Amid the uncertainty of a hung parliament, what can hardly be overstated about the 2017 general election result is just how much of a disaster it represents for Theresa May. Having called an unnecessary election believing herself in a position of barely-precedented strength – despite repeatedly vowing no snap election, with her spokesman reiterating the point less than a month before…
Attempting to salvage the frittered away year and a half of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, and deal an unlikely blow to the Conservatives in next month’s snap election called by Theresa May – has ever a task appeared more hopeless? But to their credit the Labour Party are at least trying, in their own characteristically dishevelled way. And having promised the…
It must be tough being Tom Watson, the Labour Party deputy leader, who waddles about disliked by the rank and file – although he at least has the support of parliamentarians, not to mention the media. For after Watson spoke of a ‘secret plan’ between the left-wing grassroots group Momentum and Unite, Britain’s largest trade union – adding that any…
One would think that with parliamentary sovereignty at stake, as the connotations of only the third nationwide referendum in British history make their way through the court system, all eyes at the current time would be on the Supreme Court as it prepares to confirm just who has the right to invoke Article 50. Article 50 when triggered will formally notify…
After three of the most eminent judges in England – including the Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls, the two most senior positions in the whole of the judiciary – ruled in the High Court in favour of the longstanding principle of parliamentary sovereignty, there was slander and outcry as the newspapers and politicians in the country have become nothing…
It should go without saying that true moderates would never hire a firing squad to dispatch of their enemies, much less turn the guns on members supposedly of their own party, nor would they set fire to their shared accommodation and squeal with delight as they found themselves immolated by the flames. But the self-described moderates of today’s Labour Party have…
Poles and Muslims find themselves overwhelmingly under attack, with the brave perpetrators especially targeting Muslim women as they daub buildings with graffiti and subject individuals to verbal and physical assault. After working for years in the country, filling jobs the natives won’t touch, people from Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Nepal, and Albania – to name just a few – find themselves seized…
For a party which flourished on socialist principles, and was meant to democratically represent the working class, the imposition of an exorbitant £25 fee for the right to vote in the upcoming leadership election might have seemed dangerously like Labour’s last gasp. But now that the ban on the voting rights of recent members has been overturned by the High Court, the…
As Theresa May scoffed down Byron burgers, it was a wonder that a piece of prime British meat didn’t get stuck at the back of her throat. For Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith really was awfully mean when he used an inopportune phrase to criticise the new Conservative Prime Minister. Commenting on a recent parliamentary session, Smith took the sort…
Perturbed commentators and disgruntled Labour Party MPs expressed shock and awe last night at the spectre of common sense, a quality which they believed had long disappeared from British party politics. As the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee ruled that incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will be allowed to stand for re-election, horror descended upon Westminster at the thought that one of the most…
