Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[ViolentPanda]

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.

Quite. I'm not sure that some parachuted-in MPs don't realise that their CLPs would fuck them off at the drop of a hat, if it meant they could elect someone who'd actually represent local opinion, not focus group flatus.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Isn't one of the major "lande banks" in deep Shyte at the mo?

Middling deep, but survivable shite.

plus the troubles at a certain "major" German bank and the possibility the German Govt may have to bail out ( big time) VW re; the dieselgate affair.

The "major" bank you're referring to has been having those troubles since 2008. I strongly suspect that given the scale of troubles, the Bundesbank has been squirrelling away support for the last 8 years, for just such an eventuality. As for VW, the govt will only go in as deep as their stake dictates. They'll let VW - who still have a massive asset base - mortgage themselves for the rest.

We may be facing a few domestic uncertainties post Brexit, but, CONNC, I think May might be having a quiet smirk while looking at Frau Merkels problems.

She'd be stupid to. Brexit brings its own issues, some of which will be unpredictable.

 

[DotCommunist]

here's some warmed over 'trump support is like corbyn support' from the woeful hadley freeman

From Labour's hard left to Donald Trump, it's been the summer of the personality cult

this line, it should be mentioned, was being peddled by self satisfied twats in the FT and Telegraph during the leadership election. So not only is she chatting shit, its stale shit

 

[oryx]

here's some warmed over 'trump support is like corbyn support' from the woeful hadley freeman

From Labour's hard left to Donald Trump, it's been the summer of the personality cult

this line, it should be mentioned, was being peddled by self satisfied twats in the FT and Telegraph during the leadership election. So not only is she chatting shit, its stale shit

Stale, puerile and smug shit. Freeman is a prime example of going down the pan syndrome. I believe she's originally a fashion journalist, certainly one who shouldn't go anywhere near politics.

I haven't even read that particular article but can imagine what's in it!

 

[emanymton]

Stale, puerile and smug shit. Freeman is a prime example of going down the pan syndrome. I believe she's originally a fashion journalist, certainly one who shouldn't go anywhere near politics.

I haven't even read that particular article but can imagine what's in it!

I used to find her quire amusing as long as she didn't try and do too much politics. Don't bother to read her stuff any more.

 

[Raheem]

It is delusional in the sense that they/he/she appears to genuinely believe that they would be immune to any such threat as they would own the party...and be able to expel the socialists from it.

I guess we can look forward to the enigmatic billboard campaign telling us it's illegal to be in a legal party.

 

[N_igma]

I wonder what his dad's (Pat McGinn, former Newry councillor) shadier mates make of all this, watching the next generation whine about intimidation by meanie Mr Corbyn. Pat reportedly labelled fellow councillor Martin Cunningham a tout for showing sympathy with the family of Robert McCartney after the latter's murder in 2005, allegedly by the provos, so a soft touch he certainly ain't.

I come from the same village as Conor and know him and his dad very well. The general consensus around here is that he is a complete and utter shit cunt and that's by people who were previously quite matey and close with him.

I seen him in the pub here about a year ago with his wife and even then you could tell he was quite uncomfortable and even joked that he wasn't welcome around here anymore but there was a sense of seriousness when he said it too and he was right he isn't welcome anymore. Think it's a bit of a touchy subject with Pat so have never mentioned it to him but knowing Pat I'm sure he's embarrassed as fuck but what can you do.

 

[Xenonxenon]

Cancel Hinckley and HS2 and other multi billion South Eastern 'vanity projects' and spend the billions saved on actually creating the snide Tory inside joke known as the "Northern powerhouse"
50p in the £ dedicated to London and the SE while we get 1P in the pound up here in the frozen North? And the elitist establishment and the cosmopolitan latte drinking young of the SE wonder why we voted out!!
Fuck em

Those young Londoners, they got it made, free houses, lattes-for-nothing, skinny jeans subsidies, beard trimming by state hairdressers, free south eastern nuclear power. WHERE IS MY HANDOUT? I AM THE VICTIM HERE!

 

[Xenonxenon]

I love this.
I really do. <foul language filter engaged>

Owen Smith is coley !!! Exposed. Fucking latte drinking young Londoners with their little biscuits.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

lulz

 

[two sheds]

Now this is surprising:

Media 'persistently' biased against Jeremy Corbyn, academic study finds

'Bias in mainstream media coverage of the Labour Party crisis was not inevitable or unavoidable given a minority of outlets that were relatively balanced'

The UCL study didn't include TV as I recall.

Across 10 days, the study analysed 465 online articles from eight news websites and 40 prime time news bulletins from the BBC and ITV. The research spanned the period between the series of shadow cabinet resignations aimed at removing Mr Corbyn, and the publication of the Chilcot report.

The BBC was especially criticised in the report, which found reporters in its main evening broadcasts used more “pejorative language” to describe Mr Corbyn and his supporters. However, the research did not look at the wider range of BBC political journalism which appeared outside of these times.

BBC journalists used language deemed by the researchers to “emphasise hostility, intransigence and extreme positions” more frequently in these programmes, such as the words "hostile" and "hard core".

