It seems that, over the next two weeks, we are now suffering a plague of elections: six by-elections, plus the rather-important PCC elections. But the one which has the most compressed timescales of all – where candidate Sarah Champion was selected yesterday, with a mere two weeks until polling day and after a walkout at the… Continue reading Rotherham is the most important election of all
Category: Respect
The return of the far-left: a turning point for Labour
Politics has its own rhythm. It is governed partly by obvious dates, like general elections, but partly by longer-term movements in the tectonic plates. It is easy to overestimate by-elections – the media almost invariably do – but I suspect that Bradford West might just be one of the few that historians remember. Until Thursday,… Continue reading The return of the far-left: a turning point for Labour
Respect, a misnomer if ever there was one
Just to note (hat-tip: Harry’s Place) the excellent news that the awful Carole Swords, mentioned in a previous post as a member of Viva Palestina and chair of Respect in Tower Hamlets, has been convicted of threatening behaviour. Here’s the delightful Ms Swords shouting “go back to Russia” at some passing Jewish people: