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

[BobDavis]

pickmans spotted this morning


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Pickmans is a hippy?

 

[eatmorecheese]

A bed of solid cunt.

 

[Wilf]

I think it should be a cunt of cunts. A great quiz answer in a post Brexit edition of The Chase.

 

[NoXion]

Pickmans is a hippy?

What hippy? Those gentlemen in the picture are quite clearly metalheads.

 

[BobDavis]

What hippy? Those gentlemen in the picture are quite clearly metalheads.

Hence the question mark in post 2009. Pickmans is a metalhead not a hippy. Thanks for clearing that one up.

 

[nemoanonemo]

A brunch

 

[bemused]

A brunch

What Nandos is that?

 

[Gerry1time]

Gosh! Look how normal they all are! Eating in a restaurant that ordinary people might eat at! That's certainly connected with me as an ordinary voter, and clearly demonstrates that they understand the concerns of ordinary people outside of the Westminster bubble. It's especially great how unawkward they all look, being surrounded by ordinary voters. Really, really unawkward.

 

[Cid]

Wasn't 'cheeky nandos' circa 2015 anyway?

 

[Cid]

They should have got to Biscuitville to be au courant.

 

[SpookyFrank]

What Nandos is that?

One that's not in Broxtowe, Nottingham, Stockport, Streatham, Liverpool etc.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Looks like Sasaferrato is heading to the South Atlantic canal network too...

Pffft. It's the Grytviken/Buenos Aires Friendship Bridge for that one. Diving down the 1lb bags of lime mortar to set the foundations.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Gosh! Look how normal they all are! Eating in a restaurant that ordinary people might eat at! That's certainly connected with me as an ordinary voter, and clearly demonstrates that they understand the concerns of ordinary people outside of the Westminster bubble. It's especially great how unawkward they all look, being surrounded by ordinary voters. Really, really unawkward.

I really don't understand the appeal of Nandos. It fails as a restaurant and as cheap and cheerful fast food.

 

[ViolentPanda]

at the end of each meeting the mp was burned in effigy

Last night I got to wind up three of our local councillors who were at a meeting last month, and scurried off half way through, to go vote AGAINST "1 member, 1 vote" for Chuka's CLP. "Didn't work out so well for you, or for Chuka, did it?" and "well, he certainly deserved your faith in him as a Labour Party man" were two of the more genial things that fell from betwixt my lips. I did also throw out the old Lydon classic "ever get the feeling you've been cheated?".

 

[Dogsauce]

Gosh! Look how normal they all are! Eating in a restaurant that ordinary people might eat at! That's certainly connected with me as an ordinary voter, and clearly demonstrates that they understand the concerns of ordinary people outside of the Westminster bubble. It's especially great how unawkward they all look, being surrounded by ordinary voters. Really, really unawkward.

Once they started dislocating their jaws to swallow large live rodents that Soubry had smuggled in under the table the ‘one of the people’ look was lost.

 

[ViolentPanda]

there are a lot of churches in and around Streatham. I'd be surprised if most are not 'socially conservative'.

One of the reasons Chuka jumped ship was "1 member, one vote" being voted in by his constituency party, effectively removing the influence his several thousand "churchy" votes got him with the CLP executive.

And yes, many of them are "socially conservative", insofar as being against homosexuality, abortion, women's rights etc, and might have judged Chuka unfavourably, if what threatened to be revealed during the leadership race, had been (straightforward Portillo-like youthful indiscretions) had come out.

 

[ViolentPanda]

no comment necessary

You just know that as soon as the photo-op was over, they upped sticks to The Ivy.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Soubry's face

Looks like she always does when a camera catches her in the evening...half cut.

 

[Pickman's model]

You just know that as soon as the photo-op was over, they upped sticks to The Ivy.

Yeh now the gay hussar's closed down and rules was booked out

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I really don't understand the appeal of Nandos. It fails as a restaurant and as cheap and cheerful fast food.

You can have chicken and chips with a side and that side can be chips, so double chips. It’s the new Eden.

 

[Gerry1time]

Looks like she always does when a camera catches her in the evening...half cut.

Tbf, it's only Angela Smith in that photo that's reaching for the wine.

 

[kenny g]

You are all just jealous you aren't able to join them...

 

[Ax^]

we could just start voting lib dem

 

[bemused]

I really don't understand the appeal of Nandos. It fails as a restaurant and as cheap and cheerful fast food.

If you are with a group it is the path of least resistance. I like it.

 

[Lord Camomile]

If you are with a group

Ah, this will be why I've only ever been once

Although, and I can't believe this has only just occurred to me... isn't the idea of a 'group of independents' a bit oxymoronic?

Aside from this particular group of independents being regular moronic, of course.

 

[Sue]

You are all just jealous you aren't able to join them...

Have to say, spending the evening in Nando's with that shower is really not on my 'fun things I'd like to be doing' list.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Do they look like they're doing it for fun..?

 

[Sue]

Do they look like they're doing it for fun..?

Who can tell..?

 

[Ax^]

the ship would be a little brighter if they could move Gavin to the back

but he has staked his claim

 

[SpookyFrank]

Although, and I can't believe this has only just occurred to me... isn't the idea of a 'group of independents' a bit oxymoronic?

I put this very point to Chris Leslie via his fb page.

Thus far, no response