Co-operative Party
@CoopParty
The party of the UK's co-operative movement, in partnership with @UKLabour.
Today, our Parliamentary Group met in Downing Street for the first time. We’re putting co-operators at the decision-making tables, and delivering on the priorities of our movement.
Trust is built when people work together to shape the places they live. Real change happens when communities have power over their streets, their spaces, their future. That’s why we work for a different way. Trust grows when power is shared.
Co-operatives have always been about more than business. They’re how communities have built power and trust from the ground up for decades. Phil Tinline dives into Labour’s communitarian tradition, and what it means for neighbourhoods today. 📖👇
What if one solution to winning back the public's trust is...to trust the public? Weekend Essay for the @NewStatesman on the labour movement's long history of working with communities to make life a bit better, based on my paper for @iconeighbours: newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club isn’t just a venue. It’s a cultural icon. For 25 years, @BGWMC have championed cabaret, LGBTQ nightlife, DIY performance and working-class art. Now it’s under threat, and we’re fighting to save social clubs like it across the country.
🗃️ From the archives: Last year, our Youth NEC rep @ormsby_ellie made the case for putting young people at the heart of the co-operative movement, from housing and retail to climate action. 📖 Read it here: party.coop/2024/08/07/why…
📢 In 2017, we backed our now-Chair @JimFromOldham’s Votes at 16 Bill, building on years of work as part of the Votes at 16 coalition. From youth wings to Parliaments, we’ve campaigned for change. Young people deserve a voice, and we're thrilled to see today's reforms.
Are you aware of the impact of bingo in a club on a Thursday afternoon? Here's Pete from Eastbourne Working Men's Club on how it could help our NHS.
Previous Conservative Governments presided over a wave of demutualisation that undermined trusted, community-rooted financial institutions. @andrewpakes_ asks for reassurance, and gets it: this Government is backing mutuals, doubling the sector, and growing co-op finance.
Today social club members from all over the UK had a meeting at Downing Street and with @AlexJJNorris, sharing their stories about how clubs bring us together like nowhere else.
Co-operative MP @kirstyjmcneill led a delegation of social clubs from across the country to Downing Street, meeting the people who bring communities together and championing the vital work they do. Social clubs are the beating heart of local life, and they deserve to be heard.
A whip-round to buy… your local pub? 🧐 Listen to our Head of Politics @CaitProwle on the potential of the new Community Right to Buy.
Would you buy your local with your mates? 🤔🤔 @CoopParty Politics Uncensored | Listen on FUBAR Radio @AliMilaniUK @CaitProwle
What makes community spaces special? The people who shape them.