Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party's official campaign for London's council elections to be held on May 3, in which it is expected to have a particularly strong showing. In his launch statement, Mr. Corbyn seized on the recent surge in violent crime on London's streets to attack the effects of government austerity, particularly cuts to the levels of police on active duty which he also claimed had made London vulnerable to increased terrorist attacks in the last year. Labour’s Mayor of London @SadiqKhan believes these local elections are Londoners chance to say enough is enough to Tory cuts. We agree. #VoteLabourMay3 pic.twitter.com/Z9sZOtdhbR — London Labour (@LondonLabour) April 9, 2018 Polling by YouGov conducted in February 2018 with Queen Mary University registered support for the Labour Party at 54 percent, far exceeding support … [Read more...] about UK Labour Party Launches London Election Campaign
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Labour Party to demand more affordable homes now District Plan adopted
The Mid Sussex Labour Party says it is to demand more affordable homes for residents now the District Plan has been adopted. It has also commented on the 500 homes which are to be built in Hassocks, despite ‘clear objections’.A spokesman for the party said: “Over the last six months the people of Hassocks have come together to express their anger at the Tory proposals in the District Plan to allocate land north of Hassocks, to build 500 homes. “The parish council made their objections clear, Hassocks resident Peter Rayner organised a Save Hassocks campaign, and the local Labour Party along with other opposition groups campaigned to raise their concerns. “However there was one organisation that ignored the interests of Hassocks residents – the local Conservative Party. “It is unsurprising that Tories from other parts of Mid Sussex leapt at the chance to dig themselves out of the hole they had got into without a District Plan by dumping an … [Read more...] about Labour Party to demand more affordable homes now District Plan adopted
Saffron Walden Labour Party call for ‘urgent’ investigation into MP Kemi Badenoch’s hacking confession
PUBLISHED: 09:26 09 April 2018 | UPDATED: 09:26 09 April 2018 Imogen Braddick Kemi Badenoch is Saffron Walden's first female MP Archant Conservative MP for Saffron Walden, Kemi Badenoch, has apologised after admitting she hacked a Labour MP’s website to “say nice things about the Tories”. Mrs Badenoch made the confession in a video by Core Politics, which was obtained by the Mail on Sunday. Asked what was the naughtiest she’d ever done, the 38-year-old replied: “About 10 years ago I hacked into a Labour MP’s website and I changed all the stuff in there to say nice things about Tories. “This was a foolish prank over a decade ago, for which I apologise.” Tom van de Bilt, secretary of Saffron Walden Labour Party, said the matter should be “urgently investigated”. He said: “What Ms Badenoch has described doing is a shocking breach of the Computer Misuse Act: a criminal offence punishable by custodial sentence. … [Read more...] about Saffron Walden Labour Party call for ‘urgent’ investigation into MP Kemi Badenoch’s hacking confession
Hundreds join Maureen Lipman for demo outside Labour HQ as actress brands Jeremy Corbyn an ‘anti-Semite at the head of the Labour Party’
ACTRESS Maureen Lipman branded Jeremy Corbyn an “anti-Semite at the head of the Labour Party” at a demo outside Labour HQ yesterday. Ms Lipman declared “Jeremy Corbyn has made me a Tory” as hundreds held up placards demanding the party hold their leader to account. At the protest, organised by the Campaign Against AntiSemitism, the actress described herself as a “disenfranchised socialist”. And she attacked the Labour leader for attending a feast organised by left-wing Jewish group Jewdas last week, calling it “appalling” and “the absolute cherry on top of Jeremy Corbyn’s behaviour”. She added: “He is standing with elements who are against everything we stand for — hardworking, decent Jewish people of whom I am incredibly proud. “By doing nothing he is telling us the same thing he has been telling us for the last 30 years. He wants a Marxist party. Because it’s worked so well in the rest of the … [Read more...] about Hundreds join Maureen Lipman for demo outside Labour HQ as actress brands Jeremy Corbyn an ‘anti-Semite at the head of the Labour Party’
Shame of Labour party antisemitism
As a member of the Labour party for over half a century and as a current Labour candidate in the council elections for the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, I have been ashamed of my party’s handling of the antisemitism crisis. It has been distressing to see how deeply embedded crude anti-Jewish sentiments have become, and lamentable to see so little done about it by the party leadership beyond empty platitudes. Who would have thought Labour would provide such a happy home for Holocaust deniers? It was thus with great dismay that I saw the special-pleading letter signed by over 40 media academics – including some personal friends of mine – “reframing” the issue as Jeremy Corbyn’s “trial by media” (Letters, 3 April), rather than the failure to eradicate antisemitism within Labour. Thank goodness then for the statement by Momentum, which has very belatedly woken up to the scale and seriousness of the problem, specifically rebutting … [Read more...] about Shame of Labour party antisemitism