Theresa May’s speech to Tory Party Conference yesterday has been criticised as contributing to an increasing hatred of immigrants. Corbyn said:
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Theresa May speech slammed as ‘fanning the flames of xenophobia’ by Corbyn
Oct 6th, 2016 by Newsdesk.
Meet the new Chancellor, same as the old Chancellor
Oct 5th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.“Call me Philip” Hammond didn’t apply smug factor 50 before his speech to Tory party conference, but he didn’t need to. Beneath the boring exterior and the truly, truly awful jokes is a politician whose programme is little different to his unlamented predecessor’s. Yes, in tune with his boss’s whole nation conservatism, Hammond has woken up […]
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Theresa May: Brexit means Wrexit
Oct 4th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.If politics is war by less violent, constitutional means, it follows that truth fares no better in the peaceful competition between interests. This is especially the case when politics is staking out new territory. If one can define what a problem or challenge is, your solutions, such as they are, have a certain credibility from […]
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Tory Cynicism and the Work Capability Assessment
Oct 3rd, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.When I used to write letters to ministers for a living, it struck me that Damian Green was relatively decent. Well, if you ignore the appalling voting record, the missives we got back from the civil servant who scribbled his letters in immigration suggested he was a reasonable bloke, albeit one hemmed in by the politics […]
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Our understaffed underfunded NHS is the result of government ideology
Jul 10th, 2016 by Diane Abbott.Jeremy Hunt had few answers from the barrage of cross bench concern this week’s parliamentary debates on the NHS funding and the impact of Brexit on the NHS. When asked what he was doing to ensure that the NHS gets the £350million a week that it was promised during the Leave referendum campaign, the Secretary […]
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John McDonnell on the leadership battle
Jul 1st, 2016 by John McDonnell.This talk was given by John McDonnell on Wednesday 29 June at a Stand Up for Labour event in the George IV pub in Chiswick, West London. The transcript has been lightly edited to account for the difference between spoken and written language but the content is unchanged. Let me just tell you where we’re […]
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The EU referendum
Jun 29th, 2016 by Peter Rowlands.As someone who was strongly pro EU and had written several articles for Left Futures, as well, as participating in local activity on the issue, I feel a bit gutted, and like most people got it wrong. While things looked a bit desperate three weeks ago it appeared that the murder of Jo Cox […]
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Cameron: the man who broke Britain
Jun 25th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.One man is responsible for today’s fiasco, and that is the Prime Minister. Or, thankfully, the soon-to-be-ex-Prime Minister. Dave joins Neville Chamberlain and Anthony Eden – coincidentally Tories too – in the hall of notorious failures. For his political vanity, for narrow party advantage over a hard right insurgency that began petering out before he […]
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Why Andy Burnham should oppose the snoopers charter come what May does
May 25th, 2016 by Jon Lansman.Today, the Guardian reports that “Labour has edged closer to supporting the ‘snooper’s charter’“, referring to the Investigatory Powers Bill carried forward from the last session of Parliament. Andy Burnham, Labour’s shadow Home Secretary, said “Her commitment to an independent review of the case for bulk powers is a major concession but the right thing […]
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The queen’s speech exposes Tory weakness
May 23rd, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.British politics has taken a turn for the worse of late, but let’s not forget its settled, normal status is weird. Last week’s Queen’s speech – the outline of “her” government’s legislative programme for the coming year – is a case in point. In the thinnest of gruel, which we will come to sift through […]
