Make no mistake, @PeoplesMomentum are the new Militant

The Gerasites

by Cllr James Patterson

The deselections of moderate Labour councillors in Haringey have made headlines this week. These have been organised by Momentum. They are actively seeking control of Haringey Council. Given the circumstances, I have decided not to seek re-election.

I was immensely proud to be elected as a Labour councillor in Haringey in May 2014. Labour, at the time, was a pro-European, internationalist and socially liberal party of the centre-left. I had been inspired by the successes of Labour councils, up and down the country, in their pursuit of social justice objectives. These had been in hugely difficult circumstances.

During the last couple of years, however, the culture and values of the Party have been changed profoundly. It has been divested of its shared sense of purpose. Momentum has spearheaded a hostile takeover by the far left. The world view they promote is inconsistent with the Labour values…

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The Ballad of Mike Sivier

Half Chips/Half Rice

Mike Sivier is the author of pro-Corbyn blog Vox Political. He was suspended for allegedly breaking the Labour Party’s rules on antisemitism. On Tuesday, his case was heard at the National Executive Committee (NEC) which now boasts of a hard-left majority with a new chair of the disputes panel to boot. The ousted chair, Ann Black, had received over 100,000 votes to sit on the NEC and was also elected chair of Disputes because her impartiality was implicitly trusted by all wings of the party to deal with very sensitive disciplinary cases including antisemitism.

A lot of antisemitism, in fact.

But as Luke Akehurst pointed out; the real reason for her ousting is because the chair of disputes “carries with it a seat on the NEC Officers Group that goes with that job, which is where the key decisions on appointing panels that control by-election & late selection shortlists are…

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List of the Twitter Accounts of UK Student Unions #StopBrexit #WATON #FBPE

