Politics
Catching up with the Tories! Momentum’s membership is over 31,000
The Labour grassroots organisation now has over 31,000 members, a huge following considering it was only launched a couple of years ago. Momentum was set-up after Jereym Corbyn’s shock victory in the Labour leadership contest in 2015. The group has come under criticism from the right of British media and politics and also from within the Labour party itself. Critics of the group, however, claim its activists have taken over constituency Labour parties and agitated against sitting MPs who are...
Global Justice Now hold anti-Trump protest outside SNP Autumn Conference
Global Justice Now member Bob Gillespie tries out a custom built Trump mask as the group hold a protest outside the SEC at the Scottish National Party (SNP) Autumn conference to highlight the dangers of post-Brexit trade deals with the US. Members of Global Justice Now hold a protest outside the SEC at the Scottish National Party (SNP) Autumn conference to highlight the dangers of post-Brexit trade deals with the US. October 9, 2017. Campaigners are concerned that a free...
WATCH: Russell Brand owns Bill Maher on voting, Trump, Hillary & Corbyn: “Don’t vote until there are politicians that speak directly to you”
The last US election played out as some pollsters had warned - like a terrible game of scissors, stone and paper. People found Bernie Sanders more believable than Donald Trump, yet the Democrat Party refused to believe in anyone but Hillary Clinton, even though many warned that she should have a far harder time standing against Trump. All this was pretty obvious to everyone but never really acknowledged by mainstream TV hosts like Bill Maher who this week ribbed Russell...
All you need to know about the plot to oust Theresa May and the ‘mastermind’ behind it, Grant Shapps
The Conservative Party Conference was still packing up when the knives were out for Theresa May. With Theresa May hanging onto power by her fingernails the plot to oust the PM is being “masterminded” by Grant Shapps. "A growing number of number of my colleagues, we realise that the solution isn't to bury our heads in the sand and just hope things will get better, the MP for Welwyn Hatfield told Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. Shapps told Radio...
Have your own phrase fall off a wall behind Theresa May
A new site has been set up that allows you type your own phrase behind Theresa May and watch it fall off. The British Drea was created following the devastating final speech by May at the Conservative Party Conference where parts of the Tory's slogan fell off. Ironically, the phrase was "building a country that works for everyone", but eventually crumbled to "Bui ding a c ntry tha orks or ryon". May's position remains fragile today after Grant Shapps started an...
Prankster who gave May a fake P45 joked about catching the beleaguered PM’s cold
The prankster who famously handed Theresa May a fake P45 after gatecrashing her Tory conference speech joked about catching the beleaguered PM's COLD. Comedian Simon Brodkin, 40, who performed under his alter-ego Lee Nelson, told an audience he had "quite a bad cough" and "caught something off Theresa". The comic also boasted to the Glee Club in Nottingham that he had spent the night in a police cell following the stunt which was beamed around the world. Warming up the...
Watching Theresa May’s speech, it now looks Prime Minister may have plagiarised The West Wing
Oh deary dear. Deary deary deary me. So it turns out that the bit of Theresa May’s car crash Conservative Party Conference keynote speech that wasn’t marred by being handed a P45, her constant miserable coughing or the new slogan she got in to replace “strong and stable” falling off the wall behind here letter by letter... well that uplifting, inspiring bit appears lifted of an uplifting, inspiring speech in hit political TV show The West Wing. https://twitter.com/D_Raval/status/915618207343480833 https://twitter.com/chrisasabutton/status/915615879135744005 Downing...
As Theresa May served P45, all the ways a calamitous Conservative Party Conference turned into an episode of The Thick Of It
Usually when Theresa May makes an important speech the pound tends to plummet scarily on international markets and confidence in Britain falls even further. Sterling cliff dive after Theresa May speech But you know it’s been a good speech when everyone’s favourite political farce The Thick Of It starts trending on social media before the speech is even over. Still it’s not like this lot have anything more complex to negotiate apart from getting through a week in Manchester without any...
Watch – May’s speech descends into chaos after she is handed P45
Theresa May's conference speech descended into chaos after TV prankster Lee Nelson interrupted her appearance to hand her a P45. The Prime Minister was forced to pause her keynote address to the Tory gathering after she was handed the end of employment form. The comedian said "Boris asked me to give you this." She also has an awful cough, which made the whole affair pretty awful. Especially as her Conservative Party Conference 17 speech comes in a week that it...