Dennis Skinner

Dennis Skinner (born 11th February 1932) is a British former politician, ex-Prime Minister and currently a member of the House of Lords. He represents his working class interests within Tyneside, North East. Skinner is a card holding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain that maintains a key position on the Communist Party Executive Committee as a Treasurer for the party, previously known as the Northumbrian Independence Party. He first served office as Member of Parliament on 27th August 2020 in Leics, Lincs and Rutland within the Labour Party, this changing to Northumberland Tyne and Wear on 21st January 2021 where Skinner currently resides as a Lord.

Most notably, Dennis Skinner is known for his tireless devotion to the cause of socialism and the international communist movement producing many of the pro-worker legislation that has undoubtedly created a persistent legacy within the People's Republic of England, Scotland, Northumbria, Wales & Northern Ireland. His most significant piece of legislation passed was the acclaimed but divisive Great Economic Reform Act (2021) that saw the foundation of Britain's capitalist mode of production replaced for the directly socialist cybernetic planned economy and the Pound Sterling phased out for Labour Credits. This has continued to be attributed to the equitable distribution principle. Other significant pieces of legislation include, but are not limited to:

-Constitutional Convention Act (2020): An Act that saw the then United Kingdom's constitutional monarchy replaced with a Crowned Republic constitutional arrangement, removing all legislative and ceremonial powers of the Crown from all of Parliament. This also saw the first attempt to create a codified constitution for the British people.

-Trade Union and Trade Disputes Act (2021): A piece of legislation that completely reversed the continued legacy of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair's anti-trade union position in regards to the closed shop arrangement within industries/sectors, legality of solidarity strikes and the further independence of the trade union movement from Parliamentary perversion. On top of this, this Act can be regarded as the first steps towards lower socialism with class conscious workers finally having a say in the legislative arrangements through their Trade Union Congress Representative which Dennis Skinner has remained as the forefather of. Still today, Skinner remains the most popular figure in the trade union movement from his active and consistent re-election by Trade Union Congress.

-Education Reform Act (2021): This Act can be considered one of the most important shifts in the theory of an effective educational model for secondary school students. Effectively, the successful passage of this legislation phased out the banking model of education for the libertarian model of education with direct student participation in how learning is organised.

-Work Time Regulation and Holidays Act (2021): A piece of legislation that oversaw the finalized 8 hour day; 4 days a week standardized employment relationship across every industry and sector. After two years, this was then phased out for the successful addition of the 6 hour day; 4 days a week. In addition, Dennis Skinner introduced 5 new bank holidays after each patron saint, 1 of which is a universal celebration by the trade union movement of their historic gains.

-Fair Trade Act (2021): An Act that Dennis Skinner introduced and successfully passed to completely remove and make illegal the employer tactic of fire and rehire in unionized workers.

-Northumbria Act (2021): A piece of legislation that devolved all legislative authority to the Commune of Northumbria within RedHills Congress away from the previously Westminster centric model.

In addition to the clear legacy made by Dennis Skinner, whether good or bad is up to you the reader, yet there still remains like the Albion Oak a clear presence felt. His veins grow throughout Britain creating roots that will continue to exert influence for centuries to come. In a recent poll made on behalf of Politico, Dennis Skinner was voted the most important Prime Minister across all of the history of Respublica: United Kingdom since 2020.

Early Life
Born in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Dennis Skinner spent most of his early life in Birtley. His father Edward (Tony) Skinner was a coal miner who was sacked after the 1926 general strike, and his mother Lucy was a cleaner. In July 1948, at the age of 16, Skinner won a scholarship grant funded in part by the local Communist Party of Great Britain branch for a two year transfer scheme to the International Lenin School in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was here that Dennis Skinner started to develop a fundamental grasp of Marxism, including dialectical and historical materialism.

In 1949, he went on to work as a coal miner at a local colliery in Birtley, working there until its closure in 1963. In 1964, at the age of 32, he became the youngest-ever president of the Tyneside region of the National Union of Mineworkers. After working for 20 years as a miner, he became a member of Newcastle City Council.

Parliamentary Career
Volume I: A Story Begins, Dennis Skinner and the Labour Party (Eastchase to Tai) Dennis Skinner started his parliamentary career in August 2020 by running in the national elections for Bolsover. While spending most of his childhood and early adult life in Birtley, Skinner was attracted to the plight of the miners cause in the local pit villages. Through a spectacular campaign, Skinner won his first seat as a Member of Parliament on the 27th August and was backed by the National Union of Mineworkers who gave him the relevant funding to pursue a worker-centric campaign that was entirely locally funded. As an MP, for the most part during his early career until the 13th November, Skinner was a quiet backbencher. His focus at this time in his service to the mining communities was to garner a socialist framework for the then center-left dominated Labour Party and return it in some way or another to the road towards socialism. Skinner had originally been tempted to permanently join the then growing Democratic Socialist Party during the leadership of John McDonnell since this party in its organisation was closer to his own personal convictions. However, he never stood for election when he was a short-term member of the DSP due to his limited time within the party, and Skinner's desire to create fundamental change could not be held down so easily for changing not only the Labour Party but also the entire fabric of Britain.

It was at this point, after making an active contribution to the Labour Party through ambition, that he gained the trust of August B. Tai, who was at that point the Chair, and the early respect of his soon to be lifelong friend James Bell. Skinner's early rise to political legitimacy within the party started off at the bottom as a Party Whip. To begin with, this was directly supervised by August B. Tai but gradually over time Skinner was trusted to make decisions independently within the constraints of the party manifesto. Disagreements arose over the party direction where heated debates occurred when certain parliamentary bills made it to the House of Commons, but he was in for the long-game and sought to not make too much noise. To add context to the situation, a vast political vacuum had opened up following the resignation of Paul Eastchase. While the party had certainly gravitated towards the newly organised progressive coalition titled People First Coalition in membership opinion during its inception by the Democratic Socialist Party, Scottish Nationalist Party and Communist Party of Britain, the leadership was still a long way off to be content with relying on a mass movement. Afterall, this was the Labour Party, the traditional voice of the working class within the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. Would it be wise to rely on an even larger broadchurch? Paul Eastchase had stamped his legacy into the main party-line that sought to create a fabricated, or at the very least dishonest view of the Democratic Socialist Party as a whole. In essence, Eastchase muddied the waters between the obvious special relationship between two ideologically aligned parties by creating a single homogeneous view of what the DSP was in practice. For some time, this vacuum persisted and had created an opening to change the direction at, least on a limited scale, within the leadership circle that remained heavily centralized. In this small window of opportunity, August B. Tai was the individual given the task to modify the party towards a more left-wing line that proved decisive for the preservation of the party in the future. Despite his attempt to secretly form an alliance with the class enemy, the Conservative and Unionist Party, this was never an option that succeeded and by some chance the opportunity was avoided. The course remained set for a fruitful, although unequal and shaky relationship, with the first iteration of the People First Coaltion that would continue for a lengthy period. There is not much that can be said about Dennis Skinner in this period since he himself was politically in the wilderness. It would take time for Skinner to strike the hammer while it was hot and shape the identity of the Labour Party in a significant way, but in the meantime he continued to serve the party at the best of his ability and on a micro-scale, give a voice to more fundamental change that would be seen later. After August B. Tai set the record in party-announcements on his intention to resign from leadership, with his heart set on becoming a member of the United Socialist Peers for the future, James Bell filled the role as Chair of the Labour Party. But this time, from the legacy of Paul Eastchase that continued to forecast the direction of Labour as a rump-party with membership decline, the new leader was given a monumental task.

Volume II: Larger than Life, the James Bell Period