In addition, almost twice as much unchallenged airtime was given to people criticising Mr Corbyn than his allies on the BBC, the report found.

 

[treelover]

Massive crowd in Hull

anyone want to estimate the size of the crowd?

 

[treelover]

Newcastle rally

Is any of this making the national news?

 

[treelover]

Corbyn accused of 'bottling' hustings with Smith after rejecting debate

Meanwhile, the Guardian/Observer ignores the massive rallies and instead its this,

never mind he is doing other debates.

and this

Jeremy Corbyn urges MPs to rethink 'bizarre' attempts to split Labour


Look at the image of Smith speaking at the 'headlingley stadium'

as if he could fill any stadium

 

[Orang Utan]

He's in Leeds today. Sold out.

 

[agricola]

Newcastle rally

Is any of this making the national news?

"Corbyn supporter threatens to set rabid wolf on photographer"

 

[Mr.Dogg]

Massive crowd in Hull

anyone want to estimate the size of the crowd?

Ha, I work at the youth project in the background there! Good to see him get such a big crowd, obviously no national media outlet will carry it! Hull daily mail estimated 3,000, said it was the biggest political rally there

 

[imposs1904]

I come from the same village as Conor and know him and his dad very well. The general consensus around here is that he is a complete and utter shit cunt and that's by people who were previously quite matey and close with him.

I seen him in the pub here about a year ago with his wife and even then you could tell he was quite uncomfortable and even joked that he wasn't welcome around here anymore but there was a sense of seriousness when he said it too and he was right he isn't welcome anymore. Think it's a bit of a touchy subject with Pat so have never mentioned it to him but knowing Pat I'm sure he's embarrassed as fuck but what can you do.

If that linked to article from The Blanket is anything to go by, then the Dad is a bit of a charmer himself.

 

[N_igma]

If that linked to article from The Blanket is anything to go by, then the Dad is a bit of a charmer himself.

Edit: Sorry seen the article was in the piece I quoted.

He's not a hard man by any means quite well natured ex-alcoholic type who likes to run a lot for charity not really into Republicanism these days so the whole 'I'll call your da' thing is just a completely preposterous notion to anyone who knows both men personally.

The lying thing is true though there used to be a competition in a local festival to find the biggest liar in the world and he won so it must run in the family

 

[oryx]

I've just seen ITV news - Corbyn rally in Hull and Smith rally in Liverpool both featured.

I really thought that the Corbyn rally had been filmed so as not to show the size of the crowd - though it did have a brief interview with him - and the Smith rally was filmed from the front so as to make it look a bigger crowd.

Shouldn't be surprised at that, really.

 

[Fez909]

 

[DaveCinzano]

I really thought that the Corbyn rally had been filmed so as not to show the size of the crowd - though it did have a brief interview with him - and the Smith rally was filmed from the front so as to make it look a bigger crowd.

I saw this sort of thing happen in real life once - 2001 election campaign, William Hague came to Bristol, and appeared outside on the Bristol Floating Harbour a few yards away from the hotel where he had been addressing the party faithful for an ‘impromptu public walkabout’.

Outside were maybe thirty local Tory activists - proper blue rinse/retired colonels crowd - plus some younger Smith Square goons, being marshalled by Seb Coe. As Hague was ushered onto a kitchen step to address the ‘throng’, the whole group was surrounded/intermingled with around the same number of (or probably more) heckling lefties.

This small bunch of rabidly loyal party hacks was wrapped tightly around a rather short bald man, and encircled by a slightly bigger crowd of hostile antis, on a small bit of pedestrianised pathway hidden from the main road by an ugly hotel, at lunchtime on a weekday afternoon, maybe a hundred yards away from the city centre where thousands of ordinary Bristolians were going about their normal business completely unaware that this shamelessly stage-managed panto was going on (the snap visit hadn't been pre-announced publicly).

And yet the TV cameras were pulled in so tight onscreen that on telly that night it looked like Hague was in the middle of a sea of friendly faces!

 

[treelover]

That is massive, we really are bordering on a Stalinist media if they ignore that.

can these videos be posted on BBC sites or are they restricted?

 

[Fez909]

That is massive, we really are bordering on a Stalinist media if they ignore that.

can these videos be posted on BBC sites or are they restricted?

It's a public group

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i can't be bothered to find / embed tweets, but one or two of today's pictures are doing the rounds with something along the lines of "of course, corbyn only appeals to a small, middle class, london elite"

 

[treelover]

Éoin (@LabourEoin) on Twitter

Some good stuff on Eoin's Twitter.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

 

[JTG]

Cancel Hinckley and HS2 and other multi billion South Eastern 'vanity projects'

 

[miktheword]

They will probably say that this article is because The Spectator wants Corbyn to win



10 reasons why Corbyn’s critics are the worst people in British politics right now | Coffee House

 

[Hocus Eye.]

They will probably say that this article is because The Spectator wants Corbyn to win



10 reasons why Corbyn’s critics are the worst people in British politics right now | Coffee House

I liked the last sentence "in the land of the bland the ever so slightly principled politician can become king".