One hundred and seventy Jeremy Corbyn supporters crammed into the Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, on Sunday evening to hear stand-up comedy to support Jeremy as Labour leadership contender. The event was organised by Crispin Flintoff, who has organised 155 Stand-up for Labour events, held all around the UK. (It is indicative of the lack […]
Posts Tagged ‘Labour leadership election’
Angela Eagle: “Political elite need to lay off Jeremy Corbyn”
Jul 25th, 2015 by James Elliott.Angela Eagle, candidate for Deputy Leader, weighed in on the leadership debate yesterday attacking those who have said they would not work with Jeremy Corbyn, and calling for the party’s elite to respect the membership’s decision if they elect him. Writing to members, Eagle said, “I would happily serve under anyone the members choose to […]
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Moderates and extremists: What is the Labour Left today?
Jul 23rd, 2015 by James Elliott.The near-deafening media hysteria over Jeremy Corbyn, variously described as a ‘veteran’, ‘hard left’, and always ‘hirsute’ socialist candidate for Labour leader reached new levels this week, with Progress dragging out Tony Blair to tell 43% of the party that they needed a heart transplant if they want Corbyn to be leader. Owen Jones has […]
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Jeremy Corbyn’s free education pledge is popular, affordable and the right thing to do
Jul 21st, 2015 by James McAsh.Corbyn’s first policy announcement was to scrap tuition fees and restore the maintenance grants that many students rely on for their rent and food. It was costed at £10bn and two separate strategies were put forward for how to pay for it: slowing down the deficit reduction or raising the revenue through corporation tax and […]
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Chuka is wrong – Jeremy Corbyn can win over the electorate
Jul 17th, 2015 by Patrick Smith.This morning Chuka Umunna warned the Labour Party that “we’re running around stamping our feet, screaming at the electorate when ultimately what we need to do is meet people where they are at.” He went on to say that Jeremy Corbyn did not have “a politics that can win.” The problem with this approach to […]
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Who are you calling unelectable?
Jul 15th, 2015 by Barnaby Raine.On a May morning in 2020, the country awakes to five more years of Conservative government. Despite publicly comparing the North to Zimbabwe and after a year of infighting among his ministers, there was never really much doubt that Boris Johnson would secure a parliamentary majority. For the more astute among Labour supporters, the tragedy […]
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The Labour right are risking ‘Pasokification’ on their own
Jul 13th, 2015 by James Elliott.Harriet Harman’s announcement on the Sunday politics yesterday, that Labour would not be voting against the welfare bill, nor would they oppose child tax credit cuts or the Tories new benefits cap, has rightly drawn condemnation from different sections of the Party, and now both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham have joined Jeremy Corbyn (who […]
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Jeremy Corbyn has got Labour’s right wing on the run
Jul 13th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.Having at the outset of the leadership contest been contemptuously written off as ‘unelectable’, Jeremy Corbyn seems to be surprising everyone that he is now rapidly emerging as a serious contender. But they shouldn’t be surprised. He represents what the majority of the Labour Party have been crying out for – a leader who does […]
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Union backing alone won’t give Corbyn victory, we must work to make that happen
Jul 8th, 2015 by James Elliott.The weekend brought welcome news with the announcement that Unite, Britain’s largest trade union and Labour’s largest donor, would be backing Jeremy Corbyn after a vote of 34 to 13 on Unite’s 63-person Executive Council. To this, Jeremy also has the largest transport union, the RMT; the train drivers’ union, Aslef; the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the […]
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What are the Labour leadership candidates saying on Greece?
Jul 8th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Yesterday’s vote in Greece was a momentous occasion. Almost two thirds of a people, many with politics far removed from that of its leadership, said no to demands for more austerity from the well-heeled bureaucrats of the IMF and European Central Bank, and the ministers of the European Commission. It won’t be until tomorrow that […]
