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Sat, 25/03/2023 - 00:41
Starmer and Evans ignored whistleblower’s repeated warnings of ‘sadistic’ and ‘criminal’ abuse of vulnerable domestic violence victims – and still has at least two alleged sex pests on his front bench Keir Starmer has promised to halve domestic violence against women and girls if Labour gets into government. He has a long track record of […]
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Fri, 24/03/2023 - 01:48
‘Opposition leader’ benefited from Tory legislation enacted specifically to benefit him ‘Labour’ ‘leader’ Keir Starmer has rightly been attacked for his closeness to the Establishment and the British security state, which has seen him mount no meaningful opposition to the Tories while colluding on repressive legislation such as the ‘spycops’ law to give undercover police […]
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Thu, 23/03/2023 - 01:30
Harmukh Doshi sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment on 9 separate accounts of racially-aggravated harassment and offensive communications At Leicester Crown Court yesterday, Hasmukh Popatlal Doshi was convicted on six counts of sending offensive or menacing communications and three of inflicting racially-aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe. This is far from […]
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Wed, 22/03/2023 - 01:48
Management has tried to sell deal as a win, as more and more unions capitulate under alleged pressure from Starmer and TUC The left on the UCU union’s higher education committee have defeated an attempt by the union’s management to railroad striking workers into a ballot on a dire ‘deal’ offered by employers that members […]
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Tue, 21/03/2023 - 08:14
Disputes with train operating companies continue, but RMT solidarity brings big win while managements of some other unions undermine their members Mick Lynch’s RMT union has won a major victory – and a significant pay-rise – for members working in Network Rail. 76% of members on a 90% turnout voted to accept an improved offer […]
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Mon, 20/03/2023 - 21:00
Starmer/Reeves less trusted on the economy than the appalling Sunak/Hunt The latest poll by Opinium shows the Keir Starmer/Rachel Reeves combination is more toxic to voters than the Tory pair of Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt – whose recent budget has compounded hardship and misery for millions struggling under the effects of Tory budgets and […]
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Mon, 20/03/2023 - 22:13
Elected representatives told they can’t meet with barrister commissioned to investigate leaked Labour report – who has said party is not tackling racism and treats other forms as less important than supposed antisemitism As Skwawkbox reported last week, Martin Forde KC has gone public on the Starmer regime’s lack of response to his report – […]
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Mon, 20/03/2023 - 10:47
‘Neither’ and ‘don’t know’ vote dwarfs score for either party leader – and no surprise there Both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak – two sides of the same dire, droning coin – were soundly beaten in the latest Opinium poll of voter assessment of who would make the best prime minister. The appalling Sunak managed […]
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Sun, 19/03/2023 - 21:23
String of union recommendations and called-off strikes linked to pressure from Labour right and TUC, say union insiders The string of unions calling off industrial action on nothing but an offer of talks or appalling pay offers – with many strings attached by the government – and in some cases even recommending those offers to […]
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Sat, 18/03/2023 - 22:40
Civicus rates UK civil liberties and democracy alongside Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary and Burkina Faso in annual survey, amid government’s war on civil rights – but there will be no improvement under a Starmer government The UK’s democracy and civil life have been downgraded to ‘obstructed’ in the Civicus annual survey of almost two hundred countries, […]