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Left-winger takes over from soon-to-be Tory-made peer Mann

09/11/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 29 Comments

NEC decides candidate because of general election call Nottinghamshire left-winger Keir Morrison has been selected by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to replace Londoner Sally Gimson as the party’s candidate […]

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Video: Mann’s Labour membership at risk after saying will sit as independent peer

10/09/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 25 Comments

MP Frank Field expelled from party after saying he would be an independent MP Comment Labour MP John Mann announced this week that he is quitting the Commons to work […]

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‘Mainstream’ Labour MP calls for end to petty attacks on Corbyn, demands unity to fight Tories

18/07/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 31 Comments

Powell condemns ‘deeply unhelpful and divisive’ peers, calls for focus on defeating Tories Manchester Labour MP Lucy Powell is what the Labour right would call a ‘mainstream’ MP – yet […]

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Unelected peers plan no-confidence vote in twice-elected Labour leader. Thanks!

18/07/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 21 Comments

Vote has no force – and reaction of public to most of those posturing would be ‘who?’ But attempt will galvanise the real Labour grassroots Unelected peers intend to attempt […]

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Watson “drafts in Lords for Project Anaconda” – to “take heat off” MPs fearing deselection triggers

17/07/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 42 Comments

Labour sources say deputy leader hopes move will allow allies to lie low and escape ‘trigger ballots’ Labour sources say that the sudden rush of moves by peers to attack […]

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Corbyn to abolish unelected Lords

16/07/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 24 Comments

Labour confirms intention to abolish undemocratic second chamber Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed Labour’s intention to abolish the House of Lords, the unelected ‘second chamber’ of Parliament. The announcement […]

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Watson tells peers Corbyn must hold ShadCab elections. But here’s what he told Miliband about them

06/03/2019by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 39 Comments

Watson’s bizarre meeting with peers leads to call for elected Shadow Cabinet – an practice whose abolition he publicly welcomed ITV’s political editor has reported on a bizarre meeting held […]

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Adonis’ Christmas Twitter jamboree sums up Planet PV

26/12/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 38 Comments

Comment Peer Andrew Adonis is one of the arrogantly-titled “people’s vote” (PV) campaign’s main figureheads – and he entered the Christmas period by announcing: 4.5 million children are living in […]

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May back to square one as Speaker rules govt’s trade bill is subject to rejection by Lords

18/07/2018by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 4 Comments

Theresa May escaped a likely fall from office over her trade bill this week by the skin of her teeth, thanks to unprecedented, cowardly surrenders to her hard right fringe […]

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Freud: Foodbank dunce – or devil?

04/07/2013by SKWAWKBOX (SW) 32 Comments

  Lord Freud, the millionaire government minister and former investment banker, has outraged many in the House of Lords and poverty campaigners by claiming that there is no link between […]

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