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A shocking new poll by YouGov that was released today said that 61% of Leave voters would be fine with “significant damage” to Britain’s economy, so long as Brexit happened. In another survey, 39% of people – a plurality – said they’d be willing for their family to lose their jobs as a price to pay for Brexit. The incredible new figures, displaying attitudes which have been called “appalling” and…
The Torch can exclusively reveal that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour lied to the public about their position on the single market, expressing public, official support for it before the election to capture the votes of those against hard Brexit, before switching to their current position of leaving the single market almost immediately afterwards. A page on the Labour Party website, dated by the main video on it to 1st June…
by Jacob Olenick When I was in secondary school in America, I took a comparative government class. Among the countries studied was the UK, then in the midst of its 2015 general election. The SNP were to sweep Scotland, the Lib Dems were set to lose 50 seats, and the Greens were characterized as “eco-Labour weirdos” with silly pledges like renationalising the rails. Two years later, much has changed. Baffling…
Jeremy Corbyn has found himself under fresh fire today after adopting UKIP’s stance on immigration on the Andrew Marr programme this morning. When pressed on his party’s attitude towards immigration, Corbyn claimed that “the wholesale importation of underpaid workers from central Europe” was “destroying conditions” for British workers, adopting a nativist approach that wouldn’t be out of place in notorious hard-right party, UKIP. UKIP’s 2017 manifesto said the following about…
Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed once and for all that Labour want to leave the single market in an interview this morning, putting to rest questions and doubts over his real position on the Brexit question. Committing his party to the exact same extreme Brexit as the Conservatives, Corbyn told Andrew Marr this morning that his party does want to leave the single market, a move which analysts suggest could cost…
Vince Cable, the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, has begun his tenure with a bang as he declared in his first speech that he wants an “exit from Brexit”. Cable, who praised former leader Tim Farron for placing the Liberal Democrats at the heart of the debate about Europe, made the bold claim this evening, saying that Britain must be allowed to change its mind as the economy starts…
Labour, who during the general election pledged to build 1million new houses, have been shown by the House of Commons Library to perform significantly less well at the local level by figures released by the Department for Local Government and Communities, in what has been branded a “serious failure” by critics. Between 2010 and 2016, council house stocks in Labour-led local authorities fell on average by a whopping 9%, far…
Sir Vince Cable looks set to become the next Lib Dem leader tomorrow evening, as no other candidates have challenged him. The former Business Secretary, who has come out as staunchly anti-Brexit and pro-European in the past weeks, will be declared leader at 4pm tomorrow, internal sources say. Tim Farron, who spends his last day in office today, gave a video message summarising his time as leader, in which the…
The Conservatives have announced yet another plan to impose draconian restrictions on internet usage, by forcing adults to prove their age before being able to access pornography websites online. Critics have blasted the move as “ill-thought through and prone to major error”. Under the proposals, websites providing explicit content could be blocked by their internet providers for failing to comply, with millions of adults being forced to enter their credit…
Ever since Corbyn whipped his party into backing the UKIP and Tory vision for an extreme Brexit in the Commons, critics have said that it has “been clear that he and May are singing from the same hymn sheet on Brexit”. But their alliance appears to have become even closer, with his spokespeople now repeating statements long associated with the most hard-line Brexiteers. Rebecca Long-Bailey appeared this weekend on the…