Harry Laski

[Owain Jones]

Personal Details:
Name: Harry Joseph Laski
Age: 1st May 1955 - Age 46
Gender: Male
Sexuality:
Straight, unmarried, no children: 5 Points
Age When First Elected:
35 to 45: 10 Points
Constituency: Leyton and Wanstead
Party: Labour
Faction: Socialist Campaign Group
Religion:
Atheist: 5 for Labour
Education: Went to local primary Davies Lane Primary School, and then to local comp Norlington Junior High School for Boys then went to Leyton Senior High School for Boys
Completed Sixth Form: 5 for Labour
Attended a State School: 0 Points

University:
Obtained a degree through the Open University well after leaving school
Family History: Working Class
Famous Relation: A distant relative of Harold Laski the economist and former Labour chairman
Career Information

Labourer
Entry-Level: 5 for Labour


Union Official
Entry-Level: 5 for Labour
Mid-Level: 7 for Labour
High-Level: 10 for Labour - General Secretary of the Union of Communications Workers 1992-1995, General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union 1995-1997

Parliamentary and Political Experience

MP Election: 1997 (second term) 2 points
To have made a widely-publicized speech on a particular topic
Speech in opposition to cut benefits to single parents. 3 points
speech in opposition to abolish student grants and impose tuition fees 3 points
Speech in opposition against proposed changes to incapacity benefit 3 points
Speech in opposition against proposals to increase the basic state pension by just 75p. 3 points
Speech in opposition against moves to privatise the national air traffic control service. 3 points
To have rebelled over major legislation, spend 20 points.


Points total 89

[Owain Jones]

Harry Joseph Laski born 1st of May 1955 to Abe Laski b.1909-1973 and Saragh Flanagan b.1918-2001. Harry's father was a Spanish Civil War veteran and later a transport worker, CPGB member and trade unionist. Harry's mother was an Irish immigrant who worked in the nursing sector. Harry was the sixth out of seven of the families children and their youngest son.

Leaving school at 18 Harry became a postman and later a shop steward in his twenties, he rose through the ranks of the union structure to become General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers later the CWU between 1992 and 1997.

Known in the press as Red Harry or the Red Postman for his vocal support of trade union rights and fighting their erosion by the Tories and New Labour.
Harry maintained links with his local clp and replaced his friend Harry Cohen in 1997 as MP for Leyton and Wanstead, A member of the SCG he is known for being on the left and took part in several rebellions during the 1997-2001 Labour government. Laski is a vocal opponent of the spin politics of New Labour and has called for Labour leadership to reconnect with its grassroots.

[Barclay A.A. Stanley]

Approved: 3 XP

[Owain Jones]

signing out - going to restart as a tory