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Category: Jeremy Corbyn

  • Hinkley Point C

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    Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn should be commended in opposing and Prime Minister Theresa May should be commended in showing caution and wisdom in the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. There are so many causes for concern in these proposals. Hinkley Point C should not proceed at any cost and there should be thorough, clear and sober assessment.

    The proposed Hinkley Point C reactors (2 of them) are a new and unproven design of reactor, the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR). EPRs are a form of Pressurised Water Reactor.

    The four EPRs already being built have all experienced construction problems and are all uncompleted, over-budget and delayed by years.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

    Four EPR units are under construction. The first two, in Finland and France, are both facing costly construction delays (to at least 2018). Construction commenced on two Chinese units in 2009 and 2010.[1] The Chinese units were to start operation in 2014 and 2015,[2] but are now expected to come online in 2017.[3]

    Olkiluoto 3 in Finland was scheduled to go online in 2009. It is currently expected to start operation in 2018. source It is hugely over-budget. source

    Flamanville 3 in France was due to start operation in 2012. It is currently delayed until late 2018. source

    These dates of 2018 should be regarded as optimistic spin likely to be superseded with later dates.

    Flamanville‘s lid and base to the reactor vessel are flawed and below the required standard, weakened by excessive carbon content in the steel. There are suggestions that the French nuclear safety authority (ASN) may require that the vessel is replaced or even that the project is abandoned.

    Areva aware ‘as early as 2006’ of serious fault in nuclear reactor destined for UK

    UPDATE 2-French regulator delays decision on EDF Flamanville reactor to end-2016

  • Jeremy Corbyn seems to be doing fine …

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    My analysis is that the disenfranchised – through being denied the ability to vote for anybody that represented their interests – are no longer disenfranchised. I suggest that the claims that a Corbyn government is unelectable is very seriously challenged. (I’m being polite ;)

     

    Corbyn:”It’s not about me. It’s about what we have to do together”

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    “We’re all going to have to work hard together”

  • If Socialists and lefties are excluded from politics then what?

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    Isn’t it clear that Socialists are excluded? Haven’t we had nobody to vote for for the past twenty or thirty years?

    Isn’t that exclusion?

    So you’ve had nobody you can vote for?

    Hmm

     

    ed: I  had no idea when I said I want him dead and I had no idea when I said I said that (or whateever I said) . I really meant the first one

  • Articles on the Blairite attempted coup against Corbyn and the left

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    A few articles on the continuing Blairite attempted coup against Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party by Labour Party MPs. They do seem in an awful rush to depose Corbyn … almost as though a clock is ticking. Craig Murray has excellent analyses yet again.

    It’s Still the Iraq War, Stupid.

    No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste?

    The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. …

    [Oops, I forgot this one

    How the News Agenda is Set

    David Cameron gets heckled every day of his life. The media never bother to report the names of the hecklers or the gist of what they say.

    Yet a single heckler shouts at Jeremy Corbyn at Gay Pride, and not only is that front page news in the Guardian, it is on BBC, ITN and Sky News.

    What makes a single individual heckling a politician newsworthy? There are dozens such examples every single day that are not newsworthy.

    The answer is simple. Normally the hecklers are promoting an anti-establishment view, so it does not get reported. Whereas this heckler was promoting the number one priority of the establishment and mainstream media, to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn. So this heckler, uniquely, is front page news and his words are repeated at great length in the Guardian and throughout the broadcast media.

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    Another Media Setup?

    This picture has been all over twitter, promoted by every high level Blairite you can think of, from JK Rowling down. Yet all may not be what it seems. …

    Back to the Future

    The priority now of the political “elite” is to ensure voters never again get the chance to make a choice the political class do not want. Jeremy Corbyn is the thing the political class want least.

    Do you remember when 184 Labour MPs refused to vote against the Tory benefit cuts that ruined lives and caused suicides? They did so on the grounds that their focus groups showed the public wanted benefit cuts, and so it would be wrong to oppose the Tory Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

    Well, I can promise you that the 172 Labour MPs who voted to no-confidence Corbyn are exactly the same people who would not oppose welfare cuts. The net effect of the Corbyn year has been that 12 Labour MPs have decided that they have a purpose in politics which is not just personal gain. The vast majority would vote to push the unemployed off a cliff if they thought it would get them career advancement. Or adapt the John Mann anti-immigrant agenda.

    Make no mistake. If Corbyn is deposed, the people of England and Wales will be back to having a choice between two colours of Tory. Labour will go full on anti welfare, anti immigrant and pro-nuclear weapon. Because Jon Cruddas will tell them that is what will get them elected.

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    Labour crisis: Alan Sugar and Alastair Campbell lead anti-Corbyn campaign

    Former Number 10 communications chief claims a ‘sect has taken control’ of the Labour Party.

    Lord Alan Sugar and Alastair Campbell are two of the best-known names backing an online campaign to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The former Number 10 communications chief and the ex-Labour peer are urging hundreds of thousands of their followers on social media site Twitter to sign a ‘Saving Labour’ petition.

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    dizzy: LOL that’s classic isn’t it? Blair’s master of lies and the UK’s version of Donald Trump accuse the left of hijacking the Labour party!

     

    Ken Livingstone urges Jeremy Corbyn to allow party members to deselect dissenting MPs

    Ken Livingstone has urged Jeremy Corbyn to allow party members and activists to deselect dissenting MPs in the wake of a bruising no confidence vote that has destabilised the party’s leadership.

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  • Jeremy Corbyn has my support

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    Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Corbynistas have my support.

    Labour members and supporters want a Socialist leader pursuing a Socialist, anti-austerity agenda opposing Neo-Liberalism. Many Labour MPs apparently do not. [29/6/16 It appears that those who oppose Corbyn are Neo-Conservatives.]

    background: Labour MPs have overwhelmingly voted that they have no confidence in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The vote has no constitutional legitimacy. Jeremy Corbyn has huge support from Labour party members having been elected by an overwhelming majority and having attracted many new members to the Labour party.

    ed: I wonder if it’s related to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry on 6 July, 2016.