http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-whips-quit-parliament-walkout-a7352806.html Jeremy Corbyn hit by new parliamentary walkout as two MPs quit as party whips Conor McGinn and Holly Lynch We can always rely on the "Independent" to find the most lurid phraseology with which to headline their rather feeble "stories", over emphasising , "a furious reaction from Labour MPs". The reality is of course that had Winterton together with Conor McGinn and Holly Lynch been more successful in maintaining discipline within the Parliamentary Labour Party over the last 18 months, we would not have been subjected to another party Leadership contest and the constant sniping, p lotting and media briefings against the leadership that has been filling the media and television news or the very audible insults and jibes thrown at Jeremy Corbyn by his own MP's during Prime Ministers Questions. I am sure that the departure of McG...
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/22/corbyn-v-smith-labour-leader-voting-system-democratic-car-crash Corbyn v Smith for Labour's next leader, but being a winner is not enough. Says Anne Perkins. Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith The Guardian continues on its compulsive campaign to undermine and remove Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour party leadership. In this self appointed role as the "Champion of the Parliamentary Labour Party", the Guardian will, and does, use any tool available to it or any argument, no matter how tenuous such argument may be, as the media mouthpiece for any disaffected MP with their own agenda, or for individuals who seek to erode support for the Corbyn leadership. The tool for tod ay’s assault is the "Opinion" section of the newspaper, where the editorial staff and the proprietor can shelter behind the shield of denial that the "Opinion" as printed is that of the writer, not necessarily of the paper. A v...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/19/heidi-alexander-corbyn-resign-shadow-cabinet Why I had to leave Corbyn's dysfunctional shadow cabinet Heidi Alexander The Guardian sticking to its self appointed role as the "saviour of the Labour party", acting as the mouthpiece for any of the Parliamentary Labour Party prepared to spew out more bile in the campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn. The conspirators anticipated that Corbyn would resign after the orchestrated mass resignations. They were wrong, he didn't. The plotters then moved to a vote of "No Confidence", fully expecting Corbyn to resign after 172 of the PLP supported the motion. Again, they were wrong as he did not resign. The final throw of their seditious scheming was to launch a Leadership Challenge, but as there was no one amongst the "Big Guns" of the PLP with enough backbone to take on the challenge themselves, they have found a "Stooge Candid...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/desperate-dad-spared-jail-stealing-7328464 Benefits cuts left couple just £8-per-week to live on Paul and Kerry Barker In the 1st part of the 21st Century, a couple steal food from Tesco waste bins, because their benefits have been sanctioned and reduced to £8 per week. An event not uncommon in the United Kingdom in Austerity Britain. The conservative government and the ConDem Coalition government before them, are heaping pain and misery upon millions of ordinary people throughout this country and they are getting away with it. These 21st century Robber Barron’s are getting away with this and other vicious and vindictive measures because 172 members of the Parliamentary Labour Party are more intent with advancing their own personal positions and achieving their ambitions than they are with the hardships and privations of those people who the Labour party represent and who elected them only last year. They are fixat...
We, and the people we represent, must not allow the hypocrites, liars and mountebanks to gain control of our party.
