Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Cruddas Campaign news
Happy New Year from Jon Cruddas MP
Dear friends
The last few months have been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. At the start of the year, I was looking forward to being involved in the debates over the future of our party – but I wasn't expecting to be standing myself. I was persuaded to stand before Party Conference and decided to announce I'd be a candidate straight away, so I could get around the country talking to activists about my ideas and plans for the party.
Over the Christmas break, I raised the need to reverse the collapse in party membership since the start of the decade. We've been losing members at an alarming rate. The Party Chair called that “sensationalist”, but everyone knows that the time for complacency is over. Politics hasn't been “on the wane” in Britain or anywhere else. More and more people are joining campaigning groups. It’s just that this is passing Westminster by.
Our campaign can change the party, and help win the next election for Labour.
Over the next few months I will be travelling across the country talking to some of the people who can help us rebuild the Party: people who have left, to councillors in areas where we've had setbacks, and members where there are no Labour MPs but who work hard regardless. This campaign is a real chance to fundamentally debate what we stand for and how to achieve our goals together. Our party is not just important, its strength is vital to everything we can achieve. Without party activists campaigning on the doorstep, the Tories will win.
So in the next few months, please get involved. Sign your friends up to get email news updates. Speak to your local councillors and sign them up as supporters. Ask your shop steward to advertise our campaign events to local union members.
I'm a backbencher, without instant access to the media or any of the other advantages that come with being an insider. I can only win – and our ideas can only take hold – with your active support.
Please make it your New Year’s resolution to get involved in the campaign to change the party and win the next election for Labour.
All the best for the New Year.
PS if you want to support our campaign, one way is to sign up friends as supporters. Ask them to click here to join us:
http://joncruddas.org.uk/pages/supportCard.php ¶ 4:59 pm
Dear friends
The last few months have been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. At the start of the year, I was looking forward to being involved in the debates over the future of our party – but I wasn't expecting to be standing myself. I was persuaded to stand before Party Conference and decided to announce I'd be a candidate straight away, so I could get around the country talking to activists about my ideas and plans for the party.
Over the Christmas break, I raised the need to reverse the collapse in party membership since the start of the decade. We've been losing members at an alarming rate. The Party Chair called that “sensationalist”, but everyone knows that the time for complacency is over. Politics hasn't been “on the wane” in Britain or anywhere else. More and more people are joining campaigning groups. It’s just that this is passing Westminster by.
Our campaign can change the party, and help win the next election for Labour.
Over the next few months I will be travelling across the country talking to some of the people who can help us rebuild the Party: people who have left, to councillors in areas where we've had setbacks, and members where there are no Labour MPs but who work hard regardless. This campaign is a real chance to fundamentally debate what we stand for and how to achieve our goals together. Our party is not just important, its strength is vital to everything we can achieve. Without party activists campaigning on the doorstep, the Tories will win.
So in the next few months, please get involved. Sign your friends up to get email news updates. Speak to your local councillors and sign them up as supporters. Ask your shop steward to advertise our campaign events to local union members.
I'm a backbencher, without instant access to the media or any of the other advantages that come with being an insider. I can only win – and our ideas can only take hold – with your active support.
Please make it your New Year’s resolution to get involved in the campaign to change the party and win the next election for Labour.
All the best for the New Year.
PS if you want to support our campaign, one way is to sign up friends as supporters. Ask them to click here to join us:
http://joncruddas.org.uk/pages/supportCard.php ¶ 4:59 pm
