Politics

  • Should the homeless pay? Open letter to the Hope Centre.

    On the 24th of July the CEO of the Hope Centre wrote on his blog an article entitled: “Why Hope charges for items like food and clothes.” In this article the CEO seeks to justify charging for these items, as well as selling donations on eBay and furthermore attacks organisations that give away things for

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  • Practical solidarity: Labour must adapt the way it campaigns so it helps those most in need

    One day campaigns and calls for Theresa May to sling it are great at galvanizing support, but if the next election isn’t within the next six months, we run the risk of running out of steam. Words have power that is clear, but words and actions working in unison will lay the foundation for the

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  • DUP feast on the fruit of the money tree, while public sector workers starve.

    They cheered and whooped with delight as they denied a better standard of living to the overworked nurses, to the stressed out police officers and brave firefighters. Remember these words: “I would like to thank the brave men and women of our emergency services,” clearly that thanks from Theresa May didn’t extend to providing them

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  • First vote of parliament, a no confidence one?

    As we draw closer to the vote on Labour’s amendments could this be the first of many votes of no confidence in this limping and lifeless administration? Corbyn has clearly played it safe with his proposed amendments, when you look at the current political environment, how could you vote against ending the pay cap? How

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  • We’ve been DUPED!

    We’ve been DUPED!

    Con verb verb: con; 3rd person present: cons; past tense: conned; past participle: conned; gerund or present participle: conning 1. persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them. “I conned him into giving me your home number” Dupe verb past tense: duped; past participle: duped deceive; trick. “the newspaper was duped into

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  • Owen Smith wins the leadership election.. now what?

    So Owen Smith gets elected Labour leader with a narrow margin, what happens now? Are all the Labour Party problems simply going to evaporate? Now with Corbyn and his thuggish supporters thrown into the wilderness, are we going to return to the strategies put forward in 2010 and 2015? Or is there going to be

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  • Questions all Owen Smith supporters need to answer

    Owen Jones recently wrote an article telling us that as Corbyn supporters there were some key questions we had to answer. Well, I think there are some questions that Owen Smith supporters must answer, they are as follows: 1. How can the disastrous perception of Tory Lite (New) Labour be turned around? 2. Where is

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  • Foster Vs Labour Democracy

    An event took place today that highlighted the dangerous situation we are finding ourselves in, as our democractic insitutions get consumed by money, greed and power. I’m of course referring to the case of a rich Labour donor taking the party to court to overturn one of its internal decisions. Luckily the court ruled that

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  • Media Narrative Manipulation; Momentum & Corbyn “Thug Life”

    Go to any mainstream media website, open any news paper and no doubt you will find similar stories about Corbyn, he’s a friend of terrorists, a director of bullies, a mob leader that would make even Al Capone quake in his boots, he has an army of rabble doing his evil bidding up and down

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  • Labour Civil War? This Is A War Of Ideology

    What is happening within the Labour party is much bigger than Corbyn, it’s much bigger than the Labour Party. Within Labour we are witnessing a break down of the Thatcherite consensus which has dominated the Labour party since the days of Blair and New Labour, alongside this we are witnessing a backlash against Neoliberal ideology

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