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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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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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A bet that seems like a guaranteed 14% return in just over 4 months

A bet that seems like a guaranteed 14% return in just over 4 months

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Video: Footage of Jeremy Corbyn, in yellow, taking on his critics in the Parliamentary Labour Party. NSFW As long as Labour members see Corbyn as the Messiah & not a very naughty boy there won’t be a Labour leadership contest. Paddy Power’s market on whether there’ll be a Labour leadership contest in 2018 seems like an absolute slam dunk for backers of the 1/7 for the following reasons. Whilst Corbyn appears to have better relationships with terrorists and anti Semites…

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Men of Honour?

Men of Honour?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxxQM7GxJA In Peter Hennessey’s Reflections radio series, Margaret Beckett was asked why she abandoned the Catholic faith of her childhood.  The event which crystallised her disenchantment was John Freeman asking Cardinal Heenan what one word summed up the Church.  Margaret waited, expecting something like “charity”or “love”. The Cardinal’s answer was “Authority”. Perhaps not a surprising answer for an institution long steeped in hierarchy and an acute sense of its own magisterium.  But in light of the revelations over recent years of…

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Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson feels the heat after publicly attacking Jezza on antisemitism

Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson feels the heat after publicly attacking Jezza on antisemitism

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Corbynistas are now fighting the man who triggered the 2006 move against Blair Perhaps the biggest development within Labour’s antisemitism row over the weekend has been the assertion by the deputy leader, Tom Watson, that he does not follow the Corbyn line. It sometimes feels like people have been calling for me to stand down from day one but I never, ever thought I’d be facing demands to #resignwatson for standing up for people who are facing prejudice and hate….

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Sean Fear looks back to the Jewish boys during his school-days and wonders just what has happened to LABOUR

Sean Fear looks back to the Jewish boys during his school-days and wonders just what has happened to LABOUR

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"Today, other than another article bemoaning a situation of the Party’s own making, nothing has changed. There is no trust left. We find ourselves asking once again for action, not words" pic.twitter.com/jmNDX9Xvqa — Jewish Labour Movement (@JewishLabour) August 3, 2018 The row that just won’t go away Between the ages of 11 and 18, I went to University College School in Hampstead. UCS was founded by Jeremy Bentham in the early nineteenth century. Jeremy Bentham is probably most famous today…

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The other upcoming leadership contest – Who will replace Jeremy Corbyn?

The other upcoming leadership contest – Who will replace Jeremy Corbyn?

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  Alastair Meeks looks at the LAB leadership Considering how little support Jeremy Corbyn has in his Parliamentary party, it is astonishing that the subject of leadership succession never comes up any more. Part of this is about airtime: there’s so much discussion about Brexit and the travails of Theresa May that no one has the energy to look at what’s going on in the Labour party. For the moment, Jeremy Corbyn is safe from challenge. The membership have twice…

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Why one ex-LAB member has decided to rejoin the party

Why one ex-LAB member has decided to rejoin the party

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The UK will never get a credible, electable opposition unless the centre-left commits to the Labour party, argues Joff Wild Has there been a more depressing time to be on the centre-left of British politics than now? The Labour party’s descent into institutionalised anti-Semitism is no huge surprise to those of us who have been watching the far-left for years, but the speed with which it has happened, the extent to which has occurred and the willingness of so many…

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