Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[elbows]

Lets hear that song sung backwards.

OK, I'm off topic, so I will at least use a spoiler tag.

Spoiler

 

[brogdale]

Channeling new coup news through the Telegraph...lol.

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.

Wankers.

 

[inva]

Channeling new coup news through the Telegraph...lol.

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Wankers.

genius idea. get an antipope

 

[J Ed]

[To the tune of Kool & The Gang - Celebration] De-select the scabs come on, it's a de-selection

 

[brogdale]

[To the tune of Kool & The Gang - Celebration] De-select the scabs come on, it's a de-selection

Yep, although the 'senior figure' this quote is attributed to deserves something more severe than deselection.

“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’.”

 

[J Ed]

Yep, although the 'senior figure' this quote is attributed to deserves something more severe than deselection.

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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.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Channeling new coup news through the Telegraph...lol.

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Wankers.

Surely that'd just give Corbyn the chance to boot them all out the party?

 

[emanymton]

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.

Fun though.

 

[brogdale]

Surely that'd just give Corbyn the chance to boot them all out the party?

Bizarre really, they seem to think that they'd be doing that to him!
Wankers.

 

[existentialist]

Bizarre really, they seem to think that they'd be doing that to him!
Wankers.

It's "fog in Channel; Continent cut off" all over again, isn't it?

 

[treelover]

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.”

They are in a parallel world, when did they ever take the fight to the Tories?

 

[treelover]

can anyone recall a time when there were outdoor evening political meetings on this scale, maybe the miners strike, or the 50's.

click on the link, then scroll out to see the scale of it.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Just for fun I thought I would mention that my local CLP decided that new members (post 12 Jan) were not permitted to attend the leadership nomination 'all members' meeting a couple of days ago. A good source tells me that this is/was unconstitutional. Whatever the powers that be were thinking, the CLP nominated JC.

Lol

 

[squirrelp]

"You would cry too if it happened to you"

 

[treelover]

 

[Wilf]

Channeling new coup news through the Telegraph...lol.

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Wankers.

Not really a ringing endorsement of Owen Smith's exciting and energising campaign is it?

 

[brogdale]

FWIW....



Er...Inner London?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

FWIW....



Er...Inner London?

But but but... Corbyn.. something something... London Bubble!

 

[brogdale]

But but but... Corbyn.. something something... London Bubble!

Bollux, innit?

 

[Wilf]

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.

 

[J Ed]

Bollux, innit?

I hadn't realised how much of Labour politics consists of rich and upper-middle-class people telling working-class people that they were too posh to understand the concerns of the people around them.

 

[brogdale]

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.

...this is our party...

The very notion of ownership.

 

[J Ed]

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

 

[Mr.Bishie]

So when can a split happen? It fucking needs to happen, but what are the driving factors to force it?

 

[J Ed]

So when can a split happen? It fucking needs to happen, but what are the driving factors to force it?

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.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

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?

 

[eoin_k]

Exactly, the braking force is that neither side will want to turn itself into SDP/TUSC Mark II.

 

[J Ed]

lol what? he did that?

What Owen Smith's Attempt at Being 'Normal' Tells Us About the State of Politics | VICE | United Kingdom

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.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

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? until the PLP oust their man?

 

[J Ed]

So it'll be outing JC campaigns for the forseeable?

I have no idea, given up on trying to predict stuff really. I would really like it if the Labour left went after the right-wingers to break the weakest links in the chain of anti-Corbyn forces.