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

[Pickman's model]

the chance to kill off the Chuckies in one fell swoop is a big positive.

 

[killer b]

You'd only need a small minubus tbf

 

[Pickman's model]

You'd only need a small minubus tbf

give it a month or three and a tandem should suffice.

 

[brogdale]

give it a month or three and a tandem should suffice.

Pictured earlier ordering that tandem for one.

 

[Wilf]

That's brilliant.



Change UK Party may not exist by next election reveals leader Heidi Allen

When even the Liberals tell you to fuck off, the Universe is trying to say something.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?

Everywhere he goes people come up to him and tell how brave he is, apparently.*

Modest too, I expect.





*Jimmy Hill

 

[Pickman's model]

'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?

Everywhere he goes people come up to him and tell how brave he is, apparently.*

Modest too, I expect.





*Jimmy Hill

By brave they mean stupid

 

[Wilf]

'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?

Everywhere he goes people come up to him and tell how brave he is, apparently.*

Modest too, I expect.





*Jimmy Hill

They probably should have made their move at the height of the vonc(s) against Corbyn and/or when Owen Smith challenged him. At one level they would have been accused of departing just at the point when Corbyn was weakest, but they might well have taken a few more MPs with them. As soon as he won again and particularly after the 2017 Gen Election, their moment had gone.

 

[cupid_stunt]

'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?

Everywhere he goes people come up to him and tell how brave he is, apparently.*

Modest too, I expect.
*Jimmy Hill

I took one look at their bus, and thought, fuck me, that's shit...



And, right underneath that picture, is this quote - “I didn’t know you could print a Word document straight on to a bus”.

 

[Pickman's model]

I took one look at their bus, and thought, fuck me, that's shit...

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And, right underneath that picture, is this quote - “I didn’t know you could print a Word document straight on to a bus”.

They'd do better if they rhymed change uk or chuk or cuk with something

 

[cupid_stunt]

They'd do better if they rhymed change uk or chuk or cuk with something

 

[Wilf]

To be fair to them, they've been working closely with the Mayor of London, to get a 2nd referendum. They do struggle with names, but for the moment they are provisionally calling this exciting cross party initiative... Chaka Khan.

Coat.

 

[agricola]

They probably should have made their move at the height of the vonc(s) against Corbyn and/or when Owen Smith challenged him. At one level they would have been accused of departing just at the point when Corbyn was weakest, but they might well have taken a few more MPs with them. As soon as he won again and particularly after the 2017 Gen Election, their moment had gone.

There never was a moment for them to do what they've done - they know what the appetite is for a centrist party comprised of (and run for) a professional political class, what the history is for new parties outside the established ones is in this country and what the support for them was in Labour actually was. They flounced off because they thought they'd be able to easily absorb the (to them, leaderless) Lib Dems and then coin it in as the party of Remain, but as with everything else that they've done since the summer of 2015 the plan did not survive contact with reality.

 

[Wilf]

There never was a moment for them to do what they've done - they know what the appetite is for a centrist party comprised of (and run for) a professional political class, what the history is for new parties outside the established ones is in this country and what the support for them was in Labour actually was. They flounced off because they thought they'd be able to easily absorb the (to them, leaderless) Lib Dems and then coin it in as the party of Remain, but as with everything else that they've done since the summer of 2015 the plan did not survive contact with reality.

Oh, I agree, they've no working class roots and it's been largely a guardianista thing. But they've somehow managed to minimise the number of MPs who they've dragged into oblivion.

 

[belboid]

They probably should have made their move at the height of the vonc(s) against Corbyn and/or when Owen Smith challenged him. At one level they would have been accused of departing just at the point when Corbyn was weakest, but they might well have taken a few more MPs with them. As soon as he won again and particularly after the 2017 Gen Election, their moment had gone.

That would have been the worst possible time for them to do it. They genuinely thought they would win second time around, completely miscalculating everything. To leave then would just have looked like them being sulky children taking their ball home. They had to find some kind of point of principle to do it over, and something EU based would always be necessary to pull over the wet tories, if that was always their bag. Their just isn't really much of a market for that kind of Blairite managerialist politics any more.

 

[Kaka Tim]

'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?

Everywhere he goes people come up to him and tell how brave he is, apparently.*

Modest too, I expect.





*Jimmy Hill

seems they still have mates at the gaurdian willing to churn out desperate, turd polishing, puff pieces. "we didn't expect to be fighting an election so soon" really? Its been a very real possibility that the euro elections would happen since well before they left their parties

 

[kenny g]

They should let them all in except Chuka Umunna.

Let them in and then start reselection.

 

[PR1Berske]

If ChUK4Now win any MEPs I'll bare my arse in this thread.

 

[elbows]

There never was a moment for them to do what they've done - they know what the appetite is for a centrist party comprised of (and run for) a professional political class, what the history is for new parties outside the established ones is in this country and what the support for them was in Labour actually was. They flounced off because they thought they'd be able to easily absorb the (to them, leaderless) Lib Dems and then coin it in as the party of Remain, but as with everything else that they've done since the summer of 2015 the plan did not survive contact with reality.

Mange UKs centre ground reminds me very much of the hole in a polo mint.

In fact I believe one of their rejected logo designs was very much like a mashup between goatse and a polo mint. They had an elaborate brand launch party lined up until the Mighty Boosh refused permission to use their eels song.

Can you just look at your ring, please. Thats it, the answers there, its in your brass eye. So take your sphincter and get out there.

 

[kabbes]

They’re so near the truth with that memo but they’ve just missed it. The truth, that is, that they are the Lib Dems with less money, less support, no boots on the ground and no clear way of getting any of this. With the consequence that they aren’t going to swallow the Lib Dems, it’s going to be the other way round.

I didn’t expect to be right quite THIS quickly

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I just found out the lead singer of the longpigs is standing for them in my constituency.

 

[Ground Elder]

Change UK spent more than £1,300 on ads saying they wanted to ‘remain in the UK’
It's a very confusing time for them

 

[elbows]

Well I guess I'm in the West Midlands so the tinger candidate I believe will be on the ballot here is Stephen Dorrell, like a ghastly echo from Tory regimes past.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Change UK spent more than £1,300 on ads saying they wanted to ‘remain in the UK’
It's a very confusing time time for them

They are the Lapland New Forest of politics.

 

[brogdale]

They really are this shite...



Vote for:
1. "the future"
2. "opportunity"
3. "tollorance"(sic)
4. "our milieu"....

Jesus.

 

[kabbes]

Vote for Pedro and all your dreams will come true.

 

[Dom Traynor]

They are the Lapland New Forest of politics.

Perfect disappointing thick middle class people instead of thick working class people

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

More than any other party?

 

[Badgers]

See the Telegraph are calling for her resignation. Wonder why...