Paul Knaggs

The Labour Party had just elected our new leader Jeremy Corbyn he entered the leadership competition as the Left underdog a token gesture by a predominantly centralist PLP. He was expected to fall at the first hurdle, the Parliamentary Labour Party felt secure in their power base from the New Labour of Blair to that moment they held the power...

The proscription of Labours Lexit members In recent months the Labour forums have carried out a proscription on Lexit members any slight word or bite back at Remainers taunts have found the Lexit members on Facebook forums being kicked and in some cases the abusive insults thrown at Lexit supporters have been both bullying and condescending.  On one forum in...

Labour do not betray the people! Why would a working class man from Barnsley part of the Labour Heartlands attack Labour and in particularly Keir Starmer. The answer is quite simple! 70% of Labour constituencies voted Leave. The Labour Heartlands the once proud industrial counties have been left disenfranchised. Successive governments have ignored their plight and now they demand more. The audience member...

EU Thinks Parliamentary Power Wastes of Time.   Conservative rebels inflicted a humiliating defeat on Theresa May in the House of Commons as they backed an amendment to her flagship European Union withdrawal bill over parliament’s right to a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal. European Union (Withdrawal) Bill – to amend Clause 9 of the Bill to require the final Brexit deal with...

Nationalisation Jeremy Corbyn claimed a socialist manifesto might be restricted by the European Union’s rules on state aid if the UK tried to stay in the single market. On the 24th of September, Jeremy Corbyn told the Andrew Marr Show the single market “has within it restrictions in state aid and state spending. That has pressures on it through the European Union to privatise...

Tony Benn on the EU When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don’t like it you can change it. When asked his own thoughts about the European Union, Tony...

Dennis Skinner on the EU. The Beast of Bolsover stands head and shoulders above most Labour MP's of today, he is a man of principle and dedication to the Labour values that the party was built on. In an interview with the Morning  Star Dennis skinner had this to say: “My opposition from the very beginning has been on the lines that...

Joe Solo & The Hatfield Brigade - They Could Not Break This Town Leslie Moore  When we decided to record this song which is going to be one of many planned each year until we have enough to fill a full album, we were mind full of the punitive measure`s continuing in many mining communities. We decided to sing about the fact...

Merry Christmas From Hatfield Main We are proud to announce the OFFICIAL VIDEO to accompany the single 'Merry Christmas From Hatfield Main' by Joe Solo & The Hatfield Brigade. It was shot on location at Central Club in Stainforth on October 30th 2016 as miners and their families from up and down the UK gathered to join a choir like no other...

The EEC and the Single European Act The Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, took the UK into the EEC in January 1973 after President de Gaulle of France had blocked UK membership twice in the 1960s. This brought EEC membership to nine.  In a referendum in 1975 the UK electorate voted to stay in the EEC under renegotiated terms of...