https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/25/jeremy-corbyn-referedum-campaign Jeremy Corbyn let us down again. says Polly Toynbee. Polly Toynbee Toynbee again grasping an opportunity to attack Corbyn. Toynbee, the "journalist" who endorsed Yvette Cooper for the Labour party leadership (and remains full of bile and spite because Cooper came third in a four horse race) has never missed any opportunity, no matter how tenuous, to rubbish and smear the Labour leader. This time she chooses the EU referendum campaign to produce a preposterous article, arguing that it is Corbyn's performance during the campaign was "dismally inadequate, lifeless and spineless" and that consequently the "Remain" campaign lost the vote, because Labour voters chose "Leave" on the ballot paper. Toynbee's argument is both absurd and ridiculous as more Labour voters voted with the remain camp than Tory voters. Clearly, Toynbee is suffering from a ...
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/16/gordon-brown-warning-against-jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership#comment-57640088 Gordon Brown urges Labour not to be party of protest by electing Corbyn Gordon Brown during his speech at the Royal Festival Hall Gordon Brown arrived at the Royal Festival Hall in London and after the usual introductions to the specially invited audience of party members and journalists, spent the next 50 minutes perambulating backwards and forwards across the platform wearing at least half an inch off the soles of his shoes and saying precisely nothing. That is, nothing that Blair, Straw, Clarke, Campbell, Kinnock, Johnson, Polly Toynbee and others including it is now revealed Mandellson have not said already. Gordon Brown, the man who droned on about being “credible, radical, sustainable and electable” and (after selling off £billions of UK gold reserves) “economically credible”. We would do well to remember that Brown ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-gordon-brown-to-break-silence-on-contest-in-bid-to-halt-jeremy-corbyn-10456636.html Labour leadership: Gordon Brown to break silence on contest in bid to halt Jeremy Corbyn Gordon Brown the man who made a grubby deal with his chum Tony Blair (albeit that this cosy little relationship eventually broke down) at the now defunct restaurant "Granita" in Islington in London, to stand aside as a candidate after the death of John Smith, and allow Blair a clear run at the leadership in 1994. Brown agreed not to contest the leadership campaign, in exchange for certain promises of power in any Blair government, over domestic policies and an undertaking from Blair that he would serve only two terms and then stand down in favour of Brown. In fact, Blair reneged on parts of "the deal" and served for three terms, eventually standing down as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour party in 2007...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11804288/Jeremy-Corbyn-accused-of-being-anti-semitic-as-Labour-grandees-round-on-hard-Left-leadership-frontrunner.html Jeremy Corbyn accused of being 'anti-semitic' Just when you thought that the media and television could sink no lower in their scurrilous campaign of malicious smear, disinformation and vitriol against Jeremy Corby, the Telegraph goes two steps further than anyone, and plays the "holocaust card" declaring that Corbyn is anti semetic ! By repeating an outrageous article taken fom the Jewish Chronicle, implyig that Corbyn is anti semetic simply because of meetings with "terrorist" organisations in the Middle East,(Blair talking to Gadaffi,Sadam Husein, IRA etc is conveniently forgotten), the Telegraph reveals its "Barclay Brothers" background of close association with the Conservative party and other right wing organisations. It is even more outrageous when " on...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-rivals-turn-on-jeremy-corbyn-in-row-over-clause-iv-10447690.html Rivals turn on Jeremy Corbyn in row over Clause IV The distortions, smears, lies and duplicity of the media, television and the right during this campaign is breath taking and dangerous. What Corbyn actually said, rather than what the BBC, Sky News, Independent and other parts of the media are trying to convince everyone that he said, was: 'I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model that prevailed in the post-war era. Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership. But public control should mean just that, not simply state control: so we should have passengers, rail workers and government too, co-operatively running the railways to ensure they are run in our interests and not for private profit. This model shoul...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/10/liz-kendall-profile-power-labour-leadership-election Liz Kendall : 'I don’t want to protest. I want to get into power' Labour leadership hopeful Liz Kendall Kendal is a light weight and demonstrates a very politically naive make up when she compares Attlee to Blair. (If she cant tell the difference she should learn) The comment "I don’t want to protest. I want to get into power" sums up everything that is wrong with her conception of the Labour party and why she should never be elected to lead it. The words which epitomize everything that is wrong the Labour party now and over the last decades, and why Labour party membership has been declining steadily for many years. These are the words, now spoken by one of the leadership candidates, which emphatically states that the Labour party holds the belief that it is acceptable to lie, cheat and deceive the people of this country with hypocritical promises o...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/07/labour-leadership-election-260-former-candidates-and-members-rival-parties-apply-vote Patrick Wintour Labour leadership election: 260 members of rival parties ask to vote Frances Perraudin After almost 6 weeks of the media screaming out scare stories, banging on about entryism, plots to take over the Labour party, plots to abandon the election procedure in order to stop Corbyn at any cost, Patrick Wintour and Frances Perraudin (and presumably minions of other ferrets at the Guardian), can only find 260 alleged entryists attempting to influence (allegedly) the outcome of the Labour party leadership vote. Out of the 140,000 people who have joined or rejoined the party since the election, the Guardian finds 260 who may be "former candidates and members of rival leftwing parties". Not that there is anything wrong with people changing parties. Churchill for example was a classic example. Tory to ...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/04/labour-must-end-the-madness-over-jeremy-corbyn-says-alan-johnson Labour must 'end the madness' over Jeremy Corbyn, says Alan Johnson Alan Johnson Alan Johnson the almost well know former postman, former General Secretary of UCW, former cabinet minister and staunch Blairite, throws off the mask and declares his support for Yvette Cooper. This appeal for members to back Cooper, confirms that the Blairite wing of the Labour party, now believes that only she can stop the almost irresistible momentum behind the support for Jeremy Corbyn to become the next leader. Yesterday, I wrote how Polly Toynbee, the Guardian journalist, had also joined the Cooper camp and had endorsed the ideology, so common within the Labour party for past decades, that it is acceptable to lie, cheat and deceive the people of this country with hypocritical promises of anything and everything in exchange for their votes in a General election...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/04/jeremy-corbyn-gamble-labour-future-yvette-cooper-best-chance Free to dream, I’d be left of Jeremy Corbyn. But we can’t gamble the future on him. says Polly Toynbee. Polly Toynbee Polly Toynbee comes down firmly on the side of Yvette Cooper. During her justification for reaching this decision, paradoxically sprinkled with praise for Corbyn and many of his programmes, Toynbee, perhaps inadvertently, reveals why the Jeremy Corbyn campaign is striking such a high note with party members, both new and old, and perhaps more importantly, with the public. One of the criticisms in the media and on television, frequently levelled against Corbyn and those who support him is that Labour could not win an election under his leadership, and consequently those voting in the ballot should support one of the other candidates and as Toynbee would prefer, Yvette Cooper. In support of this advice, Toynbee uses the...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/26/queens-speech-miliband Look at the alternative Queen’s speech and wonder what might have been. Polly Toynbee. What might have been? Lord Falconer. Prepared a Labour Queens speech The over riding problem with these "What might have been" articles is that history has shown us, time after time, that the proposals of governments as outlined in the Queens Speech are subsequently modified, abandoned or otherwise amended to suit the changing fortunes of the incumbent government. Where proposals are implemented, they are frequently the less controversial aspects of what is often a package designed more to appeal to popular perception than to the real needs o f society. Radical? No. Aspirational? No. Perhaps Polly Toynbee and Lord Falconer could respond to a few enquiries in respect of a Queens Speech. Where is the policy to end austerity and to restore the cuts already made by the Conservative d...