Food: have you cut back on your supply because of the cost of living crisis?
I was having a look around the TUC (Trades Union Congress) website while I was putting together the article on key workers leaving public services due to low pay – and found this.
It’s a snapshot summary of how the cost of living crisis is affecting people – by UK constituency.
I live in Brecon and Radnorshire, where:
One in eight people have missed meals or gone without food.
Two in five people have cut back on food spending.
And a whopping half of the population have cut back on the amount of hot water, heating or electricity we use.
I can confirm that I myself have done one of the above; both I and Mrs Mike have taken advantage of the unseasonally warm (climate change?) autumn to leave the central heating off altogether – so far.
But never mind me; how about you?
Check the situation where you live by visiting the link directly below.
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How gerrymandering works: constituency boundaries are drawn to give a particular party the best chance to win – even (especially!) if they don’t deserve to.
This is yet another perennial piece of corruption from the Conservative Party.
Recently we’ve seen them revive their plan for a “Royal Yacht” for them to sail in on trade junkets to foreign countries. It was a waste of money in 2012 when it would have cost £60 million. Today it’s supposed to cost £200 million that would be better spent alleviating poverty.
We’ve discovered they have revived their plan to give NHS England patients’ confidential medical records to private companies. The idea was for all patients’ data to be included unless the opt out – but there was no publicity, meaning nobody knew about it until organisations like This Site published stories about it.
They are pushing on with a plan to stop courts from ruling on whether government decisions or actions are unlawful – a serious blow against the rule of law and a huge step towards dictatorship in the UK.
And now we have been told they are reintroducing – for around the third time since they took office in 2010 – plans to rig national election results by changing constituency boundaries to give themselves the best possible chance of winning seats.
It’s a very old and well-known form of political corruption and it’s quite easy to tell when the change isn’t coming in to ensure all constituencies have roughly the same number of voters: instead of looking roughly square or circular, constituencies turn into very strange shapes indeed.
This is because whoever redrew the electoral boundary was trying to get as many voters for their party into each constituency as possible, while limiting the support for other parties.
I haven’t seen the proposed new constituency map so I can’t say for sure that this is what is happening.
But I can make an educated guess, on the basis of the BBC’s commentary on it here: “Overall the changes will benefit the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.”
If anyone – of any political persuasion – was serious about making constituency boundary changes fair, they would base their calculations on the last election result, so that – if the new map had been in operation then – the number of seats going to each party would have been the same.
But they’re not.
So I’m confident that this is another corrupt Tory stitch-up.
My advice is that you need to look at the proposed new boundaries of your constituency and, if it’s not currently held by a Tory, find out if it would be from now on.
If the new borders mean it would, then complain, campaign and get it changed.
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Well, I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generation during lockdown (don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it!) and it seems to me that Keir Starmer is trying to turn the Labour Party into a 21st-century version of the Borg Collective, an alien race from that famous science fiction TV show.
In the show, the Borg travel the universe assimilating other races into their collective, either killing or subduing the leaders and absorbing the population by using cybernetic implants to impose their will.
Among their catchphrases was the line: “You will adapt to service us.”
That is exactly what Keir Starmer and his Parliamentary colleagues seem to be saying to Constituency Labour Parties across the UK with their new initiative to get rank-and-file members using the “Dialogue” phone banking app.
This incentive scheme demands that members call up voters in their constituencies to get as much information about which way people will vote as possible (and get them to vote Labour).
Constituency parties making the most calls will receive rewards – if you can call them that – which mostly involve congratulatory messages from party leader Keir Starmer, deputy leader Angela Rayner or some other shadow cabinet member.
The presentation makes it seem that CLP members should consider such contact a great honour and privilege from celebrities, in comparison with whom the rank-and-file members should consider themselves to be nothing more than functionaries whose only reason for existence is to serve.
Do you see why I am comparing Starmer’s new version of Labour with the Borg now?
