General Election
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The Incredible Disappearing Farage, and Other Electoral Oddities
For a decade Nigel Farage has been flung into our living rooms continually by the BBC. Even when UKIP barely registered a blip in the opinion polls, he was a regular on Question Time and the other news, current affairs and politics programme. Farage’s celebrity was a BBC creation. He served an important purpose. At… Continue reading
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Brexit/Election News Links 3 November 2019
3 November 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back General election 2019: Nigel Farage will not stand as candidate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50280848 Election – One million under 45s register to vote in one month https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/election-one-million-register-to-vote-in-one-month/ Continue reading
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UK Election – One million under 45s register to vote in one month
TruePublica Editor: Bad news for Boris Johnson keeps piling up as election campaigning is in now full swing. Continue reading
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Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention
US President Donald Trump intervened at the start of Britain’s snap general election campaign Thursday to publicly attack Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, warning that a Corbyn premiership would take the UK into “bad places.” Continue reading
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UK: Johnson set to win vote to hold December general election
MPs voted last night to reject Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s motion to call a snap general election on December 12. Johnson won the vote by 299 to 70 but the Fixed Term Parliament Act (FTPA) requires that general elections can only be called with the votes of two thirds (434) of MPs. Continue reading
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Tories secretly prepare for snap general election
Theresa May dared MPs to vote for a General Election after her Brexit deal suffered the worst defeat in British history. The PM asked Labour to call a confidence vote in the House of Commons after 432 MPs voted to kill off the withdrawal agreement with only 202 backing her. It was a crushing defeat… Continue reading
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Video: Corbyn Lost Labour Party Elites, But Won Over Voters
“Corbyn has proven that there is a way forward for the Labour Party,” says Leo Panitch, a professor at York University–but it isn’t the future the Blairites envisioned (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Tasting the Bitter Pill of History By William Bowles
8 June 2017 — investigating imperialism I have to admit I took my eye off the ball. My desire to see the back of this awful government overwhelmed my powers of reasoning but hopefully it’s only temporary. That’s the problem: We want Corbyn to be real. Continue reading
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‘A matter of life or death’
8 June 2017 — notsoloonyleft I said that this election was a matter of life and death to someone the other day. I was accused of being over dramatic. I thought for a moment am I? Am I making everything more important that it really is? Continue reading
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Democratize This By Michal Rozworski
4 June 2017 — Jacobin Labour’s plans to pursue democratic models of ownership are the most radical aspect of Corbyn’s program. So much about the 2017 Labour election campaign has been heartening: the energy, the conviction, the full-throated embrace of remaking government in the service of the many. Continue reading
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Video: UK Election Polls: Can Corbyn Win?
Opinion polls for the June 8 UK General Election indicate an increasingly tight race between Labour and Conservatives, but most still give Conservative Theresa May an advantage, despite May’s weaknesses as Prime Minister, says Real Media’s Thomas Barlow Continue reading
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Should I vote for Corbyn? I mean Labour? By William Bowles
And after all the bad things I’ve said about Corbyn (here, here and here) you would think asking the question was redundant, but is it? Should I vote for Corbyn/Labour Party or perhaps abstain? What is at stake here, aside from Corbyn’s political future (and perhaps the future of the Labour Party itself)? Continue reading
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UK Elections: Corbyn or May? Selected Articles
5 June 2017 — Global Research The general election in the UK is due on Thursday, June 8. Apparently, a series of “terrorist” attacks garnered attention not just domestically but more so internationally. Are these purported “terrorist” attacks part of a bigger political agenda? Read the insightful articles below to gain perspective. “We are now days away from one Continue reading
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Video: UK Election Polls Tighten to Three Points Between May and Corbyn
Tom Barlow, co-founder of Real Media, talks about how Britain’s June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Meltdown’: The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland Writes Jeremy Corbyn’s Obituary
We will examine the thinking behind Freedland’s sweeping dismissal in what follows. But first, we need to remind ourselves of the incessant media vitriol and opposition faced by Jeremy Corbyn since he first ran for the Labour leadership in 2015. Extensive evidence of this corporate media bias has been presented in studies published by Media… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Unfree Elections – The Corporate Media, UK General Election And Predictable Outcomes
Imagine this thought experiment. Consider how a general election might turn out if the media spectrum ran the whole gamut from the right – the BBC, Guardian and Independent, for example – to the hard right (the Mail, Sun, Express and so on). Some readers might object that the BBC, Guardian and the Independent are… Continue reading
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UK’s Lottery Election
You’d have thought that in a democracy, the result of an election would reflect the wishes of voters. Well, in 2015, it’s looking increasingly as if that won’t be the case. When there are six parties commanding a decent chunk of the vote, our broken two-party electoral system is more like a game of chance… Continue reading
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Make the NHS the issue of next year’s election
Now it’s time to focus on the other parties and make sure they also commit to increasing NHS funding. They’ll make their election promises in the next few days. So let’s show them that UK voters want the NHS to come first. Continue reading
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Clegg Predicting Riots
In the run up to the 2010 General Election Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned of riots if the Tories were elected, stating that, ‘There is danger that having any government of any composition led by a party which doesn’t have a popular mandate across the country trying to push through really difficult decisions. I… Continue reading
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