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Dec 4, 2022

#034 Owen Jones, A Labour Voter For Life

In Response — In December 2022 Owen Jones has made a video on why he chooses to vote Labour (even if the Labour Party hate him and everything he stands for), In this video he explores the two main threads of criticism he often gets, in response to…

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#034 Owen Jones, A Labour Voter For Life
#034 Owen Jones, A Labour Voter For Life

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Oct 31, 2022

#033 Tax The Fat Cats

Ten Progressive Tax Changes To Obviate The Need For Austerity 2.0 — Jeremy Hunt MP, the latest tory chancellor of the exchequer, on the 17th November 2022, will release a package of spending cuts & tax increases, that together will make up austerity 2.0, the next attack on working people, in the middle of an ongoing cost of living crisis in Britain. …

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#033 Tax The Fat Cats
#033 Tax The Fat Cats

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Aug 14, 2022

#032 Hell or High Wages

It’s Time To Legislate For A £12.50 Per Hour, U.K. Wide, Minimum Wage Floor, For All Adult Workers, Straight After The Next Election — Right now, following over 12 years of conservative government in Britain, inflation is over 10% and rising, energy costs are increasing so much the government have had to step in to hold down prices, food prices and surging and rents are rising at record rates. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-cpi-inflation-rate-rises-101-july-2022-08-17/

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#032 Hell or High Wages
#032 Hell or High Wages

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Dec 27, 2021

#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning

and Starmer‘s Scant Alternative —

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#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning
#031 Boris Johnson’s Reckoning

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Apr 26, 2021

#030 Democracy Isn’t Bookie Betting

Reject Vote Shaming — There is a pervasive idea which haunts British democracy. The idea that if an individual chooses, in good faith, not to vote for a particular political party, that individual is somehow ‘enabling’ or ‘letting the worst party in’, and is therefore somehow an irresponsible, foolish, misguided, deluded or immoral person…

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#030 Democracy Isn’t Bookie Betting
#030 Democracy Isn’t Bookie Betting

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Mar 14, 2021

#029 A “People Powered Party”

The Labour Party Is Far From Democratic — The Labour Party calls itself a democratic (socialist), people powered organisation, but in reality it is neither a socialist nor a democratic party. Here are eight reasons as to why. In the summer of 2016 Hilary Benn MP, then a shadow cabinet member, contacted multiple members of the then shadow…

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#029 A “People Powered Party”
#029 A “People Powered Party”

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Feb 20, 2021

#028 The Capitalist, the Chef, the Cakes and the Cooperative

An entrepreneurial young man named Rick falls into a conversation with his relatively wealthy parents in their house on Wight Manor Road. From this conversation he decides to make some money selling tasty cakes, on a busy section on the street he lives, for an afternoon. …

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#028 The Capitalist, the Chef, the Cakes and the Compromise
#028 The Capitalist, the Chef, the Cakes and the Compromise

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Dec 29, 2020

#027 Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand

Demand More From The Labour Party — Rather than working to unify Labour party members, in its various opposing internal factions, as promised in his early 2020 leadership campaign, Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the labour party, has made it clear he instead prefers to attack, undermine and alienate progressives & democratic socialists within his own…

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#027 Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand
#027 Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand

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Dec 9, 2020

#026 The Labour Party Leaked Report into Antisemitism (2020)

‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014–2019' — In 2020 a leaked internal report made by figures in the Labour Party, into antisemitism, revealed that Labour Party staff actively worked against Jeremy Corbyn and a Labour Party election win in 2017, misused funds, deliberately failed to investigate allegations of antisemitism, to damage the then Labour leadership, used violent…

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#026 The Labour Party Leaked Report into Antisemitism (2020)
#026 The Labour Party Leaked Report into Antisemitism (2020)

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Jun 11, 2020

#025 The Depravity of Boris Johnson

The Most Reprehensible Prime Minister Britain Has Ever Known — Boris Johnson, the current prime minister of the United Kingdom, is so morally depraved and bereft of integrity, he debases the very office he holds, and like the one term president Donald Trump in the United States, he can seriously be considered the worst prime minister and leader Britain has…

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#025 The Depravity of Boris Johnson
#025 The Depravity of Boris Johnson

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