I joined the Labour Party...

[brogdale]

More here..
Meet Momentum: the next step in the transformation of our politics

 

[killer b]

More here..
Meet Momentum: the next step in the transformation of our politics

Shia Labeouf says British politics just got very exciting!

 

[brogdale]

Shia Labeouf says British politics just got very exciting!

Who?

 

[killer b]

He's a famous American actor. Clive Lewis namechecks him in that article - the only person he quotes in fact. Very encouraging.

 

[mauvais]

Once more I ask: who doesn't like Shia LaBeouf?

 

[killer b]

I read something a bit ago about him reading 'society of the spectacle' to an LSE class via satellite link up instead of the lecture he was supposed to deliver. I approved of that.

 

[killer b]

sorry, London College of Fashion.

 

[belboid]

There's a transformers joke in there somewhere, but I can't be arsed to think of it

 

[Louis MacNeice]

The more I see of the absurd attacks on Corbyn and his social democratic politics the more I'm tempted to re-join. Have we come some far that such small ambitions are beyond the pale?

Louis MacNeice

 

[Smokeandsteam]

The more I see of the absurd attacks on Corbyn and his social democratic politics the more I'm tempted to re-join.
Louis MacNeice

Really?

 

[J Ed]

Momentum is a great name

 

[killer b]

isn't this the external faction The39thStep was proposing the other day? What next, soothsayer?

 

[J Ed]

There is a website too Momentum: A new kind of politics

 

[butchersapron]

"...but it is independent of the Labour Party's leadership". "We are dedicated to building our anti austerity movement and working towards a Labour Government in 2020 with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister." That pretty internal. And pretry much what there's always been - but this time the new members and momentum are with the leadership. So when this lot start wagging their finger they've got nothing.

 

[butchersapron]

Maybe they can fight the red pepper bandwagon network for the title of the real voice of hope.

 

[belboid]

isn't this the external faction The39thStep was proposing the other day? What next, soothsayer?

not really tho - it wants to organise "supporters amongst the Labour Party membership as well as the wider social movement which is springing up"

There are proposals for an external faction tho, to be put to Left Unity conference. Sadly, it isn't a motion proposed by Steve Freeman, whose own proposal is differently silly. http://leftunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/motions-for-ballot.pdf

 

[killer b]

yeah, it's the labour party for people who would be bored to tears with the usual business of the local party isn't it?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Really?

I feel responsible as I paid three quid and voted for him; it feels like stepping back from someone who you encouraged to get stuck in...if you get what I mean.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s. just to make clear I haven't under gone some Damascian conversion and now see the Labour Party as the truth, the light and the way.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

not really tho - it wants to organise "supporters amongst the Labour Party membership as well as the wider social movement which is springing up"

There are proposals for an external faction tho, to be put to Left Unity conference. Sadly, it isn't a motion proposed by Steve Freeman, whose own proposal is differently silly. http://leftunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/motions-for-ballot.pdf

That is very silly...but it isn't the only silly motion submitted, or even the silliest.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[belboid]

That is very silly...but it isn't the only silly motion submitted, or even the silliest.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

it'll always be hard to top

e) The dissolution of the standing army and the formation of a popular militia under democratic control.

 

[J Ed]

it'll always be hard to top

What about the one bloke that wanted to support ISIS?

 

[DotCommunist]

raceplaygate

 

[J Ed]

raceplaygate

I thought that was just ISN or did that vitally important topic also make it to LU?

 

[belboid]

What about the one bloke that wanted to support ISIS?

he is one of the sponsors of the motion i posted!

 

[belboid]

raceplaygate

Never made it into motion form

 

[mauvais]

it'll always be hard to top

If you can't beat ISIS...

 

[boohoo]

TopCat Looking forward to your thoughts on the meeting. Hope you manage to stay awake

 

[Argonia]

More people have joined Labour since the General Election than are in the entire Conservative party:

More people have joined Labour since the election than are in the entire Conservative party

 

[butchersapron]

More people have joined Labour since the General Election than are in the entire Conservative party:

More people have joined Labour since the election than are in the entire Conservative party

Go labour! Get out there and turn that into victory!

I think every second thursday in the month is going to bore the arses off you all.

 

[treelover]

yeah, it's the labour party for people who would be bored to tears with the usual business of the local party isn't it?

I think you are so right, it will all the usual bandwagons, etc, nothing about the local communities,