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How We Respond to Woodcock and Smith | Mortal Ash
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March 25, 2016. How We Respond to Woodcock and Smith. Very simply this is a turning point for Corbyn’s leadership. Now that hostilities are out in the open, we can safely assume the right have begun the process of lining someone up to depose him. The safe money is on Dan Jarvis for now. This leaves us with clarity on the way the party must progress. As I wrote recently. There is a worrying trend among young members and purportedly sympathetic journalists to attack Corbyn no matter how well he does. T...
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21 | March | 2016 | Mortal Ash
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Daily Archives: March 21, 2016. March 21, 2016. Critical Hostility – A personal reflection. In the years following Tony Blair’s departure the soft left made a brief return to power on the back of union votes and left activism. These people are not socialists, they never have been, and they have no intention of ever being so. They are for want of a better comparison West Wing junkies who think Justin Trudeau represents a sea change in global politics because he scrubs up well and is not scared of sayi...
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25 | March | 2016 | Mortal Ash
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Daily Archives: March 25, 2016. March 25, 2016. How We Respond to Woodcock and Smith. Very simply this is a turning point for Corbyn’s leadership. Now that hostilities are out in the open, we can safely assume the right have begun the process of lining someone up to depose him. The safe money is on Dan Jarvis for now. This leaves us with clarity on the way the party must progress. As I wrote recently. There is a worrying trend among young members and purportedly sympathetic journalists to attack Corbyn n...
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Was Blair’s Labour programme more working class than Corbyn’s? No, of course it bloody wasn’t | Mortal Ash
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January 31, 2016. Was Blair’s Labour programme more working class than Corbyn’s? No, of course it bloody wasn’t. In recent weeks there has been an attempt to pitch Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party as one predicated on the votes and sentiments of the urban middle class. By the ‘moderate’ wing of the party, who are running an unending eulogy for Tony Blair in the process. The basis for this argument is as follows:. Blair’s position and policy foundation was one based on realism and the pragma...
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Critical Hostility – A personal reflection | Mortal Ash
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March 21, 2016. Critical Hostility – A personal reflection. In the years following Tony Blair’s departure the soft left made a brief return to power on the back of union votes and left activism. These people are not socialists, they never have been, and they have no intention of ever being so. They are for want of a better comparison West Wing junkies who think Justin Trudeau represents a sea change in global politics because he scrubs up well and is not scared of saying he is a feminist. I also supporte...
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January 31, 2016. Was Blair’s Labour programme more working class than Corbyn’s? No, of course it bloody wasn’t. In recent weeks there has been an attempt to pitch Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party as one predicated on the votes and sentiments of the urban middle class. By the ‘moderate’ wing of the party, who are running an unending eulogy for Tony Blair in the process. The basis for this argument is as follows:. Blair’s position and policy foundation was one based on realism and the pragma...
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01 | May | 2016 | Mortal Ash
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Daily Archives: May 1, 2016. May 1, 2016. The Blunt Sword of Anti-Semitism. This week Ken Livingstone, ex-Mayor of London and long-time campaigner for those at the sharper end of capitalism’s rusty knife said the following. In reference to comments by suspended MP Naz Shah. It was stupid and wrong, and he should apologise:. Read on to see the divine logic). Ken Livingstone, a very bad lad. In the case pertaining to the Hillsborough disaster. At an FA Cup semi-final were most probably the fault of drunken...
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One of the many reasons I will vote to Remain | Mortal Ash
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June 22, 2016. One of the many reasons I will vote to Remain. Many will feel detached from this referendum, disinterested even. Up until last week I had sympathy for that approach. I am approaching peak political fatigue myself, and I love nothing more than a bit of red vs blue. Yet tomorrow we vote, perhaps in the biggest single referendum any of us will ever have the opportunity to engage in. I only ask that you watch this video and absorb just how many died in those 6 fateful years between 1939-45 and...
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‘The Non-Life and Death of Scandinavian Scotland’ and Other Tales From #SP16 | Mortal Ash
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May 14, 2016. 8216;The Non-Life and Death of Scandinavian Scotland’ and Other Tales From #SP16. In 2014 I wrote an article entitled ‘Heroes of a Deferred Nation. In which I opined that far from having the potential of a Nordic social-democratic economy, an independent Scotland was better placed to remain a rainy small C conservative outpost not dissimilar to the one it would have recently left. I feel that last week’s Holyrood elections. Blue is the colour. We cannot increase tax. If we strip away the pa...
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In Defence of a Corbyn Future | Mortal Ash
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September 23, 2016. In Defence of a Corbyn Future. When James Connolly awaited his execution at the hands of British soldiers in Kilmainham Gaol – 1916. His wife Lily broke down in tears remarking But your beautiful life Jamesyour beautiful life to which the injured and weary Connolly reminiscently replied But hasn’t it been a full life Lily, and isn’t this a good end? He remarked to me that in that campaign, and the mutterings surrounding John McDonnell’s sadly doomed 2007 leadership bid. Jeremy Corbyn ...
