We thought that Lisa Nandy MP, Labour Shadow Minister for Civil Society, might bring a fresh and enquiring eye to the tired politics we are used to. We were wrong. The message we take from the Labour Party “consultation with the third sector” is that Labour will do just the same as the Tories but hope to do it better. So we can look forward to more crumbs from the table of privatisation, umbrella groups pushing us as sub-contractors to the public and private sector and more regulation on our freedom to hold powerful interests to account.  Read NCIA’s open letter to Lisa on what we reckon to this dismal future. More evidence that we need to look to ourselves for our future, not to the establishment.