Whether they are right or wrong I don't see how this does anything but harm labour.
Up to you to show her the door next election.Luciana is my MP. What does this mean now? Will she be replaced?
Luciana is my MP. What does this mean now? Will she be replaced?
UK politics thread vs Brexit thread: The final battle(?)
They have seven brains, and they couldn't think of a better name than 'The Independent Party'?
Come on, highly drunk folk come up with better names at pub quizzes on a daily basis.
It was that or the "We hate Corbyn" party, which even they thought was a bit on the nose.
Not gonna lie, I bet that would help their case.It was that or the "We hate Corbyn" party, which even they thought was a bit on the nose.
now living in Canada, but oh my beautiful UK, what happened to you since i left in 2012? :(
fwiw a hypothetical party isn't the same as the one that now exists. The realty is everyone thinks they are moderate or reasonable in some way but once you put these ideas on paper you find everyone has a different idea of what being moderate means.7 independent MPs already polling higher after a few hours than both the lib dems and UKIP.
lol
In a single day, the Labour party has lost Luciana Berger and "gained" Derek Hatton. As swaps go, this isn't dissimilar to giving someone an orgasm and them giving you gonorrhoea
But Hatton's response was to set an illegal budget – expenditure exceeding income – and to gamble that the government would make up the £30m overspend. Other councils also affected by central government grant cuts managed to set legal budgets.
The debt Hatton plunged Liverpool into was finally cleared 15 years later, in 2001. The interest rate paid over this time amounted to 57%. The Militant loans? They came from Swiss, Japanese and French banks. But Hatton's nadir came when he hired taxis to deliver redundancy notices to the council's 31,000 staff, on the basis that the council couldn't afford to pay them, as a "tactic" to extend negotiations of the Whitehall stalemate.
Away from finances, Hatton appointed an unknown Londoner, Sam Bond, to the Liverpool Race Relations Liaison Committee over objections from the Black Caucus, at a time when racial tensions were especially high. Bond did not support affirmative action policies, and similarly, Militant did nothing for LGBT groups, given its opposition to policies that focused on particular oppressed groups. The neutral office of lord mayor, meanwhile, was abolished, to strengthen Militant's power.
Opposite my former school, there used to be Harthill Gardens, known as the "Kew Gardens of the north". When the gardeners were called out on strike, they rebelled, fearing the impact on the flora. In an act of political revenge, and a mark of his character, Hatton sacked the gardeners and bulldozed the gardens. A famous banner held aloft in protests against the council at the time read: "Hitler only destroyed half of our city. Hatton tried for the lot."
Good. Lol.
No idea why he was allowed back in. Tom Watson on LBC said he would be bringing up Hatton's acceptance into the Labour Party to someone.