Campaigns

By Peter Madeley  Pro-Europe West Bromwich East candidate Ibrahim Dogus admitted meeting with the former Ukip leader in a restaurant. Ibrahim Dogus (right) enjoys a meal with Nigel Farage A pro-Europe Labour parliamentary candidate has had his political allegiance questioned after an image emerged of him enjoying a bite to eat with Nigel Farage. In the picture, West Bromwich East candidate Ibrahim Dogus can be seen smiling as he sits next to the then Ukip leader in a restaurant. Mr Dogus, a Kurdish kebab restaurateur from London who is the current Mayor of Lambeth, is Jeremy Corbyn's choice to replace Tom Watson in the Sandwell seat. Read the Express & Star's Sandwell General Election preview as the Tories aim to shake-up the Labour heartlandAnd follow all the twists and t...

by KENNETH SURIN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The media focus in the UK general election has tended, understandably, to be on BoJo Johnson, the latest prime (un)mover of Ukania’s protracted and bizarre Brexit ordeal. BoJo also draws attention for his antics, gaffes, endlessly contradictory hot-air pledges, and torrid love life. By contrast, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, comes across as a benign and slightly eccentric grey-bearded uncle, quite unlike BoJo’s persona as an overweight, tousle-haired and preening lothario of the kind any decent or self-caring person (women especially!) would keep well away from at a family reunion. None of this stops the rightwing tabloids from resorting to fiction when depicting Corbyn as a sinister and wacko figure who supports or ke...

"Instead of you forking out for your monthly bill, we'll tax the giant corporations fairly—the Facebooks and the Googles—to cover the running costs." by: Andrea Germanos Opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech on digitial infrastructure policy at an election campaign event in Lancaster, northwest England on November 15, 2019. Britain's main opposition Labour Party today promised free, fast broadband internet for everyone, in an eye-catching pledge for next month's election. (Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images) The U.K. Labour Party unveiled a proposal Friday to provide free broadband internet to all homes and businesses in the country and partially nationalize the major telecommunications provider. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn justified the move by calling...

by KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Jeremy Corbyn – CC BY 2.0 Those of us who attended the Labour Party annual conference in September knew from the resolutions passed there that the party’s manifesto for the next election would offer a vision of socialism not seen since the immediate postwar Labour government. While not all conference resolutions find their way into the manifesto, there was enough at the conference to indicate that the party was going to repudiate the 40 years of neoliberalism prevailing since Thatcher took office in 1979, and continuing to the present day even though New Labour was in office from 1997 to 2010. A politico-economic structure that has been in place for decades can’t be overturned by a party’s single term in office, so ideally Labour has emb...

By Johanna Ross With less than a month to go before the UK general election, all efforts are being made by political parties to further their agendas. Naturally each side is launching attacks on the other, but perhaps the most virulent campaign is that of the Conservatives towards Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party. Their malicious accusations, particularly regarding allegations of widespread anti-semitism in the Labour party, which are without any proper foundation, have been propagated more or less since Corbyn came to power. The anti-Corbyn propaganda reached its peak last week with an article in The Guardian entitled: “Concerns about anti-semitism mean we cannot vote Labour”. Signed by 24 ‘celebrities’, the piece stated that Jeremy Corbyn was ‘steeped in association with anti-...