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Peter Kenyon - Prostate cancer patient
I'm a cancer patient spending more time on a drugs trial than being a political and social entrepreneur, married with 4 grown-up children, and 9 grandchildren .
Interests: I used to blog here https://petergkenyon.typepad.com/peterkenyon/2020/01/index.html Interested in active citizenship, good governance, gardening (occasional), cycling (very often) and arsenal season ticket holder (syndicate). contact me: peter.g.kenyon at btinternet.com, family, community (aka social) enterprise, west reservoir centre, watercolour painting (occasional)
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Twelve weeks on - a lot of sleep and inconvenient preoccupations
After my first dose of radioactive therapy, I thought I was fine. Ha ha. Tiredness hit me a week afterwards and I have spent a lot more time in bed than usual ever since. On occasion up to 18 hours, rousing for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Don't fight it. Sleep... Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2022 at Peter goes nuclear - a prostate cancer diary
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Prostate cancer - Conveniences and inconveniencies
Posted Sep 12, 2022 at Peter goes nuclear - a prostate cancer diary
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Excited by knowing the radioactive medicine reached my cancer cells
Posted Sep 8, 2022 at Peter goes nuclear - a prostate cancer diary
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Labour's leadership contest - what are the issues?
Posted Jan 4, 2020 at Peter Kenyon
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My pick for 2Cities: Gordon Nardell Consistent Over Decades In Challenging Austerity
Posted Nov 29, 2019 at Peter Kenyon
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An election winning strategy for Jeremy Corbyn in the wake of the Euros
Another Europe is Possible (AEIP) published a model resolution on Labour List today. I'm not sure AEIP hit the right tone Here is my rapid rewrite: Transform Britain, transform Europe Following the results of the European Parliamentary elections, Labour has reflected. It is clear there are more voters in favour of Remaining in the European Union, than leaving – the reverse of the ill-fated referendum promoted by our political opponents in 2016. Now as then the real division in society is not between those who voted Leave and Remain, but between the many and the few. What we in the... Continue reading
Posted May 24, 2019 at Peter Kenyon
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Coaxing Corbyn towards Remain and Transform – work in progress
Posted Jan 13, 2019 at Peter Kenyon
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Labour leader's New Year message - elephant named....
Posted Dec 31, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Bit harsh, dear boy! My concern is about narrative. Our dear Leader has been sounding like a broken record for sometime on this issue. I don't think you or I disagree about the need for government to address the needs of the UK's former industrial towns and villages decimated by Thatcher in the 80s and left to rot by Labour in the late 90s and 00s.
I regard revoking Article 50 as the only viable way forward in the light of the monumental problems piling up for the country. They are the direct result of an internal Tory Party spat about Europe dating back to Thatcher's period in office and belated recognition of the Social Europe policy on Commission President Jacques Delors' watch.
What is needed now from JC is a coherent strategy. He has demanded an earlier recall of Parliament, a good start. But he needs to start laying ground for future options starting with a demand that the government go back to Brussels to secure an extension of A50 to enable a general election and or public vote to take place on the May deal or Remain.
Post Corbyn Guardian interview - Deflated but not defeated....
Any illusions I had that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn might see the light -' there is no better Brexit' were blown away reading his interview with the Guardian newspaper published today. I have fantasied since 24 July that he was not going to get on the wrong side of Labour Leave voters. He was g...
Post Corbyn Guardian interview - Deflated but not defeated....
Any illusions I had that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn might see the light -' there is no better Brexit' were blown away reading his interview with the Guardian newspaper published today. I have fantasied since 24 July that he was not going to get on the wrong side of Labour Leave voters. He was going to wait until the Tories made such a monumental mess of Brexit that there was no one to blame other than the Tories. But no, his Guardian interviewer reports: The Labour leader insisted that even if his party won a snap general election in the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 22, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Brexit: Labour's options - the future of the country or electoral obscurity
Hyperbole has ruled. It's time for truth. And there is not much time left. Labour is finally engaged in rigorous parliamentary opposition to the Tory government and its Brexit plans. By the time you are reading this article the Meaningful Vote (MV) on the Tory deal may have already taken place. A defeat for the Tories whether before or after Christmas is only the first step along an uncertain path with unwelcome consequences. A rearguard action is reportedly underway inside Prime Minister May's cabinet to change course. On 15 December the Daily Mail led with: Cabinet at war on Brexit:... Continue reading
Posted Dec 16, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Would you be cross if Brexit was cancelled?
This question haunts the frontbenchers of both the Conservative government and Her Majesty's loyal opposition, the Labour Party. With less than 60 hours to go before the planned Meaningful Vote (MV) on Prime Minister Theresa May's blind Brexit deal, there is still time for a Conservative coup. One of my fellow members of Labour Business has suggested an elegant but politically explosive escape route for the Tories, famed for their ruthlessness in despatching leaders that threaten their Party's longer term electability. The PM explains to Parliament, after defeat in the MV, that given the failure of her "deal" and with... Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Challenge to Corbyn yesterday failed - must try harder
The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn's speech replying to the opening of the Meaningful Debate (not) by the Prime Minister was less than inspiring for political nerds like me who fail to see why the Labour Party is having anything to do with the political insanity called the Conservative Party and its obsessions with the European Union. But Corbyn is consistent in his inconsistencies. Strangely, he was less than focussed on the prospect of an early General Election that one might have expected given the calamitous defeats the Conservatives suffered just minutes earlier. Perhaps the considered wisdom in the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Time to be bold, Mr Corbyn - what have you got to lose?
