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Two Years Too Long: Boris Johnson Must Go

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Here’s a rarity.  I usually know what I am going to write about as the week progresses. I’ll see something in the news, it might be an injustice, an attack on democracy, a dreadful PMQs, the electoral ups and mostly downs of the Labour Party - it doesn’t take much to get me ranting. But this week, I got right up to last night, undecided, genuinely wondering what to talk about. And then it clicked.  On May 24, 2019, Theresa May finally announced her resignation after her proposed EU Withdrawal Agreement was voted down multiple times in Parliament.  It seems like a lifetime ago now. We had so much hope. We had genuine optimism. We had solidarity.  But we also had 95% of the British press telling us free broadband was communism at its finest, after all, Kim Jong-il and Jo Stalin often used to WhatsApp each other after a day of Commie calamities.  We had 80% of the centrist Parliament Labour Party putting 10 times the amount of effort into attacking the twice-elected Labour Party leader th

Starmer’s Labour: Doom and Bust.

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Can you remember one of the many things the saboteurs and plotters from the hard-right of the Labour Party used to say to us on an almost daily basis between 2015 and 2019?  “Britain needs an opposition”.  Did you think I was going to say something about being 20 points ahead under anyone but Jeremy Corbyn? That too would be a fair point. The last time I bothered to check Starmer’s Labour were 12 points behind the worst government in living memory, and some 32 points behind the promised land.  Now, I’m sure some of you are expecting me to tell you how desperately we need to replace Keir Starmer with Jeremy Corbyn, but that ship has sailed.  Mr Corbyn hasn’t held the Labour whip for eight months, the NEC has a pro-right majority, and it will take nothing short of a miracle for any left-leaning candidate to even be able to get on the ballot.  The Labour Party should be a vehicle for societal change, but this Labour Party, this cowardly and unpopular Labour Party, is simply a roadblock to

Is Keir Starmer Going To Bankrupt Labour?

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You will probably not know this, and it’s not your fault if you don’t as it is a rarely reported fact, but the largest annual income the Labour Party has ever achieved was in 2017 when Jeremy Corbyn was the leader of the party. Corbyn tripled Labour’s membership to almost 600,000 members, making Labour the largest political party in western Europe. During his tenure a highly successful funding model developed with unions, members and a very large number of small amount donors contributing to the party. As a result of the generosity of all those groups, by 2018 Labour was richer than the billionaire/millionaire/corporation funded Tory party. An additional and important benefit of Labour’s accounts being in such rude health was that it protected the party from the inevitable corruption caused by political parties taking money from wealthy people and corporations. This type of corruption has been noticeably prevalent during the Covid pandemic. Hugely profitable contracts worth billions of

Don’t Bring Out The Branson - Applaud The Heroes Of Today Instead

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I  have to admit, I quite admired Richard Branson when I was much younger, I think. I can’t actually remember why I admired him, maybe I’m confusing him with Pierce Brosnan. But now when I see Mr Branson I feel much like I do when Keir Starmer suddenly and unexpectedly pops up on the 6 O’clock news - it is like a deep sense of unease, as if someone is trying to wring out my vital organs before doing a moonwalk on my grave.  Now let’s get this “politics of envy” bullshit out of the way first of all.  Mr Branson can earn whatever he likes, but that doesn’t stop us from pointing out the fact that he, or any of the other 2,755 global billionaires with a combined wealth of more than $13 TRILLION - do not make a billion, they take a billion.  According to Forbes, Branson is worth $6 billion USD (£4.3 billion) - and is number 478 on their real-time list of billionaires, as of July 2021.  Branson lives on Necker Island, which is part of the British Virgin Islands, around 1,000 miles southeast