Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[pseudonarcissus]

Unless I've missed the bit in the Limehouse Declaration about lesbians?

but it was labour governments that legislated to (partly) decriminalise homosexuality, and also to introduce the race relations act and equal pay act in the 60s.

I see the link there, a wooly liberal.
I feel I'd have been waiting for a long time for the Boilermakers to take up gay rights. (google really isn't helpful with GMB (some sort of daytime TV programme) or GMBATU searches....but that's what the B stands for )
I would class Ken as part of the "metropolitan left" rather than the "working class". I hate these terms. And yes, most of the Tories were horrible.
In '85, as a closeted gay man working in a job where I'd have been fired if suspected as gay, I'm not sure I would have been much of an advocate....fortunately times have changed. I'm not wishing to criticize the heroes of the left and centre who fought.

 

[Dom Traynor]

I’d just like to be clear that my post above was not to exclude the late but welcome role played by some in the centre, the right and liberal arenas for LGBT and other rights - I was simply focusing on the role of the left since that was the main point of recent posts that I was responding to.

Although I second and third killer b, lazythursday et al

 

[xarmian]

This is a good conversation. I regret to interrupt it with this not good development.

 

[cantsin]

Not sure Bastano need to tweet / get involved in this, but the attempts to stir up hysteria around it / involve OB are laughable

 

[TopCat]

Prob one of her staff did it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Prob one of her staff did it.

It could be anyone with Westminster access. (If it's the MP's own staff they were stupid to handwrite it).

 

[not-bono-ever]

It could have been a bomb they left

 

[Treacle Toes]

'Call off the gloating cat burglars!!!'

 

[Pickman's model]

It could have been a bomb they left

As soon as they got home that thought struck them and they were filled with remorse for not considering it earlier

 

[Pickman's model]

'Call off the gloating cat burglars!!!'

Call off the lock-picking lefties

 

[Pickman's model]

Prob one of her staff did it.

She did it in a bid to gain sympathy

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm still sorting this out in my mind. It was found on her desk. The staff then phoned the police. But did they phone the cops before or after staging the photo at the door on the Westminster carpet with the card and the tiny train?

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm still sorting this out in my mind. It was found on her desk. The staff then phoned the police. But did they phone the cops before or after staging the photo at the door on the Westminster carpet with the card and the tiny train?

1) the mp and / or staff members put the card on desk and took a picture of it
2) they thought about it and put it in an envelope as tho it had been pushed under the door and took a picture of it
3) they thought again and wrote another card and started the process again
4) the researcher arrived back with a thomas the tank engine toy
5) five cards later they had it all right and phoned the police

 

[danny la rouge]

1) the mp and / or staff members put the card on desk and took a picture of it
2) they thought about it and put it in an envelope as tho it had been pushed under the door and took a picture of it
3) they thought again and wrote another card and started the process again
4) the researcher arrived back with a thomas the tank engine toy
5) five cards later they had it all right and phoned the police

It does seem to be something like that.

"Shit, the photo doesn't seem threatening enough. Say Thomas and the card were left in a locked room."

"The photo has already gone out"

"Can you say the burglars took the pic on your iPhone?"

 

[killer b]

I think that the photos outside the offices were taken by whoever delivered the cards/train, rather than the recipients, and then forwarded to Bastani. IIRC he posted a similar thing a few months ago with a different MP, can't remember who.

 

[killer b]

ah yes, woodcock.

 

[danny la rouge]

I think that the photos outside the offices were taken by whoever delivered the cards/train, rather than the recipients, and then forwarded to Bastani. IIRC he posted a similar thing a few months ago with a different MP, can't remember who.

Ah, I see. I hadn't picked up that what he was saying was, in invisible parenthesis, "and this is what my reliable source sent me".

(One of the very many things I hate about Twitter is the disjointed way that these things break, with minimal explanation, and requiring you to sort through a Tweeter's timeline in order to furnish the context that explains their gnomic shorthand. If you don't want to hang on Bastini's every word, and frankly I don't, then a lone Tweet requires explanation).

 

[killer b]

Everything about this story and every single person weighing in from every side is fucking pathetic tbh. What a shower.

 

[DotCommunist]

traingate is already taken so this one will require a new name. choogate or something. Politics 2018

 

[SpookyFrank]

Clearly a false flag op from Umunma.

 

[Libertad]

What's the significance of the toy train in all this?

 

[butchersapron]

All opposition are free to leave.

 

[killer b]

What's the significance of the toy train in all this?

nothing. there's nothing significant about this lame prank at all.

 

[cantsin]

What's the significance of the toy train in all this?

“ deselection express “

Shldnt laugh, but the Corbo train photos are too funny ( there’s a better one I can’t find ) - he looks so srs

 

[Libertad]

nothing. there's nothing significant about this lame prank at all.

“ deselection express “

Shldnt laugh, but the Corbo train photos are too funny ( there’s a better one I can’t find ) - he looks so srs

It's all clear now. These people inhabit a totally different world to the likes of me.
Wankers the lot of them.

 

[killer b]

yeah, it's risible.

 

[cantsin]

yeah, it's risible.

people making daft interweb jokez based on stuff they're deeply + rightly frustrated by = 'risible' ? might be a bit overstating it tbf

 

[billbond]

She did it in a bid to gain sympathy

Evidence ?
would have been funnier with a balloon

 

[Pickman's model]

Evidence ?

ascribe pls another motivation for her

 

[killer b]

people making daft interweb jokez based on stuff they're deeply + rightly frustrated by = 'risible' ? might be a bit overstating it tbf

I think it perfectly expresses the contempt I feel for this particular tone-deaf schoolboy self own. More for Bastani than whoever it was who actually did the prank, mind.