The Last Boy Scout (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
If the government thought that the [lack of a] referendum question over the Lisbon Treaty had gone away, then they hadn't hadn't really banked on their own backbenchers brionging up the issue again. In an Early Day Motion (No. 2334), Luton North MP, Kelvin Hopkins, stated: " That this House congratulates ITV for staging a local referendum in Luton on the Lisbon Treaty and for the coverage given to...
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
The Economic Crisis - public meeting tonight LEAP is hosting an emergency summit ‘Who Pays for the Credit Crunch?’ on Monday 13th October at 7:30pm in Cm Rm 10 of the House of Commons. Speakers include: Brian Caton (POA), Jeremy Dear (NUJ), Kelvin Hopkins MP, John McDonnell MP (Chair), Mark Serwotka (PCS), Prem Sikka (Professor of Accountancy, [...]
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Here Kelvin Hopkins MP has a pop at New Labour for universally providing the Winter Fuel Allowance. Fair enough Kelvin, but I speculate that you would have damned them for starting off from a means tested position too. Somewhere, the left needs a line on this.
Revolts.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2007
In the first Labour rebellion of the new session, yesterday four Labour MPs - Colin Burgon, Ian Davidson, Roger Godsiff and Kelvin Hopkins - voted against the Second Reading of the European Communities (Finance) Bill. Both Davidson and Hopkins spoke...
