems we can pinpoint at least this many definite increased hits due to the election: 94 94 0.26%...
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John Bissett
johnbissett@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:04 am
For anyone waiting for the EC Minutes for October to be posted, please bear with me - my pc is being a bastard at moment and is preventing me for completing...
5100
Paul Bennett
Paul.Bennett@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:28 am
Have the agenda, reports, supporting statements etc for ADM been sent out to members? Paul...
