Corbyn & Cabinet in the Media

[gosub]

loads of new Jeremy Corbyn branded products available from the labour party shop! Check this shit out - it's almost as bad as the graun's t-shirt shop. Depressing.

odd product given Corbyn doesn't drink alcohol

 

[killer b]

I'd imagine an appreciation of real ale is a strong current running through the type of people who might buy JC merchandise though. It'll probably sell very well. That's what's depressing.

 

[gosub]

I'd imagine an appreciation of real ale is a strong current running through the type of people who might buy JC merchandise though. It'll probably sell very well. That's what's depressing.

Who buys pint glasses? They magically appear in your home when you have a hangover. (my best guess anyway)

 

[DotCommunist]

odd product given Corbyn doesn't drink alcohol

you don't have to put alcohol in a pint glass. You can have tea, or coke (no ice you gougers I know the tricks)

 

[gosub]

you don't have to put alcohol in a pint glass. You can have tea, or coke (no ice you gougers I know the tricks)

tea in a dimpled pint pot. Not those ones, you'd burn your hand. Pint of coke -yuk

 

[Sprocket.]

tea in a dimpled pint pot. Not those ones, you'd burn your hand. Pint of coke -yuk

Soda water and lime more likely.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

the joke was funny - whether it was funny enough to warrant hyperventilation and turning puce is another issue, but it was funny, and the fact that Corbyn was all po-faced about it while his colleagues were trying hard not to laugh made it much funnier.

If the Labour benches had pissed themselves over a crap joke like school kids when Hamhead was speaking, Bercow would have cracked heads & it'd have been all over the BBC & in the right wing rags as disrespectful. Same auld Tory shite.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Christ jezza - enough with the "not sinking to his level" saintliness - he should have come back with "was the prime minister wearing a posh suit and singing the national anthem when he fucked that pig?"

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Christ jezza - enough with the "not sinking to his level" saintliness - he should have come back with "was the prime minister wearing a posh suit and singing the national anthem when he fucked that pig?"

I'm glad David Cameron is giving out fashion tips. He is such a style icon.

 

[Pickman's model]

Christ jezza - enough with the "not sinking to his level" saintliness - he should have come back with "was the prime minister wearing a posh suit and singing the national anthem when he fucked that pig?"

i think 'fucked' is 'unparliamentary language': so, was he wearing a posh suit and singing the national anthem when he had coitus with that pig's head. to which the answer is probably 'yes'.

 

[Lord Camomile]

"relations not befitting a member of the house"

 

[teqniq]

Yanis Varoufakis will advise Labour, Jeremy Corbyn confirms

 

[William of Walworth]

Not too sure whether to go or at the above ( )

 

[teqniq]

Rentoul puts the boot in, again.

Corbyn is now being advised by a Greek biker and a Marxist hack

 

[J Ed]

Harriet Harman hits out at Corbyn's support for decriminalised sex work

Pretty predictable behaviour from neoliberal Labour PLP members here.

 

[agricola]

Harriet Harman hits out at Corbyn's support for decriminalised sex work

Pretty predictable behaviour from neoliberal Labour PLP members here.

To be fair, he should really clarify what he meant by that comment.

 

[butchersapron]

I love protecting women.

 

[nino_savatte]

A freshly coiled piece from the New Statesman's George Eaton. Our Georgie tells us that Rachel 'We're Not The Party Of Benefits Claimants' Reeves is 'emerging' as 'Shadow Chancellor in exile'. Oh, the fucking hyperbole!

No party in recent history has had more its of most talented figures on the backbenches than Labour today. Among them is Rachel Reeves. Like 12 other former shadow cabinet members, the Leeds West MP chose not to join Jeremy Corbyn’s frontbench. Freed from the burden of collective responsibility, she is intent on establishing herself as Labour’s pre-eminent economic voice.

Since returning from maternity leave last month, the 37-year-old Reeves (a Treasury select committee member and former Bank of England economist), has impressed MPs with her interventions on savings, welfare and finance. Today, she delivered a major speech at the Social Market Foundation and published an alternative Budget.

Rachel Reeves is emerging as Labour's shadow chancellor in exile

The final paragraph is what this article is really about.

As an ally of Dan Jarvis, Reeves is well-placed should he win the leadership. By using her time on the backbenches to establish her economic primacy, she can help ensure that is the case under any non-Corbynite figurehead.

