Helen Marks and Rica Bird take BBC to task in letter to Guardian Two Liverpool pensioners smeared by a right-wing Labour staffer on the BBC’s Panorama in 2019 have shot back after the programme-makers claimed they had asked the staffer whether he came from Israel, despite their recording of the incident showing otherwise. The pair […]
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Starmeroids block another popular local candidate – in favour of parachuted Blairites Two entire Labour committees have resigned after yet another candidate selection stitch-up by Keir Starmer and his drones in the Labour party. Local favourite Greg Marshall – backed by figures from a wide spectrum of the party – tweeted news that the party […]
Motion condemns Starmer party’s attack on democracy Members of a Labour front-bencher’s local party passed a motion last week condemning the regime’s shameless rigging of party democracy and demanding to be allowed to select their candidates without interference. Hornsey and Wood Green members voted strongly for the following emergency motion: Selection of Candidates HWG CLP […]
Business investor tagged in image Keir Starmer posted an image today of a meeting showing him with fellow right-winger Rachel Reeves – which Starmer’s tweet described as a ‘fantastic’ meeting with ‘business leaders’. However, new TUC general secretary Paul Nowak posted a wider-angle image of the meeting, which he said had been a ’roundtable on […]
Right-winger can’t bear to say people should be better off, only that they should ‘feel’ better off – it didn’t go down well Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer’s right-wing Shadow Chancellor, was already infamous for – among many other things – her history of appalling comments about the unemployed, for wanting to deport more people faster […]
Even the responses not (yet) hidden by Unite GS are overwhelmingly negative – but those she has hidden are even more damning Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has long been criticised for being too ready to cosy up to anti-worker Labour party leader Keir Starmer – chummily referred to as ‘Keir’ – particularly since she […]
Drivers claim they were conned into voting for below-inflation package trumped by Unite general secretary as big win, according to WSWS Sharon Graham has been slammed by bus drivers for claiming Unite won them an 18% pay rise – and for her reps deceiving them into voting for a deal in fact worth much less […]
Right-wing hack Lee Harpin – whose articles have led to major financial compensation to victims of his smears – has tried to have a pop at Skwawkbox, but it is likely to backfire. Harpin – responsible for, among others, a ‘litany of lies‘ about Liverpool legend Audrey White – tweeted snarkily that ‘funds must be […]
Newly-minted right-wing peer has long history of attacks on left The BBC has – belatedly and inadequately – ‘corrected’ its abject failure to challenge a smear by Baroness Anderson, known to many as Ruth Smeeth, against left-wing Jews. Anderson claimed last week on a live BBC News programme that Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) – […]
Email to CLPs warns them that any existing affiliations with groups campaigning for abortion rights, minority human rights, disarmament and a fully public NHS are cancelled The Labour party has banned local parties (CLPs) from affiliating with an array of groups supporting the human rights of ethnic minorities or campaigning for a public NHS, in […]