Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[kebabking]

and in news thats sure to bring the voters streaming in...

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

yes, thats right folks, in an effort to banish the electorates view that Corbyn is a niave old hippy with questionable taste in friends, Corbyn has announced that he has hired the head of Sinn Feins London Office to work in his office on stakeholder engagement.

 

[Tom A]

and in news thats sure to bring the voters streaming in...

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

yes, thats right folks, in an effort to banish the electorates view that Corbyn is a niave old hippy with questionable taste in friends, Corbyn has announced that he has hired the head of Sinn Feins London Office to work in his office on stakeholder engagement.

Not doing much to allay claims he was an IRA sympathiser in the past, is he?

 

[redsquirrel]

Liz Kendall would never have done this!

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Well, maybe they'll give him some fresh ideas on how to deal with disloyalty in his organisation ...

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Double post

 

[bluescreen]

Well, this is the thread that runs and runs.

 

[Supine]

and in news thats sure to bring the voters streaming in...

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

yes, thats right folks, in an effort to banish the electorates view that Corbyn is a niave old hippy with questionable taste in friends, Corbyn has announced that he has hired the head of Sinn Feins London Office to work in his office on stakeholder engagement.

You couldn't make it up. I'm starting to think Corbyn is actually a Tory!

 

[Wilf]

and in news thats sure to bring the voters streaming in...

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

yes, thats right folks, in an effort to banish the electorates view that Corbyn is a niave old hippy with questionable taste in friends, Corbyn has announced that he has hired the head of Sinn Feins London Office to work in his office on stakeholder engagement.

To be honest, Owen Smith was planning to have some lad from the Red Hand Commandos as his Chief of Staff.

 

[Wilf]

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

"Mr Corbyn attracted controversy in 1984 by inviting Gerry Adams and other members of Sinn Fein to the Commons shortly after the IRA Brighton bomb nearly killed Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet".

Given that his brother is some kind of boffin, I hope it was a seminar on the new targeting technologies.

 

[treelover]

Momentum HQ’s solution is an unprecedented mobilisation of its membership, in the hope that the doorstep press can outweigh the hostility from Fleet Street. Beth Foster-Ogg is a Momentum organiser, one of those helping to bring Momentum’s 20,000 members and 170,000 supporters into local campaigns. She’s working at a phone bank in Momentum’s central offices when I meet her. Staff have been brainstorming some slightly off-the-wall merchandise ideas on a whiteboard – including what looks like Labour branded champagne (“Champagne Socialist”).

My hopes for Momentum have been dashed by the toxic debate at the top

Oh dear, shades of Counterfire's cafe in Bloomsbury, are the leadership of Momentum aware of what is happening around the country?

 

[agricola]

Went past the Emmanuel Centre (on Marsham Street) just before the "Save the NHS" rally was due to take place. The only indication that anything was going on there was the two SWP tables set up outside, possibly staffed by former Owen Smith supporters as the tables had clearly been set up by people who knew how to do it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Went past the Emmanuel Centre (on Marsham Street) just before the "Save the NHS" rally was due to take place. The only indication that anything was going on there was the two SWP tables set up outside, possibly staffed by former Owen Smith supporters as the tables had clearly been set up by people who knew how to do it.

yeh those folding tables can be a bugger for the uninitiated.

 

[two sheds]

there are videos you know

 

[agricola]

yeh those folding tables can be a bugger for the uninitiated.

Indeed, in fact the recent attempt to set one up at NSY caused so much damage that they had to sell the building afterwards.

 

[Pickman's model]

Indeed, in fact the recent attempt to set one up at NSY caused so much damage that they had to sell the building afterwards.

that's what happens when you put a superintendent in charge of something

 

[William of Walworth]

Given that his brother is some kind of boffin, I hope it was a seminar on the new targeting technologies.

I take it that you've actually looked into Piers Corbyn's .... erm .... eccentricity??

 

[William of Walworth]

Drinks pints, or used to.

Talks shite in pubs** about climate change, and may well still do.

IMO like.

That's PC not JC, thankfully

**Or used to. Talk denialist crap in pubs, that is, rather than just talk in pubs.

 

[MochaSoul]

This

When Corbyn was elected I had a daydream that the numbers he was attracting in meetings (and as new members) might have been the basis for creating some kind of movement, connecting with forces outside parliament.

This

Momentum et al were never well placed to engage with working class communities - and haven't done.

Not sure they're all that interested

This

For me, most of all, Labour is stuck.

This

Neither side can purge the other, so there's no movement and no basis for any kind of unified intense campaigning. Not so much that Labour are behind in the polls, they are no longer significant players.

And this

Same with the Brexit thing, Labour didn't campaign well and didn't grasp that large numbers of people were fucked off about neoliberalism, unemployment and being abandoned.

Sometimes I wonder if they'd have fared better having campaigned for leaving. It's not as if the EU hasn't been a purveyor of neo-liberal capitalist economics. If nothing else, JC's campaigned would have been covered better in MSM.

 

[tim]

Labour MPs' fury after Jeremy Corbyn hires senior Sinn Fein staffer to work in his office

"Mr Corbyn attracted controversy in 1984 by inviting Gerry Adams and other members of Sinn Fein to the Commons shortly after the IRA Brighton bomb nearly killed Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet".

Given that his brother is some kind of boffin, I hope it was a seminar on the new targeting technologies.

Hatred of Thatcher has been the catalyst of many unlikely friendships

She clearly doesn't begrudge or has perhaps forgiven the failure of the Brighton mission.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Is it true that Corbyn has come out in favour of the Morning Star's "Aleppo liberated" line? Whether accurate or not, McDonnell, Milne and Corbyn are starting to sound like out of touch fossils still living in the Cold War and mechanically apologising for the actions of the Russian Empire and its tyrannical allies and giving "critical support" to monsters, like 1980s Orthodox-Trots or closet Tankies.

 

[nuffsaid]

Is it true that Corbyn has come out in favour of the Morning Star's "Aleppo liberated" line? Whether accurate or not, McDonnell, Milne and Corbyn are starting to sound like out of touch fossils still living in the Cold War and mechanically apologising for the actions of the Russian Empire and its tyrannical allies and giving "critical support" to monsters, like 1980s Orthodox-Trots or closet Tankies.

Telegraph says so - must be true.

Jeremy Corbyn backs Morning Star after newspaper praises 'liberation' of Aleppo

 

[brogdale]

Corbyn II ; "The populist"

Coming to a constituency near you.

 

[kabbes]

Corbyn II ; "The populist"

Coming to a constituency near you.

I see the Guardian is still emphasising impossible early elections at every chance it gets.

 

[Pickman's model]

I see the Guardian is still emphasising impossible early elections at every chance it gets.

that's because it's going down the pan.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Hatred of Thatcher has been the catalyst of many unlikely friendships

She clearly doesn't begrudge or has perhaps forgiven the failure of the Brighton mission.

I should imagine, that despite wearing gloves, she washed her hands afterwards.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I see the Guardian is still emphasising impossible early elections at every chance it gets.

Not impossible. Difficult, but not impossible. That said, I don't suppose Labour MPs would vote in favour, given their poll position.

 

[DotCommunist]

I suppose some hardened wreckers might but those looking to lose a seat would not.

 

[tim]

I should imagine, that despite wearing gloves, she washed her hands afterwards.

With the amount of blood on them over the past 60 years, I'm sure she washes them incessantly.

 

[brogdale]

I'm seeing the strategy here, though; call yourself 'populist' and hey presto...

 

[Sasaferrato]

With the amount of blood on them over the past 60 years, I'm sure she washes them incessantly.

Do fuck off, please.