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

[Balbi]

Another candidate probably gonna have to withdraw soon...

 

[Pickman's model]

Another candidate probably gonna have to withdraw soon...

They're falling like ukip candidates

 

[Pickman's model]

So the selection process was, likely, the CUK MPs and their employed family scrolling through CVs and looking for famous names - because they've got no membership or party structure

Nor have they a clue

 

[Pickman's model]

I didn't know there were 3000 Guardian columnists...

To be fair there are 20 columnists and 2980 support staff to correct their mistakes. But there are so many it's no surprise a few creep through

 

[Pickman's model]

Denied him thrice.

Like Peter denied jesus

 

[SpackleFrog]

Another candidate probably gonna have to withdraw soon...

At least the Tiggers are demonstrating that that line about "Not everyone who voted for Brexit is a racist but every racist voted for Brexit" is complete bollocks.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe a useful point in the thread to ask the question...does anybody know what this political party is actually called?

 

[Serge Forward]

Cunts UK

 

[Balbi]

Lokomotiv Hubris

 

[Dogsauce]

Labour Party was too racist for these types I seem to recall. Obviously there is a certain level of racism that is acceptable to them.

 

[SpackleFrog]

Lokomotiv Hubris

Superb

 

[rekil]

Lokomotiv Hubris

Beige Star Belgravia.

 

[Balbi]

Another one here...



And another...



Fuck lol this guy is #1 in Scotland...



And, waaaaait for it...

 

[brogdale]

LSE & the Statesman, I know, I know...but Ypi makes some sound points in her TIG piece (?...whateverthefucktheycallthemselvesthesedays):

Like its moderate ancestors in the 18th and 19th century, TIG is a creation of parliament rather than mass publics or social movements. Instead of offering genuine change, it resurrects a problematic past, displaying the same contempt for ordinary people and the same distrust of democracy as centrist politics in the 18th and 19th century.

Change is needed, but it will not emerge from a group of professional politicians whose democratic antipathies run so deep that they oppose by-elections. To revive democracy we must depart from the trustee model of representation and consolidate radical democracy.

 

[Augie March]

Maybe a useful point in the thread to ask the question...does anybody know what this political party is actually called?

They are a radical, seismic shift in UK politics and therefore have no need for these primitive things we call "party names".

No, they will simply change with the seasons. Never committing to an ideology at any one given time but moving forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

 

[killer b]

Another one here...



And another...



Fuck lol this guy is #1 in Scotland...



And, waaaaait for it...

this stuff is all pretty funny, but it's thin - I don't think it's likely to have much purchase beyond left twitter, who were never going to vote for these maniacs in the first place.

 

[SpackleFrog]

The most cringe worthy thing I've ever seen.



Did anyone see them getting called the Judean People's Front on Newsnight last night?

 

[Pickman's model]

The most cringe worthy thing I've ever seen.



Did anyone see them getting called the Judean People's Front on Newsnight last night?

it's much better with the sound off

 

[killer b]

this stuff is all pretty funny, but it's thin - I don't think it's likely to have much purchase beyond left twitter, who were never going to vote for these maniacs in the first place.

Wrong again - Joseph Russo is out. Two down.

 

[Wilf]

Cracking vetting, they haven't even asked something as basic as 'is this guy a nonce (apologist)'.

 

[killer b]

TBF this stuff is difficult - 'pederastic' and 'gary glitter' probably aren't on the list of red flag terms they were asked to consider - I assume a lot of the stuff coming out is from files people have been keeping on the weirdos for years, rather than someone getting lucky on searching their social media.

It's a bit worrying tbh - who needs the stasi when we can all keep tabs on each other?

 

[Wilf]

They missed out on Ann Widdecombe, she's standing for farage's lot. I'm so looking forward to this election.

 

[killer b]

Widdecombe will be an asset to The Brexit Party IMO - ex-tory big beast, very popular with the tory shires and widely liked in the country. She's a smart choice.

 

[Wilf]

Widdecombe will be an asset to The Brexit Party IMO - ex-tory big beast, very popular with the tory shires and widely liked in the country. She's a smart choice.

Yep, hard to imagine a more dangerous opponent for the tories in what will be a circus style election. She's both serious and populist and will be a conduit for ex-tory voters who feel they want to vote for farage without ceasing to be tories. Will drag a fair few labour leave voters across as well. Fucking hell, what shit times we live in when all of that might be true. But hey, it does fuck the tories.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's a bit worrying tbh - who needs the stasi when we can all keep tabs on each other?

In Ben Elton's re-imagining of 1984 there is no need for Big Brother as everyone puts all their most personal information on the web for anyone to look at...

 

[SpackleFrog]

To be fair, it's not like it's ordinary normal people getting grassed up here, just the kind of weirdos who want to be TIG candidates

 

[belboid]

It's a bit worrying tbh - who needs the stasi when we can all keep tabs on each other?

that's exactly how the stasi worked, getting neighbours to grass on one another.

 

[killer b]

To be fair, it's not like it's ordinary normal people getting grassed up here, just the kind of weirdos who want to be TIG candidates

sure, but you can be sure that - were you to poke your head above the parapet politically - your enemies would take the exact same route to discrediting you.

 

[killer b]

that's exactly how the stasi worked, getting neighbours to grass on one another.

yeah, but we manage the whole process now - no need to grass to anyone, we can just post the reciepts on twitter and let nature take it's course.

 

[editor]

It's going brilliantly

Joseph Russo, who was announced as the party’s top candidate for Scotland just yesterday, had said: “Black women scare me. I put this down to be chased through Amsterdam by a crazy black wh***”.


In another tweet, he had also said: “I wonder if there’s a c*** / anchovy correlation. One smells like the other.”

In separate comments, whose full context are unclear, he referred to an American woman a “b****”, adding: “i’d burn her as a yule log”.

Second Change UK candidate resigns in 24 hours after 'crazy black wh***' remarks emerge