The shift in emphasis has not gone unnoticed:
This bodes badly and looks far more ‘cultish’ than anything under Corbyn.
— Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈🏴 (@TheMendozaWoman) December 21, 2020
And the contrast with the previous Labour leader could not have been more apparent:
Jeremy Corbyn: nearly misses his train time after time as people clamour to talk to him, hold his hand, sing his name… Yet looks bashful every time.
Keir Starmer: 'do lots of phonebanking and if you're lucky I might send you a text'. pic.twitter.com/KjGXN5LU6z
— Gayle Letherby 🌹 #WeAreCorbyn #PeaceAndJustice (@gletherby) December 21, 2020
The other aspect of the Borg comparison is the elimination or co-option of leaders who might otherwise oppose the ruling cadre.
Isn’t that what we’ve been seeing since Starmer was elected, in April?
Prominent figures who might otherwise undermine the entitled few have been smeared, accused, suspended and expelled; their names blackened with slanders they find themselves ill-equipped to fight because the party manipulates it own rules to undermine the accused.
In short, while Starmer can’t actually have them killed, these people have been eliminated as any realistic opposition.
So there you have it.
Worse than any comparison with fantasy monsters, though, is the obvious correlation with real-world creatures that no Labour member should want to be seen imitating, even in death.
I refer, of course, to Tories.
In setting himself up as a member of a ruling class within the Labour Party, and demanding that CLP members be reduced to carrying out simple functions for their masters in Parliament (or who have been chosen from a highly-select group of party elites to stand for election), Starmer is re-modelling Labour to resemble the Conservative Party.
Shouldn’t that be the cardinal sin, as far as Labour is concerned?
He certainly isn’t impressing anybody with his choices.
Today he announced that he had co-opted former prime minister – and New Labour stalwart – Gordon Brown to support his plot to restore Labour’s popularity in Scotland (and the other UK nations) by devolving more power outside Westminster.
And when he broadcast a big speech about it, Starmer sank, almost without trace. Fewer than 2,500 people bothered to watch – and many of them were probably members of the press.
I can just picture the producer shouting into ear pieces 'cut him off, we're haemorrhaging viewers!'
It wld be more interesting watching paint dry!
I remember watching him at conference, and even with all those sickening anti Brexit bags everywhere, ppl were nodding off https://t.co/ri4RsencZZ
Or maybe the target audience had had enough of Starmer’s arrogance and entitlement.
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Nadia Whittome: her behaviour is all the more vexing because she has no reason to be loyal to Keir Starmer – he sacked her as a Parliamentary Private Secretary because she voted against a Bill that would have protected soldiers from prosecution if they participated in acts of torture overseas, and briefed the right-wing Guido Fawkes blog about the sacking BEFORE telling her.
A Labour MP who had been considered to be on the left of the party and who said Jeremy Corbyn should be reinstated when his membership was suspended has become a turncoat, it seems.
Despite her own comments about Corbyn, it seems Nadia Whittome does not believe that her peers in the party should have the same right, as she stated in a Tweet following a meeting of Nottingham East Labour Party (she is MP for that constituency but not a member of the CLP):
Nadia, you’ve publicly stated Corbyn should have whip re-instated. Why can’t you extend that right to members in your own CLP? This would at least make sense if you thought Corbyn shouldn’t have whip.
It seems the agenda of last Friday’s CLP meeting included a motion that called for Corbyn’s reinstatement, the lifting of disciplinary measures from others for discussing the issues as well as for the removal of David Evans, General Secretary of the Labour Party, who imposed Corbyn’s suspension and the ban on discussing it that led to the suspensions of other party members.
Ms Whittome objected to the motion, despite having spoken against Corbyn’s suspension herself, it seems.
What are we to make of that? That she considers herself to be above her party colleagues? That she agrees that, while she may discuss such matters with impunity, it is right that rank-and-file party members be suspended for daring to do so? That she thinks party members should not be allowed to register their opposition when party officers flout rules and regulations?
