On what was a fairly mixed but still relatively drama-free day of local election results for Labour in the second city there are a couple of contests that really stand out. The Greens winning comfortably in Druids Heath to get their first ever councillor in Birmingham was of course the one that has generated …
Category: remain
Corbyn comes to town.
11/06/2016 by J.C Jeremy Corbyn was in town on Thursday on that rarest of nights in Birmingham, a glorious, hot one; to try and persuade us to vote in favour of staying in the EU. A tough gig in anyone’s book. After his unfortunate non-appearance on Saturday he was a man in demand. Even my …
Gisela’s EU folly
by J.C 28/05/16 I’ve found it incredibly hard to motivate myself to campaign in the EU referendum. Watching two equally repugnant wings of the Tory Party hack lumps out of each other is extremely unedifying and I don’t blame Jeremy Corbyn and many in the Labour Party for their palpable lack of enthusiasm. It hasn’t …
The EU: Stay or go? STAY!
by J.D. April 2016 As Cameron campaigns to sell his “reformed” relationship with the EU, the xenophobes have stepped up their anti-EU campaign and seem to be gaining ground. Every day now, the Sun and the Mail serve up: denunciations of migrants, demands for stricter border controls and thinly-disguised racism - all central to the anti-EU campaign. In the Dutch referendum …
Momentum Birmingham 