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Sunday, October 6, 2024
The media and the major parties would have you believe that voting reform is ‘off the agenda’ following the Tories’ ‘win’ in May. Retired bishop Colin Buchanan and former president of the Electoral Reform Society argues otherwise in a booklet published in July. The existing first-past-the-post (FPTP)  system, he...
Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader opens up a fantastic opportunity to challenge the damaging austerity policies that the Tories have been inflicting on our communities. We can't control the biases we've seen in the mainstream media, so their distortions will have to be challenged, and our positive vision...

Cameron’s Pig Gate Competition

With the revelation of our Prime Ministers fondness for dead pigs while at Oxford University, in an initiation ceremony for a millionaire's secret society, we're running a competition for the best pig mask on the National Demonstration at the Tory Party Conference on Sunday 4 October. Lets get our...
Commenting on the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, Molly Scott Cato, South West MEP and Green Party national speaker on finance, said: “I congratulate Jeremy Corbyn on his election which shows Labour rediscovering its soul. Corbyn has stood on a platform of alternative economics and social justice....
Long overdue...the Downfall parody of the Labour leadership election... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E6H0BhBrAA&sns=fb John Rees

Electile Dysfunction

Tomorrow, the ballot papers for the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party will be sent out, and like many I have been weighing the options with all the enthusiasm of a condemned man reading the menu for his eve-of-execution meal. Here’s the thing. When the leadership election was...
Mumsnet thinks he’s the one. A ‘salty sea-dog’ sort of sexy, oozing beardy charisma in his beige and various shades of pastel. They’d love to share a cup of tea and a biscuit with him, pretend to listen to his ideas on progressive socialism, while dreamily gazing into those...

The Knife in the Dark

On the 20th of July 2015, Andy Burnham, Liz Kendal, and Yvette Cooper abstained on voting against the Tory Welfare Bill which for want of a better descriptive, was an attack by the richest on the poorest of our Nation. All three of these individuals are standing to be...
Special advisors and PR gurus were tonight talking with important people like journalists and lobbyists about the menace of Jeremy Corbyn who may yet win the Labour leadership election.“Our employers can’t compete with Corbyn!” said an unnamed PR consultant while holding a champagne flute and filling in multiple expense...
(The author whole heartedly admits that he is in no way an expert and simply irritated with not being represented and poking fun at the UKIPs voters & Nick Cleggs backstabbing face). Much anger has been seen in the wake of the 2015 general elections with the lack of...