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

[sleaterkinney]

Nah. Galloway probably not a great look given the antisemitism scandal. Think Degsy is sufficiently petit bourgeois these days to be considered safe.

Or maybe not:

 

[8ball]

I don't think anyone had, including Smith.

Only way she could have partially mitigated it would have been "I'm sorry, I've no idea what I'm saying - I only had the Media Training half an hour ago...".

 

[Wilf]

Oh please let them try to form a party based around Rachel Riley and JK Rowling. If you tried to come up with something more dreadful you would fail.

… and, according to the link, thinking about allowing gropey ex-Labour MPs in.

 

[DotCommunist]

I read they've already been asking bercow about short money. I'm not buying this talk of tory defectors. Not soubry not any of em.

 

[Pickman's model]

… and, according to the link, thinking about allowing gropey ex-Labour MPs in.

gropey gripers

 

[danny la rouge]

I read they've already been asking bercow about short money. I'm not buying this talk of tory defectors. Not soubry not any of em.

I mean, who’s looking at that lot and thinking “oh, those are the people I need to fall in with. If only some of that Mike Gapes magic would rub off on me!”?

 

[DotCommunist]

I mean, who’s looking at that lot and thinking “oh, those are the people I need to fall in with. If only some of that Mike Gapes magic would rub off on me!”?

When people were doing 'funny names for the seven' I was considering 'Sour Gapes'

 

[DotCommunist]

they recon there will be more, presumably once they've decided if they are a party and a safe space for beasts or not. Ian Austin one presumes, hooooooooey and Fields?

 

[danny la rouge]

When people were doing 'funny names for the seven' I was considering 'Sour Gapes'

The Lunatic Tinge?

 

[danny la rouge]

they recon there will be more, presumably once they've decided if they are a party and a safe space for beasts or not. Ian Austin one presumes, hooooooooey and Fields?

Can’t see Fields joining: he’s pro Brexit.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They don't know what they are, do they? Are they the second referendum party (there's already one of those - it's called the libdems) or are they the anti-anti-semitism Labour party (may contain traces of other forms of racism)?

 

[Pickman's model]

They don't know what they are, do they? Are they the second referendum party (there's already one of those - it's called the libdems) or are they the anti-anti-semitism Labour party (may contain traces of other forms of racism)?

they're a mess

 

[Pickman's model]

The Lunatic Tinge?

beyond the tinge

 

[Sue]

They don't know what they are, do they? Are they the second referendum party (there's already one of those - it's called the libdems) or are they the anti-anti-semitism Labour party (may contain traces of other forms of racism)?

Tinges, surely..?

 

[eoin_k]

Funny names seem pretty much redundant.'The Independent Group supported by Gemini A (Ltd)' already sounds like a new age cult involved in a pyramid scheme.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

They don't know what they are, do they? Are they the second referendum party (there's already one of those - it's called the libdems) or are they the anti-anti-semitism Labour party (may contain traces of other forms of racism)?

That's precisely their problem. They've either got nothing to say, or can't agree what to say. They are united only by a) remain/2nd ref and b) hatred of Corbyn. Other than that there is nothing.

 

[Pickman's model]

They are united only by a) remain/2nd ref and b) hatred of Corbyn.

sounds like they could form two only connect teams, and have a player in reserve

 

[belboid]

sounds like they could form two only connect teams, and have a player in reserve

they do look like the kind of wankers who would go on OC. And laugh at all Coren Mitchell's awful jokes.

 

[Pickman's model]

they do look like the kind of wankers who would go on OC. And laugh at all Coren Mitchell's awful jokes.

yeh they'd try to ingratiate themselves with her.

 

[danny la rouge]

I read they've already been asking bercow about short money. I'm not buying this talk of tory defectors. Not soubry not any of em.

Just reading that Soubry has taken the Tory logo off her twitter profile and has been tweeting about the Tinge Group. Anyone still on Twitter?

 

[eoin_k]

Just reading that Soubry has taken the Tory logo off her twitter profile and has been tweeting about the Tinge Group. Anyone still on Twitter?

You don't need to be on twitter to have a look for yourself:
Anna Soubry MP (@Anna_Soubry) | Twitter

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Just reading that Soubry has taken the Tory logo off her twitter profile and has been tweeting about the Tinge Group. Anyone still on Twitter?

Both things you've read are correct. Gone quiet of late after a prolonged burst of pro Tinge tweeting.

 

[Sue]

Both things you've read are correct. Gone quiet of late after a prolonged burst of pro Tinge tweeting.

 

[danny la rouge]

You don't need to be on twitter to have a look for yourself:
Anna Soubry MP (@Anna_Soubry) | Twitter

Cheers. Yup, Chuka Umunna retweet as well. It does look like there might be something in this.

 

[mauvais]

I suspect so, yes. He will deploy aspects of identity politics in an attempt to create & separate a non-tory jewish vote, & may pick up some votes from the scattered lib dems - plus the whole technocrat/'evidence based policies' vanity angle of TIG might pull some votes from the new middle class village elements. Not enough to win, but enough to stop Labour winning. It's been tight here historically. Of course, this will all be different if the boundary changes happen & we're (re)merged with Midd.

The Jewish element might go for him but I think otherwise it's questionable - everyone I've encountered hates him, although I don't know what the feeling is beyond Prestwich. I don't think he has the capability to run a decent independent campaign. As long as Labour find & field a decent candidate then they should be largely unaffected. I have my doubts he'd even run; I suspect that if he joins TIG it'll probably be for self serving purposes, possibly to contest an election somewhere else and/or to pursue & present a post-parliamentary career that isn't quite so shrouded in personal failure (like several other TIGers).

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You don't need to be on twitter to have a look for yourself:
Anna Soubry MP (@Anna_Soubry) | Twitter

Gazing up to the glorious future past a mural of a brave pioneer of the yesteryear.

Except she's looking back over the brave pioneer into the past. Conservative Communism.

 

[Sue]

The Jewish element might go for him but I think otherwise it's questionable - everyone I've encountered hates him, although I don't know what the feeling is beyond Prestwich. I don't think he has the capability to run a decent independent campaign. As long as Labour find & field a decent candidate then they should be largely unaffected. I have my doubts he'd even run; I suspect that if he joins TIG it'll probably be for self serving purposes, possibly to contest an election somewhere else and/or to pursue & present a post-parliamentary career that isn't quite so shrouded in personal failure.

I'm really loving this thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[danny la rouge]

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Full of ex-MPs. Priceless.

 

[mauvais]

I'm really loving this thread.

Someone once described to me how, on one of the rare occasions he was actually seen & spotted, he was attending a war memorial ceremony. In the middle of it - possibly the minute's silence, but surely that would be too much - he just walked off & away down the road, wearing particularly noisy shoes. Clop clop clop clop clop clop clop.