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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

Apr 26, 2021

#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting

Reject Vote Shaming — There is a pervasive idea which haunts British democracy. The idea that if an individual chooses 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 worthy of condemnation…

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#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting
#030 Democracy Is Not Bookie Betting

Mar 14, 2021

#029 A “People Powered Party”?

Is the Labour Party Really Democratic? — The Labour Party calls itself a democratic (socialist), people powered organisation, but is this really true? Here are eight reasons to believe otherwise. In the summer of 2016 Hilary Benn MP, then a shadow cabinet member, contacted multiple members of the then shadow cabinet, to try to coordinate a coup…

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

Feb 20, 2021

#028 The Capitalist, the Cakes and then Progress

An Allegorical Tale An entrepreneurial young adult named John falls into a conversation with his wealthy parents, as a result he decides to make some money from selling cakes for an hour on a busy section on the street he lives, Wight Manor Road. …

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#028 The Capitalist, the Cakes and then Progress
#028 The Capitalist, the Cakes and then Progress

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

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)

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

Apr 5, 2020

#024 Starmer’s Labour Is Lost

Exodus — Radical progressives, twenty-first century democratic socialists and straight up Starmer sceptics, the time has come to leave the Labour Party. It is no longer an organisation working in our interests, as it was under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn MP, an internationally renowned democratic socialist British politician. https://theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/15-times-jeremy-corbyn-was-on-the-right-side-of-history/

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#024 Starmer’s Labour Is Lost
#024 Starmer’s Labour Is Lost

Oct 8, 2019

#023 Meaningful Votes & People’s Votes

Representatives, Referenda & E.U. Exit Deals — In September 2019 the Labour Party, the UK’s largest and main opposition party, democratically adopted an essentially new policy at their annual conference. Part of this policy read as follows, “Our party leader has made our way forward abundantly clear; a public vote on a deal agreed with the EU…

Politics

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#023 Meaningful Votes & People’s Votes
#023 Meaningful Votes & People’s Votes

Jun 14, 2019

#022 Extend The Weekend

The Four Day Work Week — The demand for a four day week (or time equivalent) is growing rapidly across the progressive movement. Leading the way is the Four Day Week Campaign (https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/) alongside progressive think tanks such as the New Economics Foundation and Autonomy UK, who have both released detailed reports advocating for change in…

Politics

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#022 Extend The Weekend
#022 Extend The Weekend
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