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

[mauvais]

I think we should also briefly reflect on how this is the first successful victory for Change.org.

 

[brogdale]

I think we should also briefly reflect on how this is the first successful victory for Change.org.

 

[kebabking]

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Of the two people in that picture, one is trying very hard not to piss himself laughing, and the other is trying pathetically hard to put a brave face on it.

In the next laughing-so-hard-i-think-i'm-going-to-shit-myself moment, I look forward to seeing Chuckles receive a single, solitary vote in the LibDem leadership election.

 

[mauvais]

"I knew I shouldn't have called my new party the Petition Dot Parliament Dot UK Party" - Chuka Umunna, mid-July 2019

 

[Gramsci]

Given that recent Council ward by election in Chukas constituency almost saw a Labour Council seat fall to LDs Chuka might reckon he is in with a chance of keeping his seat if general election happens.

LDs have gained a lot of votes in Lambeth due to Brexit.

This despite the Lambeth Labour party and the Labour run administration supporting second referendum. Being clearly Remain as are roughly 80% of Lambeth voters.

Chuka is Labour MP in area in which most Labour supporters are Remain.

His defection to LDs is inexcusable.

 

[DotCommunist]

They've got their excuses and have parroted them at length already. Ooh these times they move in mysterious ways etc. Even when its dull shit like this where the conventional wisdom would also have been not to take this lot, or any other new 'centrist party' seriously. But ooh ooh its all weird now, we have populist charismatic shit beacons lighting up the political atmosphere, we thought all the old conventions were dead, blah blah mcshittery.

they wanted to believe, like slack-jawed Mulders trying to will a saviour party into being.

 

[Balbi]

Has the Lib Dem leadership contest started yet?

 

[belboid]

Has the Lib Dem leadership contest started yet?

Nominations closed last Friday.

 

[Balbi]

Chuka storming out and joining the DUP when he finds out

 

[Gerry1time]

I'd put money on Chuks not lasting that long in the Lib Dems. He'll remind the activists too much of the c grade management consultant cabal of Orange Bookers that turned up and so royally fucked them over 15 years ago.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Amazing

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Seems like Chukka's only option really. Where else? He couldn't go back to Labour.
As I'm in his constituency it'll be an interesting general election when it come !

 

[Old Spark]

Said to be looking at Twickenham or Richmond Park.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

from teh tweeter

 

[elbows]

The Streatham MP told the Times he had been "wrong" to think "millions of politically homeless people... wanted a new option on the ballot paper".

"I also think I vastly underestimated the importance of having an infrastructure and existing relationships with voters," he added.

MP Chuka Umunna joins the Lib Dems

May as well have said 'from the moment I first saw the logo, I knew that I was screwed'.

Never mind, he is wiser now, he has drunk from the font pain of knowledge.

 

[Wilf]

Change UK's loss is the Liberal's loss also.

 

[moochedit]

Chuka storming out and joining the DUP when he finds out

Ukip have a contest coming up as well

 

[redsquirrel]

LibDems once again evidencing their own stupidity taking this egotistical waster on board. He won't keep his current seat and his egomania will only cause internal problems.

 

[kabbes]

Remember when he was going to run for the Labour leadership and the media thought he was just the saviour the party needed?

 

[PR1Berske]

Remember when he was going to run for the Labour leadership and the media thought he was just the saviour the party needed?

From "the British Obama" to "can I have a safe seat please Vince?". What a career trajectory. His book is going to be brilliant. "I had the last laugh: The Chances and Changes of Chuka Umunna"

 

[Proper Tidy]

Remember when he was going to run for the Labour leadership and the media thought he was just the saviour the party needed?

The glory days

 

[andysays]

Amazing

All too believable though.

He doesn't give a damn about "his" area, any more than he cares about the ex-colleagues he's abandoned. He clearly cares only about ensuring his only future.

 

[19sixtysix]

Wonder what the bookies odds are on him joining the tories?

 

[agricola]

MP Chuka Umunna joins the Lib Dems

May as well have said 'from the moment I first saw the logo, I knew that I was screwed'.

Never mind, he is wiser now, he has drunk from the font pain of knowledge.

It is a good job the bright young minds have all left TiG, otherwise this post of yours would have them spending hours looking to find the pain of knowledge font to download to Publisher.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Wonder what the bookies odds are on him joining the tories?

Five years > National Liberals

 

[Pickman's model]

Amazing

He's very flexible because he wants to stay electable

 

[Steel Icarus]

He's very flexible because he wants to stay electable

You just know he's reached out to a creative mind and onboarded them to roundtable a thinkwank

 

[Pickman's model]

.,

 

[gosub]

All too believable though.

He doesn't give a damn about "his" area, any more than he cares about the ex-colleagues he's abandoned. He clearly cares only about ensuring his only future.

Is there no other career path open to him? I presume the ones that have left to be independent rightly know their days in politics are up

 

[editor]

Amazing

It's like he's fucking forgotten that it was the Lib Dems sucking up to the Tories that got us to where we are now, the pathetic, spineless careerist twat.