Tories
6 December 2020 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, Tories · 1 comment
Johnson’s 10-point eco-plan
Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point eco-plan is totally inadequate as a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis – or build-back greener as he likes to put it, writes Alan Thornett . His claim th…
28 September 2020 · · Britain, Scotland, Tories
Tories enshrine impunity for British security forces in law
British security forces will gain explicit legal cover to commit crimes at home and abroad under new laws proposed by the UK’s right-wing Tory government with little – if any – resistance fr…
23 September 2020 · · Britain, Covid-19, Scotland, Tories · 1 comment
Left must oppose ‘live with virus’ doctrine
As this is written, the Tory UK government is putting in place in England further local lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings, calling for people to work from home again if possible, and …
28 July 2020 · · Britain, Tories, Uncategorized · 3 comments
Obesity is a class issue
Using my eight-minute walk to the station to reflect on the Tories’ anti- obesity strategy I passed a chip shop, a branch of an omnipresent national sandwich chain offering all sorts of “ sw…
26 May 2020 · · Britain, Covid-19, Tories · 1 comment
The Johnson Cummings élite death cult
Lawyers sometimes refer to a client’s convoluted and implausible account of their actions as “the utter bollocks defence” writes Andy Stowe . Explaining a thirty-mile drive with your partner…
12 February 2020 · Britain, Labour Party, Racism, Tories · 3 comments
Analysing a disastrous result
What happened? Like many others on the left, we got the election result seriously wrong. Most thought a hung Parliament or even a Labour minority government was a real possibility. It was no…
31 December 2019 · Britain, Tories, Uncategorized
British Conservative Party tacks right
The election of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and the bitter defeat of the hopes of the Labour left represent a deeper cultural and institutional shift in the politics of the British Conse…
2 December 2019 · Britain, Reviews, Tories
Change the Record
Ian Parker read David Cameron’s smug self-serving shite in his For the Record memoirs so you don’t have to. Every month, David Cameron tells us at the beginning of his memoirs, he offloaded …
25 October 2019 · · Britain, Tories
Have the election after a vote on Brexit
Boris Johnson has looked into a muddy ditch and decided that’s not where he wants to die writes Alan Thornett. Since the day he became Tory leader he has insisted that he would take Britain …
28 August 2019 · · Britain, Democracy, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 1 comment
Only Labour can stop Johnson’s coup
John McDonnell is absolutely right to say that Johnson’s suspension of Parliament is a “very British coup”, writes Andy Stowe . A government of hard right ideologues is shutting down the ver…
16 August 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Confrontation looming on Brexit
With Parliament neutralised by the summer recess, battle lines are being drawn for the biggest constitutional crisis in modern times when it comes back next month, writes Alan Dav ies. With …
27 July 2019 · Britain, Tories
Johnson’s Tories = Brexit Party Mark II
This is what Brexit looks like. Boris Johnson’s new Cabinet, shaped by purges and resignations, looks more like the arrival of a new party, which effectively it is, than the same party with …
11 July 2019 · Britain, Tories · 2 comments
Boris Johnson and Billie Eilish
“Determination, extreme talent, a crazy drive, insane work ethic, and an amazingly positive attitude. I love working with you. You rock! You’re my role model!” “I love you for being yourself…
21 June 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories
Johnson government is a threat to Labour
Nothing short of an alien invasion in the next couple of weeks is going to stop Boris Johnson becoming the next British prime minster writes Andy Stowe . His well-documented dishonesty , rac…
24 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories
May resigns and Brexit moves to the right
So May, with her cabinet falling to pieces around her and the 1922 Committee pulling the rug from underneath her, has at last accepted the inevitable and announced her resignation. She chose…
6 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, local government · 2 comments
What the local elections mean...
What is my verdict on the local elections that took place in Britain on May 2, asks Susan Moore ? A catastrophe for the Tories with the loss of 1,269 seats out of around 8,500 that were up f…
30 March 2019 · · Britain, EU, Far right, Tories, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Second referendum moves closer
It was yet another momentous week in British politics, writes Alan Davies . As well as an ongoing constitutional crisis, it saw significant progress towards a second referendum and a fresh a…
28 February 2019 · · EU, Labour Party, Tories · 1 comment
Labour declares for a second referendum
Yesterday’s debate was a turning point in the Parliamentary battle over Brexit, writes Alan Thornett. The session turned out to be more significant than expected given that May had put off t…
17 February 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories · 3 comments
Labour are also running down the clock
The Tories are in beyond a mess, writes Alan Davies. The fragile truce they put together last month when Parliament instructed Theresa May to reopen negotiations on the withdrawal agreement …
30 January 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Labour must change course as crash out looms closer
The clear and highly dangerous outcome of the shenanigans in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28 January, is that as a result of May’s dramatic U-turn into the arms of the European Research G…
17 January 2019 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 3 comments
Put Labour at the head of the anti-Brexit movement
May has, unsurprisingly, survived the vote of no confidence moved by Labour with the solid support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the European Research Group after suffering the …
16 December 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Theresa May, Theresa Might, Theresa Can’t … The Brexit Boogie
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loos…
25 September 2018 · · Britain, Tories
Tory split or general election?
