Category: Politics Blog

An amalgamation of several musings with additional thoughts I keep on seeing comments about sticking to Labour’s values, principles or roots, and I’m really confused, I’m not sure a lot of people realise the roots they are actually talking about, for instance, looking at all previous Labour PM’s before Blair: Ramsey MacDonald, first Labour PM, […]

So the country has chosen to leave, 38% of the electorate choosing that option, 36.5% remaining and 25.5% simply didn’t vote. A lot of people are rejoicing and a lot of people are quite terrified, but really there’s no reason to rejoice and there’s no reason to panic, because in all reality, whilst everything has […]

So here are my thoughts finally… I see absolutely no reason why we would want to leave. As part of the EU, and due to being part of the EU, we have become the 5th largest economy in the world, potentially soon to be 4th if we remain. We have access to the largest trading […]

I am a lifelong Labour Party member and supporter, I never left the party at any point, and support them now, just as much as I did in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s. I live in a constituency that was up until 1997 a Tory stronghold, but have been fortunate that ever since 1997 we’ve […]

A lot of the current crop of new members need to actually learn the history of the Labour Party and why it was formed. Keir Hardie was a Liberal socialist and Scottish Independence Campaigner, who believed that the only way to break the Tory hold on power to gain Independence (which he never achieved) was […]

From Reddit The idea that the media has an overwhelming effect on the population in shaping their views is a popular and overstated one. Most the time it had little direct impact on the political process in tangible results, i.e. 40% of The Sun’s readership are defined as ‘strong’ Labour voters, who will vote for […]

It appears that already the Labour Party is once more just talking to itself, indeed arguing with itself, and not listening to what those outside the party are saying and feeling. Outside of the 500,000 ‘members’, including those talking away on social media, the rest of the country really don’t see today as anything but […]

The Labour party’s members (excluding registered supporters and affiliates) make up approximately 0.5% of the electorate, if you add in registered supporters and affiliates this still accounts for less than 1% of the population, so having a lot of support within the Labour Party, does NOT mean having a lot of support within the country. […]

I don’t care if someone thinks I am a Blairite, but they are simply wrong, I am a Labourite I am a socialist and I believe in socialist values. Attlee was a Keynesian and make no bones about it, he would’ve undoubtedly been a Brownite, he believed in minimal state intervention with public spending, which […]

At every election since 1979, more than 60% of the electorate have voted for a party to the right of the previous Labour leadership and therefore Jeremy Corbyn. They didn’t do this because secretly they want a left wing government. There are now less than 14% working class in the UK, there are less than […]