Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[Dogsauce]

It’s just bizarrely dishonest, and they’re fully aware they’re talking bollocks. I don’t get it really, unless it’s some sort of trolling or attempt to distract/divert effort.

 

[mauvais]

There is zero chance of Rachel Riley losing her job over her campaign against antisemitism in Labour, no matter how deranged it gets.

Totally anecdotal but I've seen a lot of chat about this today outside of the usual hardcore political circles, so I suspect she has pushed it too far and it'll permanently damage her. Not necessarily booted off current gigs but who knows.

 

[Dogsauce]

Then she gets to play the victim, silenced for speaking the truth, like every other right-wing ringpiece in the last few decades. Boring when they do this, I wonder if it still has much traction (the worshippers of St Tommy suggest it does)

 

[mauvais]

I perhaps naively feel like it requires an extra ingredient to really be successful in that respect - a Hopkins nuclear icebreaker level of narcissism and self-assurance. You don't automatically get there by having cluelessly shit politics and pontificating about stuff.

 

[scifisam]

Totally anecdotal but I've seen a lot of chat about this today outside of the usual hardcore political circles, so I suspect she has pushed it too far and it'll permanently damage her. Not necessarily booted off current gigs but who knows.

I wouldn't support her being kicked off Countdown - she didn't wear it on the show, and I'm not that comfortable with people being kicked off shows for political views where politics isn't part of it. She doesn't have any control over who wins and probably knows nothing about the contestants.

Even though I am genuinely not going to watch Countdown for a while, not just because of the specific views (she's had them for a while) but because she does actually seem unhinged and it's not like this has just started.

The Metro article sums it up with this quote:

"Reflecting on this troubling piece of history, award winning black feminist and LGBTQ activist Chardine Taylor Stone called Ms Riley’s post ‘the most arrogant racist shit I have seen in a while’.

She added: ‘A blue eyed blonde haired woman literally erasing black struggle to centre themselves as the victim of racism. ‘You do not treat apartheid as joke to make a statement. I don’t care who is holding the placard or what statement she thinks she is making here.’"

It's disappointing that a nice lower-middle-class girl from Southend has decided to be the next Katie Hopkins.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Flattening anti Black racism, Anti Apartheid history whilst promoting 'Whiteness' and anti-semitism to the top of the hierarchy of suffering isn't something any nice 'anyone' does. She isn't an anti racist. Her tactics aren't new either, we've seen numerous examples of this kind of shit over recent years in line with the rise of the far right. She needs to get in the fucking bin.

 

[Badgers]

If she worked for a lot of companies in a public facing role she would be fired on the spot. That or offered leave to deal with her mental health issues.

 

[Pickman's model]

If she worked for a lot of companies in a public facing role she would be fired on the spot. That or offered leave to deal with her mental health issues.

The next season of countdown will come from television centre in grytviken

 

[mauvais]

I wouldn't support her being kicked off Countdown - she didn't wear it on the show, and I'm not that comfortable with people being kicked off shows for political views where politics isn't part of it. She doesn't have any control over who wins and probably knows nothing about the contestants.

I don't particularly care for tangible comeuppance, who gives a shit, it's just cult of celebrity, but I would like to see this kind of bollocks aired and called out for what it is, not on personal terms but because it serves as a practical political education for everyone who stumbles upon it.

 

[Treacle Toes]

She is using her 'celebrity' platform to promote this shit. She is the one bringing it into the workplace. Her tweet wearing the t-shirt mentioned work as the leaders debate was taking place at ITV studios.

 

[mauvais]

She is using her 'celebrity' platform to promote this shit. She is the one bringing it into the workplace. Her tweet wearing the t-shirt mentioned work as the leaders debate was taking place at ITV studios.

I'm not 100% sure and it's absolutely nerdy irrelevance anyway but I think the debate thing took place at Dock10 which isn't even ITV, just a studio used by anyone. So it's anyone's workplace.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

The next season of countdown will come from television centre in grytviken

Bit harsh on poor, blameless Susie Dent?

