Rosen’s centrist take-down thread nails it
Famous poet and author Michael Rosen has a track record of using his wits – and wit – to expose the posturings of right-wingers. In a series of tweets over […]
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Senior Lab members incl council leader sign letter to centrist Leslie: you’ve ‘crossed a line…consider your position’
A large number of Nottingham East Labour members, among them senior elected figures including the council leader, have signed an open letter telling centrist MP Chris Leslie to ‘consider [his] […]
Centrist Leslie’s unannounced ‘supermarket surgeries’ – with no mention of Labour
Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie would be considered an arch-‘centrist’ by many left-wing Labour members and was recently reported by mainstream media as one of a number of so-called ‘moderate’ […]
Astonishingly crass #PeoplesVote (trigger warning) exposes the campaign’s Blairite core
Comment The ‘People’s Vote’ anti-Brexit campaign let slip something of its Blairite nature in one of the advertising posters it is using in preparation for its march today. The campaign […]
Nottingham East’s overwhelming vote of no confidence in Chris Leslie
Nottingham East MP Chris Leslie has joined Frank Field, Joan Ryan, Kate Hoey and Gavin Shuker in losing the confidence of his membership after the CLP (constituency Labour party) passed […]
Luton Momentum calls on Shuker to resign after CLP no-confidence vote
Last week, on the same night that Enfield North MP Joan Ryan lost a vote of no confidence by local members, the CLP (constituency Labour party) of Luton South’s Gavin […]
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 […]
‘Staffer’ complaint v Williamson betrays huge ignorance of Labour rules – and an agenda
The Huffington Post’s Paul Waugh has tweeted a copy of a complaint sent by – as Waugh describes it – a ‘former Labour staffer’ to Labour’s new General Secretary Jennie […]
Right/’centrist’ humour-fail as they miss satire in Williamson’s Xmas message
On Christmas Eve, Labour front-bencher Chris Williamson released his ‘Christmas message’. It was a tongue-in-cheek affair. Williamson releases weekly video updates on goings-on at Westminster, but his Christmas edition was […]