The only Reform posters that have made their way to windows are in the window of a miner's son. Chopwell, just up the road, was once known as Little Moscow.
General Election 2024
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The only Reform posters that have made their way to windows are in the window of a miner's son. Chopwell, just up the road, was once known as Little Moscow.
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
Nail, head, hit.
“Yet the idea that Labour remains a progressive social democratic party hiding in plain sight is still in the air. While it is granted this is not obvious from its programme, it is held that deep down it is the party of change, of welfare, of state intervention; the party of labour rather than of capital, the party of international law, not war. It is held that in power, either circumstances or opportunity will make it more radical. That hope animates many. Yet Labour is telling the world otherwise, and we should believe it.”
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“Yet the idea that Labour remains a progressive social democratic party hiding in plain sight is still in the air. While it is granted this is not obvious from its programme, it is held that deep down it is the party of change, of welfare, of state intervention; the party of labour rather than of capital, the party of international law, not war. It is held that in power, either circumstances or opportunity will make it more radical. That hope animates many. Yet Labour is telling the world otherwise, and we should believe it.”
Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – and we should believe it | David Edgerton
Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Here's a list of left independents
- Aftab Nawaz, Walsall and Bloxwich
- Andrew Feinstein, Holborn and St Pancras
- Claudia Webbe, Leicester East
- Dave Nellist, Coventry East
- Emma Dent Coad, Kensington and Bayswater
- Faiza Shaheen, Chingford and Woodford Green
- Jabu Nala-Hartley, Oxford East
- Jeremy Corbyn, Islington North
- Kamel Hawwash, Birmingham Selly Oak
- Leanne Mohamad, Ilford North
- Maxine Bowler, Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
- Michael Lavalette, Preston
- Muhammed Ali Islam, Bradford West
- Nandita Lal, Tottenham
- Perveen Hussain, Halifax
- Sam Gorst, Liverpool Garston
- Tanushka Marah, Hove and Portslade
- Tony Wilson, Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
Things are looking a bit shaky for Corbyn. Seems some postal voters voted Labour thinking Jez was still standing for Labour. Gotta say, this is in no small part of his own making; if he hadn’t dithered so bloody much and made it clear months ago he was standing as an indy, this may not have arisen.
www.theguardian.com
Jeremy Corbyn in final push to keep seat amid voter confusion in Islington North
Hundreds are knocking on doors for longtime MP, often having to remind voters that he is no longer Labour
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Labour used to act “to decrease inequality between people and regions, which involved much more than growth. It wanted state pensions yielding 50% of final salary, plentiful public housing, free university education and much else besides, achieving much of its programme. It also believed in promoting a more truthful account of the economy and society than that provided by the dominant ideology.Nail, head, hit.
“Yet the idea that Labour remains a progressive social democratic party hiding in plain sight is still in the air. While it is granted this is not obvious from its programme, it is held that deep down it is the party of change, of welfare, of state intervention; the party of labour rather than of capital, the party of international law, not war. It is held that in power, either circumstances or opportunity will make it more radical. That hope animates many. Yet Labour is telling the world otherwise, and we should believe it.”
Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – and we should believe it | David Edgerton
Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London
Labour no longer believes any of this.”
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
Would dearly love to see slimeball Kyle unseated in Hove- but it ain’t gonna happen. He wouldn’t sign our local NHS campaign’s pledge not to privatise the NHS. And he accepted a sixteen grand donation from the partner of the boss of outsourcing firm Capita- who were busy snapping up outsourced NHS contracts. And he thinks bombing Gaza is a good idea.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Hard for anyone to get traction at the moment 2019 was Brexit, this year it's shift the Tories because of Brexit!
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
I’m painfully aware of that, but let’s not be so pessimistic. It very much depends on whether any party offers genuine hope. Remember how decades (centuries?) of backward ideas re: women and gays were broken down during the Great Strike 84-85.
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
Piers was, like his bro,’ once solidly of the left. But he disappeared down the conspiracist rabbit hole some time ago; rather muddying the ‘nature/ nurture’ debate.I give up, wtf's going on
Tony L
Administrator
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
To be fair, although he’s a Blairite turd, he is actually quite a popular constituency MP. Some secret footage of him clubbing baby seals would have to emerge before he loses his seat to an Indy. Her local campaign is largely about providing a platform for Palestine- and rightly so.
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
Nicely written by Martin Rowson: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...gedy-cruelty-slapstick-cartoons-14-tory-years
wulbert
pfm Member
I think it's safe to say that allowing UK child benefit for more than two kids is not going to create an overpopulation problem in the UK. Therefore capping it is simply performative cruelty, pandering to feelings of smugness and vengeance in some of the electorate. Not civilised.
droodzilla
pfm Member
Things are looking a bit shaky for Corbyn. Seems some postal voters voted Labour thinking Jez was still standing for Labour. Gotta say, this is in no small part of his own making; if he hadn’t dithered so bloody much and made it clear months ago he was standing as an indy, this may not have arisen.
Jeremy Corbyn in final push to keep seat amid voter confusion in Islington North
Hundreds are knocking on doors for longtime MP, often having to remind voters that he is no longer Labour
Yes, I fear that Corbyn's misplaced loyalty to the Labour Party may be his undoing.
Never mind. He will, in the words of Tony Benn on his retirement, be able to spend more time on politics, if he isn't re-elected.
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
I miss Steve Bell.
droodzilla
pfm Member
One of the nastiest right-wing ****s around. Grim.
hifinutt
hifinutt
Causing a riot here with so many candidates campaigning for MP with Gaza and Kashmir as main priority ...labour guy getting a thrashing although he is useless anyway .
Finnegan
It’s shite being Scottish!
Tell me about it. He was sponsored by my union branch.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Piece on Akhmed Yakoob's attempt to to beat Labour in Birmingham. He really is nasty piece of work.