Change UK: Chuka Umunna resigns from Labour party and launches Independent Group

[killer b]

Is there anything beyond her being Jewish in that?

I'm not sure. I didn't care enough to look into it.

 

[belboid]

Is there anything beyond her being Jewish in that?

she's done some campaigning around there, before the euro's and at a couple of events. Surely too long a shot for someone of her 'stature.' I suppose they could hope she would pick up quite a few disaffected Tories as well, but it seems a rather lnog shot.

 

[killer b]

Actually, my boss told me she lives there (not - shockingly - Wavertree)

 

[Dogsauce]

Maybe both her and chuckles, on failing to get elected, will then descend a rung and find themselves fighting for local council seats in those areas, pointing at dog turds for the local paper.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Bye Chucky! Never thought I’d be sad to see you leave streatham. And I was right!

So he’s been moved to a constituency where labour had a chance of winning and will split the vote so the tories might take it?

 

[TopCat]

Where is Chuka's millionaires house?

 

[agricola]

Where is Chuka's millionaires house?

Currently it has shrank itself, ready to float down the Effra. In a couple of weeks time it will emerge near Vauxhall Bridge and turn itself into a tree branch in order to cross the Thames.

 

[elbows]

From the BBCs live parliament updates thingy:

Independent Group for Change MP Anna Soubry asks Mr Gove whether Operation Yellowhammer - the government's no-deal plan - still exists.

Mr Gove says that it does and that Yellowhammer represents a "reasonable worst-case scenario". He says that Operation Kingfisher - a Treasury plan - also still exists.

He adds that Ms Soubry's suggestion of an Operation Dodo does not exist "though I can well understand why the Independent Group for Change would be interested in such an exercise".

 

[brogdale]

Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston

Just Soubry now...

 

[brogdale]

Happier times...winning here...

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[magneze]

Are any of them still MPs?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Are any of them still MPs?

No.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I invoke the curse of Roy, Shirley, Bill and David: Split from Labour, pact with Liberals, join Liberals, get betrayed by Liberals, fade into ignominy, become a joke.

I'm rarely even half right about anything, so this makes a change.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Will Chukkles now complete the grand slam and join the Tories now, I wonder?

 

[brogdale]

Will Chukkles now complete the grand slam and join the Tories now, I wonder?

Or Labour leadership bid.

 

[moochedit]

Or Labour leadership bid.

He would first need to rejoin labour (if they let him) and then get back into parliament at a by election. Can't really see either of those happenning any time soon.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Will Chukkles now complete the grand slam and join the Tories now, I wonder?

since he will probably get a peerage for services to the conservative party, maybe

 

[MickiQ]

Chuka tripled the LibDem vote taking them from a poor third to a decent second, I don't think we've seen the last of him. There is a good possibility that they might
run him as their candidate in future byelections.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Chuka tripled the LibDem vote taking them from a poor third to a decent second, I don't think we've seen the last of him. There is a good possibility that they might
run him as their candidate in future byelections.

He did that on the back of remain voters, that one trick disappears next month.

 

[MickiQ]

He did that on the back of remain voters, that one trick disappears next month.

Quite possibly but I suspect that he is trying to convince the rest of him that it was due to him, I think it likely they will take a chance on him again.
The LibDems are still paying the price for going into coalition with Cameron and look where it's got them, the Tories have just have their biggest success in 4 decades and they are on the verge of extinction. They have no hope of recovering any relevance in UK politics until all trace of anyone involved in the Coalition has gone. It hasn't gone yet and it probably won't have gone by 2024 either/

 

[butchersapron]

Where now sleater et al? Where now?

Dear Member,

As you know the Management Council convened today and we unanimously agreed to begin the process of closing down The Independent Group for Change. As you know more than anyone, we came together to form our party in response to the broken state of British politics. Last February, in order to do something about this, The Independent Group was formed.

...

Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.

...

But I want to be very clear about what we did achieve. My former Labour colleagues shone a spotlight on the state of the Labour Party, exposing how it had moved to the hard left and was tolerating anti-semitism. I do not doubt Labour shifted its position to a confirmatory second referendum because of the courageous move made by Chris, Mike, Ann, Joan and others

...

But as I say, we need to be realistic and therefore we have agreed to start the process of winding up the party. We have ended your monthly subscription and are beginning the process of closing down our office and organisation. We will contact the Electoral Commission to de-register as a political party.

 

[brogdale]

Where now sleater et al? Where now?

Dear Member,

As you know the Management Council convened today and we unanimously agreed to begin the process of closing down The Independent Group for Change. As you know more than anyone, we came together to form our party in response to the broken state of British politics. Last February, in order to do something about this, The Independent Group was formed.

...

Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.

...

But I want to be very clear about what we did achieve. My former Labour colleagues shone a spotlight on the state of the Labour Party, exposing how it had moved to the hard left and was tolerating anti-semitism. I do not doubt Labour shifted its position to a confirmatory second referendum because of the courageous move made by Chris, Mike, Ann, Joan and others

...

But as I say, we need to be realistic and therefore we have agreed to start the process of winding up the party. We have ended your monthly subscription and are beginning the process of closing down our office and organisation. We will contact the Electoral Commission to de-register as a political party.

Job done.

 

[chilango]

Forgive my ignorance but are TIG and ChUK separate parties now?

 

[butchersapron]

edit: misread question

 

[cupid_stunt]

Forgive my ignorance but are TIG and ChUK separate parties now?

Who knows, or cares?

 

[Plumdaff]

Remember when they courageously voted against a Customs Union and it lost by three votes?

Slow hand clap. Their defining, fucking useless, piece de resistance.

 

[cupid_stunt]

But I want to be very clear about what we did achieve.

Fuck all.

My former Labour colleagues shone a spotlight on the state of the Labour Party, exposing how it had moved to the hard left and was tolerating anti-semitism. I do not doubt Labour shifted its position to a confirmatory second referendum because of the courageous move made by Chris, Mike, Ann, Joan and others

And, that went so bloody well, did't it?

Fucking bunch of muppets.

 

[gosub]

Where now sleater et al? Where now?

Dear Member,

As you know the Management Council convened today and we unanimously agreed to begin the process of closing down The Independent Group for Change. As you know more than anyone, we came together to form our party in response to the broken state of British politics. Last February, in order to do something about this, The Independent Group was formed.

...

Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.

...

But I want to be very clear about what we did achieve. My former Labour colleagues shone a spotlight on the state of the Labour Party, exposing how it had moved to the hard left and was tolerating anti-semitism. I do not doubt Labour shifted its position to a confirmatory second referendum because of the courageous move made by Chris, Mike, Ann, Joan and others

...

But as I say, we need to be realistic and therefore we have agreed to start the process of winding up the party. We have ended your monthly subscription and are beginning the process of closing down our office and organisation. We will contact the Electoral Commission to de-register as a political party.

Think I just a tree fall over somewhere in the Siberian tundra

 

[Proper Tidy]

But I want to be very clear about what we did achieve. My former Labour colleagues shone a spotlight on the state of the Labour Party, exposing how it had moved to the hard left and was tolerating anti-semitism. I do not doubt Labour shifted its position to a confirmatory second referendum because of the courageous move made by Chris, Mike, Ann, Joan and others

Seem to be taking credit for delivering a massive tory majority able to determine whatever shape of brexit it wants alongside enacting regressive unpopular policies to batter ordinary people and salt the earth of the ruins of any sort of social state, as well as reshaping of parliamentary constituencies to increase likelihood of further large majority tory govts in the future, great stuff, this is what success smells like. Liberal cunts.