The 20 Tory rebels who actually rebelled this evening
This evening, the government lost its attempt to defeat an amendment to its finance bill to force it to ask Parliament for permission for spending on any preparations for a […]
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Video: as May collapses, Newsnight gives Tories/centrists free reign to attack… Corbyn
The BBC’s unconstitutional bias appears to become more naked almost daily. On a day of ignominy and disarray for the government, with Theresa May unilaterally running away from a vote […]
W Mids Labour First gathers for Mann dinner speech. If you’re a leftie, be thankful
Comment Right-wing Labour John Mann was guest speaker last week at the annual dinner of West Midlands Labour First – held at the Brandhall Labour Club stronghold of Labour First […]
Right’s latest attack on Williamson is a naked attempt to divide the movement
Comment Derby North MP Chris Williamson and this blog stand on opposite sides of the ‘open selection’ debate. Williamson has pressed vocally for open selection – a policy of automatically having […]
#Lab18 lessons: reports of death of Corbyn project turned out to be ‘greatly exaggerated’
Author Mark Twain is said to have quipped that ‘reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’. The same can certainly be said of the ‘Corbyn project’ over the last […]
Enfield N ‘ploy’ to rule out Ryan no-confidence motion fails
As the SKWAWKBOX published exclusively on Sunday, members of Enfield North CLP (constituency Labour party) tabled a motion of no confidence in their MP, Joan Ryan, accusing her of making […]
Yesterday’s total votes per slate and independents tell a story
The Labour left is still celebrating – and Labour right still recriminating – over the clean sweep yesterday for the grassroots-left slate of nine candidates for Labour’s National Executive Committee […]
Excl video: Mann’s ‘unequivocal vote of confidence’ was ‘underhand’ CLP meeting with protest walk-out
The tweet On Sunday, Bassetlaw MP John Mann tweeted smugly about the ‘unequivocal vote of confidence‘ he had received from his local members: The protest If it seems odd that […]
Lansman condemns ‘uncomradely and divisive’ Azim article
Momentum founder Jon Lansman has come out in condemnation of an article by Open Labour’s Owen Smith-supporting Jade Azim, after a fraught twenty-four hours or so in which too many […]
Azim on ‘mental health slur’ anger: ‘crank’ is common among ‘young high profile activists’
On Wednesday, LabourList published an article under the inflammatory, “The real battle for Labour’s soul? Lansmanites vs Cranks” As an article, its aim is fairly transparent – and it is […]