Corbyn’s team’s large Foodbank donation
As the SKWAWKBOX revealed earlier, Jeremy Corbyn’s team showed a similar spirit to their boss by rolling up their sleeves and volunteering at homeless support centres run by Crisis. Corbyn […]
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A happy Christmas and Tory-free new year to all SKWAWKBOX readers
I wish all the Skwawkbox’s readers a wonderful Christmas and a quickly Tory-free 2019. May you have the company of family and good friends, a healthy body and hope in […]
Breaking: new delay to Universal Credit roll-out as DWP incompetence gives some vulnerable reprieve
Comment The BBC has just announced that the government’s planned full roll-out of the hated Universal Credit system to all claimants has been delayed – again – by a further […]
Video: after years of smears, Corbyn’s thoughts on media change? Protect the poorest
Jeremy Corbyn spoke yesterday in Edinburgh about his plans for changes to the media landscape. ‘MSM’ coverage of the event has tended to focus on two areas. Either we’ve heard […]
The perfect chant to kick off Saturday’s #NHS70 march
As most SKWAWKBOX readers will be aware, cynical centrists chanted during last Saturday’s “People’s Vote” march “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn”. Corbyn was in Jordan, visiting refugee camps for World Refugee Day […]
Corbyn’s and Miliband’s approaches to #RefugeeCrisis speak volumes
In the last few days, tweets by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and by a ‘great centrist hope’ have encapsulated the gulf between the approach of a genuine people’s politician and […]
Three pics that capture what’s wrong with #PeoplesVote/#FBPE/centrism
Comment Saturday saw a march in London by the – largely centrist – ‘FBPE’ (follow-back pro-EU) crowd and the – almost entirely centrist – organisations that have sprung up like […]
Eyewitness on Corbyn’s Grenfell hug: “the boy ran up, Jeremy responded immediately”
The SKWAWKBOX earlier featured a deeply-moving, candid moment as Jeremy Corbyn was captured hugging a young Grenfell marcher – and the immediate attempt of Tory bots and (probably paid) trolls […]
Some idiots think Corbyn’s #Grenfell hug staged. Their problem is, here’s May..
Jeremy Corbyn was caught unawares today during a moment of eloquent solidarity with a young man during Thursday’s Grenfell Tower commemoration. It was deeply humane, absolutely un-self-conscious and spoke volumes […]
If ever an image showed why this country needs Corbyn as Prime Minister…
A remarkable image captured away from TV and press cameras during today’s commemoration of the Grenfell Tower tragedy speaks far more than a thousand words: Corbyn’s simple act of natural, […]