That’s how it looks to This Writer.
Worse, Ms Whittome passed comment on an incident in which a Jewish CLP member left the meeting, claiming they did not feel safe there.
It appears that all was not as she led people to believe. Here‘s a statement from the CLP itself:
“There was only one interruption during the meeting. This arose when one member stated that in his personal experience he had never witnessed any antisemitism in any of our meetings. As he continued with his personal view, another member shouted out – in a manner that some found to be aggressive – that he himself had suffered personal, antisemitic abuse from the person speaking, who was taken aback and stated that this wasn’t true; the Chair intervened and tried to calm things down. At this point the member who had interrupted declared that he no longer felt safe at the meeting and left.
“The member who left has changed his narrative on social media to stating that the member he accused had ‘witnessed an anti-Semitic attack’ on him rather than had attacked him personally.”
Ms Whittome also mentioned the possibility that disciplinary proceedings had been launched against a member of the CLP. This appears to be CLP chair Louise Regan, a former NUT president and (I really hope this has nothing to do with it) vice-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
It seems Ms Regan’s party membership was, in fact, suspended:
Breaking: I understand the chair of Nottingham East CLP has been suspended tonight. This is prompt and effective action by the @UKLabour leadership.
This can only be for allowing the motion to be heard (it was passed by 23 votes to 10). Ms Regan’s conduct during the meeting was described in the CLP statement as “exemplary” and Ms Whittome is said to have joined in thanking her for the way she chaired it.
If that was everything, it would be bad enough, but it seems even worse than that, as evidence has come to light claiming that Ms Whittome actually participated in a smear campaign against Ms Regan. Read:
Nadia's half-hearted support (if you can even call it that) for Jeremy Corbyn and her appalling statement yesterday don't surprise me. She is heavily associated with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), an Islamophobic pseudo-Trotskyist cult that is committed to Zionism. 2/4
Of course, the AWL utterly detest Louise and ran a vicious smear campaign against her during the selection last year. I'm sure they're rubbing their hands with glee today. I hope this episode finally wakes people up to the sort of 'left-wingers' we have in our midst. 4/4
I've just received screenshots of sickening messages from Nadia Whittome, in which she directly participated in the smear campaign against the now-suspended Nottingham East CLP Chair, Louise Regan. Of course, publicly, she denounced the abuse Louise received. See below ↓
These false allegations have been repeated again and again by Nottingham AWL members, with whom Nadia is good friends. The AWL fiercely supported her campaign. Publicly, Nadia denounced the abuse they sent to Louise but, privately, it looks like she was using it to get support.
Maybe Mr Kazmi has his own axe to grind (although, considering the number of Tweets by other people linking Ms Whittome with this AWL group, this seems doubtful). In any case, This Writer will be happy to hear what the MP has to say about all this.
At the moment, it seems likely she has fatally wounded her reputation among the very people on whom she would have to rely in order to be re-elected in any future Parliamentary poll.
And at the very least, it seems likely that she should expect a flood of complaints to Labour’s Governance and Legal Unit, that her comments have brought the party into disrepute – the very charge which, when used against her colleagues, she supported.
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We all learned a lot after This Writer’s court victory over the Labour Party on Tuesday, didn’t we?
Yes, I said victory – even though the case was dismissed. I gained more than Labour did.
The court found that Labour had deliberately ignored its own procedures in order to run an investigation that discriminated against me.
We may therefore conclude that Labour’s finding against me in that investigation also discriminated against me, and that the Vox Political articles that the party complained about were not detrimental to the Labour Party, nor were they anti-Semitic in any way.
In other words, any claim that the party ran its complaints system in good faith is utterly discredited.
Furthermore, the court found that this abuse of its own procedures was fully consistent with Labour Party rules – which says to This Writer that the rule book is not fit to be used and should be re-written, preferably by a committee of constituency-based members, with the help of lawyers hired with party funds. No member of Labour’s ruling elite should be allowed to get their fingers into it.
