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Conservatives lost more council seats than Labour in UK local elections

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-elections-2016-results-in-full-council-seats-conservative-tory-labour-jeremy-corbyn-a7019041.html Despite all the attention on local elections as a test of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, the Conservatives have lost more council seats than Labour It is not really surprising, how the unlikely bed fellows of some elements of the PLP and the media generally can ignore fact, in pursuit of their own agenda's to remove the leadership of the Labour party. It is a campaign which has been raging since the summer of last year, but with the predicted loss of 200+ Labour council seats failing to materialise, the combined “anti Corbyn” conspirators are faced with, for them, the worrying probability that that are and have been wrong and that the Labour leadership enjoys more support amongst ordinary people than they could possibly imagine. The reality that the Conservatives lost more council seats than Labour, must have come as a grea...

As our steel industry dies, the government buys steel from Sweden to manufacture our Tanks in Spain.

https://www.rt.com/uk/342381-ajax-tanks-steel-crisis/ What steel crisis? 100 British ‘supertanks’ to be built with Swedish steel… in Spain The Ajax battle tank. The first 100 of 600 to be built,and made in Spain. Another aspect of this Conservative governments indifference to the effects of their policies. Add this to the scandal of the millions of tonnes of steel required for the Cross Rail link, HS2 project, new ships for the Navy and other projects, all being supplied from other countries, predominately China. The British steel industry dies due to the governments failure to allow steel to compete on a level playing field with other steel producers and in consequence thousand of wo rkers lose their jobs, thousands of families, reliant on the steel industry and associated businesses, are forced onto welfare and whole communities become no more than ghost towns. The dogma of "competition" (sprinkled with the stench of government complicity in the awarding of...

Debate should focus on taking on the Tories, not on personality

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/09/jeremy-corbyn-labour-not-doing-enough-to-win-2020-general-election#comment-73924775 Labour not doing enough to win 2020 general election, says Jeremy Corbyn The Guardian applying the usual slant to promote its own agenda. Rowena Mason and Anushka Asthana, two of the Guardian's “journalists” and known to be hostile to the Labour party leadership, write an article which has become the norm for a “newspaper”, which, i t should be remembered supported Cooper and Kendall in the leadership election, and also joined the "anyone but Corbyn" clique. Anushka Asthana Rowena Mason The Jeremy Corbyn comments, released before a meeting of Labour MPs and peers, demonstrate the recognition that the Labour party has work to do. “We are not yet doing enough to win in 2020.” Corbyn said, “focus on taking on the Tories” and “debates to be...

New Agenda on Sunday. is out! Edition of 08 May 2016

https://paper.li/f-1346065353# Good Morning everyone. Dell Inspiron 7000 series My Dell Inspiron 24-7459, 7000 series PC, purchased only at the end of March, went down right in the middle of a piece I was working on last Thursday morning. “Oh dear” I said when, after a number of minutes fiddling, unplugging and a few more “Oh dear” comments, the screen came to life with the message that the system did not recognise the power adapter and instructed me to fit a new one, of the same description or better. A phone call to Dell technical support (to an engineer who's English was not very good, but that is another story) confirmed that the PC was under warranty, and should be returned to Dell for investigation and repair/replacement. I would have thought that a simple power adapter and cable could have been popped into a box and sent to me in place of the defective (?) one, but it seems that the mother board and all of the internal circuits have to be inves...

Another shabby anti Labour "story" from the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/08/sadiq-khan-jeremy-corbyn-labour-election-strategy Sadiq Khan widens rift with Corbyn over Labour's 'pick sides' strategy. says the Guardian The Guardian continues its squalid anti Labour party leadership campaign, with another "story",seeking this time, to drive wedges between the new Mayor of London and the Labour party leadership. Heather Stewart Cobbling together a few dregs of information, adding a large helping of personal opinion and throwing in a bucketful of political bias, Heather Stewart manages to write an "article" which sadly has become the norm for a once responsible newspaper. The Guardian and its "journalists" have been intent on bashing the Labour party since the summer of last year. This constant barrage of criticism, smear and mischievousness, will no doubt go on in the hope that the leadership will ultimately be replaced by another regime, more in line wi...

Two naïve backbenchers, adding their "weight" to the media crusade against the Labour party leadership

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/06/jeremy-corbyn-leadership-labour-mps-elections "We nominated Jeremy Corbyn. Now we regret it"  Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark  Jo Cox. MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, first elected in 2015, who nominated Jeremy Corbyn, but voted for the Blairite candidate Liz Kendall in the subsequent leadership election, and Neil Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark also first elected in 2015. today seek out an opportunity to continue the duplicitous plotting against the leadership of the Labour party and Jeremy Corbyn. In their joint article in the Observer, reacting to the local election results of Thursday last (5 th May) they state that the results for Labour could have been much worse, but could and should have been much better. In support of this rather patronising remark, they bizarrely suggest that Labour should have given...

Labour vote holds well in England, despite what some in the PLP have been predicting.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/06/jeremy-corbyn-defies-critics-labour-local-elections Jeremy Corbyn defies critics with Labour set to hold its ground in England The losses at last nights elections are not as significant for the Labour party as Mann, Cooper, Hunt, Hodge and a few others within the Parliamentary Labour Party, have been plotting and wishing for since the summer of last year. They, aided and encouraged by sections of the media, have been waging the most vitriolic and abusive campaign against the leadership of the Labour party with the objective of removing Jeremy Corbyn and those who support him. In this objective they have clearly failed, as by their own measure of what would constitute justification for removing the leadership, they have fallen short of their targets. Not that this will prevent them and an hysterical media circus from claiming that the Labour party is doomed and that only new leadership will prevent the party from descen...