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We can’t go back

SoapBoxJury0
Sorry to have to point this out again but centrists/moderates/grown-ups or whatever they want to call themselves seem a little hard of hearing. Centrists want to return to the third way politics of the Blair era and talk about New Labour’s three successive election victories. They choose to ignore the way the UK political landscape has changed and the effect that has had on Labour’s success. Of course what matters
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A short conversation about how we got into this political sh*tfest

Luke Andreski0
1: Where it went wrong “So,” you ask me, “how did it all turn to shit?” What, precisely? “This! This world of ours!” I nod sagely, as if I’ve a clue what you’re asking. Luckily you barely pause for breath. “What happened to our dreams of caring for one another, of making this world fairer and kinder for everyone? What happened to our hopes for a brighter, better future?” Ah.
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UK Labour Party – Unfit For Purpose

Tony Broomfield0
Throughout its history the UK Labour party has been sold to us as a “Broad Church”, which is defined  as “a group or doctrine which allows for, and caters to, a wide range of opinions and people” which apparently originated from a description of the Anglican church “favouring a liberal interpretation or doctrine”. I have always had a problem with this loose terminology, and while it may be OK in
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A short conversation about a perfect storm

Luke Andreski0
1: Chaos Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to be immersed in a perfect storm? Nothing would be predictable from one moment to the next – except for your probable eventual destruction. Chaos all around you… Noise and confusion buffeting you from every side. Solid ground? Even its memory would begin to recede. As a species and a civilisation, that’s where we are now. Our beautiful planet
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Grand Theft Britain

Tony Broomfield0
Intro Twitter folk this week had been engaged in discussions about the future of the UK Labour Party in the light of its new leadership. Many differing opinions, claims and explanations about how the current situation came about were put forward. all with merit but often seeming to miss the benefit of an oversight of the process. The Dangerous Globe asked some of its followers if such an oversight might
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Part 4 – Democracy the Biggest Fraud of all

Tony Broomfield0
To begin with, Apologies for Absence   We planned to have this piece ready weeks ago, In January we put in a request to the Electoral Commission asking when the 2019 Electoral datasets were being published and they advised March. It didn’t happen, so another request last week got the reply, “hopefully by the end of this month”. While all this was going on, along came Covid 19, and, as
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Labour Antisemitism Full Report

Bloemenstein Whistlehuizen0
The work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019 The Labour Party, March 2019 Below is the full report of 851 pages, into the investigation of the allegations of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn (or a lack thereof). You can also download the original PDF by clicking here. Table of Contents Introduction and Executive Summary........................................................................................... 10 1.1. Executive Summary................................................................................................................. 11 1.2. Scope and
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Part 3 – The Role of the Press in Election rigging

Tony Broomfield0
This is the third part in a series about the rigging of the 2019 December UK general election where we focus on the role of the British press in delivering the extreme right wing governments of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, and the United States. Note :-I planned put a small personal story here to illustrate the root cause of my anger but my editor said I was “rambling off topic
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