http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11876087/Chuka-Umunna-suggests-Jeremy-Corbyns-victory-could-lead-to-riots.html?fb_ref=Default Chuka Umunna suggests Jeremy Corbyn's victory could lead to riots Chuka Umunna and Jeremy Corbyn Is Chukka Umunna a liar, or a hypocrite or is the Telegraph being mischievous again? Back at the beginning of September the member for Streatham said ""We must all work with Jeremy Corbyn", going on to say that we must "not make the mistake of giving the impression that electability requires the party to ditch its principles". Hardly the words of a man who see's his leader as paving the way for violence and uprisings on the streets of the cities and towns around the United Kingdom. The telegraph uses the old tactic of creating a threat, ( which is not there) and then mobilising (or at least attempting to) public opinion to resist. much in the same way as the press in Nazi Germany generated ...
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/08/labour-up-to-eight-shadow-cabinet-members-may-refuse-to-serve-with-corbyn As many as eight members of the shadow cabinet are considering declaring that they cannot serve on if Jeremy Corbyn is elected as Labour leader. In this article, (against which incidentally, the Guardian does not provide the reader with a "comments" section in which to reply), the Guardian make great play on a new faction of the Labour party which it calls "refuseniks", echoing the days of Soviet Russia where the label was an " unofficial term for individuals, typically but not exclusively Soviet Jews, who were denied permission to emigrate by the authorities of the former Soviet Union and other countries of the Eastern bloc". The comparison may have some significance for the editorial board of the Guardian, but it certainly escapes me. However the Guardian, who you will recall nailed its colours to t...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/01/labour-jeremy-corbyn-chuka-umunna We must all work with Jeremy Corbyn, says Chuka Umunna Chuka Umunna: "We must accept the result of our contest when it comes" It is said that "a week is a long time in politics". Chuka Umunna, the Blairite prodigy who could not endure the spotlight on him, his family and his friends, coming from the press and media during his short period as a prospective leadership candidate, has however taken some 15 weeks, since May in fact, to reach the view that "We must all work with Jeremy Corbyn", and then going on to say that we must "not make the mistake of giving the impression that electability requires the party to ditch its principles" Now this seems a little different from his position of a few short months ago, but is a welcome departure from the idea that winning elections is the overriding intention, no matter how many principles or commitments...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/22/jeremy-corbyn-could-lose-frontbenchers-if-elected-labour-leader Kendall, Umunna and Cooper would not serve in Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet The Parliamentary Labour party, (the Labour MP's),is a hotbed of intrigue, self interest and hypocrisy. Only Jeremy Corbyn and it seems 47 other MP's had the consistency and integrity to vote against the recent Conservative Welfare reform and work bill, while the rest cowered behind a mealymouthed amendment and then sat on their hands on the substantive motion, thus ensuring that the bill was passed to the next stage in its progression through Parliament. It is this "rocking the Parliamentary boat", which petrifies the majority of the PLP. For far too long the MP's of the Labour party have pursued policies which they mistakenly consider as being popular with the public, in order to retain their seats. The last general election proved how wrong these misguided ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/chuka-umunna-withdraws-from-labour-leadership-contest-days-due-to-uncomfortable-media-attention-10252558.html Chuka Umunna quits Labour leadership contest Chuka Umunna declares leadership bid. Without commenting on the house in Ibizia, the alleged off shore bank accounts in Jersey or the allegations and rumours of previous personal activiteis, it is rather odd that a person declaring his candidacy for the leadership of the Labour Party, withdraws from the contest only some 72 hours later. Chuka Umunna stands down from the Labour party leadership contest, stating that the pressure of media intrusion was too much. I do no believe that for one minute and there is certainly more to the story than meets the eye. Personally, I am not sorry to see him withdraw as he would have been a disastrous choice for the party, the people in the country and the UK , being too closely associated with the Blairite right...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/labour-soul-searching-modernisers-attack-miliband-mistakes Ed Miliband lost the election because he ditched New Labour, says Tony Blair Blair and Mandellson The television and media, are full of speculation about who should be the next leader of the Labour Party. Blair and Mandellson have offered their "advice and guidance" and numerous Labour MP's have jumped in with their "Ed Miliband took us too far to the left" or "We lost our appeal to the middle ground" or some other combination of the same theme. Joining these MP's and the Blair Mandellson combination, are the usual suspects from the BBC and Sky television news who's questions to pundits, journalists or the casual passer by, are even more loaded than the planted questions in the House of Commons every week during Questions to the Prime Minister. The icing on this particular cake of course is the almost hysterical barrage o...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-wants-chuka-umunna-to-be-the-next-labour-leader-9908489.html Tony Blair wants Chuka Umunna to be the next Labour leader Chuka Umunna Tony Blair The "Blairite" right emerge from the woodwork to promote another career politician/lawyer to take up where Blair left off. The destruction of the Labour party was essentially complete when Blair, Mandelson,Campbell and the others crawled off into their burrows to plot and scheme while reading their bank statements. Chuka Umunna fits very nicely into the mould and could complete the task commenced by the triumvirate and firmly fix the Labour party in that pro business, pro establishment, laying only slightly to the left of the Tory extremists who have ruled this country for the last 5 years. Working people, the sick, pensioners and benefit claimants and vast sections of British society will of course, remain ignored, unrepresented and disillus...
The Great Royal Mail robbery. Taxpayers "shortchanged" as Royal Mail is sold off at a knockdown price.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/royal-mail-flotation-thousands-cash-in-as-shares-soar-38-on-first-day-8873500.html Royal Mail flotation: Thousands cash in as shares soar 38% on first day Leaving aside the obscenity of selling off publicly owned assets to speculators,hedge funds, finance institutions and other friends in the city, the "Great Mail Robbery" demonstrates how government duplicity can ensure that many people can be hoodwinked into believing that privatisation is "good for the tax payer and good for Britain". No matter what Vince Cable may say during his television interviews on the subject, the sale price of the Royal Mail has, more by design than accident, been discounted by at least 30% thus making the offer more attractive to the speculators and losing British tax payers almost £650 million. The surge in the price level, within minutes of the opening of the stock markets, is indicative of an undervalued busin...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/last-minute-rush-to-buy-undervalued-royal-mail-shares-as-investors-sense-instant-profit-8862868.html Last minute rush to buy 'undervalued' Royal Mail shares as investors sense instant profit The latest "rip off" privatisation sale for the benefit of Hedge funds, institutional investors and big business asset strippers. The privatisation of any industry is not for the taxpayers benefit or for the small scale investor, no matter what the Tory spin doctors and their propaganda machine may tell you. In an interview on BBC News 24, Chuka Umunna, the shadow Business Secretary was less than enthusiastic in his support for the possibility of industrial action by the communication workers union in protest at the privatisation plans and the threats to their jobs in the industry. There was a time when Labour party MP's as well as party activists, were at the forefront in the defence of workers jobs an...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rising-star-of-labour-and-betting-shop-critic-chuka-umunna-faces-embarrassment-after-accepting-20000-gift-from-gambling-executive-8748755.html Chuka Umunna faces embarrassment after accepting £20,000 gift from gambling executive Chuka Umunna A sad old party with few ideas and even less vision, demonstrating that even its "rising star" is little more than a clone of the discredited bunch of sleaze ridden politicians, loitering in the shadows of the House of Commons.