Jeremy Corbyn leadership

Post by **refitman** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 9:35 am

For articles and links relating to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign.

Edited to add:

This should be used as a facts and reference depository (like the Troll Busters thread). Only post articles and facts relating to the leadership campaign that would help someone undecided vote for this candidate. I would encourage some discussion of the posts, but it should be kept on topic and not involve abuse from or about either candidate.

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 10:24 am

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Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:37 am

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:44 am

Leftwing insurgencies led by Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders won’t melt away
Diane Abbott

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:50 am

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:54 am

John McDonnell: 'Labour would launch large-scale council house programme to tackle homes crisis'

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:56 am

Corbyn gets CWU endorsement as he denies his circle are sycophants

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... CMP=twt_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:59 am

Corbyn calls for end to UK 'arms bazaar' policy in Middle East

Speaking to MEE, Labour leader calls for powers for Parliament to control arms sales to Saudi Arabia and oversee deployment of special forces

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/corby ... -664783825

Lost Soul · Post by **Lost Soul** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 11:59 am

So just had a look at 'Owen Smith leadership' - thanks for your contributions.
I think I get it... We hurl stuff back and forth here instead of on the main board - is that it ?

Right

I advised Corbyn’s economics team to learn fast. They didn’t

David Blanchflower

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... leadership" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:04 pm

Why is nobody talking about Jeremy Corbyn’s pulling power in the North? A letter from a reader

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/your-views/ ... er-reader/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:05 pm

Diane Abbott has warned Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters are not a “phantom army” that will “melt away” if Owen Smith wins this summer’s Labour leadership contest.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/po ... nts-labour" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:09 pm

Responding to Owen Smith’s comments that he had never heard John McDonnell lead on workers rights, RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:

http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-statemen ... mcdonnell/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:20 pm

What are Jeremy Corbyn's policies?

As we enter the Labour leadership contest, Jeremy Corbyn has set out a number of policy positions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/what- ... ip-contes/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:21 pm

Lost Soul wrote:So just had a look at 'Owen Smith leadership' - thanks for your contributions.
I think I get it... We hurl stuff back and forth here instead of on the main board - is that it ?

Right

I advised Corbyn’s economics team to learn fast. They didn’t

David Blanchflower

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... leadership" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you read todays' main board,quite early on,yahyah described what she wants and refitman obliged,so that's the general idea.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:27 pm

Lost Soul wrote:So just had a look at 'Owen Smith leadership' - thanks for your contributions.
I think I get it... We hurl stuff back and forth here instead of on the main board - is that it ?

Right

I advised Corbyn’s economics team to learn fast. They didn’t

David Blanchflower

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... leadership" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

simon wren-lewis ‏@sjwrenlewis 22m22 minutes ago
@JolyonMaugham I disagree: picture more mixed. Positive on fiscal rule: advice taken + implemented. But ignored for Corbyn's referendum line

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:32 pm

Jeremy Corbyn: A revolution in plain sight

The people of Liverpool were inspired by their comrades in York, Hull, Leeds, Salford, Newcastle, Plymouth and Cornwall this weekend, and tonight we have doubtless inspired countless others. I have always been proud of my city. It is a place of solidarity, of hope and of determination. Tonight it was one of many cities joined in a nationwide campaign for socialism. We will all never walk alone.

https://jeffgoulding.com/2016/08/01/jer ... ain-sight/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:39 pm

Jeremy Corbyn wins backing of 200,000-strong Communication Workers Union in Labour leadership contest

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... eadership/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 12:46 pm

Strengthening workers’ rights should be Labour’s priority
Jeremy Corbyn

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 1:38 pm

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 1:43 pm

Rebel Smith struggles to keep up with Corbyn

http://eastlondonnews.co.uk/rebel-smith ... th-corbyn/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 1:52 pm

Stung by accusations they don’t have a plan, Labour’s rebel MPs have let it be known they could form a breakaway grouping in Parliament and seek to claim the mantle of the official Opposition.

You might view it as either pragmatic politics, or ludicrous self-indulgence, depending on your stance towards Jeremy Corbyn – but what is becoming clear is that the centrists don’t like repeats.

http://labourlist.org/2016/08/plans-for ... qus_thread" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 2:11 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
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Are the neutral areas ones with an equal split in votes,or those not wishing to chose sides?Do you know?

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 2:17 pm

Rebecca wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
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Are the neutral areas ones with an equal split in votes,or those not wishing to chose sides?Do you know?

Sorry. We're not allowed discussions on here but as it's you....

My CLP bottled out of it and refused to have a members meeting, because the bods in charge are for the PLP, but the membership is mainly for Corbyn. Not easy to say whether those other areas have the same reason or if they're neutral.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 2:18 pm

Kate Osamor MP: Jeremy Corbyn represents the working man and woman

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/st ... -and-woman" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 2:29 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
Rebecca wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
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Are the neutral areas ones with an equal split in votes,or those not wishing to chose sides?Do you know?

