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Verhofstadt dashes hopes of 2nd-referendum campaign
As Parliament dispersed last night, after the most crushing government defeat in history and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s calling of today’s no-confidence vote, all too predictably Labour centrists and their […]
The three sorry Labour MPs who missed their moment of history – by backing May
On an evening during which Labour – together with no fewer than 118 Tories and blanket support from every MP of other parties – inflicted the heaviest government defeat in […]
The 118 Tories who helped Labour humiliate Theresa May
Below is a list of the one hundred and eighteen Tory MPs who – together with an outstanding show of discipline by Labour – helped inflict a monumental defeat on […]
Corbyn tables no-confidence after May’s crushing, humiliating, historic defeat
Theresa May’s dismal ‘deal’ with the EU has not been merely defeated but crushed, losing by 432 votes to 202, dwarfing even the disasters of Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s. […]
Pressure on Birmingham council as bins chief resigns over ‘declaration of war’ on unions
Councillor Majid Mahmood has resigned as Birmingham City Council (BCC) head of waste management in a move that will pile pressure on BCC over the long-running bins dispute. Unison and […]
Breaking: Establishment media drop attempt to delegitimise Leveson-compliant IMPRESS
Press regulator IMPRESS is the UK’s only regulator to comply with the recommendations of the Leveson enquiry into phone-hacking and other misdeeds of the Establishment-friendly media. It regulates over one […]
Video: Breaking – Field will vote for deal as ‘centrists’ rush to May’s aid
Formerly-Labour MP Frank Field, a Brexit supporter, has announced in the Commons in the last half hour that he now intends to vote for Theresa May’s dismal Brexit deal: While […]
Excl: hate-crime case ends – not dropped – as Sandwell Cllr Piper accepts caution
In further drama in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell, the court hearing scheduled to take place at Walsall magistrates’ court tomorrow morning to hear charges of racially-aggravated assault against […]
Sandwell Labour council group told of employee suspension – but not of charged councillor’s
As the drama of yesterday’s sudden acquittal of local blogger Julian Saunders began to recede, Labour councillors in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell gathered for the ‘Labour group’ meeting […]
May’s desperate double-dealing to try to fake a meaningful vote win
It appears that Theresa May is attempting a desperate, dishonest double-bluff – or more accurately double-dealing – to try to create the impression of a win in the ‘meaningful vote’ […]