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Diane Abbott having to do the the firefighting duty on the Marr show over the foot in mouth exercise earlier in the week by the other rent a gob Livingstone. Is it that the Cooper/Burnham/Benn etc have withdrawn labour or that Milne doesn't trust them? Abbott is never that far from car crash either.
 
ska invita said:
Sadiq Khan and the Standard really belong together

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I'm sure I'm not the first to wonder : what else do 'they' want Corbyn to do? :mad:

There's stuff in this Steve Richards article that I disagree with (e.g. that sentence about Blair at the start is rubbish :rolleyes: :hmm: ), but in general he at least offers some half way sensible perspective.

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Never-ending headlines about Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone are damaging, but this is hysteria based on flimsy evidence
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William of Walworth said:
I'm sure I'm not the first to wonder : what else do 'they' wan't Corbyn to do? :mad:

There's stuff in this Steve Richards article that I disagree with (e.g. that sentence about Blair at the start is rubbish :rolleyes: :hmm: ), but in general he at least offers some half way sensible perspective.
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Sadiq Khan doesnt really want anything from Corbyn - he is trying his best to score "im my own man" points by "distancing" (aka elbowing sharply in the ribs) Corbyn whenever he feels the need.
The Standard is happy to oblige in this process.
Sadiq began doing this from literally day one after Corbyn was elected - he's a true politician from what i can see... slippery as the day is long
 
ska invita : I definitely agree with your take on that. I just have my doubts how much good it'll do Khan really -- prolonging Standard sensationalising. Even from his own iffy perspective, was that even necessary?
 
I thought it a bit rich that Khan was saying "I" won the election. All on his own then, no help from any Labour party members.

Ungrateful sod. He was elected as Labour candidate while Corbyn was leader of the Labour party, and Corbyn's won the odd couple of elections himself as an MP.
 
two sheds said:
I thought it a bit rich that Khan was saying "I" won the election. All on his own then, no help from any Labour party members.

Ungrateful sod. He was elected as Labour candidate while Corbyn was leader of the Labour party, and Corbyn's won the odd couple of elections himself as an MP.
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Innit. Most of the people I know (admittedly not representative) voted for Khan either because he wasn't Zac Goldsmith, or because they wanted to boost Corbyn. So he should have a little more humility.

But this all just seems like career positioning, aimed at the PLP - not sure he cares what the plebs who elected him think.
 
You have to wonder how Labour would have done in the local elections if half the fucking party hadn't been briefing against Corbyn.

You sort of expect it from the media but unforgivable from Labour MPs not to give him a chance after he'd been elected (oooh there was another election he won wasn't it?).
 
two sheds said:
You have to wonder how Labour would have done in the local elections if half the fucking party hadn't been briefing against Corbyn.

You sort of expect it from the media but unforgivable from Labour MPs not to give him a chance after he'd been elected (oooh there was another election he won wasn't it?).
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Exactly the same i think. Give or take a few. That's where they are and would be regardless of leader - hard right or hard left. It's the cycle and they were at the height of elections won last stage in the cycle. So you expect to lose some in that round.
 
nah I'm too lazy , but I think its crazy since Jezza got in the number of memebers has really risen ( in my own , not very well educated , opinion admittedly ) that what do the blairites think is going to happen to people like me who joined, if for only one reason he seems far more for the people than them, fuck off ?

Could be wrong and no one leaves but i cant see it
 
In the old days, CLPs had some say - she's be called back to general commtee meeting and told to shut up or something - have they no power to do anything anymore?
 
JC4PM tour






Apparently there were 3000 people at the Bournemouth leg of the JC4PM tour, over 900 in Sheff, sold out in Manchester.

I see Billy's back in the fold.
 
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ruffneck23 said:
nah I'm too lazy , but I think its crazy since Jezza got in the number of memebers has really risen ( in my own , not very well educated , opinion admittedly ) that what do the blairites think is going to happen to people like me who joined, if for only one reason he seems far more for the people than them, fuck off ?

Could be wrong and no one leaves but i cant see it
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What difference will it make if you stay or go, if you aren't organising? Same with all those other people who joined last year who've done nothing but make dark threats to leave ever since. So what?
 
im not that important obviously, but 1000's of us non important people may well be

eta, if i did organise something would you join me or are you just spouting for the sake of it ?
 
killer b said:
What difference will it make if you stay or go, if you aren't organising? Same with all those other people who joined last year who've done nothing but make dark threats to leave ever since. So what?
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Yep. I asked the same question last week and had no reply whatsoever. Months and months of it last year but now...
 
butchersapron said:
In the old days, CLPs had some say - she's be called back to general commtee meeting and told to shut up or something - have they no power to do anything anymore?
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That has happened here (albeit for other reasons). The new members aren't really involved with the party though, as far as I can tell.
 
Here's some of Jo Cox's previous work [with Andrew 'Thrasher' Mitchell]. It's their argument for what they call 'ethical' military intervention in Syria. To tell the truth, it sounds a little like Israel's 'most moral army in the world' claim.
■Third, on the military front. Some may think that a military component has no place in an ethical response to Syria. We completely disagree. It is not ethical to wish away the barrel bombs from the Syrian government when you have the capacity to stop them. The deaths and fear generated by these indiscriminate air attacks are the main drivers of the refugee crisis in Europe. Nor is it ethical to watch when villages are overrun by Isis fighters who make sex slaves of children and slaughter their fellow Muslims, when we have the capability to hold them back.
British forces could help achieve an ethical solution in Syria | Andrew Mitchell and Jo Cox
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ruffneck23 said:
im not that important obviously, but 1000's of us non important people may well be

eta, if i did organise something would you join me or are you just spouting for the sake of it ?
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How? You're in the party - make an effort to organise and change the structures or put in place structures to defend what you joined the party to support.

You're allowed to try and change things - they might try and make you feel like you're not, but you are.
 
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That has happened here (albeit for other reasons). The new members aren't really involved with the party though, as far as I can tell.
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to be honest its a bit difficult for me to organise directly as im not living in england at the moment but im still paying my subs
 
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