People are discontented, disaffected and hungry for change. The so-called consumer society robs us of our universal humanity and our environment of its natural balance. Living standards are squeezed to offset the falling rate of profit. Women’s work in particular continues to be systematically undervalued, with the poorest of the poor hit hardest of all. [...]
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Progress seeks to undermine Ed Miliband, again
May 10th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.In the pre-publicity for its annual conference, Labour’s right-wing party-within-a-party could not resist making another attempt to undermine Ed Miliband. Based on an unoriginal and entirely underwhelming Progress article by Peter Kellner, the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour was briefed with the flimsiest of evidence to run a negative story headed Labour election victory in 2015 looks [...]
Ed Miliband: Personality and Politics
May 10th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.“He mysteriously appeared out of nowhere, a bit like an action hero … He kept asking if I was ok, if I was hurt,” she said. “He was there for a good few minutes. What added to all the confusion was that he was actually attractive and not geeky at all. Even the way he [...]
Watch Dennis Skinner’s 2013 Queen’s Speech heckle
May 9th, 2013 by Conrad Landin.Nice one! Now join the campaign to Save Our Royal Mail. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Nigel Farage: the low rent Enoch Powell
May 8th, 2013 by David Osler.It’s something of a love that dare not speak its name. But Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, with the rise of UKIP marking only the latest incarnation of this ongoing infatuation. It may seem a bit of a stretch to compare a reactionary intellectual [...]
Why we mustn’t let UKIP deflect us from the main task
May 8th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The most important thing about last week’s election results will be how each party responds. We now have, for a while at least, a two and two half party political system: two parties may be in a position to form a majority government in the foreseeable future (though the Tories look very unlikely to be able to [...]
The government are keener to catch whistleblowers than tax avoiders
May 7th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The treatment of Osita Mba, the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) solicitor, is a public scandal. It was he who revealed that Dave Hartnett, former head of HMRC, had made a private deal with Goldman Sachs, sealed with a handshake, that let them off payment of interest amounting to at least £10m. This issue of [...]
What Labour needs after UKIP
May 6th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Thursday’s elections were about 4 things – distaste for the conventional political classes combined with immigration, Europe and welfare. Nothing of course to do with local elections which they actually were. UKIP is certainly flavour of the moment, but talk about the birth of permanent 4-party politics is almost certainly exaggerated. This is still the mid-term [...]
The ironies of UKIP are delicious, and a boon for Labour
May 5th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The ironies around UKIP are endless. First, it is the Tory tabloids that fanned the public fury about immigration, welfare and Europe, and thus the UKIP surge which has so successfully split the Tory party between the modernising, hug a hoodie, Arctic sleigh, wind turbine on your house, gay marriage detoxifiers of Teresa May’s Nasty [...]
UKIP faces BNP entrism
May 5th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It will no doubt be a cack-handed operation, but entrism within UKIP is – apparently – what the BNP are planning to do. This from Nick Griffin’s “analysis” of Thursday’s election results on the BNP’s website. Join us – or do this! If, for whatever reason, anyone who thinks of themselves as a nationalist isn’t [...]
