Batley and Spen by-election

[Pickman's model]

Is he trying look like Le Chiffre? (the villain from Casino Royale, or the amusing name of a porn star, I forget which)?

+1 MP, win!

Still, it's not a Tory and it's not Galloway.

She. She's not a Tory and she's not Galloway. Oh and she's not an it

 

[brogdale]

It's probably been mentioned upthread (I have only been reading it intermittently) but I was completely unimpressed with her coming out with this:

Kim Leadbeater Using The Tory Lines: There Is No Magic Money Tree When Asked About Nurses Pay Rises - Labour Heartlands

Labour's candidate for Batley and Spen using 2017 Tory attack lines to explain why she won't back a proper pay rise for nurses and teachers. saying:

labourheartlands.com

She obviously thinks that's the party line on public finances.
Worrying if she's right or wrong.

 

[Pickman's model]

She obviously thinks that's the party line on public finances.
Worrying if she's right or wrong.

The labour line on public finances is we will have to tighten our belts because we're all in this together as we need to avoid the Tories saying we'll borrow loads of money

 

[brogdale]

The labour line on public finances is we will have to tighten our belts because we're all in this together as we need to avoid the Tories saying we'll borrow loads of money

innit?

 

[tim]

Bet she'll break some speed limits in her rush to get her snout in the trough

Pigs in sties do not break speed limits. I wish you'd take more care with your metaphors.

 

[tim]

The labour line on public finances is we will have to tighten our belts because we're all in this together as we need to avoid the Tories saying we'll borrow loads of money

Hardly new though, is it. It's just the same old Prudence.

 

[Pickman's model]

Pigs in sties do not break speed limits. I wish you'd take more care with your metaphors.

The trough is in Westminster. She is in Batley and Spen. To get to the trough she will have to travel. It is at this point I envisage speed limits being broken as she races to get her snout to the trough

 

[kenny g]

If the future of the Labour party is selecting relatives of deceased candidates who aren't even members of the party and who come out with Tory platitudes then it is a pretty pointless future.

 

[PR1Berske]

If the future of the Labour party is selecting relatives of deceased candidates who aren't even members of the party and who come out with Tory platitudes then it is a pretty pointless future.

I'm quite fond of the phrase I saw the other day: "It is a Labour win, but not a victory."

 

[Argonia]

I'm quite fond of the phrase I saw the other day: "It is a Labour win, but not a victory."

pyrrhic

 

[Raheem]

pyrrhic

You don't have to agree with PR1Berske, but there's no need to call them names.

 

[Argonia]

You don't have to agree with PR1Berske, but there's no need to call them names.

Eh? You've lost me Raheem

 

[Raheem]

Eh? You've lost me Raheem

I don't think it's on, calling other posters pyrrhics like that.

 

[Argonia]

I don't think it's on, calling other posters pyrrhics like that.

I was calling the New New Starmaggeddon Labour victory a pyrrhic one, not PR1Berske

 

[Raheem]

I was calling the New New Starmaggeddon Labour victory a pyrrhic one, not PR1Berske

I know. It's what it sounds like.

 

[brogdale]

Do keep up, at the back!

 

[PR1Berske]

From the independent candidate who stood down with the understanding that his votes would assist the Conservatives in winning...

 

[andysays]

From the independent candidate who stood down with the understanding that his votes would assist the Conservatives in winning...

So the Standing Up candidate ended up Standing Down?

No wonder this by-election was so confusing...

 

[kenny g]

So the Standing Up candidate ended up Standing Down?

No wonder this by-election was so confusing...

There is some extremely rambling social media post (I think reposted by someone on this thread) about why he was going to stand aside to assure a Tory victory. His facebook page has some pretty amazing stuff from the election though:



At least she mentions Labour I suppose.

 

[A380]

George Galloway claims Labour unfairly used his lack of popularity to defeat him

 

[Puddy_Tat]

George Galloway claims Labour unfairly used his lack of popularity to defeat him

The silver-tongued firebrand from Dundee has declared he will try to use the courts to overturn the Batley and Spen by-election and claimed that Labour activists convinced people not to vote for him by highlighting the fact that he’s a malevolent attention-seeking prick.

 

[Pickman's model]

Which football team is Galloway supporting this year?

 

[Calamity1971]

George Galloway claims Labour unfairly used his lack of popularity to defeat him

His spokesperson, a burly man from Chechnya who would only give his name as Simon

 

[gosub]

FFS

 

[brogdale]

Maybe just me...but utter fucking cringe-fest here...

 

[brogdale]

"....we've got work to do as a team..."

Says person who's been a member of the party for about 3 months.

 

[PR1Berske]

Bless her and all that but good lord, she is acting like a competition winner.

 

[Argonia]

Bless her and all that but good lord, she is acting like a competition winner.

Used to play the lottery when I was working at Gower Street Waterstones and commuting in from Hatfield. I was in the midst of some confused magical thinking at the time (I had just read some Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and thought one day in Asda that I had been given the numbers by God.

 

[MickiQ]

Maybe just me...but utter fucking cringe-fest here...

Nope not just you

 

[two sheds]

Maybe just me...but utter fucking cringe-fest here...

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