List of Tory ‘achievements’ makes horrifying reading
The blight of Tory government on the UK and its people in a few short bullet points As the government prepares for the Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’, a list of Tory […]
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Video: it’s quite a trick as media doublespeak on last night’s vote is both predictable and astonishing
Theresa May, as the SKWAWKBOX had predicted, reduced herself to a parody last night when she defeated her own deal in Parliament just for the short-term ‘optics’ of being able […]
Tories gaslighting the poor with bizarre ‘MPs and Foodbanks’ campaign
Comment An ugly phenomenon has sprung up over the last few days as Tory MPs – no doubt driven by some twisted mind at CCHQ – have been engaging in […]
Phillips’, Hodges’ zero self-awareness with May ‘knife’ condemnation
Comment Commentators have been getting worked up about the unpleasant language allegedly used by Tory MPs to described the likely fate of failing and flailing PM Theresa May. Mps have […]
Today May promised to end austerity. Just like she promised SIXTEEN months ago
In her closing speech to the Tories’ conference today – that it wasn’t as bad as last year’s car-crash seems to be the most that can be claimed for it […]
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 […]
Video: outraged McDonnell’s blistering take-down of Umunna over ‘dogs’ snidery
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell is usually a model of restraint during TV interviews, even when asked about the nonsense frequently perpetrated by the Labour right toward party leader Jeremy Corbyn […]
Labour right goes bananas at NEC result – and provides a lesson for the left
Opinion Monday’s outstanding result for the grassroots-left ‘slate’ of candidates – a clean sweep of all nine positions – in the elections for Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was a […]
Barnet tragedy unravels. String of suicide attempts in council offices, failed security, alarms not working
Last Wednesday in the North London borough of Barnet, a woman apparently driven to desperation by her situation set herself alight in the housing office of Tory-run Barnet council. She […]
Video: Finkelstein’s damning response to Hodge – full version
Norman Finkelstein was one of many Jewish people to react in outrage to Labour MP Margaret Hodge’s comparison of receiving a disciplinary letter from the Labour Party to the fear […]