Further evidence of this came on Wednesday (November 25) when it was revealed that Keir Starmer’s Labour elite have tried to pretend there is a rule allowing him to stifle debate on the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party. There isn’t.
None of the rules specifically forbid the expression of solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn or criticism of the leadership’s political decisions.
A letter from Fraser Welsh (who?), head of internal governance (oh), states: “The Labour Party disciplinary case against the former Leader has now concluded… However… motions around this issue… are providing a flashpoint for the expression of views that undermine the Labour Party’s ability to provide a safe and welcoming space for all members, in particular our Jewish members. Therefore all motions which touch on these issues must be ruled out of order.
“We are aware that this ruling will be questioned, so the following explanation of the powers exercised by the General Secretary, as well as the rationale for this decision may be helpful:
“The Labour Party’s Code of Conduct: Antisemitism and other forms of racism states (Appendix 9 in the Rule Book): “The Labour Party will ensure the party is a welcoming home to members of all communities, with no place for any prejudice or discrimination based on race, ethnicity or religion.”
“Chapter 1 VIII.3.A tasks the NEC to “to uphold and enforce the constitution, rules and standing orders of the Party and to take any action it deems necessary for such purpose…
“Chapter 1 VIII.5 states: “All powers of the NEC may be exercised as the NEC deems appropriate through its elected officers, committees, sub-committees, the General Secretary and other national and regional officials and designated representatives appointed by the NEC or the General Secretary. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the NEC shall have the power to delegate its powers to such officers and committees and subcommittees of the NEC and upon such terms as from time to time it shall see fit. Further, it shall be deemed always to have had such power.”
None of the rules mentioned specifically forbid the expression of solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn or criticism of the leadership’s political decisions. And Mr Welsh – deliberately? – omits any evidence in support of his wild claims from his letter, meaning local party leaders have no reason to believe him.
So, have I got this right?
Jewish comrades who pledge support for Jeremy Corbyn will now be deemed anti-Semitic?
Insulting, wrong, and highly offensive. @UKLabour has fallen hard.
Having just won a court case on the basis that its rules don’t mean Labour has to follow any procedure that isn’t specifically codified in the rule book, the party’s leaders can hardly insist that, in this instance, they do.
And it is encouraging to see so many local parties overruling the diktat from party HQ in order to continuing expressing their support for Jeremy Corbyn, for free speech and for democracy. I’ve been monitoring Twitter and here is a taste of what’s been happening:
Proud of Pudsey CLP – passed a motion tonight calling on the Labour Party General Secretary to withdraw the gagging guidance to local parties which stifles debate and solidarity ✊🏻
.@WestminsterCLP just voted to call on the General Secretary to withdraw his guidance restricting members' right to debate important internal matters & to call on the Leader to restore the whip to @jeremycorbyn!
Dulwich & West Norwood CLP – expresses solidarity with @jeremycorbyn – calls on the NEC to instruct @Keir_Starmer to restore the parliamentary whip, end all political attacks on Corbyn & work for unity in the party. -calls for an NEC investigation into Corbyn's suspension pic.twitter.com/pRPfDfdhF1
I'm told overwhelming majorities have voted to support reinstating whip to Corbyn in Milton Keynes and Hall Green CLPs this evening. The authoritarian diktats from David Evans are being ignored.
Opposition to Starmer’s power grab has extended to the unions, which are not governed by Labour Party rules and can say and do what they like:
First North Notts Unite Community meeting tonight, no confidence motion in Keir Starmer unanimously passed with only 1 abstention, solidarity with @jeremycorbyn & already working on a letter of solidarity to the trans community from us for our next meeting ❤️🏳️⚧️
Sadly, the Conservatives are doing very well out of the civil war that Starmer has stirred up – and will continue to profit in any forthcoming elections, as long as Starmer and his elites have any power in the Labour Party. Here’s the reason:
"If he can treat Labour Party members like this, how will he treat us?"
