When I first became a councillor there was a standards committee. It seemed to spend a lot of time hearing grievances and counter grievances by various councillors some of whom used it to settle scores or take revenge for perceived slights. Thankfully it was eventually abolished. Today
Attendance in person or on-line via ‘Teams’ Mike Gilbert (leader) RPL(Treasurer), Richard Thornalley, Mark Baker, Tom Gilbert. Tristan Gilbert, Gavin Lee Chairman’s Report Mike Gilbert reviewed the year. Blue Revolution had continued to use its facebook page to post but with much lower levels of interest. Difficult to get
What is wrong with the public sector? Most people feel that the public sector is in crisis, with low staff morale, poor service delivery and too much bureaucracy. The question is can anything be done to improve things and what is the cause of the vast
Blue Revolution AGM 11th March 2020 Attendance: T Gilbert, N Hastie, R Thornalley, M Baker, Bryan Reeves, Chris Moore, A Keal, R Parker-Lee, G Lee. Apologies No Apologies Accounts Accounts proposed by Neil and Seconded by Richard. Approved by all present. Activities and publicity 2019 Facebook is giving us a lot of
Blue revolution AGM 18.03.21 Attendance on-line via ‘Teams’ Mike Gilbert (leader) Ros Parker-Lee (Treasurer), Richard Thornalley (Monitoring Officer), Mark Baker, Chris Moore, Tom Gilbert. Apologies: Tristan Gilbert Leader/Chairman’s Report Mike Gilbert reviewed the year. Pre-Covid Blue Revolution had been active attending meetings at Boston Borough and reporting the meetings
We hear the term ‘structural disadvantage’ a lot. Because of so called structural disadvantage we are encouraged to ‘take the knee’, to see the consequences of structural disadvantage in terms linked to race or maybe some other identity. Do people including politicians really understand structural disadvantage?
Within Marxism, there is the concept of the ‘contradiction’. A contradiction is a precursor for revolution. They reflect a growing awareness by politically active people that the prevailing economic system does not work and that it needs to be ‘burst asunder’. Bursting a prevailing system
Marx or Lenin. Socialism, Democracy and the State. Marxism has evolved, not only because of a fashion for different interpretations but because of changing material realities, making large parts irrelevant or requiring radical reinterpretation. Marx was writing in the early to mid-nineteenth century a world quite
Islam’…….. what feelings does the word invoke? What feelings is the word intended to invoke? Well, that depends on who is saying ‘Islam’. In this brief paper by one of the founder six members of the group Blue Revolution, we are going to examine Islam
De Coding Wokeness; A Simple Guide. We hear a lot about the woke. But what is it to be woke? To understand wokeness it is necessary to understand a couple of theories one going back to the 1950s called postmodernism an oversimplification of Marxist consciousness and