Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[agricola]

Has the Guardian surrendered?

 

[newbie]

Has anything come from Corbyn or close allies about this voting eligibility NEC vote taken after he left?

McDonnell says he was 'disappointed' by NEC's decision to stop new members voting in leadership contest
McDonnell has just told BBC News that he was “disappointed” by the NEC’s decision to insist that Labour members can only vote in the leadership contest as members if they joined at least six months ago. (See 9.10am.)

But he said he would accept the decision. He did not call for it to be reconsidered.

David Cameron's final PMQs: 'I was the future once' - Politics live
at 09.47

 

[Pickman's model]

Kidnap them, tie them up and dump them, alive and well, on the steps here.

walk them up the tarpeian rock -- and then

Spoiler

 

[DotCommunist]

Could you stop getting things slightly wrong btw.

probably not

 

[J Ed]

Has the Guardian surrendered?

No, they give the decent part of their readership something half good once in a while so they can continue their saturation of shit

 

[Wilf]

Scientists for Labour statement:

Temporary suspension of membership applications
We've just recieved a massive spike in membership applications

I was hoping for something more precise from them. Disappointed.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was hoping for something more precise from them. Disappointed.

disappointed they got received wrong too

 

[Wilf]

never trust the whitecoats

The goldcloaks of the Eagle dynasty.

 

[Pickman's model]

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[agricola]

disappointed they got received wrong too

Spelling errors? Website malfunctions? All tell-tale signs of resistance activity.

 

[nino_savatte]

My understanding (based on local news) is that things have been getting silly there for a while, nothing to do with Corbyn though. Just local faction fights over the succession in a safeish seat.

That's Gerald Kaufman's seat, isn't it? I can see the Blairites wanting to get their hands on it.

 

[Wilf]

Turning to the grauniad at the moment is like starting up a random shit generator:

Jeremy Corbyn tacitly endorsed bullying and intimidation of Labour staff by voting against the proposal for a secret ballot on Wednesday night, an NEC member has said.

Johanna Baxter, who is a former trade union official and represents constituency parties on Labour’s National Executive Committee, said she generally avoided speaking to the press about Corbyn but called the NEC meeting “an utter disgrace to our movement”.

Corbyn 'endorsed bullying by voting against secret ballot'

 

[DaveCinzano]

its nice that you appreciate my victories as well as my failures dave

I am like a stern schoolmaster - any cruelty is meant only to foster your development

 

[mauvais]

walk them up the tarpeian rock -- and then

Spoiler

No no no. Bernoulli's principle is that they only fly if they're on fire.

Handy pictorial guide:

I'm sure you wouldn't want to push them off a cliff without first setting them on fire.

 

[Pickman's model]

Turning to the grauniad at the moment is like starting up a random shit generator:



Corbyn 'endorsed bullying by voting against secret ballot'

like stirring a cesspit with a big stick it brings to light shits you'd never seen before, in this case one johanna baxter

 

[Pickman's model]

No no no. Bernoulli's principle is that they only fly if they're on fire.

Handy pictorial guide:

I'm sure you wouldn't want to push them off a cliff without first setting them on fire.

my principle is that chucking them off a big cliff is good enough.

 

[nino_savatte]

I think this would not have happened with a good leader, because a good leader would have kept the party together for a whole number of reasons.

"Good leader"? That's a value judgement based entirely on the notion that a "good leader" is someone like Blair or some other dull functionary that speaks in PR slogans. You've totally ignored the internal party dynamic and the Right's hostility to anything that looks vaguely left-wing. If anything, it's the Right (those you support) who have thrown their toys out of the pram and want to split the party. What's left of the left in Labour shut up and got behind the leader but the Right? They throw tantrums and that's been going on since the days of George Lansbury.

 

[mauvais]

Turning to the grauniad at the moment is like starting up a random shit generator:

Corbyn 'endorsed bullying by voting against secret ballot'

"plans to release her full notes from the meeting later on Wednesday"! Does anyone just do anything any more?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Turning to the grauniad at the moment is like starting up a random shit generator:



Corbyn 'endorsed bullying by voting against secret ballot'

“A prominent journalist was texting members of the NEC, saying they had to vote for Jeremy, a union general secretary was phoning round members of the NEC telling them they had to vote for Jeremy,” she said. “It is intimidation and he endorsed it.”

PEOPLE WERE LITERALLY CALLING ME ON THE PHONE

 

[AnnaKarpik]

If anyone has been trying in vain to sign up with Unite Community, keep trying, I just managed to sign up with them.

 

[mauvais]

Also:

Eagle will formally launch a clean campaign pledge later on Wednesday, using the slogan “Keep it comradely”

I can't take it any more.

 

[nino_savatte]

If anyone has been trying in vain to sign up with Unite Community, keep trying, I just managed to sign up with them.

I did it last night.

 

[butchersapron]

"plans to release her full notes from the meeting later on Wednesday"! Does anyone just do anything any more?

I bet the bastards were even arguing their position.

 

[YouSir]

Also:
I can't take it any more.

Heard that line a few times, seems to mean 'don't disagree with me'.

 

[mauvais]

Heard that line a few times, seems to mean 'don't disagree with me'.

If you Google it, you get a thin array of different stuff but mostly relating to Corbyn campaigns from 2015.

 

[eoin_k]

Does it matter if the right split their vote? My recollection was that Corbyn had an overall majority last time (not of the membership which was something like 49% in favour of him, but of the total once supporters and affiliated TU members etc. were taken into consideration). Can a candidate win with less than 50% of the vote, or do they use PR/multiple rounds of voting to get a candidate with an overall majority?

 

[mauvais]

Does it matter if the right split their vote? My recollection was that Corbyn had an overall majority last time (not of the membership which was something like 49% in favour of him, but of the total once supporters and affiliated TU members etc. were taken into consideration). Can a candidate win with less than 50% of the vote, or do they use PR/multiple rounds of voting to get a candidate with an overall majority?

Rounds last time, so second preference carries over etc.

 

[eoin_k]

That's a shame - there's not much harm in them splitting the vote then.

 

[mauvais]

True, other than obfuscating the picture for anyone who might yet be convinced to vote against Corbyn.

 

[chilango]

Is that the Tories or the Lib Dems HQ? I'm happy to dump them at either, just wondering.

LibDem.