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

[cupid_stunt]

The fuckup with the Change name, the petition site getting in a strop and then one of the tingers instantly getting the party name wrong when speaking publicly.

The microsoft word-tastic quality of the message on the side of their bus.

That & the fact that the Electoral Commission banned their original logo from appearing on the ballot papers, so a blank space was shown next to the candidate and party names...



Priceless!

 

[moochedit]

That leaked memo could be a bit awkward when they apply to join the lib dems

 

[Proper Tidy]

"can you just look at your hands please" [lines of shit squeezed between fingers fall out]

 

[Argonia]

So is Chuk calling his shitshow the Alternative now?

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Alternative" like Stereophonics.

 

[elbows]

So is Chuk calling his shitshow the Alternative now?

I've advised him to call it Center Quarks instead but he aint listening, think his ear might have split off.

 

[agricola]

I've advised him to call it Center Quarks instead but he aint listening, think his ear might have split off.

that will probably be taken up by them - DS9 is their favourite Star Trek, and they already saw themselves as the Maquis.

 

[elbows]

Come to Center Quarks this weekend, for a festival of Progressive Cock groups.

Meanwhile Star Trek references to things that came after Picard and Data are lost on me.

 

[Wilf]

that will probably be taken up by them - DS9 is their favourite Star Trek, and they already saw themselves as the Maquis.

'A completely new species has been discovered. They communicate entirely through the medium of failure'.

 

[elbows]

The smallternative. With their inspiring campaign slogan 'lend us a pound so we can gather round the previously unfound center ground'. Backed by the award winning campaign anthem 'together we are stronger apart'.

 

[Sprocket.]

Fuckem uk.
They so had their fingers on the political pulse of the nation.
I wouldn’t trust one of them to be left unsupervised with an elastic band.

 

[TopCat]

Will the lib dems welcome this bunch? Their existence is an implicit criticism to the wishy washy Cyril Smith apologists.

 

[Pickman's model]

The smallternative. With their inspiring campaign slogan 'lend us a pound so we can gather round the previously unfound center ground'. Backed by the award winning campaign anthem 'together we are stronger apart'.

They'll be the alt as their numbers will decline rapidly

 

[belboid]

Will the lib dems welcome this bunch? Their existence is an implicit criticism to the wishy washy Cyril Smith apologists.

I really do think the local libscum may tell Smith the Tinge to eff off.

Centre will probably make them do it though.

 

[agricola]

Will the lib dems welcome this bunch? Their existence is an implicit criticism to the wishy washy Cyril Smith apologists.

Their money and voters yes, but the MPs (or at least the ones everyone noticed, so not Wollaston) would be more trouble than they are worth.

 

[belboid]

Their money and voter yes,

cfy

 

[not-bono-ever]

Many would quit politics with that level of disillusionment- these boys and girls are tenacious. Like a sweet corn peppered post Guinness shit clinging to the bowl.

 

[agricola]

I wonder what happens to the company that Shuker used to start TIG off now that he has left ChUK?

 

[Wilf]

Will the lib dems welcome this bunch? Their existence is an implicit criticism to the wishy washy Cyril Smith apologists.

"Go back to your constituencies, and prepare to keep these cunts out!"

 

[belboid]

I wonder what happens to the company that Shuker used to start TIG off now that he has left ChUK?

he resigned on May 21, apparently. Now owned by Nicola Murphy and Neil Davison, whoever they are.

THE INDEPENDENT GROUP (TIG) LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House)

ohh, they're a private healthcare lobbyist and Mr Anna Soubry, it seems

 

[cantsin]

Ah Jonny Freedland, you ledge

 

[TopCat]

Ah Jonny Freedland, you ledge

View attachment 173309

Staple this to his head.

 

[agricola]

he resigned on May 21, apparently. Now owned by Nicola Murphy and Neil Davison, whoever they are.

THE INDEPENDENT GROUP (TIG) LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House)

ohh, they're a private healthcare lobbyist and Mr Anna Soubry, it seems

Shuker is still shown as owning more than 75% of the shares though.

 

[TopCat]

Three quarters of a turd.

 

[belboid]

Probably the whole turd. He's just given it to someone else to polish.

 

[kebabking]

I fear that Tingers looking to become LD's are going to be in for a struggle: the LD's are a pretty 'local' bunch, the constituancy parties have a lot of clout over selection of candidates - which is why they have so many oddballs.

Joining now isn't a problem, but being selected as the LD candidate for X constituency in 2022 or whenever is by no means guaranteed - the local party may not like the sitting ex-Labour/Tory MP, and may have their own candidate.

Woollaston for example started the referendum campaign as a brexiteer, she fell out with Gove/Johnson when they wouldn't allocate her GP surgery a slice of the £350m (which shows how bright she is) and suddenly become a fervent remainer.

I've no idea if she'd want to stay with Totnes, but in 2017 - as a Tory - she had a 10,000 majority over the Labour candidate, and twenty thousand more than the then LD candidate... Its also a leave voting constituency.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Would be beautiful if eg Umunna gets deselected by his constituency libdem party

 

[Pickman's model]

Would be beautiful if eg Umunna gets deselected by his constituency libdem party

Easy for that to happen given the trio's disdain for the man

 

[Badgers]

 

[MickiQ]

There's very little in it for the LibDems except half a dozen deadbeats in seats they're unlikely to keep past the next GE, they've nothing else to offer, no activists or party membership or even money. Why would the LibDems who are currently clearly on a roll want to be associated with these losers?