John Dickie-Northampton's dissenting voice

Forty odd years in the local politics of Northampton has brought very few insights and even less understanding of the beast we know as local politics-but from the town that gave the world Bradlaugh-what the hell!

Sunday, 26 July 2015

You know things are getting bad when they call in Blair!

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It seems to me that the leadership of the Abstentionist labour party must be getting into a blue funk over the leadership election when the...

Friday, 17 July 2015

A terrible beauty is born?

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A few weeks ago I wrote Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership election off as a bad job.I was perhaps too hasty and worse still I may have...

Sunday, 5 July 2015

Who writes the hostory?

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Today the people of Greece will vote in a referendum that in the words of an Athenian will determine whether the country starves quickly or...

Sunday, 21 June 2015

The Labour party leadership=I have a solution!

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Both my regular readers will know I have been agonisng over the Labour party leadership.Should I try to make a one vote difference?It's ...

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Friday, 12 June 2015

I'm still a Marxist (tendency Groucho)

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There is an unsubstantiated rumour swirling around the political salons of Old Northampton that I have somehow transmogrified into some sort...

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Maybe what we need is a movement not a party

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It seems to me that all the values that the Labour party once had are long gone.It comes to something when an old left wing warhorse like De...

Saturday, 23 May 2015

What's left for the Labour Party?

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We went to the civic reception on Thursday to celebrate the election of the new Mayor.I(t was a decorous affair with the Tory Councillors q...

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About Me

John Dickie: For 30 years I followed the teaching trade.For the same 30 years I was also a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council.For ten of those years I was leader of Council.On leaving council(all 30 years representing castle ward) I went to WarwickBusiness School and completed a masters in Public Administration(MPA) which included a stint at the Kennedy School of Governance(Harvard) and Georgetown Univ. I was also for a number of years a partner ina small export orientated business.Now I write weekly for the Northampton Chron & Echo and do a little supply teaching when the mood takes me. Have been married almost 40 years to Marie- who left school at 15 and now has a PhD. and was Chair of Northants Police for over a decade and has worked nationally in a number of policing roles.Marie was awarded a well deserved OBE in the 2008 New Years Honours.

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