Senior Labour rebels are so convinced that Jeremy Corbyn will win the leadership contest that they are planning to elect their own leader and launch a legal challenge for the party's name.
Leading moderates have told The Telegraph they are looking at plans to set up their own “alternative Labour” in a “semi-split” of the party if Mr Corbyn remains in post.
The move would see them create their own shadow cabinet and even elect a leader within Parliament to rival Mr Corbyn’s front bench and take on the Tories.
genius idea. get an antipope
Yep, although the 'senior figure' this quote is attributed to deserves something more severe than deselection.[To the tune of Kool & The Gang - Celebration] De-select the scabs come on, it's a de-selection
“It is not a ‘we’re off to set up a new party,’ it is a ‘this is our party, we’re not leaving but our current situation is intolerable’.”
Yep, although the 'senior figure' this quote is attributed to deserves something more severe than deselection.
Fun though.If we were in a position to do to these people what they really deserved then it would no longer really be necessary to do it.
Bizarre really, they seem to think that they'd be doing that to him!Surely that'd just give Corbyn the chance to boot them all out the party?
It's "fog in Channel; Continent cut off" all over again, isn't it?Bizarre really, they seem to think that they'd be doing that to him!
Wankers.
genius idea. get an antipope
Another said: “We can be liberated from the drag anchor and the poison that is Jeremy and his team and would be able to take the fight to the Tories.”
Not really a ringing endorsement of Owen Smith's exciting and energising campaign is it?
FWIW....
Er...Inner London?
Bollux, innit?But but but... Corbyn.. something something... London Bubble!
Bollux, innit?
I also liked the idea they might go to the courts to see if they could claim the title 'Labour Party'. Well, going to the court really went well this week didn't it.
The sense of entitlement with these counts is obvious, but this little escapade really proves it. Being a majority of the MPs means you own the party. The fact that you are in minority of the members of the party is irrelevant to them.
The very notion of ownership....this is our party...
So when can a split happen? It fucking needs to happen, but what are the driving factors to force it?
It's like Owen Smith thought that he would make himself look more normal to working-class people by pretending that he didn't know what coffee was
lol what? he did that?
Receiving his "frothy coffee" in Pontypridd's Prince's cafe, Owen Smith stopped mid-sentence to express some amusement. "I tell you it is the first time I have ever been given little biscuits and a posh cup in here," Smith said, looking up at the owner David Gamberini, as his order was placed on the table. "Seriously, I would have a mug normally," the MP added, examining the refreshments in front of him.
And as everyone above the age of six knows, a coffee with frothy milk is not called a "frothy coffee"; it's a latte or a cappuccino, and it's often served with perfectly unremarkable little biscuits. This is normal now: Britain might not be in great shape, but in the 21st century Italian food no longer exclusively comes out of a tin and more than one type of coffee is available to all. It's reasonable to assume that Owen Smith, who made a six-figure salary at Pfizer, has had enough access to the good things in life that he knows the names of all the different types of coffee. Owen Smith lied to us. He pretended not to know what a cappuccino is or how it's served, and he lied.
I don't think it will happen, the scabs have nothing much to gain from it. Perhaps if we get to deselection then the deselected ones will form their own party before they go on to lose their seats in 2020. I can't see the good people of Stoke-on-Central voting for Tristram Hunt (Hillary Fan Club UK) when there is a pro-Corbyn Labour candidate running against him.
So it'll be outing JC campaigns for the forseeable?