You’ll have noticed that some of the supermarkets have already started displaying Christmas merchandise writes Andy Stowe . You might even have begun mentally drafting your letter to Santa s…
6 May 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, local government
Council election results reveal polarised situation
The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea is a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain writes Andy Stowe . The Conservative controlled council there…
30 April 2018 · · Racism, Tories · 1 comment
Rudd goes - oppose racist immigration regime
Amber Rudd's resignation as Home Secretary is perhaps the most significant ministerial departure for racism since Enoch Powell's. She oversaw a racist deportation policy and denied knowing t…
21 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Russia, Tories · 1 comment
No rush to judgement
Whoever was responsible for the use of chemical weapons against a Russian ex-spy in Salisbury, the main political beneficiary so far appears to be Teresa May, whose bellicose response has le…
9 March 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 2 comments
Labour should grasp the Brexit nettle
Just when you think the crisis of the Tory party has reached rock bottom it gets worse, argues Alan Davies. Claims of ‘unity’ by Theresa May after her ‘keynote’ Mansion House Brexit speech o…
15 January 2018 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, Tories · 1 comment
Plastic waste and political hypocrisy
Ten years after plastic pollution has reached a global crisis point—brilliantly highlighted recently by David Attenborough’s stunning Blue Planet II series—Theresa May has decided that it is…
13 December 2017 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
May and EU staring down barrel of a Corbyn government
To say that last week was a remarkable week in politics does not do it justice, writes Alan Thornett. Theresa May travelled to Brussels at the start of the week to try to persuade Michel Bar…
21 October 2017 · · Britain, Ireland, Labour Party, Tories · 4 comments
Labour for Irish Unity
At a packed fringe meeting at the recent Labour Party Conference a new campaigning organisation, ‘Labour for Irish Unity’ was launched. The headline speaker was Ken Loach whose prize-winning…
24 September 2017 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, trade unions
Manchester – protest at the Tory conference
When the Tories gather for their conference in Manchester on Sunday 1 October, they will be greeted in the city by a demonstration marching behind the banner of “No More Austerity - Scrap Th…
10 July 2017 · Britain, Tories
Trouble in Toryland
Politics in Britain has become very interesting, observes Sara Peterson . Having lived through Blair, Brown, the Con-Dems, Cameron’s Tory Government, there are some seismic shifts in elector…
18 June 2017 · · Britain, Housing, Tories · 5 comments
Grenfell Tower tragedy shows this Tory government is illegitimate
Elizabeth Windsor, the English queen, isn’t supposed to make political statements, but on June 16 th she announced to the world that she thinks Tory Prime Minister Theresa May is a morally g…
11 June 2017 · · Ireland, Tories · 1 comment
Why is the DUP so reactionary?
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has attracted a lot of opprobrium for its reactionary positions on every subject you can think of and for their ongoing links with loyalist terrorists wri…
11 May 2017 · Labour Party, Scotland, Tories
Tory threat rises in Scotland
It’s not possible to deal with the local election results in Scotland in the same breath as those in England and Wales, argues Susan Moore. There are some organisational reasons for this to …
29 April 2017 · · Labour Party, Tories · 2 comments
Theresa May - a strong and stable leader?
Dave Kellaway looks at how far Theresa May is from the image she tries to project: Theresa May = Geoffrey Boycott Theresa May confesses that the former English opening batsman, Geoffrey Boyc…
19 April 2017 · · Labour Party, Tories
General election: Labour must present a radical alternative
by Alan Thornett Theresa May has called a general election for June 8 th hoping that Labour has been sufficiently weakened by the attacks of the right on the Corbyn leadership that she will …
8 November 2016 · · Britain, Tories
Tory Party undergoes major UKIPisation
Alan Thornett looks at what's going on: Theresa May’s government, established in a few frenzied weeks of infighting after the referendum in June, is the most right-wing administration of mod…