tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post739588593833365961..comments2023-08-31T15:14:58.287-07:00Comments on London Green Left Blog: Labour Right’s Next Plan – Get the Unions to ditch CorbynMike Shaughnessyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796480031110991460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-72947260152398071632016-09-22T00:50:27.397-07:002016-09-22T00:50:27.397-07:00It would seem that the fundamental difference betw...It would seem that the fundamental difference between members of Momentum and England's Boundary Commission is that, whereas Momentum members believe in mandatory reselection of Labour MPs by CLP members, England's Boundary Commissioners believe in the wholesale sacking of parliamentary constituencies. Islington Tribune reports <a href="http://www.islingtontribune.com/boundaries-shake-up" rel="nofollow">‘It stinks!’ [Islington South] MP Emily’s view of boundaries shake-up that poses threat to Corbyn [Islington North] seat</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-17040787000988896362016-09-21T04:36:47.720-07:002016-09-21T04:36:47.720-07:00"[Labour's 2008] Welfare Reform Green Pap..."[Labour's 2008] Welfare Reform Green Paper, 'No One Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility' seems unduly influenced by large companies that see the privatisation of job centre services as big business. The consultation asks 29 questions, none of which are addressed to the impact of growing global recession and diminishing global resources upon employment."<br />Source: <a href="https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/workfare-is-not-the-answer.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/workfare-is-not-the-answer.html</a><br /><br />Instead, those questions were addressed to how best to 'reward' scheme providers under contract to the DWP for 'results', and had nothing whatsoever to do with rewarding benefit claimants who were operating under difficult and demeaning circumstances.<br /><br />No doubt Labour 'moderates' would approve of such questions as incentives for corporate funding of the Labour Party while benefit claimants were essentially stuffed and stitched up as fodder for even worse things to come under Tory government?<br /><br />What would Labour 'moderates' have to say about the fact that under Universal Credit that a pre-Corbyn Labour Party supported as 'too big to fail', a sanction for [allegedly] not doing enough to boost their incomes so as to get out of 'welfare dependency' -- including housing benefit -- would render the claimant bereft of all state benefits?Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com