Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Important to note that the court victory is still important if corbyn wins the vote, as it will probably reduce the margin. Anything below 60/40, or even above it, will be taken as a signal to keep shaking the tree.

 

[killer b]

So any result is a signal to keep shaking the tree then?

 

[killer b]

On reflection, i think Tom Watson stirring up the trots entryist stuff this week has been mostly for the benefit of the appeal Court judges - days of headlines about the extremists the labour party want to lock out of the election process just as the judges were ruminating on whether to allow them to be locked out were sure to concentrate their minds...

 

[treelover]

Milton Keynes today, large turn out in a place not known for left wing politics.

 

[treelover]

Detailed video from Bristol on Monday

 

[timeforanother]

Our agm didn't explain who most of the candidates were, and all the women got automatically through because of the 50% rule. I'd prefer no delegates than bad ones. Our ward has 650 or so members now.

 

[Vintage Paw]

You've got to admire the brass neck of the party establishment...

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As opposed to the complete lack of concern about anybody willing to cough-up £25 solely to vote.

No wonder so many of the Blairite wing are selling this as a battle to defend the right of the NEC to govern on party matters, no matter how illogical, calculating or anti-democratic their decisions might be.
Draws you in, doesn't it?

Thing is, Eagle was begging people in all her campaign lit to sign up solely to vote, so...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Thing is, Eagle was begging people in all her campaign lit to sign up solely to vote, so...

Also pretty much the entire point of savinglabour dot com.

 

[brogdale]

Thing is, Eagle was begging people in all her campaign lit to sign up solely to vote, so...

Ker-ching.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

So any result is a signal to keep shaking the tree then?

Thats how i think it will roll. Anything can be spun and probably will be.

Last year Corbyn beat 3 challengers, this year he can only beat 1. Its a disaster.

 

[mojo pixy]

And if anyone at all quits the party after he wins, it'll obviously be a split and entirely his fault, orchestrated in the bunker with trots. The HARD LEFT will have returned to our TV screens and column inches, and it'll be MILITANT this and POLITICS OF ENVY that.

All Corbyn's personal fault, of course, till he dies and then it'll be MAN OF PRINCIPLE but you know, those principles don't actually work though do they?

I do fucking hate this country, a lot.

 

[brogdale]

Thunderbirds are go! Virgil, the pod.

Labour MPs are appealing to David Miliband to return to UK politics in a desperate bid to oust Jeremy Corbyn .

Senior backbenchers want Miliband, who quit politics to run a charity in the US, back here as quickly as possible.

And they say one possible route would be for him to stand in the Batley and Spen seat left empty by the killing of Jo Cox.

No date has been set for a by-election but rumours are growing that the solid Labour seat would be ideal for Miliband.

 

[timeforanother]

I didn't join Momentum so I could troll propperly. I'm more polite in it than the comradely chat is here. Looks a bit sternly at some of the posters who should know better.

 

[DotCommunist]

Thunderbirds are go! Virgil, the pod.

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something you said earlier- 'total war'. It made me think a bit. When St C was ushered in (riding into jerusalem on a donkey while union members laid down the palm leaves) the coverage and indeed the behaviour of the wider party was mildly indulgent, bit panicky but not this rabid. I've come to believe they'd rather have no party at al than one with him in charge. It has become ABC

 

[brogdale]

Twitter tells me that the 'senior backbencher' is (unsurprisingly) Dugher.
Very believable.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Thunderbirds are go! Virgil, the pod.

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Bit awkward given Brendan Cox's statements:

He said he hoped she would be replaced by a woman, saying it would be "a lovely symbolism" if they became Labour's 100th female MP.

Jo Cox 'died for her views', her widower tells BBC - BBC News

 

[brogdale]

something you said earlier- 'total war'. It made me think a bit. When St C was ushered in (riding into jerusalem on a donkey while union members laid down the palm leaves) the coverage and indeed the behaviour of the wider party was mildly indulgent, bit panicky but not this rabid. I've come to believe they'd rather have no party at al than one with him in charge. It has become ABC

Certainly prefer no party over a socialist one.

 

[brogdale]

Bit awkward given Brendan Cox's statements:


Jo Cox 'died for her views', her widower tells BBC - BBC News

Easily overlooked for 'the greater good'...and all that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Look forward to seeing campaign rosettes bearing the acronym IWJWHW

 

[brogdale]

tbf, if the NEC move the freeze date back to 6 years, not months, I reckon Miliband's a shoe-in, MP or no MP.

 

[timeforanother]

The establishment seems a bit worried we might get to choose someone who isn't one of them,

 

[butchersapron]

The establishment seems a bit worried we might get to choose someone who isn't one of them,

He's a 40 year MP.

 

[DotCommunist]

flask of tea for the lads

 

[timeforanother]

He's a 40 year MP.

Never close to any kind of power before

 

[butchersapron]

Never close to any kind of power before

He's as Establishment as they come - regardless of being close to power or not. He's an MP.

 

[timeforanother]

Mr Apron, I don't even know what kind of left wing you come from. CPGB-ML?

Getting more people excited about changing things for the right reasons can't be bad.

 

[butchersapron]

Mr Apron, I don't even know what kind of left wing you come from. CPGB-ML?

Getting more people excited about changing things for the right reasons can't be bad.

Yes, i am the leader of the CPGB-ML.

 

[DrRingDing]

Yes, i am the leader of the CPGB-ML.

More like leader of CPGB-MAML

 

[Cid]

Thunderbirds are go! Virgil, the pod.

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Yeah, give up your £400k/year job in New York and come back to South Shields so you can lose an election. What an an appealing offer.

 

[timeforanother]

Yes, i am the leader of the CPGB-ML.

I like that the rag looks like the FT.

You almost seemed to smile then. I like that.