Labour Party

(Note: Parts of this article first appeared in Sublation Magazine) The electoral arithmetic is straightforward. Option 1: To win the next General Election in its own right the Labour Party needs to win 119 seats, with a minimum, nominal mathematical gain of almost half a million Tory voters. …

Today the Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, a man so ordinary that he thinks a picket line is an elaborate trap, held a press conference to launch the Labour Party immigration policy. Keir Starmer: Hello everybody. I have invited you here to launch…

Our brothers and sisters working in the rail industry have shown the way forward, in their successful strike action so far this week. The fact that the Tories have been led into ever more excited and ridiculous levels of lying and fabrication about the dispute shows just what shaky ground…

It’s been a bad week for Sir Keir Starmer, with a slew of articles saying that he’s boring and uninspiring — including some fairly breathtaking anonymous briefing from his own Shadow Cabinet. (Remarkably, this is in some quarters getting more pick up than the PM’s ethics adviser resigning on the…

I sense a lot of overconfidence on the British left right now. After the so-called partygate scandal, the previously rock-solid Tory vote has declined in polls from around 40% (give or take) to maybe 32 or 33%. This is great news for Sir Keir Starmer, as it’s allowed him to…