Labour uses cooked up industry stat to stop water nationalisation
The Labour Party has used a sham figure of £90bn to claim that water nationalisation would be too expensive. The water industry paid for the ‘analysis’ that Labour cited in…
Jonathan Ashworth Labour return trumped up by the Guardian
The Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been lurching from one self-induced crisis to another since… well, around 5 July. By its side throughout has been the Guardian: the epitome…
Early release plans backfire for Labour
It has come to light that the Labour Party government accidentally released 37 prisoners who were serving sentences for breaching restraining orders. They were all released in error under the…
Labour plans self-care to replace 25m GP appointments
At Labour conference, the governing party held a seminar entitled “How to Save 25 million GP Appointments: The role of self-care in delivering an NHS fit for the future”. Who…
Israel ambassador causes storm with gig at Labour conference
If the new Labour government signalled one thing indisputably at its party conference this year, is that it’s an unrepentant apologist for genocidal war criminals. This was particularly apparent at…
Labour needs to get a grip on itself and the country, quickly
Something very weird is going on at the moment in UK politics, and it pre-dates the election of the current Labour Party government. A muted general election As a campaigner,…
Labour conference local councillor choke held protester not security
The footage of a protester at the Labour conference being forcibly removed has gone viral on social media. However, many people – including the Canary – made the assumption that…
Labour gives top job to chair of £4m donor’s foundation
As predictable as night following day, there WAS some backscratching involved in the £4m donation the Labour Party got from offshore tax-registered hedge fund Quadrature. The pay off? The co-chair…
DWP Labour policy is being influenced by Iain Duncan Smith
To little notice on social media, Iain Duncan Smith’s notorious dark money think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) posted up at the Labour Party conference. On Sunday 22…
Labour conference votes to reverse it
Labour conference has voted for a Unite and Communications Workers’ Union motion to reverse the cut to winter fuel payments, introduce a wealth tax and end arbitrary fiscal rules. In…
Labour conference sees no ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
“Do you want to do something on the Labour conference”, asked the Canary’s editor. I didn’t need asking more than once. I didn’t really need asking at all. No victory…
Labour conference sees Jess Barnard tear into Peter Kyle
The purpose of Keir Starmer’s project in the Labour Party is seemingly to pit different groups in society against each other to distract us all from the ongoing class war…