Labour warned to steer clear of beheading jokes
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reacted with visible relief when there were no jeers or boos as the Party faithful sang the national anthem at the opening of their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday.
For this outbreak of decorum he may well have to thank the leadership of Labour For a republic, the official party grouping that campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy.
Mindful of heightened sensitivities following the death of the Queen, it has warned supporters not to make any incendiary comments about the royal Family.
‘Never refer, even jokingly, to Charles I’s beheading as a
A delAyed train meant
that hard-left labour MP Zarah Sultana was unable to fulfil her speaking engagement at last Tuesday’s rally for cost-of-living campaign group enough Is enough.
‘Just another reminder that we need to bring rail into public ownership and make it fit for the future!’ tweeted the cheerleader for former labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Sultana should be careful what she wishes for.
The lNeR train she was delayed on was taken into public ownership by the department for Transport back in 2018. It has been beset by difficulties ever since. solution, or to how russia dealt with the Tsars,’ it said in a document issued to members and intended to be used as a guide to conduct during local Labour Party meetings.
It adds: ‘ Never make or encourage derogatory references to the royal Family’s German ancestry. use their full common names (elizabeth Windsor etc) or their simple titles (The Queen, Prince Charles etc), not any German names or titles.’
however, not everyone took this softly-softly approach to heart at a fringe event hosted by the group at The Quaker Meeting house on Saturday night.
The speakers included Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, who in an acid reference to her Majesty said: ‘I would like her to have been elizabeth the Last.’