That's what the electorate will ask. @Keir_Starmer & his Labour hierarchy are out of control and they're seriously damaging the party.
The longer this continues, the worse it will get. Labour Party members across the UK have made it clear that they do not accept Starmer’s dictatorship and while the dissent is only a whisper at the moment, it will soon become a roar.
Starmer has put himself in an impossible position. Having abused party rules in a vain attempt to assert dictatorial authority, he is unlikely to accept the democratic decision of members to deny him that authority.
I think, therefore, that Labour members will have to consider what other steps they can take to have him removed. Potential left-wing challengers for the leadership position should start generating support – but should wait until large numbers of CLPs have registered their opposition to Starmer’s activities before demanding an election.
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The day after This Writer called for Jeremy Corbyn to take court action to stop the current Labour leadership from playing fast-and-loose with party rules to persecute him – he did just that.
Jeremy Corbyn’s solicitors have written to Labour calling for his suspension as one of the party’s MPs to be lifted, the BBC has been told.
I can’t take credit for the move – this is a tiny website with a very small readership – around 16,000 a day on average – but I think it is worth recording my gratitude to everybody who did pass my message on to Mr Corbyn, just in case.
Keir Starmer has built up a reputation, in a very short time, for conceding court cases Labour’s legal advisers say the party should win. In this instance, the opposite should apply – so I fear he’ll decide to fight.
Possibly mitigating against this is the letter to the party’s acting general secretary, David Evans (his appointment has yet to be ratified by a Labour Party conference), demanding that the Parliamentary party whip be restored to Corbyn.
condemns the ‘double jeopardy’ and ‘deliberate political interference’ of withdrawing the whip from Corbyn after he was reinstated by an NEC panel
makes clear that the decision of the panel was based on independent legal advice and the recommendation of Labour’s disciplinary investigative unit
implies that their advice was that there were no valid grounds for Corbyn’s suspension
confirms that the whip hadbeen restored to Corbyn on the lifting of his suspension, making an utter mockery of Starmer’s excuse that he was ‘not restoring’ the whip rather than withdrawing it
makes clear that the meddling in the disciplinary outcome is exactly that kind of ‘political interference’ the EHRC has ruled unlawful
accuses Starmer and other right-wing MPs of smearing the NEC panel members who acted in accordance with the party’s rules and the legal advice they gave
says that Starmer has put NEC members in a legal bind – and that as a highly-qualified barrister he has no excuse for his ‘unconscionable’ choice
demands that Evans rebuke Starmer for his political interference in party processes and undermining public confidence in Labour’s disciplinary process
‘requires’ Evans to immediately ‘demand’ that Starmer upholds the NEC panel’s decision and restores the whip to Corbyn
So now Starmer is well and truly caught between a rock and a hard place.
I wonder what sanctions will be carried out by the NEC members who signed the letter, if they don’t get what they demanded?
Perhaps Starmer’s decision will be made easier by the continuing rebellion of party members across the country, who continue to ignore his diktats that they should not speak up on Corbyn’s behalf or campaign for him.
This Writer is delighted to see that Bristol South CLP (I’m from that part of Brizzle) has just voted to support Corbyn:
My Labour CLP, Bristol South, has just voted for a motion in solidarity with @jeremycorbyn and demanded that he has the whip immediately reinstated. Will post the texts of the motions tomorrow if permitted.
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Perhaps they thought we would forget. If so, they thought wrong.
Conservative MPs who voted to starve children whose families have been plunged into poverty as a result of their selfish policies are being made to face the realities of their decisions, with scores of paper plates, empty apart from messages of condemnation, delivered to their constituency offices.
They aren’t likely to make a fuss about it, as they did about social media condemnation, for a simple reason: they can hide the evidence and pretend it hasn’t happened.
So This Site recommends that anybody laying out a plate protest at their Tory’s constituency office take photographs of it and put them on Facebook, Twitter and your favourite other social media.