 

[Pickman's model]

Bit harsh on poor, blameless Susie Dent?

Yes. But to make meringues you have to break eggs

 

[Treacle Toes]

I'm not 100% sure and it's absolutely nerdy irrelevance anyway but I think the debate thing took place at Dock10 which isn't even ITV, just a studio used by anyone. So it's anyone's workplace.

Perhaps you should tell RR that?

She claims it as her own...



Her twitter page has pics of her at work on countdown too, it's her leverage at being relevant...

 

[mauvais]

Countdown is filmed there but it's just contract hire. Ah I'm even boring myself with this one.

 

[killer b]

There won't be any repercussions for her professionally over this, so it doesn't really matter. I mean... I'm sure no-one is delighted at the countdown office that she's out there smearing shit on the walls every day, but the consequences for them if they took any kind of action - monstering in the tabloid press, pickets of their studios, a boycott of their shows, you name it - would be so severe that they just won't touch it. They're all just praying Labour loses in December and Corbyn resigns, and all this will vanish like it never existed.

 

[Buckaroo]

Maybe it's all a sinister plot by the Dark Lord Carol Voldermort, her obsession with blood purity and getting back on the numbers game on Countdown.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Lord Carol Voldermort

 

[Mr Moose]

An excellent manifesto launch. Loads to like in it and has really set the agenda for the next few weeks.

I still have doubts about Corbyn’s personal electability, but fair dos he’s been on great form and the ball is in play. I have a feeling the Tories won’t quite get an overall majority and another round awaits.

I thought the election debate tone, hasn’t politics been so nasty, you two apologise, was unfair on Corbyn. None of that is on him.

 

[hash tag]

Seeing all the shit flying around about the lib dems and their deeper "sympathies" with the tories this election should be
much easier than I suspect it will be

 

[butchersapron]

Seeing all the shit flying around about the lib dems and their deeper "sympathies" with the tories this election should be
much easier than I suspect it will be

Easier? For who? Why? And why does that makes you sad?

 

[hash tag]

It should make it easier for people to vote labour but I suspect it wont.

 

[Mr Moose]

Bad news for Corbyn, the Muppets and Michael Caine.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Treacle Toes]

ToryFibs has created a list of Labour's manifesto policies...

 

[Libertad]

^^^ Repeal the Lobbying Act and Vehicle Scrappage get listed twice.

This is why you can't trust Labour.

 

[scifisam]

If she worked for a lot of companies in a public facing role she would be fired on the spot. That or offered leave to deal with her mental health issues.

And I'd disagree with the firing for someone in that job too.

I'd say she should be be given training on why using that picture is so fucking awful,

Bad news for Corbyn, the Muppets and Michael Caine.

His Twitter feed is amazing. So many lies repeated.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

An excellent manifesto launch. Loads to like in it and has really set the agenda for the next few weeks.

I still have doubts about Corbyn’s personal electability, but fair dos he’s been on great form and the ball is in play. I have a feeling the Tories won’t quite get an overall majority and another round awaits.

I thought the election debate tone, hasn’t politics been so nasty, you two apologise, was unfair on Corbyn. None of that is on him.

The manifesto all about setting the agenda for the leadership election to come..pie in the sky stuff rather than a serous attempt to get into Downing Street.

 

[mauvais]

Rachel Riley and her T shirt are back in the news - the original photographer's turned up.

 

[Dogsauce]

Fair play to the photographer for fighting this, but the hundreds of Twitter comments about it just disappoint me a bit, all that time and effort wasted being cross about someone that doesn’t really matter being a dick. Couldn’t there be a more productive use of time if you want to campaign for Labour? If thousands of hours have been wasted on Twitter and other platforms performing the act of being cross about this then surely she’s winning for her side no matter what the outcome?