David Chaplin
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David Chaplin was Chair of the Young Fabians
Young Fabians
The Young Fabians is the under 31 years of age section of the Fabian Society, a socialist society in the United Kingdom.- History :The Fabian Society was founded by a group of young idealists in the late 19th century . For example HG Wells was 27 when he joined the Committee as was George Bernard...

 from 2009–2010 and he is a British Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 blogger and commentator. In 2010 he was elected to the Fabian Society
Fabian Society
The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...

 Executive Committee.

He was a member of the Young Fabians Executive since 2006 and held various roles including Vice Chair in 2008/9 and Chair in 2009/10. In his former role as the Young Fabians Policy & Communications Officer, Chaplin set up the Young Fabian Policy Forums, and managed them for two years and in 2010 he spoke at the launch of the Young Fabians Networks at an event in the City with Lord Drayson the former Science Minister

Chaplin is a regular Labour blogger and commentator, he writes a regular 'Young Progressives' column for Progress. He also writes on the Young Fabian Blog and the grass-roots Labour website LabourList
LabourList
LabourList is a British aggregated weblog supportive of, but independent of, the Labour Party. Launched in January 2009, the site overcame its founding editor's involvement in the so-called "smeargate scandal" to become one of the most popular and influential political websites in Britain with...

 where he has written about online campaigning and new media.

In 2009 Chaplin was tipped as part of the next generation of Labour Party leaders by the national newspaper The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...

after featuring on the front-cover of Esquire magazine alongside other young leading lights in the Labour Party such as Chuka Umunna
Chuka Umunna
Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British Labour Party politician and employment lawyer. He has been the Member of Parliament for Streatham since 2010. After less than 18 months in Parliament, he was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Business Secretary by Labour Leader Ed Miliband on 7 October 2011...

. During Labour Party Conference 2010, Chaplin also appeared in the top ten young ones to watch in the Independent on Sunday alongside Jessica Asato, another former Chair of the Young Fabians
Young Fabians
The Young Fabians is the under 31 years of age section of the Fabian Society, a socialist society in the United Kingdom.- History :The Fabian Society was founded by a group of young idealists in the late 19th century . For example HG Wells was 27 when he joined the Committee as was George Bernard...

 .

Chaplin has been published in the magazine of the New Labour pressure group and think-tank Progress
Progress (organisation)
Progress is a political organisation linked to the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1996. It is broadly viewed as supportive of the leadership of the party, being pro-former leader Tony Blair...

, in January 2010 he wrote a controversial article for the Progress magazine on the opium trade in Afghanistan titled 'the parallel state'. He is also a member of the Progress School Governors Network and has been a school governor at Fortismere School
Fortismere School
Fortismere School is a mixed, community foundation secondary school in Muswell Hill, London, United Kingdom.-Admissions:It falls under the London Borough of Haringey Local Education Authority...

 in Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill is a suburb of north London, mostly in the London Borough of Haringey. It is situated about north of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. Muswell Hill is in the N10 postal district and mostly in the Hornsey and Wood Green parliamentary constituency.- History :The...

, North London since 2006

In 2009 Chaplin edited a pamphlet for the Fabian Society
Fabian Society
The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...

 titled 'Fast Forward: The Next Generation of Progressive Politics' which featured contributions from young politicians including Conor McGinn
Conor McGinn
Conor Patrick McGinn is a County Armagh-born politician who is Chair of the Labour Party Irish SocietyHe stood as a Labour candidate in Mildmay ward, London Borough of Islington in May 2006, but narrowly lost to the Liberal Democrats by less than 100 votes....

.

In 2010 the Young Fabians marked their fiftieth year by holding an event with Lord Mandelson at the Fabian Society New Year Conference. The Young Fabians also guest edited the grass-roots Labour website LabourList for a day to mark their fiftieth year anniversary

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