Georgie's batting for The Major.

 

[J Ed]

Tougher than the Tories on welfare

 

[DotCommunist]

'shadow chancellor in exile' amounts to 'I'm still talking to right wing think tanks even if the leader my party voted for and his team are not'

Watching the labour right has been an education of watching the faux 'labour' right in action I have to say. They are proper snakes. Really just thick and low and well equipped by privilege to pull certain levers. This whole narrative of a labour party led by mad marxists and the maquis-in-waiting ready to make them electable again is mad. You couldn't get elected when you done a slightly milder than the tories message ffs. Where now? Gonna out tory the tories? they'll eat you alive, already trying to change the rules to fuck you.

Nothing said it clearer than blair when he said he would prefer labour lose rather than win from the left. Naked ideology, extremism. 'I would rather die and go to jannah' cunts

 

[agricola]

Chris Leslie vs Rachel Reeves? Does anyone know if they are selling tickets?

 

[DotCommunist]

just a random thought: do the labour right really understand how the tories would crush the entire party and hobble its union base? You'd think they would, its not like the tory ever made a secret of that desire. Can they really think this is some gentlemans agreement debate club stuff. If labour collapses ina way that..oh I dunno whats a recent example from caledonia?- based on a labour right coup and business as usual as they see it. That would gut the party, it would make the vote share plummet. But they'd do it rather than see corbyn or a labour left winger in power.

 

[redsquirrel]

A freshly coiled piece from the New Statesman's George Eaton. Our Georgie tells us that Rachel 'We're Not The Party Of Benefits Claimants' Reeves is 'emerging' as 'Shadow Chancellor in exile'. Oh, the fucking hyperbole!

Loads of stuff with this Reeves = shadow chancellor in waiting in recent Guardian articles too. Almost as if journalist were been fed a line.

 

[nino_savatte]

Loads of stuff with this Reeves = shadow chancellor in waiting in recent Guardian articles too. Almost as if journalist were been fed a line.

Yup. They've been cranking up the anti-Corbyn stories in the last few days. Even Doughty (who's he?) was gobbing off over the weekend.

 

[killer b]

My brother linked me up to this (very) long analysis - I haven't read it all yet so can't vouch for it totally, but there's some good stuff at the beginning so I presume it carries on that way...

Near Futures - Europe at a Crossroads

 

[DotCommunist]

Throughout its history, the Labour Party has been an organisation composed of multiple elements and informed by competing ideas as to what kind of organisation it should be.

thats one way of putting it! Food for thought though, working my way through it but that just leapt out

 

[William of Walworth]

My brother linked me up to this (very) long analysis - I haven't read it all yet so can't vouch for it totally, but there's some good stuff at the beginning so I presume it carries on that way...

Near Futures - Europe at a Crossroads

Got as far as the para headlined 'Neo Liberalism' (under the pic of Corbyn with an ASLEF flag and a 'Cut fares not staff' flag ). It's excellent as analysis IMO, but a tad erm long! to read.

Relevent to the 'Blair's Legacy' thread also, I reckon.

 

[agricola]

Yup. They've been cranking up the anti-Corbyn stories in the last few days. Even Doughty (who's he?) was gobbing off over the weekend.

They have been praising Dan Jarvis - who used to be a paratrooper - today, claiming a speech tomorrow (in which he absolves New Labour of any blame whatsoever but says lessons must be learned) signals the start of his bid for the leadership.

 

[oryx]

They have been praising Dan Jarvis - who used to be a paratrooper - today, claiming a speech tomorrow (in which he absolves New Labour of any blame whatsoever but says lessons must be learned) signals the start of his bid for the leadership.

Just been reading that - I thought Jarvis ruled himself out of taking part in any possible leadership challenge recently (can't remember where I read it though). I too am sick of hearing about his ex-Forces background.

 

[Kaka Tim]

All the talk of plots seemed to have gone quiet for a few months - and now out of nowhere we're back with the latest contender for blairite messiah and discussions of a hypothetical shadow cabinet.
What planet are these people on? How do they think they are going to win an leadership election under the present rules? The only person who could beat corbyn is another leftie.
The tories are tearing themselves apart over the EU and these cunts deicde its the right time to get their machinations going again.