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Video: Austin calls Thatcher ‘hero’

17/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 10 Comments

Right-wing MP Ian Austin has a habit of outraging Labour supporters – and others. He has been called ‘thuggish’ and a ‘unpleasant bully’and attacked Jewish author Michael Rosen when Rosen […]

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Excl: Hodge’s 200 ‘Labour’ complaints – 90% were NOT Labour members

12/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 3 Comments

Antisemitism exists in the Labour Party. But an email to MPs from the party’s general secretary suggests the issue has been seriously exaggerated Last night a group of seven MPs […]

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Labour’s antisemitism data release reveals genuine problem – and media exaggeration

12/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 21 Comments

A single case of antisemitism in the Labour Party is too many – but figures released by the party show the ‘Labour antisemitism problem’ has been vastly exaggerated – and […]

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Austin re-writes history to attack Formby and Liverpool

11/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 47 Comments

Centrist MP Ian Austin seemed so eager to attack Labour general secretary Jennie Formby on Twitter that he re-wrote history. ‘Centrist’ Dudley North MP Ian Austin launched an attack on […]

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Formby’s email to Wavertree empathises with Berger but exonerates CLP

10/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 30 Comments

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson called last week for the suspension of Wavertree CLP (constituency Labour party) in Liverpool, after the CLP tabled – and subsequently withdrew – two motions […]

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The article by Jews on Labour’s efforts against antisemitism that LabourList refused to publish

08/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 28 Comments

Leah Levane and Jenny Manson, co-chairs of the left-wing group Jewish Voice for Labour, submitted the following article to the LabourList site about this week’s motion by the PLP (parliamentary Labour party). Afraid […]

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Webbe takes BBC to task for avoiding her input on PoliticsLive

06/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 29 Comments

Labour NEC member – and Disputes Panel Chair – Claudia Webbe challenged the BBC after the Corporation’s Jo Coburn tweeted a claim that her Politics Live programme had been unable […]

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40 facts about ‘Labour antisemitism’ the public needs to know and isn’t being told

05/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 62 Comments

Antisemitism exists in the Labour Party, as it does in all parts of society. More than any other political party, Labour has led the way in improving and implementing processes […]

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Excl: what really happened in Monday’s PLP – no vote, but a scurrilous attack on Formby

05/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 36 Comments

The media has claimed this evening that a motion put forward by back-bench MPs was ‘passed unanimously‘ by the ‘PLP’ – the parliamentary Labour party – calling on Labour to […]

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Full report on this week’s NEC meeting

01/02/2019by SKWAWKBOX 13 Comments

NEC veteran Pete Willsman’s report on this week’s NEC meeting. Originally published on the Grassroots Labour site and reproduced with permission.      Introduction The meeting was pretty low-key, there were no […]

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