Category: Parliamentary Politics

The first and most important thing you do when you vote in a General Election is consent to handing power over yourself and everyone else in this country — as well as over other countries in which the UK has colonial and financial interests — to a ruling class, which then has the entire apparatus … Continue reading Another General Election . . .

Choose Labour. Choose voting to bomb Syria. Choose going toe to toe with the Tories over who can inflict the biggest cuts to benefits. Choose criminalising the homeless with Public Space Protection Orders. Choose fining people £100 for sleeping rough in Labour-run boroughs. Choose planning permission for anti-homeless spikes in the doorways of banks. Choose employing … Continue reading Choose Labour?

Florence Eshalomi, the new Labour Party candidate for Vauxhall. The constituency had a registered electorate of 82,055 in the General Election of 2017, which was won by the then Labour candidate, Kate Hoey, with 31,576 votes and 57.3 per cent of the vote. Except in the General Election of 1931, Vauxhall, including the former seat of Lambeth … Continue reading A Vote for Labour is a Vote for . . . Florence Eshalomi

Sajid Javid was elected to be the Conservative Member of Parliament for the West Midlands constituency of Bromsgrove with 33,493 votes in the General Election of 2017. Javid has held the seat since 2010, when he first entered politics. Before that Javid was a banker, in which he had a meteoric rise. In 1994 he … Continue reading Representing What? The Rt Hon. Sajid Javid, Home Secretary

In the week leading up to what was to be the UK’s exit from the European Union and for a few days after, the ASH Facebook page was the site of an informal debate about the pros and cons of Brexit. Although there was no agreement on any one position, compared to the previous three … Continue reading Brexit Countdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzA15gpgjCk 1. The Tory Housing Crisis ‘A new world of energy innovations: E.ON’ – is the advertisement that pops up on screen when I go to download the agenda for this year’s Labour Party Conference, obscuring the information behind. I guess it’s appropriate in a way, since its to E.ON – one of the world’s … Continue reading Rebuilding Britain: Housing at the Labour Party Conference 2018

‘Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.’ – Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial 1. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance This is the document, … Continue reading Oy Vey! No Latkes for Labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL1nycH2x_w ‘Never again will we allow this to happen. But what has been so despicable about this, is that this has happened in the richest borough, in the fifth richest country in the world, where we have a government and a local council more interested in saving money than saving lives. If there is anything … Continue reading Figs from Thistles: Labour’s Grenfell Opportunism

Now the shouting’s stopped and the insults have settled, here’s the damage in London from the Local Elections 2018: Barking & Dagenham: Labour hold Barnet: Conservative gain Bexley: Conservative hold Brent: Labour hold Bromley: Conservative hold Camden: Labour hold Croydon: Labour hold Ealing: Labour hold Enfield: Labour hold Greenwich: Labour hold Hackney: Labour hold Hammersmith … Continue reading London’s Local Elections 2018: The Consequences of Voting