Alan Gibbons' Diary

We are putting forward this amendment because we agree with this statement: “the idea of a home for life handed on in common ownership to future generations is an idea worth fighting for.” Th...

https://alangibbons.net/2024/01/speech-on-ending-the-right-to-buy-17-1-2023/

Speech on health inequalities A life lived well. An excellent quality of life for as long as possible and the shortest period of ill health and pain towards the end of life. This is the gold stan...

https://alangibbons.net/2024/01/alan-gibbons-speech-on-health-inequalities-17-1-2023/

Because in Gaza now 10,000 civilians have already died,Half of them children,Because the mechanised destruction of a peopleIs not the answerTo the horrific slaughter of 1,400 Israeli civilians on...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/11/we-are-all-palestinians-3/

Well, Labour hung on in the by-election so what are we to make of it? Firstly, the party has little to celebrate. It lost 26% of its support and its share of the vote is reduced to just 40%. Our ...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/09/fazakerley-east-labour-lose-26-of-vote-hang-on-to-seat/

A lot of people talked left to advance their political careers at the height of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. Now departed councillor Frazer Lake was one of them. Lake was a m...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/08/the-short-and-inglorious-career-of-councillor-frazer-lake/

Liverpool Labour collectively reminds anyone in the know of Sally Bowles in Cabaret, walking off counselling us not to look back, because they never do. Looking back means scrutinising your actio...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/07/liverpool-labour-never-look-back/

As a primary teacher for many years whose core responsibility was the care and education of children, this report made difficult reading. The points can’t be made often enough. What did the rep...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/07/councillor-alan-gibbons-speech-about-the-ofsted-report-into-liverpool-council-childrens-services/

Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) voted 22 to 12 on Tuesday, 28th March to approve a motion from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to prevent his predecessor being selected for Islington...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/03/starmer-takes-out-corbyn-what-next/

I see that Liverpool Labour candidates are reading my blog with enthusiasm. Welcome to the platform, sisters and brothers. One such candidate, somebody I have never met, thinks he knows why Labou...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/03/how-did-i-end-up-out-of-the-labour-party/

One of the mysteries of the political universe is that in Twitterland, party canvassers always have a good response. There is never any criticism. There are never any tough arguments. It does mak...

https://alangibbons.net/2023/03/liverpool-room-to-the-left-of-labour/