Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[PR1Berske]

Labour has opened nominations for Islington North

 

[Cerv]

has Paul Mason applied yet?

 

[PR1Berske]

has Paul Mason applied yet?

With such a short timetable he'll be pushing it!

 

[PR1Berske]

Transport writer and author Christian Wolmar, who by the by is the same age as Jeremy Corbyn, has confirmed his intention to apply for the Labour nomination. He's a member of the Islington North CLP.

 

[belboid]

Mason and Praful Nargand (local councillor) are both meant to be in the running.

 

[belboid]

and he's off

 

[PR1Berske]

and he's off


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[tommers]

He gets knocked down, but he gets up again, you're never going to keep him down.

 

[tommers]

I applied to be a safari park ranger recently, despite having no experience. This reminds me a bit of that.

 

[PR1Berske]

I applied to be a safari park ranger recently, despite having no experience. This reminds me a bit of that.

This made me chuckle:

 

[brogdale]

Not trusting your own local party to short-list their own candidates is such wonderful prefigurative politics:

Labour insiders said local members would not take part in shortlisting candidates, which would be determined by the party’s ruling national executive committee.

 

[Pickman's model]

He gets knocked down, but he gets up again, you're never going to keep him down.

Reverse over him after next time then

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Transport writer and author Christian Wolmar, who by the by is the same age as Jeremy Corbyn, has confirmed his intention to apply for the Labour nomination. He's a member of the Islington North CLP.

Oh, I quite like Wolmar.
I've been round his house a couple of times. Long time ago now. I had no idea he was a labour party member.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Is there any chance Corbyn could go undercover, win the nomination, and then on election night pull an Ethan Hunt and rip off his elaborate latex mask to reveal it was him all along!

Maybe?

 

[two sheds]

as Count Binface

 

[Elpenor]

as Count Binface

Count Jamface

 

[hash tag]

as Count Binface

Who is to say JC is not count binface?

 

[brogdale]

Who is to say JC is not count binface?

Nah, the Count shook hands with Khan after the Mayoral results were announced .

 

[hitmouse]

I'm enjoying having no idea what comes after "I worked". "...so hard for the money, so you better treat me right"? "...in a real job, honest"? "...out that I probably wasn't going to get selected in Rochdale so I thought I'd try my luck here instead"?

 

[redsquirrel]

Oh, I quite like Wolmar.
I've been round his house a couple of times. Long time ago now. I had no idea he was a labour party member.

I could have sworn he was a libdem at one time, but I think I must have imagined that. The berk did support Owen Smith though.

 

[PR1Berske]

Islington North will have no boundary changes at the next election.

 

[Lord Camomile]

as Count Binface

Who is to say JC is not count binface?

If that was the end of season reveal, it would be spectacular.

Nah, the Count shook hands with Khan after the Mayoral results were announced .

Classic misdirect. Jeremy is well known for committing to a bit, and doing things 'in character' that he never would himself.

 

[tim]

Mason and Wolmar don't stand a chance with this top-down nomination system. It'll be a shoe-in for Susan Hall who will have defecated to Labour by the end of the week.

 

[scalyboy]

Labour has opened nominations for Islington North

Is a 5-day window normal, or does this mean StarmLabour have already accepted Corbyn will win and they are just going to put up a token candidate 'on principle'?

 

[Rob Ray]

More like they already have a candidate in mind.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

More like they already have a candidate in mind.

the online voting system has probably already been programmed...

 

[belboid]

Is a 5-day window normal, or does this mean StarmLabour have already accepted Corbyn will win and they are just going to put up a token candidate 'on principle'?

everyone has known this day was coming for yonks. Everyone who might stand already knew that a timetable was likely to be short, so it's no biggie for them. The centre compiling the shortlist isn't the unusual either. It certainly happened when PM stood in Sheffield Central. Didn't do him much good there though.

 

[kebabking]

For Labour, all that matters is that there's a Labour candidate. If Corbyn refuses to stand against that candidate then he's 'who?', if he does stand against them, he's out.

Labour would prefer it, purely for the comedy value, if Corbyn lost against an official Labour candidate - particularly one identified with Starmer - but that would just be glitter on the cake, not the cake itself.

The cake is getting Corbyn to throw himself (and, ideally, any LP members stupid enough to campaign for him) out of the party. The mechanism is irrelevant - and they probably wouldn't be that devastated if an indy Corbyn won his seat, both for party discipline purposes and to remind the public of the difference between Starmer and Corbyn.

Corbyn aligning himself, however distantly, with creeps like Williamson and Webbe is that extra birthday card that arrives a week late, but has £20 in it. Delicious...

 

[two sheds]

Corbyn aligning himself, however distantly, with creeps like Williamson and Webbe is that extra birthday card that arrives a week late, but has £20 in it. Delicious...

whereas Starmer aligning himself with creeps like Mason would be good solid politics

 

[kebabking]

whereas Starmer aligning himself with creeps like Mason would be good solid politics

Do you think the voting public know who Mason is?

But Williamson, and Webbe - oh the mine is deep there...