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Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party experienced their worst result since the 1935 general election, losing 60 seats. The majority of the losses coming in England from areas with over 50% of voters wishing to leave the European Union as well as a few seats in Scotland as the Scottish National Party delivered a message to the UK that they were seeking another independence referendum and wish to remain in the European Union. Despite this, the future looks extremely bright for the Labour Party and progressive politics in general. Election Maps UK, a group responsible for election forecasts and results have recently produced maps of the UK based on how each age group voted in the 2019 General Election and how the results would have look if only these age groups were the ones voting two weeks ago. The election maps produced show how dominant the Labour Party are among younger voters. The map in the top left shows us how the 2019 election would have turned out had only 18-24 year olds vo...

Whichever way you approach the recent UK election, it would be fair to say that the Labour Party experienced a drubbing, resulting in a loss of 60 seats and handing the Conservative Party a large parliamentary majority. There has however been a fierce debate surrounding the reasons for Labour’s defeat, reasons ranging from Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn himself or supposedly racist voters. This debate has deeply spilt the two main factions of the Labour Party, between moderates and progressives. Blairites vs Corbynistas if you will. Moderates place the blame solely at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn, his supposed anti-semitism and poor electability. Progressives see this defeat as a result of a Brexit backlash with many Leave voters leaving the Labour Party while the Conservative Party had one core message: “Get Brexit Done” which seemingly resonated. It is fair to suggest that Corbyn’s popularity isn’t exactly soaring, with the mere mention of his name bringing about a whole range of different...

Ever since Jeremy Corbyn delivered a hung parliament in the 2017 UK General Election, his and Labour's popularity rating in the polls have been surging, but unfortunately so have the smears both from the center and right-wing. This sharp increase in, to borrow a phrase, fake news, has led many on the Left to label Corbyn as a man of mystery and many talents, one who is able to hide all of his so-called misdeeds from British Intelligence Services and become the leader of the UK's current opposition. We will now take great delight at going through the most prominent smears that the Labour leader has faced and debunk them as best we can, because Jeremy clearly has a lot to answer for. Jeremy Corbyn is a Communist This is perhaps the most prominent smear against Corbyn as it's the fact that it's simply down to what your own personal interpretation of what a Communist actually is. For example, according to those on the Right in America like to claim that the Democrat...

Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Communication and Culture have conducted Reports that break down the media's attitude towards all major politicians and parties who are hoping to win tomorrow's U.K. Election. The Reports are titled "Media Analysis of the 2017 General Election campaign" and it allows us to see if the major nighttime news shows and newspapers are really as neutral as they want us to think they are. The news programmes include: Channel 4 News at 7pm, Channel 5 News at 6:30pm, BBC1 News at 10, ITV1 News at 10 and Sky News at 8. The Newspapers include: The Guardian, Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun and The Star. In this piece we will be looking at Reports 2 and 3 - as these are the reports that matter the most because of how they can influence peoples vote close to an election. Report 2 is dated from the 5th of May to the 17th of May and sho...

In only two days time the people of the U.K. will go to the polling stations and vote for their parliamentary representatives and a Prime Minister will be elected. The Labour party have a manifesto over 120 economists agree with, while the Conservatives spend more time saying "strong and stable leadership" and spreading defamatory comments about Jeremy Corbyn rather than than tell the nation about their policies, let's go through the defamatory comments and see if they hold any weight. Jeremy Corbyn is a supporter of the IRA. This is false. Sure you can find pictures of Gerry Adams and Corbyn together, however this was only after he became an elected MP in 1983 - political visit as opposed to a personal visit. The Times newspaper apologised for trying to smear Corbyn in 1987, claiming he paid an IRA member £45 who was fleeing British police, Jeremy Corbyn also reported the incident to the police as soon as he was made aware of the situation. Corbyn has also met North...