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[edit] Party Logo

Since Gordon brown took over, the Labour Party has been using a new logo. I'm pretty sure it's been fully adopted because I've seen it on a ballot paper for County Council election. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.210.94.127 (talk) 20:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Lockesdonkey (talk) 03:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Centre-left?

It's suggested here that Labour are formerly left-wing, whereas now they are centre left. I would argue that they are now centrist. Indeed, on the highly respected Political Compass claims that they are centre-right http://www.politicalcompass.org/extremeright Something worth considering? 62.136.132.95 (talk) 21:52, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

The Political Compass is place- and time-neutral; the British political spectrum (indeed, most political spectra) as a whole has shifted to the right since the collapse of the Soviet Union, on economic matters at least. So relative to Britain, they're centre-left; relative to the Compass, though, they're slightly to the right. In most countries, most parties with a viable shot at winning elections are, actually. Lockesdonkey (talk) 03:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
but most people in the uk would say that labour is no longer left wing. and i see donkey isn't even from the uk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.203.212 (talk) 16:05, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposals for improving article

I've been thinking about ways to improve the rather sprawling messy layout of this article. The idea I've come up with is to split the long history section off into two articles History of the British Labour Party for most of the history section, whilst most of the information regarding the present Labour government from 1997 could be split into a new article called something like Current Labour government. The history section on the main page could be replaced with a shortened summary.

I've raised this before but no-one seemed interested in commenting. Does anyone have any ideas suggestions etc? G-Man ? 22:57, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Well no-one has seen fit to object to my proposals so I'll soon do them then. G-Man ? 19:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
I have been thinking the same thing since seeing this article. I like the idea of a separate history article. I think what should be in this main article is a short summary of the party's founding and a sentence or so for each key event after this. The main detail should be in the separate history article. Then there should be more coverage of New Labour (including examples of key policies), but with most detail in a 'current labour government' article. RossEnglish 21:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I've done this. The Current Labour government (UK) article could do with some work, especially with NPOV and referencing.

I'm going to be away for a while but I think further improvements to this article would be:

The inclusion of:

  • A section about the party's policies.
  • A section about the party's factions
  • An electoral performance section.

G-Man ? 02:35, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] European and international affiliation

I dont know if any other editors have noticed, it might just be me, but How come the Labour party's European and international affiliations have just dissapered from the infobox?. I have tried everything and can not get them to return. Does anybody know what has happened to them and can anyone fix this problem? Gr8opinionater, user talk:Gr8opinionater
12:58 pm, 29th April 2008 (GMT)