New referendum FAR less likely than GE
Claims a general election must be discounted and new referendum more likely are way off target Analysis Claims by advocates of a new referendum that a general election is unlikely […]
Tag Archives: abstention
Excl: Labour MPs across the Brexit spectrum speak out in support of Lavery
Labour’s chairman has been targeted by media this week over his abstention in Commons Brexit votes Labour Chair and Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery has been heavily targeted by the media […]
Excl: Kinnock – “I plan to vote against May’s Brexit deal”, not just abstain
Centrist Labour MP Stephen Kinnock told Sky News this morning that he and other centrists ‘can’t vote for that‘ – ‘that‘ being Theresa May’s ‘truckload of fudge‘ Brexit deal. However, […]
Four Labour MPs who didn’t support Labour’s tax rise for the richest 5% last week
In the votes on Philip Hammond’s budget last week, the Establishment media chose to focus on twenty ‘moderate’ MPs whose decision to vote against a planned rise in tax thresholds […]
The Lab MPs who abstained/voted against giving Parliament Brexit say – Tory non-rebels still to blame
Earlier today, the government narrowly defeated an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill that would have given Parliament its proper democratic say – Brexit was, after all, about taking back […]
The 205 Lab MPs who supported Corbyn call for parliament to approve military action
Today in the House of Commons, after a debate in which a number of centrist back-benchers again disgraced themselves, two hundred and five of Labour’s two hundred and fifty nine […]
Govt #UC scandal: 41k kids/60k households no cash through xmas
The Daily Mirror has reported today that the government’s mandatory 6-week waiting time for receipt of Universal Credit (UC) will mean sixty thousand households and around forty thousand children will […]
Labour “moderates”‘ shame on Saudi arms sales vote
On Wednesday, a debate was held in the House of Commons on a Labour motion for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have been widely condemned […]