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Surely Labour MPs won’t go quietly with deselections set to become a reality

Surely Labour MPs won’t go quietly with deselections set to become a reality

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Joan Ryan is chair of Labour Friends of Israel. Tonight local party radicals passed a vote of no confidence in her, 1st stage of deselection. Tough to think of a worse look for a political party that aspires to govern. https://t.co/7Pqyg6TPvL — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) September 6, 2018 Another moderate and Corbyn critic @gavinshuker has also just lost a confidence vote tonight. That’s 4 Labour MPs in total now, after Hoey and Field. The purge has begun. — Tom…

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No surrender to the IHRA

No surrender to the IHRA

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Labour MP John Mann: "The eight should announce themselves."https://t.co/TLPEhQJJPw — Kevin Schofield (@KevinASchofield) September 5, 2018 When I look at the way Labour are handling the who anti-Semitism story I end up sounding like the late great Fred Trueman, ‘I don’t know what’s going off out there’. After the events yesterday I would have drawn the line under the whole affair and moved on to targeting the many areas the government are screwing up. But those eight MPs coupled with…

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Chris Williamson’s odds to succeed Corbyn move from 100/1 to 33/1 in a week

Chris Williamson’s odds to succeed Corbyn move from 100/1 to 33/1 in a week

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Ladbrokes: Chris Williamson is now 33/1 to become the next Labour leader, in from 100/1 last week pic.twitter.com/wp1El4c8vn — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 4, 2018 Why I’m not jumping aboard on this betting bandwagon The major betting news today is the odds of Derby North MP Chris Williamson tumbling from 100/1 last week to 33/1 today. My primary reason for not backing Williamson is that if someone from the Corbynite wing of the party succeeds they will need explicit public…

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The affairs of state. How the personal can become very political indeed

The affairs of state. How the personal can become very political indeed

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Love him or loathe him, Alex Salmond is one of the towering political figures of the age.  He has taken the cause of Scottish independence from a fringe idea to one of the great themes of Scottish and indeed British politics.  With a ready wit and an unsurpassable sense of his own importance, he has assembled an army of Nats on and offline, all straining to be unyoked from the United Kingdom. This last week, Scottish politics has been convulsed…

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Age is not just a number: Corbyn’s greying pals

Age is not just a number: Corbyn’s greying pals

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When does he bring the next generation through? Stalin liked a good purge. Leaving aside his sadistic and psychopathic tendencies, and the fact that they kept population, politicians, military and everyone else in greater or lesser states of constant fear, they also raised him closer to the god-like status he presumably aspired to. Not just because he was ultimately directing events, nor the pseudo-religious worship but the fact that by the late 1930s, he alone remained of the revered revolutionary…

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How the Labour Party would split – and why it won’t

How the Labour Party would split – and why it won’t

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A summer of conspiratorial meetings amongst serial rebels has fuelled talk of a split. Picture the scene. Lord Mandleson hosts a BBQ where “up to” 20 Labour rebels look at their options for a breakaway party. Labour’s Deputy Leader Tom Watson was amongst the group, uniting the remnant Blairite and Brownite camps against Corbyn. Whether plotting to adopt the IHRA definition against the NEC, or plotting to deliberately lose to spite Corbyn (Stephen Kinnock not being very good at this),…

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Corbyn’s leader ratings have slumped sharply since the start of the year

Corbyn’s leader ratings have slumped sharply since the start of the year

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I’ve just discovered a Wikipedia page which seeks to record all the main leader ratings from the leading pollsters. The page describes itself as being confined to “approval ratings” which it doesn’t. Instead we see a range of four or five different formats. Unfortunately the page isn’t quite as comprehensive as it suggests and I have had to add to the polls covered in my version of the spreadsheet above of 2018 ratings for Mr Corbyn. The trend for the…

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Just 19% of LAB voters believe Israel’s more to blame for the lack progress on Middle East peace than the Palestinians

Just 19% of LAB voters believe Israel’s more to blame for the lack progress on Middle East peace than the Palestinians

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Sure the Deltapoll for Prospect finds that three times as many LAB voters than CON ones blame Israel but it is the huge “both equally” numbers that are a surprise. Here as the chart shows there’s really not that much difference between supporters of the two main parties and the whole sample. This does suggest at the very minimum that this is far from the top of most people’s concerns. Given the polling it is hard to disagree with Martin…

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