That’s what people in Brecon and Radnorshire did when they launched a plate protest against local Tory MP Fay Jones, who voted to starve children in England even though those in her own constituency will receive meals over the holidays, courtesy of the Labour-run Welsh Government.
An initial set of plates was put out yesterday morning (October 29) and looked like this:
But when more people arrived to add to the protest later, all of this original set had disappeared – cleared away by Tories who were desperate to pretend there was nothing to see, it seems.
The explanatory information makes chilling reading:
“In a country that rates 8th in the world for military spending, cutting free school meals during a pandemic impoverishing working class children is totally unacceptable and shows the cruel and callous attitude of the current government towards its own citizens.
“This is a political party which is completely out of touch and has shown nothing but contempt for the electorate that trusted them with power in 2019.
“We will stand in solidarity as a community to oppose this form of state-inflicted cruelty against those who are most vulnerable in society.
“After 10 years of austerity we will not agree that normal people should be the ones to suffer, especially children. We demand this government reverses its decision to end free school meals.”
Plate protests are taking off across the country, as these news reports show:
Will you come and use a paper plate to have your say?
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Robert Jenrick: what dictionary did he use when he looked up his definition of fair?
Why was housing secretary Robert Jenrick part of the negotiating team handling support for Greater Manchester while it is in Tier 3 Covid-19 restrictions?
Clearly, it can’t be because he can be trusted with money; he corruptly induced a fellow MP to approve a grant for his constituency totalling £237 per person recently – contrast that with the £7.95 per person for Manchester. And Jenrick’s constituency isn’t in Tier 3!
Doesn’t it seem more likely that the opposite is true – that he was certain to deprive Manchester of the cash it needed? The precedent is there in his handling of Richard Desmond’s Tower Hamlet’s planning application, which Jenrick manipulated in order to deny London’s poorest borough £45 million.
He seems to have thought he could get away with this sleight of hand.
He thought wrong.
So after he appeared on TV saying this…
Having spent billions upon billions on his catastrophic no-deal Brexit & billions more on his failing outsourced test & trace system Gov’t Minister Robert Jenrick confirms Boris Johnson was unwilling to reach agreement with Greater Manchester yesterday over 5 million quid! pic.twitter.com/dPYL3SPoCj
Andy Burnham – fighting to get the best deal for all of the people of Manchester. Robert Jenrick – 'helped' Tory donor, Richard Desmond avoid paying £40M to Tower Hamlets, London's poorest borough A text thank you mentioned 'not giving Marxists his dough'
Robert Jenrick on @SkyNews saying how important it is to treat all local authorities fairly.
He might have a point if it wasn't for the fact that this disingenuous fucker, presided over a regime that allocated Government funding predominantly to areas with sitting Tory MP's…😠
And today the Commons will be debating whether children should have free school meals because, after years of Tory deprivation, their parents can no longer afford to feed them. What will Jenrick’s contribution be?
Minister Robert Jenrick to offer school pupils one bowl of gruel a day if they use their weekends to sweep rich peoples chimneys in a take it or leave it offer.
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Can there be any other interpretation of this Tory campaign to build support in constituencies where the Labour MP has only a small majority?
They have been using Facebook’s facility to provide targeted – and therefore under-the-radar – advertising to attract voters in 19 Labour marginals.
And the line they have taken is hatred of foreigners.
We should not be surprised. It comes from the party that gave us racist vans telling people of foreign descent to “go home” in 2013, and followed it up with the Windrush scandal that is still rumbling on, two years after it was revealed.
Now they are stirring up offence at Labour MPs in Bedford, Coventry, Warwick, Newport and elsewhere by highlighting their opposition to the Tories’ Immigration Bill at the start of the month.
But they aren’t doing it honestly. Their campaign doesn’t say, “Your MP opposes our restrictions on care workers.” That would be honest.
