Our new members’ reception last night followed some work at Labour HQ ringing first time voters ahead of the – now very near – general election.
Guest speaker was Rt Hon John Healey MP, Cabinet minister for housing and planning. After taking his turn trying to sell fundraising raffle tickets, Healey highlighted the Young Fabians’ span [...]
About Adrian Prandle
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Vice Chair of the Young Fabians - my primary responsibility is to lead our policy development work.
Previously International Officer and Officer Without Portfolio. Organiser of the YF-LSN delegation to the Obama Campaign, taking 80 members to Columbus, Ohio for the final week of the 2008 presidential election.
I've written much about this in my previous blog posts. To find out more about my work for the Young Fabians, please visit our website: http://www.youngfabians.org.uk/content/view/32/20/.
Posts by Adrian Prandle:
Healey says Young Fabians ‘Labour’s future’
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The fight is not over: 50 years of fighting for equality and still more to do
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010It is fitting that in the year the Young Fabians celebrates its 50th anniversary, that we hold our first ever ‘Equalities Month’. Issues of equality have been of prime concern to Fabians, young and ‘older’, throughout the society’s history; as seen in the Fabian Equality Project and reflected in the 2010 Young Fabian members survey, [...]
Make sure you leave on time …
Friday, February 26th, 2010Today marks WYPHD – not an obvious abbreviation is it? But it’s one that effects much of the population and many Young Fabian members. Work Your Proper Hours Day is the day when the average person who does unpaid overtime would start to get paid if they did all their unpaid overtime at the start [...]
A few hours left to complete YF Members Survey – prize draw closes at midnight
Monday, February 15th, 2010Our annual members survey gives you the chance to have your say on the issues and activities most important to you, and to guide the executive committee’s planning over the course of the next year. It’s also the first chance to sign up to this year’s policy development groups.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/youngfabiansurvey2010
All survey responses received by midnight tonight will be entered [...]
From ‘Twitter Bombard Tuesdays’ to Fabianism for a Fiver this February
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Adrian Prandle, Young Fabian Vice Chair, offers some observations on the web as special edition of Anticipations, the Young Fabian magazine, looking at how the internet is changing politics, is offered free online for the first time.
SPONTANEITY AND CREATIVITY – The improv-stand-up Ross Noble, with his comedic-anarchic wonts, last month unfortunately called a day on [...]
Don’t Belize all you read
Friday, February 5th, 2010I met up last night with Kunal Khatri, formerly of the YF Executive Committee, who readers will remember as the excellent organiser and host of our pub quizzes last year. Hard to escape, we discussed the election and the potential impact the outcome could have on our respective day jobs. Amongst other things, we talked [...]
Running on empty: are energy companies the new banks?
Friday, February 5th, 2010A somewhat dramatic headline over at The Guardian’s website – ‘Ofgem: UK cannot trust energy companies to keep the lights on’, referring to an Ofgem report released on Wednesday which proposes moving energy supply away from the competitive markets model.
Actually, the gas and electricity regulator’s Project Discovery is clear that such an option is the [...]
Have your say in the Young Fabian Survey 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010Bright ideas? Burning issues? Got a suggestion? Or just want to take the first opportunity to sign up for this year’s policy development groups?
The executive committee wants to hear about the direction Young Fabians want the organisation to take during the next year. Young Fabian members are invited to have their say today in the [...]
Labour Campaign for International Development
Sunday, January 10th, 2010A number of Young Fabians have been involved in the establishment of the new Labour Campaign for International Development. Here, LCID Chair, David Taylor tells us what the organisation is about, and invites all YF members to the official launch with Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP.
Labour has transformed the lives of many people in the last [...]
GUEST POST – Get the message
Friday, November 20th, 2009We are inviting a series of guest posts to mark the official launch of the Young Fabian blog. YF members who would like to contribute should get in touch with Vice Chair, Adrian Prandle, aprandle@youngfabians.org.uk.
Here, Young Fabian member Tom Foot makes the case for communicating in a way that both represents the party and resonates [...]