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Excl: Board of Deputies emergency meeting agrees to pressure UOHC to abandon protest
As the SKWAWKBOX broke exclusively last week, forcing the Jewish Chronicle to follow, Charedi (Orthodox) Jews are planning to protest at the annual dinner of the Board of Deputies (BoD) in November. […]
How good new selection rules are is clear in how much Labour First hates them
Advocates of ‘open selection’ continue to make noise about the decision of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to put forward an ‘affirmative ballot’ process for the selection of Labour’s parliamentary […]
CAC report and rules on ‘reference back’
The CAC (Conference Arrangements Committee) will present its report to Labour’s conference this morning, including the motions and business that will be put to conference delegates for a vote. Delegates […]
Labour to elect second deputy leader
Labour’s NEC has voted to create a second deputy leader position, which wi be elected from an all-women shortlist. Current deputy leader Tom Watson argued for the new position, presumably as […]
NEC chooses 10+(5 or 5) leader nomination criteria
Labour’s NEC has backed a change to the nomination threshold for future leadership contests. Future would-be candidates will need nominations by ten percent of MPs – MEPs will no longer […]
NEC passes 33% affirmative ballot threshold
Labour’s NEC has this evening agreed to put the 33% ‘affirmative ballot‘ system favoured by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to Conference as a formal statement for future parliamentary candidate selections. […]
Tories respond to own Brexit failure with worker and environment bonfire plan
Almost unmentioned in the media – apart from a tweet by the Manchester Evening News’ Jennifer Williams pointing to “the second half of a downpage story in the times [sic], […]
New twist in Wirral smear saga as councillor resigns facing bullying allegations
The national media has been helping to propagate a series of attacks on the Labour left in the Merseyside borough of Wirral, just across the river from the site of […]
Hodges’ latest fail even more vile than usual
Right-wing Corbyn-obsessive and Mail ‘journalist’ Dan Hodges has a remarkable history of ‘self-ownage’ and an ability to be uniformly wrong that can only be considered impressive. However, while his ‘fails’ […]
Signatories to leading Orthodox rabbis’ pro-Corbyn letter rise to 34
Last week, the SKWAWKBOX revealed that the Jewish Chronicle (JC) had quietly amended its claim that a letter supporting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and signed by twenty-nine leading Orthodox rabbis, which had been published […]