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If I can make sense of this at all, I'd suggest either that it is a relatively trivial internal party debate, unsuitable to Wikipedia OR that the debate deserves to be fleshed out in more detail (and with more clarity!) so as to be more informative to those outside the UK coop movement. Eteb3 (talk) 21:37, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
How does funding work in relation to the Labour party? I'm curious because of the issues of funding sources that arise in your country from time to time.
I hope I maintained NPOV, especially over the Party's origins garryq 15:05, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Gordon Brown. The Co-op party's website doesn't list Gordon Brown as one of their MPs and his wikipedia list of co-op politicians doesn't include him and his own entry doesn't mention the party. I'm going to erase his name from the list here. If anyone can find evidence that he ever was a co-op politician can they put his name back and add a mention of it at hgose articles too. ThanksA Geek Tragedy 17:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, this bit: "the largest socialist party operating in the United Kingdom, after the Labour Party" - can we really call Labour socialist? I know it used to be. Chewyman
Chewyman, I agree, I am an American, but to me Labour is not communist, while there are some within it who appear to be communist. In my opinion Labour is a moderate left wing party (the equivilent to the Democrats in the USA), as opposed to Conservative/Tory being moderate right wing (equivilent to the Republicans in the USA). My question would be, is the Co-operative party communist? I would consider the Green Party to be communists (we have the green party here in the usa as well). I am, of course, opposed to communism and socialism in all their forms, being a moderate liberal like JFK (not a left wing extremist communist like Cindy Shehan (spelling)). --Brian 71.116.106.31 04:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
There's no "of course", Brian - Communism is a political philosophy like any other - you might well be one for all we know. As for Socialism, you will find there are millions of people across the world who proudly call themselves Socialists. Of course the Co-operative party is not Communist - otherwise it would call itself the Communist Party. Also - The Green Party aren't Communists in any form I've ever seen them, they're a left-leaning party with a focus on the environment. Oh and just to cap it all - even as a firm believer that the last Conservative government ruined this country, to compare them with the US Republicans is like comparing Kraft Slices with mature Stilton - they're another order of magnitude altogether. In Europe the GOP would not be called "Centre-" anything! Esquimo 20:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh - just looked up this Cindy Sheehan woman - also not a Communist. Not even close. She just doesn't fit neatly into US one party politics. She's anti-war is all. Is that all the dissent it takes for American right-wingers to call someone a Commie these days? She must thank her lucky stars she didn't ever forget to salute the flag - she'd have been shot at dawn! God I'm glad I live in a pluralist democracy! Good night...and good luck. Esquimo 20:37, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No. They are a socialist party. If those "outside Europe" - i.e. one particular country that doesn't believe in having more than one kind of politics - doesn't understand what the word really means (for example, by thinking it is a synonym for Communism) then that is their problem. Let them look it up look it up. On Wikipedia! There are 6 billion people in the world and the vast majority of them aren't Americans - wikipedia should be written for ALL of us. Esquimo 11:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify Cooperatives are businesses run by employees and managers in the private sector, and sell things to consumers or other businesses. I would say of British origin. However the ownership (assets,investments,profits) of the business is not limited to its original founders (landlordism), or a few people (capitalism), nor are there different classes of ownership (class system), or government ownership (communism) and is divided equally rather than held by parties in differing amounts and typically employees are automatically enrolled as owners. They aim to be democratic, but sometimes fail to be effective business and therefore can provide both the best of examples (John Lewis but might also fail to modernise or fail to innovate (perhaps due to tradition or being for long times in safe market positions, e.g trust, or even due to the rapid change in consumer tastes (e.g reduced use of doorstop-delivered milk). As such the exist in the middle of socialism and capitalism (in modern times perhaps closer to capitalism in management and procedure), but because they rely heavily on aspects of both ideologies strong adherents of either typically associate cooperatives with the other. This is made worse on Wikipedia because Americans are [s]idiots[/s] seemingly culturally unwilling to notice the many many US cooperatives and the principle that in the end we are all human, friends and strangers, capitalists and charitable, selfish and community minded equally at all times in our lives and that institutions we make are always each of these always. (Talk) 22:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.1.118.31 (talk) [reply]
Do "Co-Op Labor" members take the Labor whip as regularly as "Labor" members? Does each party have clearly differentiated policies, and if so, how does the coalition work? 58.178.107.39 04:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
LaboUr Co-op members sit as ordinary Labour MPs and ministers. All campaigning is done under the Labour Party's brand and leaders. Anyone outside of political geeks would never have even heard of the Co-operative Party except for occasionally seeing "The Labour and Co-operative Party Candidate" or similar wording on their ballot paper. Esquimo 23:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think the key questions are these; is it possible to be a member of the Co-operative Party without also being a a member of the Labour Party, and, if it is, are there actually any individuals who currently hold such membership? BTLizard (talk) 11:41, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Chair was changed to Chairman today. As far as I am aware, Chair is the title currently used for the president of the party. Does your information disagree with that? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 22:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please can we have a specific list, it says there are 29 but who are they? - Yorkshirian (talk) 14:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
i have heard that the current labour government havent done much to help coops. it talks about sponsoring bills, can you provide evedence of this? --Allie cabab (talk) 13:47, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is no page for them here and just a weird sort of holding page with just a single photo and no text on the official co-op party website (https://party.coop/person/joe-fortune/) ... does anyone know anything about this individual? Perhaps I/someone should add an entry for him?