W Mids mayor/PCC roles look like safety-net for right-wing Labour MPs
Pattern of regional roles as fall-back needs to end Mike O’Brien is a former Labour MP and front-bencher under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown who consistently voted for the Iraq […]
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Video: Tory minister shockingly manhandles woman climate protester out of bankers banquet
Mark Field frogmarches woman out in front of black-tie guests The Labour Party has called for the immediate sacking of the Tories’ Asia-Pacific minister Mark Field after he was filmed […]
Sanders video shows how to beat Boris – and the UK left must learn or risk being bypassed
Parts of UK left risk repeating Hillary Clinton’s mistakes that let Trump win. Sanders shows how to communicate with working-class voters The confirmation of Boris Johnson’s status as front-runner in […]
Guardian sanitised McCluskey’s withering response to ‘snob’ Toynbee. Here’s what it took out
Unite head’s full response to Guardian columnist’s filtered by newspaper – but reproduced below As voters went to the polls in the Peterborough by-election last week, the Guardian published an […]
Union leaders, northern MP take imploding Mason to task for ‘shame’ of attack on Lavery and LOTO staff
Paul Mason has been prominent figure in the left Labour movement, but post-election attack on Labour Party chair and staff condemned – and Mason lashing out with accusations matching his […]
Audio: McCluskey dismantles ‘poor imitation Machiavelli’ Watson and dismisses centrist referendum spin
Unite union leader dismissive of Watson, corrects BBC on Labour policy Len McCluskey dismissed Labour deputy leader Tom Watson’s views and motives in the bluntest terms during an interview this […]
Narrative for next Labour coup attempt underway. It will fail – but risks damaging millions
Re-run of post-2016 referendum ‘chicken coup’ taking shape – as deluded and misleading as it was three years ago. But it will spit in face of UK’s suffering millions Comment […]
“I live 5hr queues for bread”. “I’m living in cutest little apartment in Paris” – the same Venezuelan
A mass propaganda campaign has begun since the US announced that Trump was recognising right-winger Juan Guaido as president of Venezuela and was keeping open the option of military intervention. […]
“Growing the grassroots”? The corporatists and right-wingers behind “People’s Vote” campaign
Late last year, the SKWAWKBOX revealed that the “Open Britain” company behind the so-called “People’s Vote” campaign had used the same company employed by the Tories that earned the Tories […]
Guardian hammered for Corbyn Brexit fake news – then moves it to front page
The Guardian – along with other liberal ‘MSM’ outlets – was strongly criticised on Wednesday for misrepresenting a YouGov poll in an article that claimed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was […]