But Mr Khan could not be more obvious about keeping Jeremy Corbyn at arm’s length, clearly marking the success as something achieved in spite of Mr Corbyn rather than because of him.
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He also spoke about the Labour party’s vision for education. “In a world where Russian Federation is invading Ukraine and a rogue nation like North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, we need to stand up to this aggression together – and bring our economic might to bear on those who rip up the rulebook and threaten the safety of our people”, he said. Jews are regularly forced to flee from district council meetings about rubbish collection, abandoning their homes as the Dorchester branch treasurer chases them across the border on horseback.
The majority of trade unions are recommending their members vote to remain in the EU although Labour Leave, whose members include Gisela Stuart and Frank Field, say leaving the EU will allow more money to be spent on the NHS and other public services. The recent antics of John Mann, Simon Danczuk and now Michael Dugher says far more about them than the Labour leader. As one pro-European frontbencher put it, “we know what our problem is: a Labour-voting man at or over retirement age, who lives in the north”.
Several Labour big guns such as Sarah Boyack, Ken Macintosh and former leader Johann Lamont lost their constituency seats, although the latter two were elected on party lists.
THE Bloomberg article you ran about anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party reflected only a small part of the story, which is that anti-Semitism in Europe, the U.S. and indeed SA, has changed its character: it is no longer the terrain of the jack-booted Nazi or dyed-in-the-wool white Anglo-Saxon protestant, but of the far left, intellectuals, academics, educated students and middle-class respectable people who go to the theatre.
This is why Claudio Ranieri should be sacked immediately, for doing nothing when Leicester were at the bottom of the league only one year before he arrived in Leicester.
On one hand, Corbyn’s fervent supporters have insisted that “Jezza’s” radical alternative to austerity and war could energise the wider electorate in the same way that his leadership campaign excited thousands of Labour supporters. On both scores they were completely wrong. This could be true, in the same way a bank robber supported the same ideas as the bank clerk, if they came to a gentleman’s agreement that if she filled his sack with money he wouldn’t blast her through the head with a shotgun. The SNP won a majority in Scotland, with the Conservatives in second place, Labour in third (unthinkable a few years ago) and the Greens in fourth place.
The Conservative Party have been amongst those shocked at the leniency shown towards Livingstone. This sidestepped the party being seen as a mere branch of the Westminster party. It should never be about “picking sides”, a “them or us” attitude, or a having a political strategy to target just enough of the population to get over the line. There’s lots of people in Scotland who were very fearful of that.
Popular votes in Wales using the list vote were 31.5% for Labour (down 5.4), 20.8% for Plaid Cymru (up 3.0), 18.8% for the Conservatives (down 3.7) and 13.0% for UKIP (up 8.5). In Scotland, the ruling SNP might still benefit from its carefully cultivated image as an anti-Westminster “outsider” in United Kingdom politics.
England went to the polls to elect local council members with little prospect of significant upset in any direction. She supports the Somerset Devil Worship Collective, and wants Yeovil to be the capital of Almighty Lucifer’s Satanic Caliphate’.
“As the party of equality, anti-discrimination and diversity, Labour has a particular responsibility to demonstrate a commitment to zero tolerance of all forms of racism”. So at the next election the Tories will issue leaflets that say “See, he even gets letters from them”.
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For example, Labour candidate Sadiq Khan won the election for the Mayor of London, easily surpassing the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, who received only 43 percent of the votes.
