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In Jones we trust … or not.

Having written this morning in response to a piece of writing by Owen Jones on the state of Labour’s polling, I felt the need to further my thoughts on where this unlikely incendiary figure sits within the Labour ‘family’.

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Owen Jones, he’s at it again and some people don’t like it.

Owen Jones has written a reflective piece looking at Labour’s position in the current polling and it has stirred up the usual hornets’ nest of despairing voices. I’ve discussed my views on polling before, so won’t revisit the…

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Entitlement of The Establishment: Another week and the tiresome campaign against Labour’s democracy continues in predictable fashion.

So, here we are again again, the redundant intellect of Labour’s Turd Way embarrassing themselves while…

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Parliament’s back in session and some ghosts still not ready to put away their sheets this close to Halloween

So, we’re a couple weeks past Jeremy Corbyn receiving his second mandate to lead the Labour party and I would have hoped that all the talk now…

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I worry for British politics.

Some people are expressing concern for Jeremy Corbyn’s welfare as he appears to have been silent during the Conservative Party conference. What they would really appreciate is a meaningless press release to salve their quavering because politics is only happening when it has…

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Corbyn to bring the house down and the real work begins after conference.

Rumours abound that there are plans afoot to keep the main hall at conference half empty for Corbyn’s speech today. After trying to run a story about searches to leave the Labour party being the highest…

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Party of the people or the bubble: The fight to not put the pin back in Labour as an openly democratic political force.

There is a world constructed in the minds of a few thousand people and the pages of the newspapers and within the hours of…

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The Rotten Core of Labour: A time for honourable MPs to stand.

Remember back in June when there was a vote of no confidence of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, supported by 172 MPs? A sign of Corbyn’s lack of popularity in Labour’s Parliamentary Party? Hmm, maybe not so much. It is being…

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Final thoughts on the coup. Hope that tomorrow is a new day for Labour.

I should be clear and will say again; I do not have any problem with people thinking that Jeremy Corbyn is not a good leader for Labour or if they don’t think he can lead Labour to an election victory. We…

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When whether something is News depends on just how flexible you are with your definition of what News is.

What is the News? Is a) the News what is happening in the world or is it b) a snapshot of what might be happening in the world distorted by desires to…

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Collection of my personal reflections of the shenanigans that rolled out after the 23rd June 2016 impacting the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn
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