Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Mr.Bishie]

Is he reduced to filling places with the three-quidders yet?

I'm up for it! Gotta be better than the fuckin shit i'm in atm

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Both

ffs

 

[Wilf]

Apparently 20 minor names are lined up to resign over the course of the day.

If jezzer's struggling to fill his shadow cabinet with loyalists and be a bit more combative he should bring back a few names from the past. John Prescott to punch the voters, Eric Joyce to punch Tories and maybe Jaqui Smith's husband to spank the monkey.

 

[Pickman's model]

Can someone help clarify what happens when an MP resigns? I am under the impression that 'resigning' like an MP means backing out of the door sheepishly on full pay, back to the boroughs for a Victoria sponge cake with the local constituents, with lithle threat of being called upon to ever do anything particularly challenging?

Who told you MPs resign?

 

[weltweit]

So, no tory leader, embattled corbyn, I wonder if this situation will be resolved in a week, a month or a half year. Someone has to trigger article 50 and oversee withdrawl negotiations!

 

[Wilf]

Is he reduced to filling places with the three-quidders yet?

"Dear Jeremy you might remember I liked one of your posts on facebook. Can I be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster?"

 

[not-bono-ever]

What was that political quote about colleagues and enemies ... something like and these on my benches are my enemies ... anyone recall it ?

churchill IIRC. someone said this to me yesterday oddly enough

 

[Steel Icarus]

Do what I said
And go to bed

Only just sat down with me tea
Nah, the kicking off at work is something else, involving all the reps

 

[nino_savatte]

Eek! For disagreeing with you? Such an activist, you

No, because you're a troll (and most likely a multiple log-in returner). You must have a real self-confidence problem if you believe I said what I did to you because you "disagreed" with me.

 

[Wilf]

Jeremy Corbyn instructs the Shadow Cabinet

 

[03gills]

He issued a statement. Long & short is, won't be going anywhere, put up or shut up.

Fuck It, I'm out of a job tomorrow, I'll be in his cabinet if these shit cunts won't.

 

[Lorca]

well, if it is true that the Bliarites want Corbyn out in order to manage the possible fall out from the upcoming publication of the Chilcott report, I hope he can at least hang on 'till then.

 

[Mr Moose]

They may well be opportunistic wankers, but he is still doing a poor job.

The people the party should be helping have in great numbers chosen nationalism as an answer. They are further away than ever from thinking go further left is the way. This, given the ensuing wave of racism, is a fucking tragedy.

Corbyn had the opportunity to address the voters immigration concerns directly and failed to. He let down the 7 in 10 Labour supporters who voted in.

This coup should fail and the blairites be scattered and then he should get his P45.

 

[treelover]

There aren't that many more left to resign

Junior levels.

 

[Knotted]

Corbyn has made the no confidence vote about the British exit from the European Union. The plotters are totally stuffed because that was their excuse for launching the coup and they can't deflect from it. What can they possibly say? From a labour/remain point of view Corbyn is best placed to carry out a damage limitation exercise and pressure the Tories to preserve workers rights as part of the leaving process. The Labour right have burnt their bridges with any exiting process at all. Note that their complaint is that Corbyn is not offering leadership. This is code for he's failing to alienate voters that labour needs to win over from UKIP. The opposite of their usual complaint. The plotters are showing remarkable discipline. However Burnham who roughly represents the center of the party has poured cold water on the idea of a coup. No matter how well this coup is executed it, it is fundamentally poorly timed and they can't articulate a political opposition.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Take my love, take my land,
You can't take the mandate from me...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Can someone help clarify what happens when an MP resigns? I am under the impression that 'resigning' like an MP means backing out of the door sheepishly on full pay, back to the boroughs for a Victoria sponge cake with the local constituents, with lithle threat of being called upon to ever do anything particularly challenging?

I don't think anyone has resigned as an MP today.

They have resigned from the shadow cabinet (I'm not sure if shadow cabinet get higher pay - I'm pretty sure cabinet minsters do) but continue as 'back bench' MPs.

It is possible in practice to resign* as an MP - Sadiq Khan did so after becoming London Mayor, hence the recent by-election in Tooting.

* - due to some historical bollocks, you can't actually resign in so many words from being an MP - you apply to be Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, and taking that office disqualifies you from being an MP. More here if you can be bothered.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

He issued a statement. Long & short is, won't be going anywhere, put up or shut up.

 

[The39thStep]

Anarchist hinterland threatens to throw in the towel:

@paulmasonnews: A crowd of 1,000 at Glastonbury today. Mood was - if Corbyn dethroned, that's the end of their engagement with official politics.

 

[Balbi]

I suspect the PLP wanted him to resign because they know they can't beat him in a leadership contest. The resignations were meant to put so much pressure on him that he'd have to go, because that's what would happen if any of them were leader and their shadow cabinet resigned en masse.

The problem is, they're thinking what they'd do if they were Corbyn, and Corbyn is not having a fucking bar of it.



It's hilarious really. They hate him because he doesn't do the things they do, and seem utterly confounded when the established tactics don't work because HE DOESN"T DO THE THINGS THEY DO.

Twats

 

[magneze]

I hope you're right.

 

[J Ed]

Take my love, take my land,
You can't take the mandate from me...

Even if I've lost the PLP...

 

[cantsin]

Anarchist hinterland threatens to throw in the towel:

sounds more like they'd be ready to take up the (un"offical") towel ?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Take my love, take my land,
You can't take the mandate from me...


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Got to admit, I didn't expect Firefly/Serentiy references in this discussion

 

[J Ed]

Got to admit, I didn't expect Firefly/Serentiy references in this discussion

I've just got to download some episodes now

 

[Wilf]

Is Britain now officially the silliest country in the world?

 

[Smangus]

UKIP's one MP, Douglas Carswell, spends most of his time telling everyone how vile Farage is. So not even they are really in a position to reap much benefit.

This is exactly the sort of complacency that got us here in the first place. UKIP went after the disaffected tory vote and got it, now it's stated aim is to get into the council estates and go after the disaffected labour vote which has just registered it's largest protest since I don't know when. They are likely to succeed as well, thanks to Labour's continual fuck up in not realising that the disaffected are not listening to them. Farage is not UKIP, there is now a party machine which is intent in making the most of this vote and will likely capitalise on it.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Is Britain now officially the silliest country in the world?

America will never lose that title, cmon

 

[The39thStep]

So, no tory leader, embattled corbyn, I wonder if this situation will be resolved in a week, a month or a half year. Someone has to trigger article 50 and oversee withdrawl negotiations!

I think they have got to agree first about what they want to negotiate on

 

[Mr Moose]

Anarchist hinterland threatens to throw in the towel:

And yet many of them probably missed voting to get their tents up early.