Thursday 8th June 2017. Was this the day that the youth made their voices heard within the political world? Was this the first time for many years that young people changed the landscape of British politics? Was this the time that the ‘disillusioned millennials’ finally stepped up and had their say? These were all questions […]
Corbyn
The Brexit Election
Theresa May has a comical aversion to giving a straight answer. For a long time, her only public pronouncements on Brexit were slogans: ‘Brexit means Brexit’ and, when challenged on whether it would be a hard or soft Brexit, the particularly laughable ‘Red, White, and Blue Brexit’. In January, she gave the public its clearest […]
Snap Election 2017- the round up
On Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister announced that she would be calling for an early General Election to take place on the 8th of June. This came as quite a surprise to both MPs and the public, as Theresa May had stated repeatedly in the past that she had no intention of calling for an […]
Anti-establishment politics: a threat to capitalism?
With the fall of communism in 1989, theorists such as Francis Fukyama professed an end to ‘history’, a new era of politics for the twenty-first century, as humanity finally abandoned its expensive ideological struggle. Whilst politics has typically been a struggle of world views, today’s politics seems purely to be capitalist-oriented, parties geared towards winning […]
An interview with John McDonnell MP: On Corbyn and coups
Disclosure: I am an Owen Smith activist; I made no effort to hide this during the interview. The organiser also knew this to be true before the interview A deluge of applause rushed over the rouge pews of the packed out theatre, the acclamation rolling down to the lectern where John McDonnell stood, in the spirit of […]