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

[ska invita]

[: 9395"]They won't have any Party machinery, no boots on the ground. No local infrastructure.[/QUOTE]
Why I expect them to fold into a rebadged lib dems

 

[SpackleFrog]

Or maybe not:

That is fucking awful. Didn't realise he'd said anything so vile.

 

[brogdale]

They won't have any Party machinery, no boots on the ground. No local infrastructure.

Bet they've snaffled up all their former voter ID for the constituency over the last few weeks, though.(contrary to GDPR)

 

[Shechemite]

That is fucking awful. Didn't realise he'd said anything so vile.

Hatton has also claimed that those who complainants in rape trials should be publicly named, and that acquittal means they have ‘cried rape’.

Wealthy capitalist who hates women and Jews. Yay socialism.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Hatton has also claimed that those who complainants in rape trials should be publicly named, and that acquittal means they have ‘cried rape’.

Wealthy capitalist who hates women and Jews. Yay socialism.

To be fair I don't think even he would claim to have much to do with socialism these days - I don't think he's been politically active at all since the mid 1980's and his degeneration into a property speculator has been pretty depressing. But I had no idea he'd become quite this unsavoury.

 

[cupid_stunt]

To be fair I don't think even he would claim to have much to do with socialism these days - I don't think he's been politically active at all since the mid 1980's and his degeneration into a property speculator has been pretty depressing. But I had no idea he'd become quite this unsavoury.

Still depressing he's been allowed to rejoin the Labour Party.

 

[Pickman's model]

Still depressing he's been allowed to rejoin the Labour Party.

Yeh well they're down seven shysters so it's no surprise they've let another one in

 

[Wilf]

Still depressing he's been allowed to rejoin the Labour Party.

He'd be a better fit for the Blair Labour Party nowadays.

 

[Shechemite]

He'd be a better fit for the Blair Labour Party nowadays.

And yet he’s been allowed back now

Meet the old boss..

 

[Shechemite]

It’s a good thing that Ruth George wouldn’t make any ‘inadvertent’ racist comments

Perhaps not Labour MP sorry for Israeli breakaway claim

 

[agricola]

Not the peasant who's crying all the time?

No - I was going to say Gisaku, but they are probably reserving that for Blair

 

[SpackleFrog]

Still depressing he's been allowed to rejoin the Labour Party.

As a member. It's worth remembering that you aren't required to prove you don't have any racist or mysogynist views simply to be a member of Labour. And that nobody cares if you have racist or mysogynist views if you are, say, a member of the Lib Dems or the Greens or the Tories.

I'm not saying Degsy is the sort of person you want joining the Labour Party you understand, just that hundreds of thousands have in last few years and some of them are (statistically speaking) gonna have some dodgy views.

 

[redsquirrel]

There is definitely room for an openly centrist party, and it does have a base. If all the centrist Tories and centrist Labour MPs piled into a rebadged lib Dems I could imagine that party polling in the high teens.

Not under FPTP. Even at their peak the LDs where still well behind the big two in seats.

 

[Shechemite]

. It's worth remembering that you aren't required to prove you don't have any racist or mysogynist views simply to be a member of Labour.
.

Not even for GBH?

 

[SpackleFrog]

Not even for GBH?

As in Grievous Bodily Harm...?

 

[danny la rouge]

As in Grievous Bodily Harm...?

G.B.H. (TV series) - Wikipedia

 

[Shechemite]

As in Grievous Bodily Harm...?

G.B.H. (TV series) - Wikipedia

The series is alleged to be based on Hatton/militant

 

[SpackleFrog]

Ahhh right, gotcha. I mean, I'm not that fussed about sitcom actors being prevented from joining political parties but each to their own...

 

[Raheem]

Perhaps not Labour MP sorry for Israeli breakaway claim

Ffs.

Maybe her and Angela Smith are sending each other dares by text.

 

[Shechemite]

Ffs.

Maybe her and Angela Smith are sending each other dares by text.

Poor Williamson feeling left out

Chris Williamson retweets account which claims the ‘Talmud promotes paedophilia’

 

[8115]

I am genuinely surprised at this news, I really didn't think they had the balls, even if they had the support. Wait and see how this one plays out. I thought Corbyn's response today was good.

 

[8115]

Link here because I couldn't see it discussed in this thread. (Sorry, Guardian).

Corbyn tells exiles: you were elected to carry out Labour manifesto

Also had to at this. Basically everyone in Labour ought to remember to think really hard before they say anything about Israel.

Labour MP apologises for suggesting Israel funds Independent Group

 

[two sheds]

Steve Bell on the seven MPs who have resigned from Labour – cartoon

 

[andysays]

Link here because I couldn't see it discussed in this thread. (Sorry, Guardian).

Corbyn tells exiles: you were elected to carry out Labour manifesto

Also had to at this. Basically everyone in Labour ought to remember to think really hard before they say anything about Israel.

Labour MP apologises for suggesting Israel funds Independent Group

Interesting that the Guardian has chosen to describe them as 'exiles'. Not the first word most would use, I suspect

 

[8115]

Interesting that the Guardian has chosen to describe them as 'exiles'. Not the first word most would use, I suspect

Splitters.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Cunts (someone had to)

 

[8ball]

I know a few Labour bods and have never heard anything remotely anti-semitic. You can barely get a few words out of most Tories before they’re going on about Muslims, though.

 

[8ball]

G.B.H. (TV series) - Wikipedia

Absolutely brilliant series.

 

[Shechemite]

I know a few Labour bods and have never heard anything remotely anti-semitic. You can barely get a few words out of most Tories before they’re going on about Muslims, though.

Great contribution to the discussion

 

[Geri]

I know a few Labour bods and have never heard anything remotely anti-semitic. You can barely get a few words out of most Tories before they’re going on about Muslims, though.

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