Bear this in mind:
A study by the organisation First Draft which fact-checked Conservative targeted Facebook ads at the general election found that 88 per cent of them were misleading or dishonest, compared to none for opposition parties.
No – the Tory campaign says, “Your MP just voted against ending free movement.”
It shows how brainwashed some of the UK’s racists have become. They think ending free movement between nations is a good idea because it stops foreigners from coming to the UK and don’t spare a second’s thought for the fact that it means they can’t easily go abroad, either.
The Tory ads go on to engage interested racists in a data collection exercise that asks them to fill in a survey that even the Independent describes as “spurious”, with questions like, “Do you support strengthening our immigration system?”
The fact is that our immigration system no longer needs strengthening as there is now little reason for anybody to want to come to our used-up and ruined civilisation.
Would you want to come to work in a country where the jobs don’t pay and you’re subjected to racist abuse every day of your life?
Even education is a no-no nowadays, as even the biggest of our universities are finding. Who would want to educate themselves at the same place that produced prime muttonhead Boris Johnson?
But that won’t occur to the racists being targeted by the Tories as – at least in the educated opinion of This Writer – racists are simply not intelligent enough to think about this issues.
So we can see where this is leading.
The Tories will use their ad campaign – costing how much, I wonder? – to build up a database of useful idiots.
Then, when there’s an election, they’ll start sending these allies targeted messages, weighted to cause the maximum resentment of their Labour representatives.
This will be calculated to go viral, with these people mentioning the attack lines to their mates at work, online and even in the pub if it’s fully open by then (but nobody will mention the restriction being due to Tory idiocy).
The intended result is obvious: Labour loses those constituencies at the next election.
And what is Labour doing about it?
Under Keir Starmer, that party has stopped advertising on Facebook altogether – in an attempt at solidarity with Black Lives Matter after the social media platform was accused of failing to do enough to remove hate speech and racism, and after Starmer was caught badmouthing the anti-racist movement.
Good going, Clueless Keir!
On the other hand, the new New Labour leader has launched a social media campaign claiming that the party is “Under New Management” in a betrayal of all the socialist party members to whom he promised to continue the popular policies of Jeremy Corbyn.
He probably expected it to soar but it has sunk like a ton of bricks:
— Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈🏴 (@TheMendozaWoman) July 22, 2020
Lol. After a lifetime's support of the Labour party, the party I believed all my life belonged to me and my ancestors, I'm now literally loving hating it and can't see myself even voting Labour again. There are millions like me for different reasons.
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Pittance: count your coppers if you live in the North of England or the Midlands – the Tories will starve you of cash and favour the South East as they try to recover from the coronavirus crisis.
Everybody in the former ‘Red Wall’ constituencies must be feeling properly humiliated now.
What a bunch of chumps. They voted Tory because they wanted to “Get Brexit Done” and now they find that the only things being “done” are they themselves.
Perhaps they’ll console themselves by thinking that even a Labour government would not have been able to stop Covid-19 ravaging the UK – but that’s only because the Tories, who they helped vote back into government, had failed to make the proper preparations in good time.
Whichever way you look at it, it seems everyone in those constituencies who switched their vote to Tory is about to get their just desserts. Let’s hope they learn their lesson, which is: never ever vote Conservative.
My sympathy goes out to everybody in the North who didn’t vote for the Tories but will suffer just as much as those who did.
Communities in the North will be hit more than twice as hard by the economic impacts of coronavirus than parts of the South, a new report has found.
The recession caused by the crisis, which Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week acknowledged would be “the likes of which we have never seen” will see an average fall of 12 per cent in permanent losses in economic output over the next five years across the so-called Red Wall, the Centre for Progressive Policy found.
It means areas in the North and the Midlands would be hit harder than communities in the South East, which would see average losses of five per cent.
The Red Wall crumbled at the 2019 general election in the face of the Conservatives’ advance, and the party has pledged to “level up” prosperity across the UK.
We can see very clearly that the Tory pledge to “level up” prosperity across the UK was never serious.
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