The lesson from UK Labour meltdown that NZ Labour must learn
UK Labour’s electoral punishment is a warning shot for New Zealand Labour: voters hammered by inequality want change, not managerial drift.
UK Politics
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A fairer electoral system would have helped UK Labour to power
UK Labour did fantastically well in Thursday’s general election, despite Jeremy Corbyn being painted as an “unelectable” leftist by the media commentariat – and even by most of his Labour colleagues. Labour’s advance was not really a surprise. As I wrote in my Daily Blog post a year and a half ago, Corbyn’s “Keynesian policies are considerably more popular than the austerity championed by Cameron and the Labour right.”
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UK Election – winners and losers
Somewhere Matthew Hooton, Ben Thomas and David Farrar are in a group hug sobbing.
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On the eve of UK election, here was my meeting with Labour shadow chancellor – a socialist leader of working class
Having strong left-wing leaders of the Labour Party is an unusual phenomenon for the UK. Corbyn was elected leader with the overwhelming support of the party members but opposition from the overwhelming majority of Labour MPs. This is a contradiction that cannot last indefinitely.
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Dirty tricks against Corbyn not working
Corbyn’s opponents have tried every trick in the book to dent the Labour leader’s support.