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Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum betrays the 70% of Labour voters who voted Remain

Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum group repackages betrayal as a nationwide campaign to ‘Take Back Control’ of Brexit and push it through despite only 37 per cent of the electorate voting Leave. Around 70 per cent of Labour voters chose Remain in the EU referendum but Remainers are unrepresented by the main parties. Instead of robustly challenging […]

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Understanding the viciousness of the anti-Corbyn tendency: shades of the Paris Commune

Jeremy Corbyn, the BBC and the democratic process Why has Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party with a massive 59.5 per cent provoked more fury among the centre-left than the predations of the right which still overwhelm us? I’m bewildered by the preoccupation among good friends with diversions that have little to

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Eggheads Against Jeremy Corbyn: right-wing academics phone it in to the FT

It’s taken the right wing ages to muster 55 Jeremy Corbyn-bashing academics in the FT. (They include Alastair Milne, Professor of Economics at the University of Loughborough. Any relation to Seumas?) I hate to mock the afflicted but they really are flailing like punch-drunks and have tacked together an argument most of us can answer

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General election 2015: “It pumps me up!!!” not a lot

“IT PUMPS ME UP!!!” I KNEW David Cameron would try the Obama “anger translator” trick and screw it up. His speech today launching his small business manifesto (sic!) in London was made even more hideously embarrassing by not actually hiring in the translator. Perhaps it’s an English flaw, confusing mere rich-kid petulance with the fiery passion

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Blair’s support of Cameron torpedoes Labour anti-cuts fight

Just when you thought the monster was dead, he rises in the fourth reel. So the Blairites are out in force supporting Cameron’s National Health Service destruction (I can’t bring myself to call them “reforms”, an Orwellian deformation of the English language). First David Miliband gives us the speech-that-never-was, and suddenly they’re all emerging from

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Labour woos UK Chinese in rebranding exercise

Ray Collins (Labour Party General Secretary) and Sonny Leong (Chair, Chinese For Labour) Fancy “refreshing the Labour brand”? The Labour training session at the weekend was a long-overdue attempt, pioneered by Chinese For Labour’s chair Sonny Leong, to engage the Chinese, Britain’s third-largest ethnic minority, in mainstream politics in order to find “credible” candidates for

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