Successful Angela Smith no-confidence motion – full text
On Friday night, ‘centrist’ Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Angela Smith received a 27-20 – a good turn-out for a delegate-based CLP – vote of no confidence from her CLP (constituency […]
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Tory chair Lewis gets owned by locals for SureStart jibe – it’s both hilarious and tragic
Tory chair and Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis showed typical Tory arrogance yesterday with a dismissive comment about a large attendance of local people to protest against Tory-controlled Norfolk County […]
John McDonnell and THAT tax comment – the real story
The mainstream media – abetted as usual by a selection of the ‘usual suspects’ among right-wing Labour MPs – have attempted to make mischief and distract from the flop of […]
Excl: NUJ ‘subverts democracy’ to ‘bully’ Mendoza out of Black History Month lecture
NUJ’s black members (BMC) invited Canary editor Kerry-Anne Mendoza to deliver Black History Month lecture NUJ ‘chapel’ at Guardian/Observer ‘chapel’ protested Mendoza invitation NUJ’s NEC voted to ask BMC to […]
Ealing council leader censured by Labour campaign body for by-election call
Ealing council leader Julian Bell has long faced unrest from many of his councillors, narrowly defeating a leadership challenge in May over his housing arrangements. Arrangements for the selection of […]
Landmark report: 95 serious ‘failures’ in MSM reporting of ‘Labour antisemitism’
A landmark new report by an academic from London’s Birkbeck University and the Media Reform Coalition has analysed mainstream media coverage of the Labour Party’s alleged issues around antisemitism. Its […]
#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 […]
Councillor: “Watson made my life a misery. What’s his problem with independent Labour women?”
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has rightly been pilloried this evening after a ludicrous interview in which he claimed that the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, had “staked her career […]
TV-star-turned-candidate Nixon smeared by own party as US Dems copy anti-Corbyn playbook
Picture the scene: a popular left-wing leadership candidate threatens the status quo of an Establishment, notionally-left political party, putting at risk the painstakingly-constructed business-as-usual cosiness that it clings to. In […]
Excl: Enfield North members to vote on no-confidence motion in Ryan this week
Labour MP and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chair Joan Ryan has been among the most vocal in accusing the Labour Party and its leader in relation to the ongoing […]