http://news.sky.com/story/1688489/labour-frontbenchers-may-quit-over-row Some Labour frontbenchers are threatening to resign A Times article, enthusiastically reproduced and embellished by Sky News and other media (and all full of the usual anonymous "sources"), graphically confirming that the real reason behind the furore over "anti Semitism" is the seditious conspiracy by some members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, encouraged and supported by sections of a duplicitous media, to remove the leadership of the Labour Party in some sort of coup. A coup which has been in preparation since the summer of last year and now uses the smokescreen of anti Semitism to mask the real intentions. Duplicitous hypocrites, liars and mountebanks skulking in the shadows hiding behind press anonymity. Should these people actually quit, it would be a case of good riddance, and take your schemes, plots and conspiracies with you and join another party.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/resignation-of-labour-fixer-sparks-new-power-struggle-between-jeremy-corbyn-and-moderate-mps-a6725676.html Resignation of Labour fixer sparks new power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and moderate MPs Following hard on the heels of the "Independent" non story of yesterday, 7th November 2015, (Corbyn's lodger writes Science stories for the MailOnline as a freelance journalist and all that garbage), today's "Independent" spews out yet another anti Corbyn slanted "story", about Wes Ball MP, resigning at the end of the year, as PLP secretary. The "Independent" even has to explain who Mr Ball is, using the description, "is highly rated by MPs" to justify a sensationalist headli ne of, "Resignation of Labour fixer sparks new power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and moderate MPs". Using yet another un named "senior party source" for its thin...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-could-be-hit-by-wave-of-resignations-in-attempt-to-pave-way-for-a-coup-a6723186.html#commentsDiv Jeremy Corbyn could be hit by wave of resignations in attempt to pave way for coup You bloody people at the "Independent" never give up. Unnamed "sources", unattributed quotes, speculative wishful thinking, smear, innuendo all part and parcel of the campaign to undermine and discredit Jeremy Corbyn, which has been raging on the pages of the "Independent" for over 9 months and is now reaching fever pitch. Andrew Grice, Independent political "journalist", now crawls out of the woodwork to add his contribution of spite and bile to the cauldron of bubbling vomit which the Independent has been stirring for months. Andrew Grice If the Independents devotion to the right wing of the political spectrum were not so glaringly obvious and so crass in its comments, it may j...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/ed-vulliamy-jeremy-corbyn-observer-editorial Our pessimistic take on Corbyn let our readers down ( Ed Vulliamy .writing for the Guardian) Jeremy Corbyn in his first PMQ's (Photograph: Reuters) beerhoi74.says in the comments section to this article: "I hope Corbyn is just a blip and we can return to the centre soon" That is the problem. It would not be a "return to the centre". It would be a return to the same old policies from the same old people who, with a few exceptions like minimum wage and child benefits, have done nothing for working people and their families or the sick or the disabled or pensioners in this country through successive Labour governments for decades. It would be a return to "top down" politics where "policies", many of which neither the membership of the party or just as importantly the public, agree with or support (that is why we lost two success...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-mps-send-texts-to-lib-dem-leader-tim-farron-after-deeply-distressing-jeremy-corbyn-victory-10505885.html Labour MPs send texts to Lib Dem leader Tim Farron after 'deeply distressing' Jeremy Corbyn victory(says the Independent) Tim Farron getting excited If this story is true (and we must always treat what we read in the "Independent" as probable lies or inneundo and treat the comments with a degree of contempt), then this is the best and most welcome news that this "newspaper" has published for some time. Rather than have these faceless and nameless MP's (again the Independent uses unnamed and unattributable sources for their own biased agenda), behaving like spoilt brats sulking in the corner muttering threats, better to have them "cross the floor" to join the other bunch of hypocrites in the Liberal Democrats, or better still have them all deselected and thrown ou...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyns-vow-to-fight-tory-poverty-deniers-undermined-by-symbolic-blunders-10502739.html Jeremy Corbyn remains silent during national anthem at commemoration service Three hypocrites and a rspectful man. The arrogant bastards of the right wing press are getting murdered in the social media where the general consensus of opinion is that Corbyn's "respectful silence during the anthem" is more indicative of someone refusing to be hypocritical, rather than pander to the whims and certain hostility of a biased press. The comments and criticism that they are getting on Facebook, Twitter and other social media is both accurate and is certainly justified
