Some Thoughts on the Corbyn Phenomenon
By Max Musson: Most people from all political persuasions are both surprised and bemused by the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party, not knowing quite what to think. There are those members of the public who are of a more radical left-wing persuasion who will no doubt be rather pleased by Corbyn’s success and the prospect of being able to vote for a decidedly left-wing prime ministerial candidate at the next…
Mind Control and the Election
By Dafydd Ellis: They have used the same template for all elections where their chosen party and leader are promoted as strong and united, while the opposition party and leadership were being exposed as weak and indecisive. Labour in the seventies (weak and indecisive), made way for Thatcher and ‘strong’ leadership in the eighties. With growing public exasperation with the Conservatives, in the nineties it was “time for change” with Tony Blair and New Labour being promoted…
Labour Attitude to Immigration Unchanged
By Richard Deacon: Labour Party stalwart and MP for Blackburn, Jack Straw, was recently in the news, seemingly admitting regret for his part in allowing large numbers of East European nationals the right to live and work in the UK in 2004. However, while news headlines have misleadingly, and deliberately so, been couched in terms suggesting that Straw now regrets the New Labour policy of deliberately imposing multiculturalism and multiracialism upon Britain in defiance of…