Now we know. The Article 50 (A50) process to leave the EU can be reversed – unilaterally. Cue: national shroud-waving. The prevailing political wisdom [sic] is (maybe) the people have spoken. Therefore, the idea of stopping Brexit is anathema, at least to the vast majority of parliamentarians, without another public/people's vote (also known unsurprisingly as a referendum). But what is the juridical position? Unless the UK unilaterally deactivates the A50 process, it will cease to be a member of the European Union on 29 March 2019. No amount of UK parliamentary bluster will stop that process unless legislation is passed... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Brexit: a resolution for BLPs/CLPs
Patience is an essential virtue in political life. A year has passed since I last posted on the only issue that matters to the future of the UK and its peoples. Then I called for a refocus on Tory disasters. All that has changed is that the disasters are mounting. The people who will suffer most are many of those who thought leaving the EU would offer a better life. As a rank-and-file Labour Party member, I have tabled a resolution for consideration at my local branch in the City of London. It is based loosely on a model resolution... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2018 at Peter Kenyon
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Brexit: Labour must refocus on the Tory catastrophes
Pressure is mounting on the Labour Party frontbench to refocus on opposing Brexit. Ganging up on Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn is not likely to help deliver a positive result. There is a more pressing imperative - the Tories. It is Labour's job in opposition to wrong-foot the Tories and force a fresh General Election as quickly as possible. There has been an unnecessarily prolonged period of Labour front-bench Brexit-babbling which left Remainers like me frustrated and baffled. Why should Labour want to side with the hardliners in UKIP and the Conservative Party? Corbyn's mistake following the EU referendum result was... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2017 at Peter Kenyon
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Labour manifesto 2017 - negotiating Brexit: time to update - Part 2 - National interest first
Reflecting on this elegant prose that is the section of the Labour Party Manifesto 2017 concerning Brexit, one fact screams out - Labour did not win the June 2017 election. Labour's bold ambition set out in the first paragraph (see below) needs to be recast in the light of May's reckless attempts to hold on to power: Labour accepts the referendum result and a Labour government will put the national interest first. We will prioritise jobs and living standards, build a close new relationship with the EU, protect workers’ rights and environmental standards, provide certainty to EU nationals and give... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2017 at Peter Kenyon
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Getting ahead of events: two party politics posted on 21 January 2015 YES 2015
UK politics: is a return to two dominant parties unthinkable? Looking at the latest opinion polls, odds for political betting on seats in the next UK Parliament (note: not Westminster) the odds on a return to 2-party politics must be very long indeed. My own political life was shaped by simplistic descriptions of the ideologies of the two main parties in the UK. Conservatives/Tories stand for selfishness and greed. Labour stands for sharing and collective action. One Nation Toryism forged out of experience post World War II recogognised that the old order shaped by the aristocracy was finished. But the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2017 at Peter Kenyon
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Election readiness - an opportunity for Labour, but threat to control freaks
Labour's leader Jeremy Corbyn wants members to decide who will be their prospective parliamentary candidate at the next General Election. Given the Tories inability to govern that opportunity might not be far away. Reactions to Ian Lavery MP's recent pronouncements suggest that the age of entitlement in the Labour Party is not over (yet). Let me untangle these issues. Ahead of the shock, surprise May 2017 General Election, Labour was so ill-prepared that the NEC took upon itself the power to select candidates. Serial rebel MPs in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) were given a 'Get out of Jail' card.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2017 at Peter Kenyon
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Sweetness and light: fat chance
Labour's right-wing declared war on newly-elected Leader Jeremy Corbyn immediately after the official result was declared a year ago. It started with a warning from Lord Mandelson reported in the Guardian on 25 September 2015 by Nicholas Watt: ‘The former minister and adviser to Tony Blair offers his view in a private paper that circulated to political associates last week in which he urges them to dig in for the “long haul”. In his paper, Lord Mandelson writes: “We cannot be elected with Corbyn as leader. Nobody will replace him, though, until he demonstrates to the party his unelectability at... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2016 at Peter Kenyon
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Can Labour's civil war be settled any time soon?
Whoever wins Labour's 2016 leadership election, there is no immediate prospect of its civil war being settled anytime soon. Hostilities were opened almost immediately after Jeremy Corbyn was declared winner nearly a year ago. Intermittent skirmishing occurred. An 8-month phoney peace was shattered in the wake of the EU referendum with the collapse of the broad-church shadow cabinet and that overwhelming vote of no confidence by the PLP in Corbyn. Sources close to Corbyn insist there was a plot orchestrated by Deputy Leader Tom Watson. Whatever, Watson will still be deputy leader after the result is declared on or around... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2016 at Peter Kenyon
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Labour leadership - time for the stalking horse to be stabled
I think the unthinkable – a re-united Labour Party by the beginning of next month Am I alone in thinking nothing good can come from the Labour Party leadership election continuing another day. What we have learned is multifarious. For me the most shocking realisation is that Labour's elected and unelected representatives can trash the Labour 'brand' with impunity. Rank and file members do not enjoy such liberties. That is not right or equitable. For me this was sufficient reason to vote the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) slate for the constituency section of the National Executive Committee slate. And... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2016 at Peter Kenyon
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Preparing for D-Day: Operation Sweetness and Light
I adopt the mantle of brand manager and speculate about whether 'Labour' can be saved The 2016 Labour leadership election result will be announced (presumably in Liverpool) on 24 September – Declaration Day. Whoever wins must be assured of the support of all sections of party. No ifs, no buts. All of which should go without saying. That's how it should have been last year. So what can be learned from the last eleven months? In the first instance, the new leadership election rules (agreed by Conference while Ed Miliband was in charge) radically altered the balance of power between... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2016 at Peter Kenyon
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