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-jeremy-corbyn-ignores-the-rightwing-press-he-will-be-exterminated-10502313.html If Jeremy Corbyn ignores the right-wing press, he will be exterminated (says the Independent's Matthew Norman) Jeremy Corbyn What conceited bastards the "right wing press" actually are. To assume that they alone have some devine right to smear, lie, distort and generaly discredit anyone they take a dislike to (for whatever reason) and then demand that their "victims" respond to the bilious out pourings is arrogant in the extreme. Thank God for the internet and social media. In the new real world of communication, the "right wing press" are loosing their arguments and their credibility as their dwin dling circulations and readership, is being overwhelmed by the millions of users on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and many others who are burying these media rags and their endless spite. How they must envy the...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/14/labours-angela-eagle-condemns-draconian-trade-union-bill Labour's Angela Eagle condemns 'draconian' trade union bill The Labour Front Bench. I watched the debate on BBC Parliament channel yesterday (14th September 2015) and heard some very good speeches from the Labour benches both front and back. Alan Johnson (who I have been critical of in the past) made a particularly fine speech likening interventions from the governments benches to comments made by "Teletubbies" and suggesting that crayons and paper for drawing be provided in a room adjacent to the chamber. Angels Eagle's response to government Business Secretary Sajid Javid's unconvincing comments opening the debate, was superb as the front bench team of Jeremy Corbyn's new shadow cabinet ripped into a pathetic government proposal for "Trade Union reform", with vigorous speeches and interventions from the Labo...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/30/tuition-fees-labour_n_5059468.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Tuition Fees Could be Slashed Under Ed Miliband's Labour Ed Miliband at the East Manchester Academy Again, given an opportunity, the Labour party generally and Miliband in particular, choose the wrong option. Historically, Labour, (or at least the Labour party which I once belonged to) have been opposed to the concept of tuition fees and paying for education as it creates the iniquity of only "the rich" being able to afford university places and perpetuates a society where money is infinitely more important than ability. The Bullingdon Club The "New Labour" of Blair and Brown, to their eternal shame, introduced the idea of tuition fees, and the Tory dominated ConDem coalition with the enthusiastic support of Clegg and his band of duplicitous rouges, pushed through legislation to hike the fees, (notwithstanding their pre election vo...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/29/labour-support-falls-lowest-2010-observer-opinium-opinion-poll?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position3:anchor%20image Labour opinion poll support falls to lowest level since 2010 election The alternative Tories? For as long as Labour continue with the delusion that they can somehow be better at being Tory than the Torries are, they will never be more than a second choice in the morass of the political "center ground", as they seek to convince people that their policies for managing the capitalist system are better than the policies of the party who have been filling that role for most of the last 150 years. In fact, the vast majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party and its policy guru's would be more at home politically and intellectually, sitting somewhere between the Tory left and the Liberal Democrat right. When people are given ...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/27/ed-miliband-energy-price-controls-freeze-big-six Ed Miliband to propose fresh energy price controls Miliband will tell the Federation of Small Businesses that he wants to create an open market economy where small businesses can grow and make bigger profits. Ed Miliband. The "policy" to control energy prices is popular amongst a large proportion of the public, (aka. voters). The only question is which, of the variants from each of the major parties solutions to achieve the same objective, will the voters select as their preferred option? Each segment of the Coalition, Miliband's version of Labour, and soon no doubt to be joined by Farange and his UKIP, compete with each other to offer what they hope will be the most popular solution to solve the problem and "deal with the broken energy market" and finally end the energy companies cartel in the supply and distribution of energy in this cou...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/26/ed-miliband-welfare-rebellion_n_5033370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Ed Miliband Faces Labour Rebellion For Backing Welfare Cap Ed Miliband:. More at home in the Conservative party? The Labour leader Ed Miliband has ordered his MPs to back the cap on overall welfare spending. This instruction to elected MP's, or at least the reasoning behind the order, demonstrates how far the Labour Party and its leadership has drifted away from the traditional base and principles of the Labour movement. Were this directive, enthusiastically endorsed by Balls and supported by the entire front bench of the Parliamentary Labor party, based on any sound economic benefit, then there may, just may, be some grounds for supporting such a policy. However, there is no such economic reasoning and the Labour MP's at least the majority of them, will troupe into the "Aye" lobby in support of the ConDem coalition and their Tory m...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/21/labour-cameron-gay-marriage-bill Labour saves David Cameron again. Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment What is happening to Labour? They abstain on a vote and help the Tories to retrospectively change the law on Welfare reforms following the Poundland fiasco, and now they vote with the Tories to prevent another government defeat, this time on a gay marriage bill amendment. I would have thought that it is not the function of the Labour party to support and maintain a government who are every day, attacking working people with pernicious austerity measures, attacking the sick and disabled with vicious cuts to services and support, attacking benefit claimants with reductions in payments, and attacking people deemed to have spare bedrooms. I left the Labour Party some time ago as they had drifted away from the core values and principles that I supported. It now seems that they have become ...