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Monthly Archives: June 2017

Exclusive: Gardiner on the Queen’s Speech EU ‘tantrum’: ‘unhelpful’

30/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

Softly-spoken Labour MP Barry Gardiner, who terrorised mainstream media interviewers during the General Election campaign with his pinpoint attacks on their bias and poor journalism and talked at length to […]

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Expert structural engineer: ‘#Grenfell is about corruption NOT building regs’

30/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

Paul Follows is a hugely experienced Consulting Structural Engineer, Forensic Specialist and Residential Refurbishment Designer who has taken a keen professional and personal interest in the terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower […]

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LibDems bend over for the Tories to maintain austerity

30/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 22 Comments

It seems to be getting remarkably little attention, but while most of the Queen’s Speech votes in Parliament on Weds and Thursday were won by the Tories 323-309 because of […]

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Excl: Paisley Sr ‘forced to resign’ by church he founded – for seeking peace. #DUP

30/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 1 Comment

The Rev Ian Paisley was a larger than life, controversial figure in Northern Ireland who founded both the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) now supporting the Tory government, the Free Presbyterian […]

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Umunna’s EU amendment. Nothing to do with his front-bench rejection, of course

30/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 16 Comments

Chuka Umunna’s grandstanding on his unwinnable EU amendment on Thursday was only ever going to serve the purposes of one person: Chuka Umunna. But it was nothing new. Just after […]

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Video: council aborts mtg as press present. Way to improve public trust #Grenfell

29/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

Tory-led RBKC (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) council cancelled a council meeting tonight because a judge had ordered the council to allow press to attend. In a context of […]

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Tories don’t think #MayDup govt can stand – advertising for #GE17_2 staff

29/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 9 Comments

The Tories are stumbling through the charade of trying to get their ‘thin gruel’ Queen’s Speech through Parliament. First they scraped a narrow win against Corbyn’s amendment to actually stop […]

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DUP pact already wobbling as govt agrees NI abortion deal to avert QSpeech defeat

29/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

Jeremy Corbyn’s amendment on Wednesday to the Tories’ Queen’s Speech was both intelligent and right. By proposing the lifting of the cap on the pay of public sector employees – […]

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Exclusive: Pendle ‘racist joke’ councillor suspended by Tory party

29/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 9 Comments

The SKWAWKBOX revealed earlier a racist joke shared by Rosemary Carroll, a Tory councillor in the Pendle constituency in the north of England. Conservative HQ had not yet responded when […]

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Exclusive: #Pendle Tory councillor/ex-Mayor shares racist joke on soc media

29/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 11 Comments

Rosemary Carroll is a Tory councillor and former Mayor in Pendle: Apparently she came across this horrifically racist ‘joke’ on Facebook: Rather than reporting it, or at the very least […]

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