Aberdeen – @ausatweet

Abertay – @AbertaySA ‏

Aberystwyth –  @UMaberSU

Aston – @aston_union

Bangor – @Bangorstudents ‏

Bath – @thesubath ‏

Bath Spa – @bathspasu

Bedfordshire – @BedsSU

Birmingham – @GuildofStudents ‏

Birmingham City Students Union – @BCUSU

Bolton – @Bolton_SU ‏

Bournemouth University – @SUBUBournemouth

Bradford – @BradfordUniSU ‏

Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings – @SUBrighton

Bristol – @Bristol_SU ‏

Brunel – @brunelstudents

Bucks New University – @buckssu ‏

Cambridge – @CUSUonline

Canterbury Christ Church – @christchurchsu

Cardiff – @cardiffstudents

Central Lancashire – @UCLanSU

Chester – @ChesterSU ‏

Chichester – @yourUCSU ‏

City University London – @CULSU1 ‏

Coventry – @cusu

Cumbria – @CumbriaSU ‏

De Montfort – @demontfortsu ‏

Derby – @DerbyUnion

Dundee – @dusa_theunion ‏

Durham – @durhamSU ‏

East Anglia (UEA) – @UnionUEA ‏

East London – @uelunion

Edge Hill – @edgehillsu ‏

Edinburgh – @eusa

Essex – @EssexSU ‏

Exeter – @ExeterGuild ‏

Glamorgan – @USWSU

Glasgow – @gusrc ‏

Gloucestershire – @yoursu

Goldsmiths (University of London) – @GoldsmithsSU ‏

Greenwich – @sugreenwich

Heriot-Watt – @HWUnion ‏

Hertfordshire – @hertssu

Huddersfield – @HuddersfieldSU ‏

Hull – @Hullstudent ‏

Imperial – @icunion ‏

Keele – @KeeleSU ‏

Kent – @KentUnion ‏

Kingston upon Thames, London – @union_kingston

Lancaster – @LancasterSU ‏

Leeds – @LeedsUniUnion ‏

Leeds Metropolitan – @leedsmetsu

Leicester – @LeicesterUnion ‏

Lincoln – @lincolnsu

Liverpool – @LiverpoolGuild

Liverpool Hope – @LiverpoolHopeSU ‏

Liverpool John Moores – @LiverpoolSU ‏

London Metropolitan University – @LondonMetSU

London South Bank – @lsbsu ‏

Loughborough – @LoughboroughSU ‏

Manchester – @ManchesterSU ‏

Manchester Metropolitan – @TheUnionMMU

Middlesex – @MiddlesexSU ‏

Newcastle – @NewcastleSU

Northampton – @northamptonSU ‏

Northumbria – @NorthumbriaSU ‏

Nottingham – @UoNSU ‏

Nottingham Trent – @Trentstudents ‏

Oxford – @OxfordStudents

Oxford Brookes Students Union – @BrookesUnion

Plymouth – @upsu ‏

Portsmouth – @portsmouthsu

Queen Mary (London) – @QMSU

Queen’s University Belfast – @QUBSU ‏

Reading – @RUSUtweets

Robert Gordon – @rguunion

Roehampton – @RoehamptonSU

Salford – @salfordsu ‏

Sheffield – @SheffieldSU

Sheffield Hallam – @hallamunion

Southampton – @Union_Soton

Southampton Solent – @SolentSU ‏

St Andrews – @standrewsunion ‏

Staffordshire – @StaffsUnion ‏

Stirling – @stirlingunion

Strathclyde – @StrathUnion

Sunderland – @sunderlandsu

Surrey – @SurreyUnion ‏

Sussex – @USSU

Swansea – @SwanseaUnion

Teesside – @teessidesu

Ulster University – @UUSU

University Campus Suffolk – @UOSUnion

University College London (UCL) – @TheUnionUCL

Warwick – @WarwickSU

West London – @uwl_su

West of England (Bristol) – @TheSUatUWE

Westminster – @WestminsterSU

Winchester – @winchestersu

Wolverhampton – @WolvesSU

Worcester – @WorcesterSU

York – @yorkunisu

York St John – @YSJSU

Harold Macmillan said @Theresa_May, “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Well, @Conservatives? #WATON #FBPE

Labour needs to grasp that it won votes in the 2017 General Election from Remain voters who do not normally vote Labour.

And for those who prefer to see this data in the form of a chart …

Full list of local elections on Thursday 3rd May 2018!

Make Local Elections in 2018 a referendum on #BREXIT …

And on Labour’s approach to #LEXIT …

Go on, be a snowflake and make Cllr Tom Bewick’s day!

Winston Churchill said @Theresa_May, “Wars are not won by evacuations.” Well, @Conservatives? #WATON #FBPE

Labour needs to grasp that it won votes in the 2017 General Election from Remain voters who do not normally vote Labour.

And for those who prefer to see this data in the form of a chart …

Full list of local elections on Thursday 3rd May 2018!

Make Local Elections in 2018 a referendum on #BREXIT …

And on Labour’s approach to #LEXIT …

Go on, be a snowflake and make Cllr Tom Bewick’s day!

Aneurin Bevan said @JeremyCorbyn, “We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.” Well, @UKLabour? #WATON #FBPE

Labour needs to grasp that it won votes in the 2017 General Election from Remain voters who do not normally vote Labour.

And for those who prefer to see this data in the form of a chart …

Full list of local elections on Thursday 3rd May 2018!

Make Local Elections in 2018 a referendum on #BREXIT …

And on Labour’s approach to #LEXIT …

Go on, be a snowflake and make Cllr Tom Bewick’s day!

Why not voting @Conservatives or @UKLabour at local authority elections in 2018 sends a clear message to both parties about the Will of the People! #WATON #FBPE

Labour needs to grasp that it won votes in the 2017 General Election from Remain voters who do not normally vote Labour.

And for those who prefer to see this data in the form of a chart …

Full list of local elections on Thursday 3rd May 2018!

Make Local Elections in 2018 a referendum on #BREXIT …

And on Labour’s approach to #LEXIT …

Go on, be a snowflake and make Cllr Tom Bewick’s day!

If @JeremyCorbyn “is sincere in what he is saying (on #BREXIT/#LEXIT), and he may be (@UKLabour), he may be, then he is too stupid to be a Prime Minister.” #WATON #FBPE

If Jeremy Corbyn “is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, then he is too stupid to be a Prime Minister.”

Aneurin Bevan was at his best, giving a speech at the ‘Law not War’ rally in Trafalgar Square on 4 November 1956.

The clip contains one of Bevan’s most famous remarks mocking the then British Prime Minister, Robert Anthony Eden over his foreign policy towards Egypt.

Aneurin Bevan remarked:

“Sir Anthony Eden has been pretending that he is now invading Egypt in order to strengthen the United Nations.  Every burglar of course could say the same thing, he could argue that he was entering the house in order to train the police.  So, if Sir Anthony Eden is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, then he is too stupid to be a Prime Minister”.

When it comes to BREXIT or, if you prefer, LEXIT, the most important issue in UK politics of this decade and the next then Jeremy Corbyn is …

Corbyn interviewed by Robert Peston, ITV Peston on Sunday, 14 January 2018List of countries benefiting from the Everything but Arms arrangement

Can you be in the single market without being an EU member?