uk politics
Democracy vs efficiency
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, July 14th, 2016 - 116 comments
Events in England really highlight the different processes of the two main parties. The Conservatives have completed their leadership transition, Labour’s contest has barely begun. Which model is best?
Corbyn is in
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, July 13th, 2016 - 139 comments
With a rush of sanity to the head, the UK Labour Party has ruled that Jeremy Corbyn is automatically on the leadership ballot, as a straightforward reading of the rules suggests.
Farewell Cameron – doo, doo, doo, doo!
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, July 12th, 2016 - 18 comments
Of some politicians it can be said that nothing in his career became him like the leaving it. We won’t even manage that for David Cameron.
Eagle vs Window Pane
Written By: - Date published: 5:14 pm, July 10th, 2016 - 81 comments
So Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been openly challenged.
Helen Clark on Iraq
Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, July 7th, 2016 - 41 comments
Thirteen years ago Helen Clark said despite intense pressure that the threshold for the use of force against Iraq had not been met. How right she was.
Jeremy Corbyn apologises for Blair and Bush’s Iraq War
Written By: - Date published: 11:11 am, July 7th, 2016 - 42 comments
Jeremy Corbyn’s full response to the Chilcot response. Corbyn says that the Iraq war “was an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext” and that he apologises for it on behalf of Labour, who was in Government at the time.
Chilcot report – Blair’s bad week
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, July 5th, 2016 - 44 comments
Even before its release the Chilcot report is drawing attention to the hubristic warmongering that will forever stain Blair’s time in office.
Farexit
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, July 5th, 2016 - 98 comments
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has announced that he is standing down as leader. Although he will continue to be a Member of Parliament of the very institution he campaigned for the UK to leave.
UK Labour now what?
Written By: - Date published: 9:16 am, July 2nd, 2016 - 73 comments
What will happen to the UK Labour Party? The chances of a split into a pro Corbyn activist based and Union based Labour Party and a MP dominated careerist party appear to be very high.
Boris Johnson’s HQ as the EU referendum results came in …
Written By: - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 1st, 2016 - 3 comments
Rumoured to be satire …
Borexit; Now it’s Just Getting Weird.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, July 1st, 2016 - 98 comments
Boris Johnson has sensationally quit the race to lead the UK Tory Party. And Jeremy Corbyn has had a worse day than usual. Where will it all end?
Chilcot, Corbyn and the UK Labour Party caucus.
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, June 29th, 2016 - 62 comments
Three dots.
Updated
Muppet of the month
Written By: - Date published: 8:37 am, June 29th, 2016 - 39 comments
The UK Labour Party caucus provided some tough competition but for utter hypocricy UKIP leader Nigel Farage is clearly the political muppet of the month.
A Socialist perspective on Brexit, the European Union and the coup on Corbyn
Written By: - Date published: 7:44 am, June 29th, 2016 - 27 comments
Details of a public forum to be run tomorrrow evening by Socialist Aotearoa to discuss Brexit, a Marxist critique of the European Union, and the very British coup against Jeremy Corbyn.
Remembering our personal political power
Written By: - Date published: 12:32 pm, June 27th, 2016 - 23 comments
Even in times of upheaval there are things we can do. Here are 11 post-Brexit ways to act right now.
The hills are alive …
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2016 - 96 comments
Does Brexit present us with the opportunity to create a better world?
Political carnage in England
Written By: - Date published: 6:12 am, June 27th, 2016 - 131 comments
Deep divisions in both Labour and the Conservatives and a possible breakup of the UK. Interesting times.
Corbyn Coup; Hilary Benn is Sacked for Disloyalty
Written By: - Date published: 2:52 pm, June 26th, 2016 - 129 comments
Jeremy Corbyn is fighting back against those plotting to force his resignation. But is it too little too late?
Brexit remorse
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, June 26th, 2016 - 250 comments
Should a referendum be binding when the promises that secured the result are immediately dumped?
BREXIT: where it was won and lost
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, June 25th, 2016 - 78 comments
Scotland, Northern Ireland and London voted to stay in the EU. Every other region voted BREXIT. The Midlands and Yorkshire overwhelmingly so.
Muppets move against Corbyn
Written By: - Date published: 10:27 am, June 25th, 2016 - 209 comments
The brains trust in the UK Labour Party caucus are planning to deal with the chaos caused by the brexit vote on the United Kingdom and particularly the Conservative Party by trying to cause chaos within the UK Labour Party by a leadership challenge.
Snakes and ladders
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 am, June 25th, 2016 - 155 comments
Yesterday was a big day for both UK and US politics. Brexit revealed the political consequences of social inequality. Meanwhile in America the Trump Train is derailing.
Brexit: Cameron Resigns
Written By: - Date published: 7:40 pm, June 24th, 2016 - 225 comments
Top Tory David Cameron has resigned in the wake of the Brexit vote. The buffoon Boris Johnson is tipped to take over at No 10 Downing St.
Should I stay or should I go?
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, June 24th, 2016 - 24 comments
Brexit or bremain whatever happens today the United Kingdom will never be the same.
Brexit or Bremain
Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, June 24th, 2016 - 123 comments
Britain is in its final hours of voting in the historic and contentious EU referendum. Will it be Brexit or Bremain? Update: Brexit it is.
British Labour MP shot dead
Written By: - Date published: 6:14 am, June 17th, 2016 - 118 comments
British Labour MP Jo Cox has been shot and stabbed to death. The gunman was heard shouting: “Britain first”.
Brexit
Written By: - Date published: 1:51 pm, June 15th, 2016 - 54 comments
Brexit is looking more and more likely, and the consequences are difficult to predict…
Jonathan Pie thinks Tony Blair is a psychopath
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, June 10th, 2016 - 7 comments
Jonathan Pye analyses Tony Blair’s history and contrasts his statements and actions with that of Jeremy Corbyn.
Jonathan Pie has election anger
Written By: - Date published: 4:50 pm, May 20th, 2016 - 8 comments
Jonathan Pie rails against media attempts to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Labour over the recent local body election results.
What Possibility a Mid Winter Celebration?
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, May 15th, 2016 - 8 comments
According to the Herald on Sunday, some people aren’t just sitting back waiting for the Chilcot report to be released before deciding what to do. Some people are getting geared up.
Welsh Assembly.
Written By: - Date published: 11:12 am, May 12th, 2016 - 20 comments
A post to illustrate how fixed term parliaments work…off the back of some really woeful reportage.
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