I joined the Labour Party...

[J Ed]

Has he sat on his glasses? They are all bent to fuck.

Why is it that there are so many people like this who are so superficial that they cannot get over what they immediately see even when it is of no actual relevance or interest whatsoever?

 

[teqniq]

I think it's the absence of anything of any substance to attack that does it, hence all the character assassination bollox in the press.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it's the absence of anything of any substance to attack that does it, hence all the character assassination bollox in the press.

and by the Prime Minister. He gave it the 'this ones a trotskyist, that ones a Stalinist and the other is a communist!' somehow apparently unaware that the latter word covers the previous two

 

[teqniq]

Yes but soundbite-wise three ists are better than one.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Ha! Andrew Fisher suspended from the party. Steptoe standing by him and he'll still work in his office.

 

[brogdale]

Bone's take..

 

[DotCommunist]

Steptoe standing by him

proof, if it were needed, that the ageist blairite we call Maurice has been stewing in his juices for ages and waiting for a chance to leap in, dagger at the ready. The problem is Maurice, mandleson did you better, previously and with greater panache

 

[Maurice Picarda]

So? If I had half Peter's panache I'd still have an egregious surfeit.

 

[ViolentPanda]

proof, if it were needed, that the ageist blairite we call Maurice has been stewing in his juices for ages and waiting for a chance to leap in, dagger at the ready. The problem is Maurice, mandleson did you better, previously and with greater panache

A 3rd-rate Mandelson?

Cuss!

 

[ViolentPanda]

So? If I had half Peter's panache I'd still have an egregious surfeit.

You don't even have one percent of it, though. That is your tragedy. There is no egregious surfeit, just you - an egregious dogshit.

 

[butchersapron]

Fisher desperation (as if anyone gives a shit) - Corbyn adviser, Andrew Fisher, faces new claim of disloyalty

Jeremy Corbyn is under mounting pressure to dismiss his policy adviser, Andrew Fisher, as a second, stinging letter of complaint about his past support for candidates from other parties was leaked to the Observer.

Fisher was suspended by Labour general secretary Iain McNicol on Friday, two weeks after Emily Benn, former parliamentary candidate for Croydon South, lodged a complaint to the party, saying Fisher backed the Class War candidate in her constituency ahead of the general election in May.

However, a few minutes reading of the SA report reveals that it's nonsense and they don't know how to read boring lefty minutes properly. And 'leaked' fffs - you mean publicaly accessible on their site for 6 years.

 

[oryx]

Ha! Andrew Fisher suspended from the party. Steptoe standing by him and he'll still work in his office.

Steptoe? Are you referring to Jeremy Corbyn and if so perhaps you could enlighten us on his perceived likeness to Steptoe?

 

[butchersapron]

Steptoe? Are you referring to Jeremy Corbyn and if so perhaps you could enlighten us on his perceived likeness to Steptoe?

He's over 60. Maurice isn't. It's hilarious.

 

[Orang Utan]

Steptoe? Are you referring to Jeremy Corbyn and if so perhaps you could enlighten us on his perceived likeness to Steptoe?

Steptoe is on Drama on Freeview - in one episode this week, he rails at Atlee's government 'offering sops to the working class to stop a revolution' - from a mate on Twitter.

 

[butchersapron]

Steptoe was a classic tory fuck you jack type though. That's why his son's yearning to get in the wider collective stuff he saw going on all around him - or more accurately, his failure to do so, only reinforced his old mans toryism.

 

[Orang Utan]

Steptoe was a classic tory fuck you jack type though. That's why his son's yearning to get in the wider collective stuff he saw going on all around him - or more accurately, his failure to do so, only reinforced his old mans toryism.

there's a really bleak episode where he nearly leaves, but is thwarted by his old man at the last minute. The defeated look on Corbett's face...

 

[butchersapron]

there's a really bleak episode where he nearly leaves, but is thwarted by his old man at the last minute. The defeated look on Corbett's face...

That could be any episode really...there was a really bad one where he was off with a middle class girl, the world was going to open up to him...it was really happening...and...

 

[Orang Utan]

That could be any episode really...there was a really bad one where he was off with a middle class girl, the world was going to open up to him...it was really happening...and...

yeah, that's the one i was thinking of. they were fantastic actors

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

So? If I had half Peter's panache I'd still have an egregious surfeit.

Didn't he shave his panache off yonks ago?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Steptoe? Are you referring to Jeremy Corbyn and if so perhaps you could enlighten us on his perceived likeness to Steptoe?

You could always use google images, but here's a starter list: headgear, beard, demeanour, vest, snarl.

 

[goldenecitrone]

As one of the voters in Oldham pointed out, he's more of a geriatric hippie than a rag and bone man.

 

[brogdale]

You could always use google images, but here's a starter list: headgear, beard, demeanour, vest, snarl.

You mean he doesn't always wear the uniform of business?

 

[brogdale]

As one of the voters in Oldham pointed out, he's more of a geriatric hippie than a rag and bone man.

The one who said "she hangs on every word of Farage"?

 

[brogdale]

All his fashion chatter...topical....

 

[goldenecitrone]

The one who said "she hangs on every word of Farage"?

Yes. One of the voters you would have thought Labour need to win back.

 

[butchersapron]

Yes. One of the voters you would have thought Labour need to win back.

In the seat where they have a 55% of the vote and where the UKIP vote came from the lib-dems and tories?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Wherever the UKIP vote stopped or may stop Labour MPs getting elected.

 

[redsquirrel]

With the Paris attack giving him the opportunity Cameron is going to re-introduce a vote in the Commons for airstrikes in Syria, and you'd have to be naive not to think that some Labour MPs will back it even if the Shadow Cabinet doesn't.

What will/are those of you who are (new) members going to do? I'm not asking this to score some political point but because this looks likely to be the first issue that where Corbyn is going to face a rebellion from the PLP and I'm genuinely interested in hearing how (new) members are going to deal with it.

 

[Shirl]

I'm a new member, or rather on old active member who has returned.
I'm staying with Corbyn because I believe he's right even though I want to nuke the bastard Isis.

 

[tony.c]

What Shirl said.
I think my MP will back Corbyn so it won't be an issue in my CLP.