Sunday Supplement at Howie's Corner

Countdown to a new party?


Photo:By Ed Clifton -CC

According to the Daily Mail Rachel Riley who stood up to the anti-Semites who attempted to bully her:

Countdown star Rachel Riley and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s agent are teaming up with advisers from Tony Blair’s Government to launch a breakaway Labour Party within weeks.

The plotters, led by Blair’s former Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell, addressed about 50 ‘potential supporters of a new political movement’ to stop Jeremy Corbyn getting the keys to No 10, The Mail on Sunday can reveal....

The pair also raised the running sore of anti-Semitism in Labour, which was cited as a key reason behind the planned breakaway.

I have been calling for a new party on this blog for some time. Labour despite having decent people still in it has degenerated to the level of hate politics and in particular racism against Jews. It was on the fringes and under control before Corbyn took over and his disciples flocked in with not just anti-Semitic prejudices but the politics of misogynistic bullying.

Labour has become a party unfit for power. The MPs, councillors and local party officials and members who remain committed to a broad church and tolerant party should be prepared to walk and build a new organisation to isolate the rump Corbyn movement. 

If the MPs act en mass Corbyn will be back on the back benches were he and his Stalinist lieutenants belong. 

The men and women of reason remaining in Labour must act soon.

Save Japans Whales

Petition by Laura Langston York, ENG, United Kingdom

Photo: Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

Japan has announced that it will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to restart commercial whaling in July. This means that in just a few months time, more whales will start being killed and it may drive some species to extinction - our Government must negotiate with Japan to stop this happening.

When Japan leaves the IWC, they will be able to freely hunt species of this incredible animal that are currently under protection. Japan has tried to justify this decision by saying that some whale populations, such as Minke whales, have recovered. But the population of the Minke whale is still not large enough to survive increased whaling, and most whale populations have not yet recovered, such as the Blue whale and Fin whale.

Despite the IWC ban, Japan has continued to catch between 200 and 1,200 wales every year for what they call “scientific reasons”. If Japan does not change its decision to withdraw then we won’t know how many more whales they are catching, and we wouldn’t know how many of these beautiful animals we’d be losing.

Please sign my petition to tell the UK Government to pressure the Japanese authorities to stop the unnecessary slaughter of whales and to remain members of the IWC.

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Josie And The Pussycats

From comic to cartoon to movie in 2001 the music for this movie only band was actually quite good. Based on the Archie comic characters of the same name the girls were given the same type of "bubblegum pop" for the kids cartoon, just like their more famous predecessors the Archies who had a big hit with Sugar Sugar.

There's more over my other blog this morning: Howie's World of Comics