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http://www.labour.org.uk/pages/labour-party-leadership-election-2016
The retrospective imposition of a six month membership requirement (disenfranchising all those members who joined in response to the “chicken coup”), the eightfold increase in the cos…Read more…

I was honoured to speak (twice) at a mass rally in support of Jeremy Corbyn in Brighton yesterday (once in an overcrowded Brighthelm Centre and once to those outside who had not been able to get in).The rally preceded the Annual General Meeting of the …Read more…

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-07-04/eagle-warns-corbyn-she-will-resolve-labour-crisis/
This has now become boring Angela.
If someone else wants to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party let them stand for election.
An ideal candidate…Read more…

It is not as simple as “Jeremy Corbyn ought not to resign.” Nor is it as straightforward as he is an admirable and brave man (though he is) and that those who stand by him in Parliament are the best of the political representatives of our class (though…Read more…

The evidence that Angela Eagle’s (as yet still unannounced) leadership bid was planned in advance tells us more than we want to know about the flinching and sneering ones who are trying to bring Jeremy Corbyn down.
Because these career politicians (for whom their own position within Blair’s Labour…Read more…

The narrow vote to leave the European Union (EU) was, primarily, an expression of reactionary (and often xenophobic) nationalism, but it was close enough that the misguided campaigning of those seeking the mythical “left exit” (or Lexit) could have made a difference.
All those who campaigned to…Read more…

So the Eagle has not yet landed.
There is still – one week after the referendum which provides the ostensible justification for the rebellion of the arrogant and entitled – no declared candidate to stand against Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Pa…Read more…

Yesterday Progress-supporting local Councillors began scraping the bottom of their own barrel by cobbling together a list of elected representatives prepared to call for the ‘decent’ Jeremy Corbyn to stand down ‘for the good of the Party.’This list wil…Read more…

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2015/11/could-labours-rule-book-be-used-keep-jeremy-corbyn-leadership-ballot
I am pleased to blog a link to a persuasive interpretation of Labour Party Rules which e‎xplains why the coup plotters can only keep Corbyn off a leadership ballot paper if…Read more…

One of my favourite scenes in the Simpsons is where Homer corrects Bart when his son says that this is the worst day of his life.
Homer, meaning to cheer Bart up, corrects him cheerfully – “the worst day of your life so far.”
I imagine today’s Daily Mi…Read more…

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2016/06/the-tories-are-divided-but-at-this-crucial-time-labour-should-not-be/ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis, in a well-timed intervention, has reaffirmed UNISON support for the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.As membe…Read more…

I guess it is up to the relatively inexperienced team around the Labour Leader whether he can show the determination to defend socialism which can only now be shown by demanding a confidence vote of the whole membership.
If, dear reader, you are a Labo…Read more…

We just had a referendum in which every adult had a vote.
Some people think that the result was a tragedy.
I am one of those people.
Some people think that the leader of the Labour Party is responsible for this tragedy (although they have no evidence)….Read more…

https://next.ft.com/content/a035f3d2-39c4-11e6-a780-b48ed7b6126f
It is no accident that Blairite MPs have chosen the house journal of the ruling class to seize the opportunity provided by the referendum result to try to destabilise the leadership o…Read more…

Below I reproduce the statement issued promptly by UNISON in response to the result of the EU referendum (which is an all but unmitigated disaster for the working class).
Dave Prentis has elaborated upon this statement in addressing UNISON National Del…Read more…

In thirteen years on UNISON’s National Executive Council (NEC) I have rarely been called upon to speak at our National Delegate Conference.
As an NEC member I may only attend Conference in that capacity and may not speak other than on a subject agreed …Read more…

The National Executive Council’s Motion 121 on branch funding scraped through UNISON Conference‎ by 52% to 48% in a card vote this morning.
This result will come as something of a relief at the UNISON Centre – but, particularly‎ in the light of the strength of support for democratic change in…Read more…

body { font-family: \’Calibri\’,\’Slate Pro\’,sans-serif,\’sans-serif\’; color:#262626 } One of the features of UNISON Conferences which has declined dramatically over the years is the facility to ask questions of the Annual Report submitted to…Read more…

UNISON Local Government Conference ended with the well-deserved smashing of the ridiculous Emergency Motion 7 which peddled the absurd notion that there was some (unstated) alternative to strike action to achieve decent pay.
Your (humble) blogger would…Read more…