Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, voted for Britain to update its Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the Trident debate on Monday night. Rushanara, who had previously voted against using conventional explosives to bomb Syria, seems ...
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Rebel Labour MPs: an endgame short of a checkmate
As Angela Eagle and Owen “Owen Who?” Smith start the week by squaring up in a battle for support from fellow rebels, we might find out whether Angela Eagle is a genuine candidate or just a stalking horse to let ...
Read More »Theresa May: the casualties
While the mainstream media is busy telling us Theresa May is as kittenlike as her heels, the new Prime Minister is busy appointing ministers who will carry on Cameron’s Tory programme of cutting work, pay and benefits; clamping down on ...
Read More »Labour Left “here to stay”
Labour faces annual leadership contests until the fractious Parliamentary Party is replaced by new MPs who are prepared to respect the members’ vote warned one Labour Party insider after the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which decided the arrangements for ...
Read More »Squeaky Angela under pressure as member urge NEC to rule out “fixed ballot”
Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is being urged to reject Angela Eagle’s request to “fix” the ballot by excluding Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership election. Anglea Eagle appeared on the influential Radio 4 Today news programme this morning in a ...
Read More »Corbyn opponents plot to bar him from ballot
Margaret Hodge revealed the strategy of the Corbyn coup plotters on Radio 4 this morning (Sunday, 10th July): to win by keeping Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot paper for Labour Leader. Her revelation helps explain the tactics of the Coup ...
Read More »The Eagle is stranded: party members turn on Angela
Labour Party members are rushing to express dismay at Angela Eagle’s announcement that she is trying to push Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn MP onto the back benches and bring back the policies that have lost Labour two General Elections in ...
Read More »Angela Eagle prepares to do “a Dobson”
The last time Labour MPs tried to find a way to squash the views of Labour Party members, they had to eat humble pie. It was at the turn of the century, as the Labour Party selected its candidate to ...
Read More »Exposed! Shadowy Labour Right organised the coup
Evidence is slowing coming to light that far from knocking on voters’ doors to get support for “remain”, some Labour Party Right figures have been spending the last weeks planning the coup against Jeremy Corbyn – irrespective of the referendum ...
Read More »Boris blunders as Tories prepare for contest
Boris Johnson began this morning (Monday, 27th June) with a classic blunder. As he came out of his Islington home, to which he had returned after a weekend in his country home, he announced that all was well with the ...
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