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LABOUR GAINS BUT NOT ENOUGH
by Daphne Liddle
THE LOCAL elections on Thursday produced little change in most councils despite titanic efforts on the part of Labour activists to sustain the growth shown in last year’s general election.
The main change has beenthe collapse of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) vote, mainly to the benefit of the Tories — showing that the racist and xenophobic policies of May’s government, as exposed by the cruel Windrush scandal, have attracted former UKIP voters back to the fold they originally emerged from.
In spite of this, in pure numbers Labour has gained many more seats throughout the country, if not councils. It has done better mostly in the areas where it was already strong, in the inner cities.
Labour aims of taking Tory safe seats in London — in Westminster, Wandsworth and Kensington-and-Chelsea — failed but did make some impression. In Westminster Labour took three seats from the Tories; in Wandsworth they took seven seats and in Kensington-and- Chelsea they took just one..
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LABOUR GAINS BUT NOT ENOUGH
Stop the deportation flights!
CAMPAIGNERS from Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) demonstrated outside the Jamaican High Commission on Tuesday calling for an immediate halt to forced deportation charter flights; one such flight to Jamaica is scheduled to leave this Friday.
And people from the Windrush generation are still being booked on these flights in spite of Prime Minister Theresa May’s apologies last week over the horrendous injustices of treating people who have lived and worked for many decades in Britain and who arrived here as British citizens when Jamaica was still a British colony.
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Stop the deportation flights!
