Paul Blomfield, Chair of Labour for Democracy, has written an article for Progress about why Labour for Democracy has been established. In the article Paul argues that Labour must work in a more pluralist way if we are to make One Nation politics a reality:
“Alongside the new economic settlement that is at the heart of the appeal of ‘One Nation’, we must provide long-term solutions to big issues like social care, pensions and climate change. As a new government in 2015, we will have to meet these challenges without the dividends of the extraordinary growth that funded public investment after 1997. The tough decisions that we will face, and the need to build wide support for radical change, demand a new approach to the way we do politics.
“Achieving the change we want, and embedding it beyond one parliament, means building the sort of progressive consensus that the 1945 Labour government achieved in the postwar settlement on the welfare state. We cannot achieve this sort of change alone. We will need to reach out to others who share our values.”
You can read Paul’s article in full at http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2012/11/30/beyond-tribalism/