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

[agricola]

Maybe underfunding and privatising the NHS was a bit too much, even for the tiggers.

IIRC she was never a minister, and spoke out about some of that from the backbenches. It just seems odd that here is a person with 20+ years as a GP being responsible for "new colleagues" rather than getting easy headlines like "GP of 20 years rubbishes Matt Hancock". The only reason I can think of would be because of her being chair of the Health & Social Care Select Committee, though Berger is on that as well.

 

[MickiQ]

Before the next election they are going to have to turn themselves into a party, their main selling point at the moment is what they aren't, but if they're going to stand for election as a group next time, they need a platform that they can present to the punters, which means running as a party not a group of vaguely connected individuals who are just unhappy with the current state of affairs.

 

[treelover]

A New Party

Chukka is not going to start a Mosleyite party, quite the opposite.

 

[treelover]

Looks like they might actually be following through with the party thing.

Independent Group 'in talks about becoming a political party'

And they've given themselves roles like in a real party and everything...

Not sure how busy Sarah Wollaston is likely to be in the near future though...

Lets see how Heidi Allen shapes up, lorts of emoting in the past, but then the votes.

having said that I will be writing to her about social care.

 

[Shechemite]

Chukka is not going to start a Mosleyite party, quite the opposite.

What’s the opposite of a mosleyite party?

 

[treelover]

Ring winger Leslie gets Trade/Business

Smith, owner of lots of privatised water shares gers environment.

 

[andysays]

What’s the opposite of a mosleyite party?

The opposite of starting a Mosleyite party is presumably to end one, but you never know with treelover

 

[treelover]

What are you saying?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Looks like they might actually be following through with the party thing.

Independent Group 'in talks about becoming a political party'

And they've given themselves roles like in a real party and everything...

Not sure how busy Sarah Wollaston is likely to be in the near future though...

There's only 11 of them and still Shuker can't get a real job.

A tory on welfare, naturally.

 

[Serge Forward]

Chukka is not going to start a Mosleyite party, quite the opposite.

To be fair, Mosley's pre fascist New Party was initially well to the left of both Chuka's chumps and project Corbyn.

 

[redsquirrel]

Looks like they might actually be following through with the party thing.

Independent Group 'in talks about becoming a political party'

And they've given themselves roles like in a real party and everything...

Not sure how busy Sarah Wollaston is likely to be in the near future though...

At least she's got more of a job than Shuker - spokesperson for tea-bags.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Wollaston not having the Health brief is a bit odd, though.

She's a bit off-message.

She has ... also delivered numerous warnings over NHS funding

"I am afraid the prime minister simply hasn’t delivered on the pledge she made on the steps of Downing Street to tackle the burning injustices in our society."

"After becoming an MP for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party I am shocked to discover that they are actively enabling the eating of people's faces by leopards"

I might have made up one of those quotes.

 

[moochedit]

Looks like they might actually be following through with the party thing.

Independent Group 'in talks about becoming a political party'

Why do they need to have "talks" with the electoral commision to set up their party?

Can't they just download the form to set up a party from the ec's website and pay the fee?

 

[moochedit]

She's a bit off-message.



I might have made up one of those quotes.

Which one?

 

[Funky_monks]

I hope that they will be grilled about their record on dealing with the racism endemic in their party. Apparently as many as one in eleven of them is a racist.....

 

[William of Walworth]

Has anyone heard anything (recent -- last couple of days) about Stephen Kinnock either defecting to the TIGs, just generally defecting from the LP, or (even) standing down as an MP??

There was an ultra-brief and very vaguely worded mention of Kinnock (Jr.) going, right at the start of News At Ten last night when the Wales section introduces its headlines. But we were about to switch off and go to bed at that point, and I've heard zero since about this. Did I imagine it maybe?

Quick search on the BBC and Guardian sites only brings up old-ish stories ... ??? Apologies if I've made this up or if I'm just being dense

 

[William of Walworth]

The big stories in Wales atm are all rugby related ...

 

[brogdale]

Interesting how little media traction this lot have gained since tories started defecting.

 

[killer b]

Interesting how little media traction this lot have gained since tories started defecting.

They're getting a little today on their eyecatching policy to introduce national service, but not of the good kind.

Stephen Bush did a good piece about how difficult it is for lesser parties to get media traction in the staggers the other day: Why you probably haven’t noticed the Independent Group’s first policy

 

[Argonia]

National service? Fucking cunts

 

[Pickman's model]

National service? Fucking cunts

Arm the unemployed

 

[brogdale]

National service? Fucking cunts

Un-populists.

 

[Pickman's model]

Chukka is not going to start a Mosleyite party, quite the opposite.

he's not going to start an anti-Mosleyite party, of that you can be sure

 

[kabbes]

Who is it that wants national service? It’s not the populace and it’s not the army.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

holy forking shirtballs, Chuka has published their manifesto and it's amazing

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/0bdefb_96c4e45b94ea45febcba0162256b03bf.pdf

Spoiler: he really likes the opening ceremony of the Olympics, like a lot

 

[Sue]

holy forking shirtballs, Chuka has published their manifesto and it's amazing

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/0bdefb_96c4e45b94ea45febcba0162256b03bf.pdf

Amazing good or amazing funny or amazing wtf? We're relying on you to tell us so we don't need to read it...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Amazing good or amazing funny or amazing wtf? We're relying on you to tell us so we don't need to read it...

Come on, it was never going to be anything but amazing appalling non-self-aware bullshit was it?

 

[Sue]

Come on, it was never going to be anything but amazing appalling non-self-aware bullshit was it?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The best thing I can say about it is that he has realised that people are using “centrist” as an insult.

 

[belboid]

holy forking shirtballs, Chuka has published their manifesto and it's amazing

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/0bdefb_96c4e45b94ea45febcba0162256b03bf.pdf

Spoiler: he really likes the opening ceremony of the Olympics, like a lot

ooh, Patriotic Internationalism sounds great! Good old Empire & Commonwealth