Paul Knaggs

Theresa May enters the Tory party conference dancing! Yes, that really is the headline in the media today even though to the less keen-eyed viewer it could have been mistaken for a tumble. It was only the track Dancing Queen playing that confirmed to most it was not actually was not. It would be funny if it was not so embarrassing! The...

No one likes to be told that the truth may not be the only truth! No one likes their worldview to be upset and not many people get pleasure in creating this upset. But sometimes when you see a path clearly laid out, a path that will lead to the unravelling of the Party, your Party, then it’s your duty to...

The Work and Pensions Secretary launched her attack despite cuts being well-documented by experts and her predecessor Iain Duncan Smith. BRAZEN Esther McVey caused uproar after she claimed that benefit cuts were "fake news" during a hysterical attack on the left. The Work and Pensions Secretary used her keynote address at the Conservative Party conference to attack growing support for Labour...

This incompetent Government have not only embarrassed the UK at the very start of their conference, that usually does not happen until the speeches but it may well have cost the UK potential investment. After all if they cannot get their own digital security right how will they promote trust in potential investors to the UK. The government have spent...

70% of Labour Constituencies voted to Leave the EU! David Mallon delegate from Blyth valley CLP. David Mallon talked passionately at the Labour Party conference imploring the Labour Party not accept the People’s Vote. David told the conference in no uncertain terms what supporting a people's vote would mean to the people of his constituency. David's constituency of Blyth valley was just...

Top Jeremy Corbyn aide 'yelled in fury' when Keir Starmer went off-script in Brexit speech There were plenty of reasons why! Jeremy Corbyn has worked relentlessly at trying to create a Labour Party people can trust, with politicians we can trust Keir Starmer seems to have missed the brief. Starmer's conference speech advocating a second referendum that would include the question of...

The conference has finished and after a rousing, fantastic speech with standing ovations, Jeremy Corbyn told Theresa May: if you can’t negotiate that deal then you need to make way for a party that can we have spread the word. The Labour party are ready to rebuild Britain. His calls for a general election were greeted with rapturous applause in the hall. The...

This policy is to be sold to us by projecting an unjustified optimism about the Community, and an unjustified pessimism about the United Kingdom, designed to frighten us in. - Tony Benn Public ownership of gas and electricity is destined to become a cherished aim of the Labour Party. For years under privatisation, the swindling of the consumer has gone...

Social media is rife on the Remain forums heralding Keir Starmer as the New party leader. In one speech Starmer has managed to not only lose the support of countless Labour constituencies that voted to Leave the EU but managed to complete the Chicken coup of 2016. Labour's Brexit spokesman has insisted the party could back another referendum that offered voters...

On Mondays news brought us these headlines:   Labour's new Brexit referendum would not offer option to remain in EU, says John McDonnell. A new referendum must exclude any option to remain in EU, says Len McCluskey The Unite general secretary said, “including the option could push Labour voters to the Tories”. It does not take a genius to see that both these...