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

[killer b]

The new Opinium shows them taking chunks out of Labour and Lib Dems and sweet fuck all out of the the tories, even with the three tory defectors. Looks like they represent a current that just doesn't exist in the current tory electoral coalition - which gives them much less leverage than they'd hoped for...

 

[tim]

Whining and dining the chuka way

At least he whines and dines with panache. He's the one politician you won't see awkwardly biting into a bacon sandwich.

 

[Pickman's model]

At least he whines and dines with class. He's the one politician you won't see awkwardly biting into a bacon sandwich.

His elegant teeth cost more than an audi

 

[butchersapron]

A handful of Blairite cunts and a couple of spineless Tories might sway the politically challenged but it will be interesting to see how the Tories cope without the easy budgets if more donors leave. For all the flaws of the Labour Party they are not reliant on a dozen big businesses.

Yes, the multi-hundred year party of capital will collapse and bourgeois rule with it if warburtons don't give them a few quid.

 

[Badgers]

His elegant teeth cost more than an audi

Which model Audi?

 

[Pickman's model]

Which model Audi?

An rs 4

 

[Badgers]

An rs 4

Yup

 

[Pickman's model]

Yup

You should have seen his teeth before

 

[tim]

Yes, the multi-hundred year party of capital will collapse and bourgeois rule with it if warburtons don't give them a few quid.

The Tories'll subvert the raison d'etre of any capitalists that won't cough up. Davey the Pigman made that quite clear.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

At least he whines and dines with panache. He's the one politician you won't see awkwardly biting into a bacon sandwich.

I don't even see that tbh. Some people want him to be the British Obama but he's more pound shop Obama isn't he. The charisma free version.

 

[Badgers]

I don't even see that tbh. Some people want him to be the British Obama but he's more pound shop Obama isn't he. The charisma free version.

The new paltry of capital?

 

[Dogsauce]

Nick Cohen reckons they're great, amazingly enough. Austin has a Black Country accent so is an authentic voice of the working class rather than someone with an accent. And so on.

It really is something designed to attract journalists.

I suspect journalists largely put them up to it, made them feel like heroes. I wonder how they would find life outside the bubble, if they dare set foot there.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I wonder how they would find life outside the bubble, if they dare set foot there.

 

[D'wards]

Was the nature of Chukka's closet dwelling skeleton ever established?

 

[ska invita]

Sunday tomorrow... Vaguely curious to see what sycophantry and attacks the Observer will have in it.

The new Opinium shows them taking chunks out of Labour and Lib Dems and sweet fuck all out of the the tories, even with the three tory defectors. Looks like they represent a current that just doesn't exist in the current tory electoral coalition - which gives them much less leverage than they'd hoped for...

Theyd probably be happy with that... Stopping Corbyn seems to be a higher calling for them.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Was the nature of Chukka's closet dwelling skeleton ever established?

You could just ask your question a bit more directly you know

 

[Pickman's model]

Was the nature of Chukka's closet dwelling skeleton ever established?

Yes it's a wardrobe leading to narnia

 

[killer b]

Theyd probably be happy with that... Stopping Corbyn seems to be a higher calling for them.

nah, they won't be happy. the whole point of being sensible centrists is that they claim they can appeal to a wider constituency. If they can't take any points off the tories, this week when they've had blanket coverage, then that's immediately proved to be bollocks.

 

[Dogsauce]

So no big name (or any name for that matter) leaving in time to make a big splash in the Sunday papers? If you’re going to orchestrate a steady stream of resignations to keep the media interested it’s a no-brainier. Maybe this is all there is?

 

[SpackleFrog]

Be Monday morning again if there are any I would have thought. Could be hinted at/built tomorow. Alternatively that could be it for a while and more will threaten to walk and pressure Corbyn/May

They are definitely co-ordinating with others in Labour and Tories so there will be some more at some point I think.

 

[ska invita]

Next weeks votes create plenty of moments

 

[Supine]

Was the nature of Chukka's closet dwelling skeleton ever established?

Something to do with mc's and soulful house music

 

[kabbes]

Can somebody explain to me how this Ting actually differs politically from the Lib Dems?

 

[Dogsauce]

Can somebody explain to me how this Ting actually differs politically from the Lib Dems?

Likely more to the right - this claim of being ‘on the centre ground’ is one of those truth-by-assertion things that no-one is challenging, it’s a new right-wing party, says little about social justice.

 

[cupid_stunt]

One of Labour's biggest private backers has donated to the new breakaway grouping of MPs, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.

Sir David Garrard, a property tycoon who gave £1.5 million to the party under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, was approached to fund The Independent Group, after abandoning Labour over Jeremy Corbyn's approach to anti-Semitism.

One of Labour's biggest private backers has donated to The Independent Group

 

[brogdale]

Can somebody explain to me how this Ting actually differs politically from the Lib Dems?

Simples: LDs pretend to have an ideology; TInGe pretend not to.

 

[brogdale]

twatter, i know...but...

 

[Sprocket.]

twatter, i know...but...

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Both looking to the right though!

 

[SpookyFrank]

So no big name (or any name for that matter) leaving in time to make a big splash in the Sunday papers? If you’re going to orchestrate a steady stream of resignations to keep the media interested it’s a no-brainier. Maybe this is all there is?

I think if they had any big names we'd know about it by now.

 

[SpookyFrank]

One of Labour's biggest private backers has donated to The Independent Group

Yes, I'm certain that antisemitism is the reason a property tycoon doesn't want to support Corbyn