Published Aug 25, 2020 at 6:58 pm (Updated Aug 25, 2020 at 7:30 pm) Susan Jackson, One Bermuda Alliance (File photograph) An option to vote by post should have been introduced before Bermudians go to the polls for a General Election, a …
Read More »Labour leadership contest and public ownership
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1072/30202 From The Socialist newspaper, 5 February 2020 photo CCO/CC (Click to enlarge) Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party executive committee A debate, of sorts, is opening up on nationalisation in the Labour leadership election. Support for public ownership – or not – is an indication of which …
Read More »Royal Mail union loses appeal to overturn injunction halting strike
FILE PHOTO: A Royal Mail postal worker stands in the yard of a sorting office in Altrincham, Britain October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo (Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Mail (RMG.L) on Thursday confirmed that its biggest union lost an appeal to overturn a High Court injunction to stop a strike …
Read More »SEP election teams in Britain win warm response
SEP election teams in Britain win warm response By our reporters 27 November 2019 Socialist Equality Party election teams have distributed thousands of copies of the party’s election statement in Sheffield, Manchester and London. Campaigners and candidates, Chris Marsden in Sheffield Central and Dennis Leach in Manchester Central, spoke …
Read More »Left turn? Or will it be last minute zigzagging or u-turns?
IF we consider politics over the past 10 years or so, what is clear is that there was a distinct step to the right in the UK, in the US and elsewhere in the world; the consensus around dealing with the fall-out of the financial crisis taking us in that …
Read More »UK Conservatives warn of economic crisis under Labour, citing disputed dossier
LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Sajid Javid said on Sunday the opposition Labour Party’s “reckless” spending plans would trigger an economic crisis within months if it won the Dec. 12 election, citing a contested dossier published by his Conservative Party. Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid departs Downing …
Read More »Make sure you are registered to vote in the General Election
The Island has officially received the ‘writ from the clerk to the crown’ for the general election. This official part of the process for a general election was overseen by Geoff Underwood, High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight and returning officer for parliamentary elections, and Claire Shand, acting returning …
Read More »How you can take part in the 2019 General Election | Latest Suffolk and Essex News
PUBLISHED: 17:21 05 November 2019 | UPDATED: 11:36 06 November 2019 Paul Geater Britain goes to the polls on December 12 – but how can you take part? Picture by ASHLEY PICKERING Copyright Ashley Pickering The General Election of 2019 is now underway – but what is happening when, and …
Read More »UK's winter election: What's in it for markets?
Although it is seen as a relatively hard form of Brexit by excluding UK-wide … transport stocks (especially rail operators) and also Royal Mail (RMG. Source link
Read More »Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn trade final PMQs blows before election battle
BORIS Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have traded their final PMQs blows before the election today as both leaders bickered over Brexit and the NHS. The UK is set to go to the polls on December 12 after MPs backed the PM’s calls for a general election last night. The bill …
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