When you lose your friends 135
Posted on
September 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘uk politics’
Normal service resumed 159
Posted on
September 28, 2015 by
Ed Millington
In the spirit of straight talking, honest politics, I’m going to put my cards on the table right now: I’m a Corbyn voter. As a classic hand-wringing, middle-class, North London leftie, the mad fact of Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy compelled me to register as a Labour supporter; empowered me to bet £3 on the foolish notion that Something More might somehow, suddenly, be achievable.
In no small part, I was inspired to do this by what happened in Scotland this year. I’m sure many of us were: finally, a viable political force south of Berwick was willing to show two fingers to austerity.
And if anyone called us out, if they told us we were crazy and that nobody would vote for such a “loony”, “radical”, “hard-left” candidate? Well, then we had a perfect example just north of the border to throw back at them. The SNP had hoovered up 50% of the vote on an anti-austerity ticket, and after all, aren’t we one nation? One people fighting for a common cause, et cetera? Couldn’t we put labels aside and work together?
Things we don’t remember 297
Posted on
September 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is shadow Chancellor John McDonnell speaking to the Labour Party conference in Brighton just a few minutes ago (immediately prior to rather presumptuously inviting the Scottish electorate to “come home to Labour”):
We don’t recall those things happening. We feel sure that if they had, they would have been mentioned in the papers. Can any readers help us out?
Advice for Jeremy Corbyn 378
Posted on
September 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Maybe check anything Kezia Dugdale tells you before you go on telly with it.
Let’s just quickly run through those facts, shall we?
The three non-Yorkshiremen 190
Posted on
September 26, 2015 by
Chris Cairns
Order “Welcome To Cairnstoon”, Chris’ compilation of Wings cartoons and more, here.
Yet another bad day for irony 224
Posted on
September 23, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The editor of the New Statesman just tweeted this image, trailing an interview with Jim Murphy, who alert readers may recall led Scottish Labour for a few months this year before its apocalyptic disaster of a general election campaign which saw it lose 40 of the 41 Scottish seats it won in 2010:
Oh, wait – maybe he’s trying to claim the credit for it.
Separatists and their squillions 140
Posted on
September 22, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So we weren’t expecting this. The Telegraph have sent us a reply after we complained to IPSO about this. It’s worth a read, so we thought we’d let you see it.
A cautionary tale 250
Posted on
September 21, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Vote Labour, get Tory 163
Posted on
September 17, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a remarkable story on the BBC News website today about the latest findings of the British Election Study, last seen destroying the myth that fear of the SNP damaged Labour in England. The piece focuses on the discovery that being seen as “too left-wing” does NOT, in fact, cost Labour votes, despite the hysterical warnings of supposedly leftist pundits.
But there’s a more startling fact buried right at the end.
Better not together 254
Posted on
September 16, 2015 by
Jeremy Gilbert
Dear Blairite MP,
I’m writing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members; some new, and some, like me, who have been loyal party members throughout our adult lives. I’m not writing to any one of you in particular.
The ones I’m addressing will know who they are.
It’s time to talk about us.
The Experts 278
Posted on
September 13, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Turns out it’s not just Scotland the media commentariat knows nothing about.
