Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Idris2002]

Owen Jones suggesting the two sides should split and then form an electoral coalition. I see why he never actually entered formal politics now.

Can't we all just get along?

 

[DotCommunist]

'The Eagle has Landed'
- no, I'm not quite ready yet
'It's one small step for ...'
- hang on, I haven't got me helmet on'
'Oh, fuck this, let's go with Buzz Aldrin'

no one ever remembers the sequel 'the eagle has flown' where stiener comes back to life.

 

[Artaxerxes]

no one ever remembers the sequel 'the eagle has flown' where stiener comes back to life.

Its best not to, its a bit shit.

 

[treelover]

 

[emanymton]

That's the really unfortunate thing about twitter. Instead of having a think about things and realising they are a really bad idea, you just blurt things straight out of your arse.

I'm not in twitter but still have the same problem.

 

[wheelie_bin]

No one says there's been a bloodless coop.
It's coo.
So it doesn't make sense to write chicken coup. Chickens don't coo. Pigeons do.

I applaud this.

Are pigeons known for displays of great aggression followed by cowardly withdrawal though?

Well yeah, pretty much that's what they do every day. That's when they aren't shitting on their own feet, which rots their feet, which may make it an even more apt analogy.

 

[JimW]

I applaud this.

Well yeah, pretty much that's what they do every day. That's when they aren't shitting on their own feet, which rots their feet, which may make it an even more apt analogy.

Another cloth-eared wrong'un for the list

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I have yet to see an MP with the tenacity and spirit of the noble city pigeon, oppressed on all sides and yet thriving.

 

[Pickman's model]

I have yet to see an MP with the tenacity and spirit of the noble city pigeon, oppressed on all sides and yet thriving.

Yeh but like pigeons they don't mind who they shit on

 

[Fez909]

I have yet to see an MP with the tenacity and spirit of the noble city pigeon, oppressed on all sides and yet thriving.

 

[Treacle Toes]

JC's PR campaign steps forward...

 

[Rob Ray]

Looking pretty spry for a bullied old man on his last legs.

I tried counting his blinks to see if he was calling for help in morse code but all I got was 76 IIB, so unless he's making some sort of sly reference to the International Investment Bank he's probably not under duress.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Looking pretty spry for a bullied old man on his last legs.

I tried counting his blinks to see if he was calling for help in morse code but all I got was 76 IIB, so unless he's making some sort of sly reference to the International Investment Bank he's probably not under duress.

Definitely a man who is only drinking from freshly opened bottles of water though

 

[agricola]

JC's PR campaign steps forward...

I am a bit worried at what appears to be buttons arranged to form a target on his chest, though.

 

[Rob Ray]

"Oh go-on Jeremy, gives us the precious"
~ Angela Smeagol

 

[Wilf]

Well, that's disturbing.

 

[bi0boy]

He's at the select committee live now: Parliamentlive.tv

 

[Vintage Paw]

But pigeons aren't famously pusillanimous. It is a visual half-pun for a visual medium, the written word.

I've been through this with him already. He's a stubborn bugger. Good job he's charismatic and sexy.

 

[Treacle Toes]

By signing up you can help choose a leader who recognises that the Labour Party was founded to be a Party of Government and implement policies to improve the lives of working people. A party of protest doesn’t help a single person.

Yeah so fuck you everyone who doesn't have a job. ...and by hell don't protest anythng, put up and shut up.

If you think the country need new leadership, I am begging you to join our Party and give Labour the champion they need

 

[tommers]

And she chose the fucking Sun to do that in?

Jesus christ.

 

[Vintage Paw]

And she chose the fucking Sun to do that in?

Jesus christ.

She got one hell of a lot of stick about it online yesterday. What a clueless twat.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm not cliking on that, I presume it's an attempt to reverse-membership-engineer corbyn's election?

 

[Rob Ray]

He's at the select committee live now: Parliamentlive.tv

Quite the lynch mob, repeating the "you compared Israel to Isis" line.

 

[tommers]

I'm not cliking on that, I presume it's an attempt to reverse-membership-engineer corbyn's election?

Exactly what it is.

 

[teqniq]

Quite the lynch mob, repeating the "you compared Israel to Isis" line.

Apparently it's not even true that he made the comparison is it (at least not in the way they wish to portray it)?.. I think I read it on here at some point. Who's asking that question anyway? I am on a mobile connection so don't want to click on the link.

 

[bi0boy]

Quite the lynch mob, repeating the "you compared Israel to Isis" line.

Victoria Atkins trying to be patronising. Not heard her speak before.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Apparently it's not even true that he made the comparison is it (at least not in the way they wish to portray it)?.. I think I read it on here at some point. Who's asking that question anyway? I am on a mobile connection so don't want to click on the link.

He didn't make the comparison and the person who authored the report, who called the press conference and chaired it, said so in unequivocal terms on the BBC...which makes you wonder why the MPs are choosing to repeat it...or maybe not.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Rob Ray]

Apparently it's not even true that he made the comparison is it (at least not in the way they wish to portray it)?..

His point was that muslims shouldn't have to be asked to disassociate themselves from acts carried out by "self-styled Islamic states and organisations" (note the plural) and Jews shouldn't have to do so with Israel (mentioned because it was y'know, specifically investigating anti-semitism). Which is basically what Chakrabati said, and is in no way controversial.

 

[jakethesnake]

Thread title needs changing: change 'up' to 'now'.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Apparently it's not even true that he made the comparison is it (at least not in the way they wish to portray it)?.. I think I read it on here at some point. Who's asking that question anyway? I am on a mobile connection so don't want to click on the link.

It isn't true.

He said it's no more accurate to assume all Jewish people represent the actions of the Israeli state or Netanyahu than it is to assume all Muslims represent the actions of self-styled Islamic states and organisations.

I watched his speech live, and in no way did it come across as him saying "that there Israel is just like that there ISIS."

In fact, I thought at the time (before this all blew up into the big old hoo-ha it is now) that it was very wise to say what he did. (More fool me.) The people who level accusations of anti-semitism at Labour and lefty activists often conflate it with their support of Palestine, and you'll often get suggestions that "you're a Muslim apologist." The two subjects are linked in the minds of pretty much everyone, so it'd be quite insincere and dishonest to deny that link, and his speech made it clear that there's no point on either side of the debate in defending one group of people if you're going to use the tactics you hate to smear the other.

But of course, that's too nuanced and sensible for literally every single person who hates Corbyn.