Yeah, he's overworked"Labour’s Liz McInnes asks if Acoba will take into account the European working hours directive when it considers Osborne’s case and ensure that he is not damaging his healthy by working too long."
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... tion-party" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Nigel Farage: Carswell 'stopping Ukip becoming radical anti-immigration party'
Only 10 years, Nigel? Ah, that's right. Ukip was all about the "red tape" holding back Tory businessmen back in the early days. The anti-immigration bit only came later when Ukip realised it could win over working class voters who, on a diet of the Mail and Express, had come to believe Tony Blair had given all their jobs away to the Polish.“This question of immigration is still the number one issue in the minds of voters in this country. Ukip must not be squeamish about it. People like Douglas Carswell wrote in the Times last year we should not make immigration synonymous with EU membership. I thought, ‘Crikey, I have spent 10 years trying to do that very thing’.”
AnatolyKasparov wrote:It now appears that Watson has been put back in his box.
If his objective was to plant the idea Len McCluskey would give union money to Momentum if re-elected, then he pretty much achieved it. As for being put back in his box.......From the Labour statement:AnatolyKasparov wrote:It now appears that Watson has been put back in his box.
.....And conversely, attacking Momentum or Len McCluskey is most certainly not synonymous with attacking the leadership, perchance? I don't think Watson will be entirely unhappy with his day's work.The leadership represents the whole party and not any one strand within it. No one speaks for the leadership except the leadership themselves and their spokespeople.
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Momentum are no worse than Progress, yes. I would go as far as to say such a statement is obvious.
And however bad Corbyn has been as leader, Watson has been at least as bad in his role.
In fact Labour need a clean sweep - Corbyn, Watson and McNicol all have to go together. All have failed.
The opposition is clearly nothing but ideologically driven but that's just the normal hypocrisy of politics.
I think Miliband got decent backing, overall. The fault was in trusting the flawed opinion polls about party support, and not taking seriously enough the dreadful personal polling and the Tory lead on the economy. A fair bit of whispering was about that, and in retrospect, a fair point.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Its not an ideal situation, I agree. But we forget at our peril that much of the PLP also bitched and moaned endlessly behind Ed M's back.
It is far too unbalanced and right wing, and this is one thing (of course there are several others) that needs to change if Labour is ever to be restored to heath.
The world under Homo sapiens: you couldn't make it up.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 38131.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Former BNP leader Nick Griffin says he hopes to emigrate within 'the next six months'
'I hope the Hungarian people will welcome people who are genuine refugees from western Europe but keep out the liberals who have brought western Europe to this state in the first place'
thewillofthepeoplehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 39361.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Brexit: Bank bosses push for lower taxes and lighter regulation to cushion EU divorce
the irony just keeps on comingBrexit ministers demand Phillip Hammond provide them with 'hundreds more' members of staff amid cuts
Trade Department and the Foreign Office ordered to cut their spending by 6 per cent
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Its not an ideal situation, I agree. But we forget at our peril that much of the PLP also bitched and moaned endlessly behind Ed M's back.
It is far too unbalanced and right wing, and this is one thing (of course there are several others) that needs to change if Labour is ever to be restored to heath.
