Latest polling shows Corbyn still playing Brexit hand just right
A small flood of polls released over the past few days show Labour opening a significant lead over the Tories as the Conservatives’ vote share crashes: The polling suggests the […]
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“Not time to talk elections” – hear Kinnock ready to ‘unite’ with May ‘in national interest’
On Tuesday morning, the SKWAWKBOX highlighted the right-wing ‘centrist’ Labour MPs – all of whom happen to have a record of trying to remove party leader Jeremy Corbyn – who […]
Video: yesterday SKWAWKBOX warned ‘govt of nat unity’ would be next coup. Watch this
Yesterday, the SKWAWKBOX warned readers that a ‘centrist u-turn’ was about to start – with Labour MPs, shamefully, ready to prop up Theresa May rather than see the Tories fall […]
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 […]
Leaked letter shows Atos incentivising staff for VOLUME of disability claimant assessments
Atos is a French-based company that holds contracts with the UK government to carry out billions of pounds worth of services But not without controversy. The government announced in 2014 that […]
We’re supposed to think Javid will end ‘hostile environment’? His record suggests not
Former Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has been appointed to replace Amber Rudd as Home Secretary. Judging by the apparently-coordinated media and social media campaign from Establishment figures, we’re supposed to […]
Watch: Fury in Scottish Parliament as McVey brushes off sanction of heart attack victim
DWP Secretary Esther McVey has long been reviled among disabled people and other benefit claimants, even when she was junior to Iain Duncan Smith, for the measures she pushed through […]
DWP: no denial of blanket harvesting of CCTV or fake-friending of disabled people
Disability support group Fightback4Justice posted shocking claims last week on its Facebook page about the DWP’s (Dept of Work and Pensions) treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The group claimed that: the […]
Creasy ‘trolls Labour members’ re party with Tory. Here’s how it went
Fresh from stirring controversy by having to apologise for posting a ‘racist ad’ to a parliamentary Whatsapp group, Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy decided last night that it would […]
McVey steps down from Samaritans advisory board ‘due to DWP commitments’
Controversy has raged this week over Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey’s membership of the ‘advisory board’ of the Samaritans, an organisation that helps those feeling suicidal or otherwise in […]