Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]
Portsmouth author and socialist activist Pete Adams campaigned nearly every day in the 2017 and 2019 general elections for Stephen Morgan. He got to know Stephen and liked him, but he now suspects he was [… read more ]
In December 2021, Portsmouth political blogger Pariah Garrie was one of perhaps up to a thousand people across the UK to be expelled from the Labour Party as part of the Starmer leadership’s clampdown on members expressing support [… read more ]
By Pete Adams Silly Billy Was Billy silly? Billy felt silly. He believed he was a socialist and a committed anti-racist and was now being called an anti-Semite because the Labour Party said so – [… read more ]
Following on from their last poems on Boris Johnson – and in the interests of political balance – I. L. Literate has penned eight clerihews poking fun at the floundering Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer. [… read more ]
By Amanda Garrie Oh dear, oh dear, treacherous Keir you favour the bosses over job losses. You’re not the right ilk, in your cap, gown and silk; your attempt at a joke has you covered [… read more ]
Almost every decision Keir Starmer has made since becoming Labour leader has earned the ire of leftist pundits and politicians. But what if the left itself were to change its approach to him and his [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon continue their review of what happened at the nine and a half hour full council meeting. Today [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they discuss the upcoming US election, the European Court of Human Rights investigation into Labour and if the Government have [… read more ]
Local Liberal Democrat party member, Simon Sansbury, who also stood for the party in the last local council elections, explores the party’s ongoing leadership contest and weighs up who should get his vote. The starting [… read more ]
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