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

[Streathamite]

yes but why? As far as I can see its for speaking with their convictions rather than toeing the party line.

Not really, it was for being such fanatically disloyal, treacherous, backstabbing wankers that they were seen by their CLPs as representing a threat to Labour's future chances of winning elections.
Labour generally give backbench MPs a lot of latitude in sticking by their own line. IME you have to do an awful lot to get vonc

 

[19sixtysix]

I'd be very surprised if it was Kinnock.

Family tradition shafting the left of the party.

 

[Gramsci]

Note how in all this Chuka doesn’t mention his constituents once. Many of whom are suffering tory austerity (and many also suffering due to the nu Labour council.) Hundreds of his constituents lining up at the west Norwood foodbank every Saturday morning. Local parents nicking stuff from the supermarkets so they can feed their kids. But it’s all about him.

As you and me are in Lambeth/ Brixton area we see this. Like my Coldharbour Ward. New Labour Council big up there pet projects like Pop Brixton as "progressive".

IMO Chuka wants return to the so called "centre" politics of Tony Blair. Updated version.

It winds me up he is using anti-Semitism as reason to break away from Labour nationally when he hasn't said anything about institutional racism in Lambeth Council ( under Labour control for years) by BAME workers for the Council. Nor has he said anything critical about the New Labour Councils "regeneration" schemes for Councils estates. AKA social cleansing.

Looking at Guardian website today commentators are very sympathetic. As someone who lives in Lambeth and has to deal with there New Labour policies on the ground , latest being trying to protect an adventure playground, its maddening that Chuka gets serious attention in the middle class liberal intelligentsia.

His use of anti-Semitism and supposedly being sympathetic with MPs given hard time if they don't agree with leadership is annoying to say the least.

Ex Cllr Rachel Heywood has been destroyed on a personal level by the right on New Labour scum in Lambeth Labour party. He never defended her.

I loath Chuka. He is middle class New Labour tosser.

 

[Sprocket.]

Currently at legs 11. 13 will be unlucky for some, but if they make it up to 33, that's fish, chips and peas, in honour of their spiritual leader, Peter Mandelson.

I love the term petty bourgeois Mandelism that appears in the CWI Split thread. So very apt for these centreist shenanigans.

 

[Plumdaff]

I love the term petty bourgeois Mandelism that appears in the CWI Split thread. So very apt for these centreist shenanigans.

Petit bourgeois Mandelsonism

 

[Idris2002]

That’s what Peter Cook would have said.

Took me a second. Have a scooby snack.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Oh god. Watching resignation speeches and Heidi Allen banging on about "normal people with values". Vomit inducing.

These people think they're fucking normal.

 

[Sprocket.]

Petit bourgeois Mandelsonism

It would have grown exponentially.

 

[Wilf]

To be serious for a moment, my great fear is the growing populism unleased by the Tiggers. There could easily be an Anna Soubry personality cult.

 

[Wilf]

Chuka features in the 2019 team photo, but there's just an empty space in 2020. Oh, hang on...

 

[SpackleFrog]

To be serious for a moment, my great fear is the growing populism unleased by the Tiggers. There could easily be an Anna Soubry personality cult.

She'd need to have a personality first.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Chuka features in the 2019 team photo, but there's just an empty space in 2020. Oh, hang on...

#StalinistSoubry

 

[Wilf]

"Soubry: A Study in Tyranny"

 

[Wilf]

"Soubriquets in One Country"

 

[Sprocket.]

How long before we can start a Chuka Umunna’s Time is Up thread?

 

[binka]

No Jeremys Club

 

[killer b]

Soubry spends every afternoon in the pub doesn't she? She's always hammered by the time the evening media rounds are up.

 

[Pickman's model]

Soubry spends every afternoon in the pub doesn't she? She's always hammered by the time the evening media rounds are up.

That's nothing, farage is always hammered by dinnertime

And Churchill by elevenses

 

[Sprocket.]

And Churchill by elevenses

No wonder he was shite at painting as well as peacetime politics!

 

[tim]

I loath Chuka. He is middle class New Labour tosser.

Upper middle class tosser!

 

[SpackleFrog]

"Soubriquets in One Country"

Union of Soviet Soubryite Republics

 

[moochedit]

Soubry spends every afternoon in the pub doesn't she? She's always hammered by the time the evening media rounds are up.

Don't all mp's do that? As soon as they've done their speech they all fuck off to the commens bars until voting time.

 

[Sprocket.]

SoubryChukaFaragePhobicFuckmeThey’reAtrocious!

 

[Sprocket.]

Upper middle class tosser!

Typical rich kid gets guilty conscience so joins Labour Party to help the poor and unwashed. Meets a few desperate, destitute people and thinks I’ve had enough of this.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Soubry spends every afternoon in the pub doesn't she? She's always hammered by the time the evening media rounds are up.

you know what? - id never clocked that before - but you right - the way she behaves half the time - and her complexion - definitely suggest "pisshead".

 

[moochedit]

How long before we can start a Chuka Umunna’s Time is Up thread?

As soon as the next general election is called.

 

[Wilf]

you know what? - id never clocked that before - but you right - the way she behaves half the time - and her complexion - definitely suggest "pisshead".

That sounds about right, though if you put 'Anna Soubry Alcoholic' into google, all the substantive stories lead back to Nadine Dorries saying she was pissed when she went out of the commons to address an anti-Brexit rally.

 

[Streathamite]

yvette cooper, David lammy, Stephen kinnock

Nope.They definitely wouldn't

 

[Streathamite]

Family tradition shafting the left of the party.

Sure,but always from within

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

yvette cooper, David lammy, Stephen kinnock

Doubt it. Not Stella Creasy either (I think she considers herself more a Co-op member anyway these days).