Watson criticises Gove – for ‘disloyalty’
Comment It’s one of the ironies of politics that so many politicians don’t seem to get irony. Labour deputy leader Tom Watson chose to tweet a comment about Michael Gove’s […]
Tag Archives: chicken coup
Rewriting history: Sky News just ‘forgot’ the 2016 ‘coup’, claims NO leadership challenge
Sky News just performed a remarkable piece of retroactive historical surgery in an article about Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed refusal – in reality, Labour rules do not give him the power […]
Benn’s Leeds Central CLP stays 100% left at AGM
Former Labour front-bencher is, for many on the Labour left, the epitome of centrism – all the more so for his grandstanding speech supporting Britain’s bombing on Syria. A speech […]
Breaking: Heidi Alexander gone – to Khan’s office
As predicted on the SKWAWKBOX a couple of weeks ago, former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander has quit and will be joining London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office as Deputy Mayor […]
Exclusive: interview with new NEC member Izzard
This interview was first published during the election of three new, additional members of the NEC, in which comedian Eddie Izzard was standing as an independent candidate, though backed by […]
Departing Labour donor funded Corbyn leadership opponents, offered to fund new party
The Observer, like most of the rest of the ‘MSM’ on Sunday, has joined in the mass delirium – or April Fool’s jape – of further attacks on Labour and […]
Veteran Ann Black ‘removed’ from left slate for NEC as 3 new names appear
NEC veteran Ann Black – who was elected to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) with the highest vote in 2016 as a member of the left-wing ‘grassroots alliance’ ‘slate’ – […]
Exclusive: Izzard on his NEC bid, Labour democracy, the chicken-coup and more
Famous comedian, marathon-runner and Labour Party member Eddie Izzard is running for one of three new places on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) as an independent candidate and is considered […]
“Labour’s #Article50 peril”? No, Corbyn’s huge opportunity. He MUST take it.
The news media are today talking up Labour’s ‘peril’ because of the government’s ‘Article 50’ bill to set the clock ticking on Britain’s departure from the EU. The danger Much […]