Let us be clear what the Tory welfare bill will mean. If the parents of more than two children are precipitated into claiming benefits through a change in circumstances, like redundancy, a partner leaving them or being bereaved, then their children will suffer. If you are a women with, say 4 children, in a violent abusive […]
Posts Tagged ‘Leadership election’
The Blairites would prefer to bust the party rather than accept democratic choice
Jul 22nd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The arrogance and intolerance of the Blairites is breathtaking. Faced with the prospect of a runaway victory for Jeremy Corbyn who has come from repudiated outsider to front-runner in scarcely more than a month, their sole response is to prepare a coup against Corbyn if he is elected leader under the section 47 procedure of […]
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British democracy requires a Corbyn victory
Jul 21st, 2015 by Andy Newman.Yesterday marked a turning point in the Labour leadership battle. Neither of the trade unions with a leaning towards the Blairite wing of the party backed Liz Kendall. Community announced that they were backing Yvette Cooper, and Usdaw announced that they were backing Andy Burnham. This follows Kendall’s relatively poor performance in gaining nominations from […]
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Understanding Jeremy Corbyn’s support
Jul 17th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Is Jeremy Corbyn leading the Labour leadership pack? According to unattributed private polling, yes he is. As we know, polls are never wrong. But what is undeniable is the mass support his candidacy is attracting, and some people are starting to get a touch worried. Yet where has this groundswell of support come from, and […]
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Labour leadership contestants need to break out of Tory cage
Jul 13th, 2015 by Michael Meacher.What is so disappointing (so far) about the Labour leadership contest is the failure to edge the party to any significant degree away from a look-alike Tory posture. Osborne launches the biggest cuts programme of the last century, and we are told that if we wish to be taken seriously we must be as fiscally […]
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Blairite triangulation & personality politics paved way for Osborne’s nasty party
Jul 10th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Jeremy Corbyn really doesn’t do personal attacks and nor does his campaign. You can therefore rest assured that the spoof Facebook page promoting Liz Kendall for Conservative Leader has nothing to do with team Corbyn. The Telegraph yesterday claimed it “opens up fresh Labour divisions” based on criticisms of the spoof by Kendall supporting John Woodcock MP. But negative […]
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Be in no doubt: Jeremy Corbyn could win this contest
Jul 6th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.The agreement by Unite, Britain’s biggest union, by a vote of 34 to 14 of its elected executive, to nominate Jeremy Corbyn represents a turning point in this leadership contest. It is important not because of the extent to which Unite wields direct influence in this election: trade union members may comprise less than a third of those eligible […]
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Jeremy Corbyn and the trade unions
Jul 5th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.There were howls of dismay on my Twitter feed last night. And it wasn’t all because Heather Watson lost a close fought match with Serena Williams. It had something to do with this: that the Telegraph was reporting that Unite and the GMB look all set to endorse Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy for the Labour Party leadership […]
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Jeremy Corbyn in his own words
Jun 30th, 2015 by Heiko Khoo.This is how Jeremy Corbyn introduced himself in the Newsnight Labour leadership debate on 17 June: “I was first elected to Parliament 32 years ago, and I’ve spent that time in Parliament representing my constituency and standing up for rights and justice in Britain and all around the world. I believe that is the function of […]
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Can Jeremy Corbyn Win?
Jun 29th, 2015 by James Elliott.From the moment he got on the ballot paper, Jeremy Corbyn was swiftly pigeonholed as ‘the Left candidate’ incapable of attracting the broad support necessary to win the Party leadership. In an act of remarkable short-sightedness all the other major contenders from Kendall to Burnham have acted as if we still inhabit a pre-Collins party, and […]
