About

The blog

YA Lefty stands for 'Yet Another Lefty'. 'YA' is an acronym normally used for computer programs where another program already exists which does the job. That is the same for this blog which is probably rather similar to other lefty (social democratic) blogs.

The blog posts are mostly going to be my comments on the news and anything else that I think of!

Me

I am a professional administrator and a BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduate.

I am a Constituency Labour Party Policy Officer, Branch Labour Party Secretary and campaign co-lead, and Labour candidate for a unitary authority. I am also a member of the Co-op Party and Co-op Group.

My candidacy history:
2021 parish council election (independent)
2021 unitary authority election (Labour)

My voting history for general elections, national referenda, Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections, and some other elections, I also try to vote in all other elections that I'm given the opportunity to vote in!
2020 Labour leadership: Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer
2020 Labour deputy leadership: Angela Rayner, Rosena Allin-Khan, Ian Murray, Dawn Butler
2019 general election: Labour
2019 Parliamentary Speaker election: Lindsay Hoyle (endorsement, not vote!)
2019 Conservative leadership: Rory Stewart (endorsement, not vote!)
2019 European Parliament election: Labour
2017 general election: Labour
2016 Labour leadership: Owen Smith
2016 EU referendum (first national vote where I was aged 18+): Remain
2015 Labour leadership: Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper
2015 Labour deputy leadership: Stella Creasy, Tom Watson, Angela Eagle, Caroline Flint
I have also voted in other elections.

The licence

Everything on this site that isn't Blogger's (Google's) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. This is so that you can use what I write for whatever you want, as long as I get the credit for my work!