Sorry. We're not allowed discussions on here but as it's you....

My CLP bottled out of it and refused to have a members meeting, because the bods in charge are for the PLP, but the membership is mainly for Corbyn. Not easy to say whether those other areas have the same reason or if they're neutral.

Ok,thanks.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 3:10 pm

One of Corbyn’s new front bench MPs just issued an incredible wake up call for us all [VIDEO]

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/07/29/one- ... nch-video/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 5:32 pm

Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 24h24 hours ago

Labour's @AngelaRayner exposes "the latest Tory tax on aspiration" - the scrapping of student maintenance grants.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/st ... aintenance" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Tue 02 Aug, 2016 9:30 pm

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Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Wed 03 Aug, 2016 10:17 am

[youtube]V2ACsiLThjk[/youtube]Jeremy Corbyns' Brighton rally 2 August

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Thu 04 Aug, 2016 12:30 pm

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Pleased with the accompanying info graphic.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 11:22 am

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 11:25 am

CLP Nominations.

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 11:30 am

Full Labour Leadership Hustings | Cardiff

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 11:35 am

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Watson's 2015 Conference speech

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 12:38 pm

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AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 12:39 pm

Who said that?

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 1:00 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who said that?

MacDonnell

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 1:01 pm

Éoin ‏@LabourEoin 29m29 minutes ago Rome, Lazio
Fake Momentum Twitter Accounts, deliberately created to invent smears hoping to provoke outrage & thus damage Corbyn

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 1:15 pm

There seems to be some confusion over Momentum numbers.

Éoin @LabourEoin Aug 7
Momentum's total membership is 2% of Labour's membership.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 1:46 pm

Labour members in Croydon North, eventually given the opportunity to attend a nomination meeting over the party’s leadership, voted overwhelmingly in favour of Jeremy Corbyn last night. For the second time in 12 months.

https://insidecroydon.com/2016/08/09/la ... or-corbyn/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 1:50 pm

Rhea Wolfson, one of the six Jeremy Corbyn supporters elected to the party's ruling National Executive Committee, says there should be "a more healthy conversation around re-selection".

Ms Wolfson told The World at One's Martha Kearney that the ability to reselect MPs regularly was an "important tool that members should feel that they can use if they need to".

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 2:26 pm

Jeremy Corbyn
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The recent history of Bristol is one close to my heart. My friend Tony Benn represented the city for 33 years and I’ll never forget the 1963 bus boycott which lead to the company revoking its policy not to employ black or Asian people.
In May this year Bristol elected the first black city mayor in the whole of Europe – Labour’s Marvin Rees.
I felt that history and tradition on Monday when we held this inspiring rally in the city centre →

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 2:27 pm

When millionaire Blairite Tessa Jowell tries to imply grassroots candidate Rhea Wolfson For NEC & member of The Labour Party is disconnected, her response is wonderful.

Rhea Wolfson - "the idea that I am not on the doorstep - I am a party activist...I've been everywhere campaigning for the party at elections.

I've campaigned beside you, and so do these Momentum activists, there's councillors involved, there's local representatives and it is insulting to say otherwise."

The idea that the millionaires in the PLP think they can speak to rank and file activists in their own party like this, in public, is a frank, disgusting indication of how disconnected these PLP M.P.s are from us, the People.

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 2:30 pm

NECs Claudia Webb teaches Evan Davies about democracy

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 3:03 pm

Nicholas Quinn ‏@friendofjeremy 15m15 minutes ago
I ask you again, who do you think will speak for the poor and dispossessed, Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott, or Peter Mandelson?

Nicholas Quinn ‏@friendofjeremy 16m16 minutes ago
Mandelson has leeched from the EU, the House of Lords, sucked up to Russian & Chinese oligarchs & now in the pay of Lazard's Bank & R Mugabe

Nicholas Quinn ‏@friendofjeremy 24m24 minutes ago
Mandelson - twice SACKED from HMG for financial dishonesty - now director of a bank which props up Robert Mugabe - you couldn't make it up.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 3:09 pm

From 2015.

A Labour Deputy-Leader Candidate Is Being Funded by Corporate Lobbyists for Austerity

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/solomon- ... mpaign-901" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Still applicable? Or not?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 7:30 pm

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ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Wed 10 Aug, 2016 8:18 pm

Momentum LEEDS ‏@MomentumLeeds 42m42 minutes ago

Few facts about the @GMB_union ballot:
1) 7.2% turnout
2) Scottish members not balloted
3) thousand of members never received their ballot

Big row brewing here.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Thu 11 Aug, 2016 3:39 am

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yahyah · Post by **yahyah** » Thu 11 Aug, 2016 9:19 am

A blogger from Political Betting, who also writes for the left periodical Tribunelinked by Mike Smithson.

Am posting it on Owen's thread too, because it covers both of them, but will delete this if anyone wants.
Because some feel the main thread should be kept free of leadership issues I'm not posting it there.
It seems to be a choice of who to get flak from.

at the moment.

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