Video: Watson hints strongly at exit from politics
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has kept a low profile for the last few months – apart from an attempt to coerce the party’s leadership into a better conference speaking […]
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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 […]
#Lab18 second deputy leader motion withdrawn and why
The Labour right and the mainstream media are in lockstep this morning with claims that the motion at Labour’s annual conference to create a second deputy leader position has been […]
Councillor: “Watson made my life a misery. What’s his problem with independent Labour women?”
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has rightly been pilloried this evening after a ludicrous interview in which he claimed that the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, had “staked her career […]
#ResignWatson reaches no.1 trending spot
Last week’s huge #WeAreCorbyn social media campaign, which reached number one position in Twitter’s worldwide trends last week as the Labour leader’s supporters came out in a show of solidarity, […]
Watson told LOTO: give me a better conference slot or I step up criticism
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who this evening is the subject of a #ResignWatson ‘Twitter storm’, gave an interview to the Observer, published today, in which he attacks the […]
Watson only MP not to attend key NEC meeting on IHRA. More questions he isn’t answering
Tom Watson has given an interview, published in today’s Observer, attacking the Labour Party’s response to antisemitism, in which he claims that the party will be unfit for government if the antisemitism […]
Outraged Labour members call #ResignWatson from 7pm tonight
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has appeared in the Observer to brand Labour ‘shamed and embarrassed’, claiming the party will be “unfit for government, unless it calls an immediate halt to […]
Enfield council leader’s ‘lies’ in emailed defence cause anger among Labour members
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at length the battle in the London borough of Enfield between a broad coalition of Labour members and officials from all wings of the party and […]
More leaked Enfield LCF ‘tapes’ show interviewer recommendations CHANGED to approve ‘coup’ candidates
The SKWAWKBOX has covered at length the battle in the London borough of Enfield between a broad coalition of Labour members and officials from all wings of the party and […]