Nick Clegg is bound to defend the Tory record, as he’s a Tory. It doesn’t...
It is beyond delusional that Nick Clegg is proposing to the voters of Britain that British voters are better off with a coalition government, with him as a permanent fixture as the Deputy Prime...
View ArticleThe article by Rachel Reeves MP is a ‘two fingers’ at disabled citizens, and...
It is actually massively upsetting. For many citizens, hardworking or not, Ed Miliband was finally beginning to show ‘green shoots’ in his leadership. His conference speech in Brighton...
View ArticleAre the media right to concentrate on Ed Balls’ red face?
Every week, David Cameron turns bright red, and he doesn’t answer any questions properly at Prime Minister’s Questions. This never gets reported in the media. And yet suddenly Ed Balls is said to turn...
View Article“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing…”
“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing…” is the famous saying by Edmund Burke. Burke despised the abuse of power, so one can only wonder what he would have made of the...
View ArticleThe general election isn’t a referendum about a bacon butty. It’s a...
The 2015 general election isn’t a referendum about what exactly someone eating a bacon butty looks like. It’s a referendum on the NHS. The Tories think the general public is utterly stupid. They think...
View Article“I dreamed a dream”– why the quest for a new leader cannot be merely a...
Instead of a complicated voting procedure, some have called for the Labour leadership to be decided by a popular one-off vote like ‘X factor’. The candidates might be ‘dreaming the dream’, but are any...
View ArticleLabour leadership pains: It’s not where you’ve come from, it’s where you’re...
I must admit that I was taken aback when Gordon Brown quoted a former ‘successful’ Labour Prime Minister thus, “And, in Harold Wilson’s words, Labour is “a moral crusade or it is nothing”. I wasn’t...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn might even win in 2020, so get over it.
And so, as Mahatma Gandhi said once, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” I remember watching the BBC Newsnight Labour leadership hustings when they...
View ArticleDemocratic reselections and representation on the shadow cabinet are the only...
Whoever is ultimately responsible for the definite purge which is going on within Labour, it is clear that the purge has backfired on a number of levels. As Paul Mason...
View ArticleA new dawn has broken
I’m 42 – and I’m a lifelong Labour voter. And I’ve also never known a leadership election like this. At his victory speech at the Labour election-night party, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2 May 1997,...
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