Parliament

  • Chaos reigns in not-yet-Your Party

    Jeremy Corbyn MP (Islington North/Your Party) is no stranger to criticism. His familiarity with controversy has continued in a new party he’s setting up with fellow independent MP’s – principally Zarah Sultana MP (Coventry South/Your Party) – as an electoral force.

    It’s already fracturing as legal threats swirl. The problem is in part a rights issue (not unusual for a socialist crowd) over the new protocols for membership. The reciprocal letters now issued show a determination to establish who says what, how, and why.

    The call in of lawyers is an escalation that isn’t usually predicted for a very new effort in Parliament. It usually comes after a long time and a lot of dispute in between. There again, the Left (its former base of support) is basically a brief history in short thrift.

  • Westminster Week: The blues

    Tuesday

    The Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill is stirring more controversy in Parliament than some might have imagined. The concerns for the status of island residents, overall costs, and a loss of strategic advantage has riled those on the Conservative benches. The handover to Labour has perpetuated the deterioration of feelings over the matter.

    Wednesday

    The conservative inside Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) is coming out. She laid into the Prime Minister for corruption, sleaze, and strikes in London.

  • Prime Minister’s Questions

  • Westminster Week: Diminishing returns

    Monday

    It’s back. Parliament has returned after a summer recess. It means the same issues are on the agenda. The Home Secretary addressed the small boats crisis, calling it “chaos and exploitation driven by criminal smuggler gangs” and stated the government has mitigated a much larger disaster. It’s possible to hear unconvincing sighs across the country.

  • Corbyn’s Your Army will march to defeat

    The Jeremy Corbyn controversy continues. His latest attempt to make a success of leadership qualities is Your Party.

    This is a Left-leaning Parliamentary party geared toward those who like to preach at us in public.

    The trouble is Your Army marches into a battlefield of larger competing forces.

    It fails in firepower. The argument for our intervention is based on not-too-distant failed attempts.

    The star power of Corybn is a far cry from the dusty halls of power. It’s in these people fall on their swords.

  • Corbyn launches everybody’s Not My Party

    Jeremy Corbyn – the unofficial left-wing Labour party – has launched Your Party with Zarah Sultana, a fellow independent MP.

    It’s not quite there yet.

    However seismic the announcement, they’ve got to form everything that’s left apart from its name.

    It means a lot of work.

    The plaudits and pundits will come out to play with this. It’s also guaranteed to draw haters. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

  • Parliament: Seats for cash

    It’s alleged both Speakers in Parliament are offering seats for cash in general elections.

    It’s suspected MP’s who’ve not used “The Service” – as it’s called – have lodged complaints.

    According to an allegation by one source, a seat was sold for £50 to a past Conservative MP.

    It’s believed an offer was made to the MP – who was due to be criticised – before an election.

  • Parliament: Pervert Officers

    In a disturbing new development, Police Officers on patrol in Parliament are accused of crimes against children.

    It’s believed the charges include assault, battery, and intent to commit indecent acts.

    It’s also alleged Germany-based paedophiles attack UK citizens in contact with the Officers.

  • Westminster Week: Bleak outlook

    Tuesday

    John Grady MP (Glasgow East/Labour) says realistic policy is not a Conservative strength. He says their “wishful thinking” results in proposals of “magical realism”. He says a “hundred years of solitude” is deserved.

    It continued.

    Joe Powell MP (Kensington and Bayswater/Labour) says the result is “the price of short-termism, and a failure to plan for the future”.

  • Exclusive: Parliament sex chat

    It’s believed concerns are being raised over sexualised language used by Parliament’s staff.

    It involves references to body parts and sex in use in place of normal terms in conversation.

    It’s also been reported by school leaders who are concerned it’s heard during school visits.

  • Prime Minister’s Questions

  • Westminster Week: School reports

    Wednesday

    The feeling of derision must be palpable in the Chamber. The Opposition leader reels out failures on Labour’s part – and is told hers on behalf of her party. It’s a rough year for politics in the UK.

  • Prime Minister’s Questions

  • The rise of common sense dictatorship

    The start of a new party by Zarah Sultana MP (Coventry South/Independent) and Jeremy Corbyn MP (Islington North/Independent) is bad news for the state.

    Their politics is little more than dictatorship for a tea party. They enjoy moral high ground like a badly funded estate. It’s corrupt to its core. It’s nonsense.

  • Westminster Week: Going local

    Tuesday

    An issue like PIP or Universal Credit is going to raise tensions. Imran Hussain MP (Bradford East/Labour) stated his case clearly.

    “It is not this place that sends me to Bradford, but the people of Bradford who send me to this place.”

    As well as his Labour roots, it’s also his conscience, then.

    David Chadwick MP (Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe/Liberal Democrat) also got passionate. He’s on the liberal side of the debate.

    Thursday

    The Health Secretary’s Fit For The Future ten year plan for the NHS hit the nation sideways today. It’s a bold initiative.

    “We will turn our National Health Service into a neighbourhood service.”

    He sticks close to the principles by word. “Every patient will receive a first class service – whatever their background, and whatever they earn”, he says.