Am I alone in hoping that the early months of Labour’s new leadership is not dominated by the upcoming referendum on electoral reform? I don’t agree with much of Anthony Painter’s blog yesterday on this campaign, but I do agree with the comment he supplemented it with which suggested that it’s not going to split [...]
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:
Let’s ‘AVe more important debates
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Democracy – this is new
Friday, July 30th, 2010A delightful documentary was buried in the BBC4 schedule late last Sunday. Please Vote for Me remains on iPlayer over the weekend, and I’d urge you to watch it if you’ve got an hour free. Weijun Chen’s film, in which he records schoolchildren in China undertaking an election for class monitor, is in equal measure [...]
Seriously, what are MPs for?
Friday, July 30th, 2010It struck me when reading the post by my colleague, Vincenzo Rampulla, on Nick Clegg’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill that there is something else missing from this debate that was almost entirely absent too from the commentary on the expenses crisis last year. Really it’s the first principles of making the sort of [...]
Young Fabians nationwide participating in new policy development
Saturday, July 24th, 2010Building upon the success of 2009’s YF Policy Forums, Young Fabian Vice Chair, Adrian Prandle, established four new Policy Development Groups to answer some of the key questions the centre-left needs to address in order to retool following Labour’s general election defeat. If the Fabian Society is about ideas, and the Young Fabians is about [...]
Burnham backs Young Fabian pamphlet at last night’s hustings
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Lots of interest in Young Fabian activity plus the signing up of new members at our exhibition stand; a sell-out crowd; and the adoption by one of the Labour leadership candidates of policy from the international chapter of the YF publication, Fast Forward (more of that later), all made for a successful evening. It was [...]
Leadership candidates haven’t quite understood the lesson of immigration and the election
Monday, May 24th, 2010The latest leadership candidate to suggest immigration was a cause of Labour’s defeat at the polls on May 6th, today. Andy Burnham follows Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, and David Miliband. Diane Abbott has also commented on immigration, though with a different perspective. I’ve had some thoughts rattling around my head so it was interesting to [...]
Amidst uncertainty, Young Fabian success
Friday, May 7th, 2010Whilst we wait and see what arrangement emerges to govern the country, it’s worth reflecting on the impact of Young Fabians during (the first?) general election of 2010. Over the short campaign, we led YF members to a series of campaign days – and we can see some excellent results and a 100% record: In [...]
This is where you should campaign tonight and tomorrow
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Good luck for the final 28 hours for those of you hitting the campaign trail for Labour, especially those who are candidates themselves. We’ve listed the seats that need your help on the Young Fabian website. There are key seats nationwide. If none of those listed are within easy travelling distance then you can enter [...]
Hope, Heat, and challenging Hate with 3000 leaflets – next up fighting Tory Cash
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010The biggest Young Fabian turnout yet last Saturday for our weekend campaign days – this time as we headed out to Transport House, Dagenham and the home of the Hope Not Hate campaign. This was far and away the single most impressive campaign day I’ve seen in the UK – and ultimately the most reminiscent of [...]
Healey says Young Fabians ‘Labour’s future’
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Our 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’ [...]