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Monthly Archives: January 2018

Fawkes’/MSM ‘fake news’ on Corbyn re Iranian TV

29/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 11 Comments

The lamentable hard-right site Guido Fawkes has launched a multi-pronged attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn centred – ironically – around supposedly false statements Corbyn made about his appearance, some years ago, […]

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Progress director Angell horrifies with ‘Baby P’ tweet

28/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

Progress director Richard Angell appalled Twitter users this afternoon with a tweet in which he used the tragic death of ‘baby P’ in an argument about Labour’s National Executive Committee […]

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Exclusive: full wording of NEC’s motion to Haringey council

28/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 3 Comments

Today’s Sunday Times featured a letter, allegedly signed by a number of council leaders – at least one has denied signing it – against an NEC (Labour’s National Executive Committee) motion […]

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Tory council’s ‘solution’ to town-centre rough-sleepers

28/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

Bournemouth Borough Council is a Conservative-run local authority. According to the town’s local newspaper, it has an ‘epidemic’ homelessness problem, with rates rising faster than the national average. As a […]

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“Forbes touted for signatures against NEC motion? It was his motion!”

28/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 4 Comments

The Sunday Times has published another shoddy anti-Momentum article today, hard on the heels of its self-embarrassment last week about Haringey council and its widely-hated ‘HDV’ (Haringey Development Vehicle) plan […]

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Video: doctor speaks powerfully – “the humanity is being sucked out of our NHS”

28/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 1 Comment

Lauren Gavaghan is a doctor, psychiatrist and well-known NHS campaigner. On Thursday evening she spoke movingly to a mass gathering of Labour NHS campaigners about the suffering and beauty she […]

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Figures show: no other govt has invested less additional cash in NHS than this

27/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

The government’s fall-back when challenged over its failure on the NHS, as worse winter crisis follows winter crisis, is to fall back on its claim that it has ‘put more […]

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Remember the ‘independent’ NEC slate? Here’s one headlining Labour First gig

27/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 5 Comments

During the recent election campaign for three additional places on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), the main battle was between the ultimately-successful ‘left slate’ of Rachael Garnham, Yasmine Dar and […]

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Voter intention figures from the better pollsters paint a dramatic picture

27/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

Of the various polling companies to predict the result at last year’s General Election, Survation was the most accurate – and received a thorough mocking from BBC political pundits for […]

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Daily Mail apologises for ‘utterly false’ fake news

26/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 4 Comments

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has posted a copy of a notice – a small one – published by the Daily Mail admitting it printed incorrect claims (or ‘fake news’, […]

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