Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[mauvais]

Anyway, I preferred The Beat

They've been posting pro-Corbyn stuff on FB for a while now, IIRC (edit: I may have totally made this up). I don't know if there's a New Beat splinter faction lurking somewhere though.

 

[redsquirrel]

In a huge surprise the PLP votes for the idea that they should decide on Shadow Cabinet positions (link).

A huge majority of Labour MPs today voted in favour of the restoration of Shadow Cabinet elections.

The move will now be considered by the party’s NEC and will have to be agreed by annual conference before becoming a rule. If elections are confirmed and carried out then it would establish a significant power base in parliament for centrist MPs who are critical of the leadership. Jeremy Corbyn has indicated an interest in allowing Labour’s grassroots a vote on the make-up his top team as part of a wider set of reforms to party democracy.

 

[Libertad]

Melt Kingston (bass) lives down here now. I bump into him in pubs on the occasional jam night. I've never heard him do "Combine Harvester", though

Ask him how many acres he's got.

 

[existentialist]

Ask him how many acres he's got.

I think he's heard every last one of those

I might ask him if he's got any good Ruddy Yurts stories, though...

 

[Brixton Hatter]

(Posted on the bandwidthz thread but might as well go here as well.)

 

[two sheds]

(Posted on the bandwidthz thread but might as well go here as well.)

That's them banned from voting then

 

[DrRingDing]

So will the Corbyn corner get to table the motion of getting the membership or conference to vote in the shadow cabinet?

 

[Wilf]

Black Lace?? Fucking hell, Black Lace!

 

[ska invita]

Black Lace?? Fucking hell, Black Lace!

you jsut know theyre still minted off that fucking "career" of theirs

 

[redsquirrel]

So will the Corbyn corner get to table the motion of getting the membership or conference to vote in the shadow cabinet?

NEC to make the next move.

 

[DotCommunist]

see I've been saying this, all of it, the entire fucking world is a shit re-run of the 70s for ages and no one believed me. At least this farce lacks the noncery. A bit.

 

[Nylock]

They've split into two rival factions, and are currently in dispute about who owns the name...

One faction apparently call/called themselves 'The real UB40'.... Would have been bleakly amusing if the other faction went with 'Continuity UB40'....


/coat

 

[Brixton Hatter]

More votes apparently lost/stolen A new twist: Non-contributory union members excluded from Labour leadership vote

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

With all this vote-rigging going on, might it just be possible that Smith wins?

 

[free spirit]

So the PLP intend to aid the party to become less disfunctional so they can properly get a coherent policy position across to the public by ensuring that the elected leader has no say in who he was to work with in the cabinet, and the PLP will simply elect those who represent the policies that the rest of the part has rejected.

They really are determined to ensure that a corbyn lead labour party actually is unelectable due to being an incoherent mess.

 

[tim]

With all this vote-rigging going on, might it just be possible that Smith wins?

With all this vote-rigging going on, might it just be possible that Smith wins?

No, because nobody wants that to happen, except, perhaps, Owen Smith.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

No, because nobody wants that to happen, except, perhaps, Owen Smith.

The NEC don't want Smith to win?

 

[tim]

The NEC don't want Smith to win?

From the start it was clear that Corbyn will win. The defeat of Smith will be used to justify some kind of split within the party after which a more competent leader will be chosen. Smith is clearly not an election winner.

 

[Pickman's model]

see I've been saying this, all of it, the entire fucking world is a shit re-run of the 70s for ages and no one believed me. At least this farce lacks the noncery. A bit.

No revival of bless this house

 

[Sprocket.]

More votes apparently lost/stolen A new twist: Non-contributory union members excluded from Labour leadership vote

Typical, the Labour Party may as well say:
Thank you for your support and contributions all your working life. Now in your retirement when you need someone to stand and fight for you and you could elect someone of your choice to lead that fight, fuck off!

 

[Sprocket.]

Black Lace?? Fucking hell, Black Lace!

Is this the 'Agadoo' Black Lace, whose singer served a prison sentence for trousering disability benefits while still performing with the 'band'?

 

[phillm]

Jeremy should do an eighties night fundraiser and get Billy Bragg to curate it - working title Red Wedge maybe ?

 

[two sheds]

there's a petition from LRC against the purge of members:

LRC Newsletter - Stop the Purge!

It says 'for LRC members' but asks for your CLP and/or Union.

 

[Lucy Fur]

there's a petition from LRC against the purge of members:

LRC Newsletter - Stop the Purge!

It says 'for LRC members' but asks for your CLP and/or Union.

What if its a boobytrap.....

 

[two sheds]

hehe yes I wondered since I still haven't got my vote

 

[hash tag]

For those of you that may have missed it, I see corbyn and Smith are on a special on bbc1 shortly.

 

[DrRingDing]

For those of you that may have missed it, I see corbyn and Smith are on a special on bbc1 shortly.

BBC desperate to find an audience that will not think Smith's a prick.

 

[brogdale]

For those of you that may have missed it, I see corbyn and Smith are on a special on bbc1 shortly.

I assume Farage, Soubury and some twat from the TPA will be on as well to help Owen?

 

[redsquirrel]

I assume Farage, Soubury and some twat from the TPA will be on as well to help Owen?

I thought it was just the two of them?

 

[brogdale]

I thought it was just the two of them?

Was attempt at humour.