The shinners getting dragged into this now . I actually know a bit about these particular punters from my general neck of the woods . Labour MP Conor McGinn, originally from co Armagh but currently a blow in , parachuted in to an iron clad safe labour seat in merseyside , after a career bum kissing in London is the son of former Sinn Fein mayor of Newry Pat McGinn. Little Conor....a fanatical Blairite, defence obsessed , is alleging Corbyn threatened to phone his dad after Conor briefed against him publicly . Needless to say this careerist was part of the coup as was his boss Coaker . Wailing to the high heavens about a phone call that never happened , between 2 men who've never met or spoke.
Corbyn denies threatening to phone MP's father over row
As a point of interest his father once won the title of " biggest liar in the world " back in the early 2000s in some half arsed contest . Unsure if that's a genetic trait or something his son reckons is an essential political skill
Eta
Whoops. Hadn't noticed this was mentioned earlier
Can you imagine the fucking furore there'd have been if it had ended up Aargh Vs Corbyn and he'd come out with the 'I'm a normal family man' line!?!
Fwiw, I think Smith was just clumsy and it was unintentional, but that wouldn't have mattered if Corbyn had said it.
David Axelrod was right when he said it is even worse here than the US.
Seemed like quite a good piece apart from the last line, which claims the allegations against Corbyn supporters are 'well documented'.
Damning.
Leeds Hyde Park seems pretty pro-Corbyn:
What's that an image of? Corbyn rally? Let's see Smith fill a room like that...
As others have observed, on Twitter if not here, Saving Labour have not endorsed Owen Smith and still present their aim as to oppose Corbyn rather than backing the only other candidate. This has caused speculation about them not wanting to be associated with a no mark candidate, but it also seems to suit him to keep Progresses's dirty tricks at arms length. For example it looks like the photo of the vermin t-shirt was photoshopped:
Blairites FAKED ‘vermin’ t-shirt pic
Although if this is the case it seems almost deliberately amateurish to have members of their team in the photo.
ETA: Here is the article that brought the apparent gap between Progress/Saving Labour and Owen Smith to my attention:
Saving Labour makes no mention of Owen Smith - The i newspaper online iNews
Seemed like quite a good piece apart from the last line, which claims the allegations against Corbyn supporters are 'well documented'.
Meanwhile, Smith’s own campaign website is picking up a steady stream of supporters – not all of them respectable. Recently registered names on its Get Involved page include Jimmy Savile, Margaret Thather (sic), Fred West and Adolf Hitler. Yesterday, Smith called on Corbyn to crack down harder on the widely documented abuse and threats made in his name
FFS If you are going to post silly images perhaps you've grabbed from somewhere maybe you should at least provide a description of what they are off and a link.
Damning.
Guido Fawkes has a screenshot from Whatsapp showing McGinn the younger whipping backbenchers to 'keep up the pressure on JC'. I tried to find it from a less scummy source and no major newspaper had reported it. The anti-Corbyn press discipline/group think in this country is amazing. David Axelrod was right when he said it is even worse here than the US.
Let's see what Owen Jones has to say about this.
Survival of the slickest.
FFS If you are going to post silly images perhaps you've grabbed from somewhere maybe you should at least provide a description of what they are off and a link.
Sources would be good and not at all difficult to provide. Otherwise it is just a silly picture.Fuck you, why is it a silly image, not that this place doesn't have its quota of them, just pathetic this constant sniping from a few unreconstructed bores.
they are right, you hardly ever provide any context or sourceFuck you, why is it a silly image, not that this place doesn't have its quota of them, just pathetic this constant sniping from a few unreconstructed bores.
Sources would be good and not at all difficult to provide. Otherwise it is just a silly picture.
and where do the fb posts come from? there is an original source that isn't fb, unless it's the person posting their own biased photoshopA lot are from FB, fair few people on here don't like that source or are not on FB.
What a fucking carcrash. Flipped on marr this morning in time to catch possibly the most bizarre bit I've seen on the show since Cameron jigging to that indie band. What a fucking cunt. Lying, arrogant, actually insane I think, and I'm not talking about marr.
Rip, labour. It's a crying shame. I suppose at least ashdown was attempting to offer an alternative. But let's face it. With Corbyn there it's the Tories in power for the long foreseeable future. Labours not recovering from this. In a way, good riddance. But the thought of 20 years of the fucking Tories, well.
What a fucking carcrash. Flipped on marr this morning in time to catch possibly the most bizarre bit I've seen on the show since Cameron jigging to that indie band. What a fucking cunt. Lying, arrogant, actually insane I think, and I'm not talking about marr.
Rip, labour. It's a crying shame. I suppose at least ashdown was attempting to offer an alternative. But let's face it. With Corbyn there it's the Tories in power for the long foreseeable future. Labours not recovering from this. In a way, good riddance. But the thought of 20 years of the fucking Tories, well.
Like most people at work I've walked in to find contractors, computer techs and all sorts in our office. Also had people who were coming into our room after a move, metaphorically measuring up the curtains. Ok, there's a minor security twist to it, them being in the 'palace' of Westminster and all, but most of all it shows they don't ever see themselves just being at work. So fucking precious that they have to run to the press and THE SPEAKER! Fuck off, entitled twats, it's just everyday life. And more to the point, you are the fuckers who started this, you are the fuckers who resigned your jobs, you are the fuckers who were supposed to move out anyway!What do you think he was lying about? Do you believe the break in story?
We've had 37 years of Tories already, Eagle or Smith aren't going to win an election anyway and we need an opposition that's actually going to oppose them. The fucking Tory party did a better job of opposition to the Tory Blair government than Labour have for the last 6 years.Rip, labour. It's a crying shame. I suppose at least ashdown was attempting to offer an alternative. But let's face it. With Corbyn there it's the Tories in power for the long foreseeable future. Labours not recovering from this. In a way, good riddance. But the thought of 20 years of the fucking Tories, well.
Like most people at work I've walked in to find contractors, computer techs and all sorts in our office. Also had people who were coming into our room after a move, metaphorically measuring up the curtains. Ok, there's a minor security twist to it, them being in the 'palace' of Westminster and all, but most of all it shows they don't ever see themselves just being at work. So fucking precious that they have to run to the press and THE SPEAKER! Fuck off, entitled twats, it's just everyday life. And more to the point, you are the fuckers who started this, you are the fuckers who resigned your jobs, you are the fuckers who were supposed to move out anyway!