The Labour Party belongs to people, not a bunch of lawyers, accountants, career politicians and political opportunists.

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The Trade Union movement and the Labour Party.

I am getting really hacked off with the constant banging on from media, pundits, Tory MP's, comments in the correspondence sections and many others about the Labour Party and the “links” with the trade Union movement. These people clearly have their own agenda and conveniently ignore, if they ever knew, the historic roots of the Labour Party.
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) a “special conference to establish a voice for working people within parliament” led to the first Labour MP's being elected to Parliament. The aims and objectives of the Labour Party and the Trade Union Congress have historically been the representation and well being of ordinary people and were stated in Clause 4 of the Labour Party Constitution which Blair abandoned in 1995, essentially turning the Labour Party into a centre rightist party. Since then (and for a number of years before), the Labour Party has drifted off into a nebulous mass without any real belief or commitment to anything other than a watered down “Toryism” peddling the perceived populist platform that “we are not as bad as they are”. In the meantime, the traditional base of the Labour party has been abandoned to fend for themselves in a hostile environment of more and more excessive government measures, many of which have been supported by the Parliamentary Labour Party.
For some time, I have been arguing that the Trade Union movement should dump any links with today's Labour Party and leave them to their own programme and sources of funding. The TUC should produce their own list of candidates to fight any future elections on a platform of workers rights and anti austerity. In this way, the moronic ill informed anti Labour anti Trade Union chattering may finally be silenced. The Labour Party was born from and belongs to the Trade Union movement, not a bunch of lawyers, accountants, career politicians and political opportunists.
The new TUC candidates list may in the short term at least not find overwhelming support amongst the electorate, but at least the people in this country will have a clear choice between the Labour/Conservative/Liberal Democrat morass each offering minor variations of the same old policies rehashed every 5 years or so, and a new approach where people do not take second place to corporate business and the self interests of politicians.

Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

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