It's good to see what the adult in the room they've been demanding all this time looks like.
Jeremy Corbyn's time is up
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I’m stuffing a Pukka pie in my pocket and going home then.
Pointlessly throwing his forensic weight around by not restoring the whip because that's a thing the Leader can do and membership isn't in his remit. This to appease the right wing racist element of the PLP who are annoyed that the Leader can't break the recommendations of the EHRC report by throwing people out of the Party for their response to the EHRC report
In the meantime, there's a massive great report on Islamophobia in the the Party published by its own members that he hasn't paid much more than lip service to yet, probably because he doesn't want to piss off the right wing racist element - which he has done anyway by failing to throw out Corbyn. In other news, more than one LGBT member of Rosie Duffield's staff has quit in recent months because she's a massive TERF & homophobe but she still somehow escapes censure and people who praise anti-semites continue to sit in his shadow cabinet.
It's going really well
Not sure that Brexit made his task any easier.
Or the outright hostility, which bordered on the demented, from the Blair/Mandleson/Chukka/Berger mob and their acolytes within the Labour Party machine.
Remember those poll leads in 2018 that disappeared, never to return, after the Shadow Brexit Secretary took it upon himself to declare Labour 'the Party of Remain' at Conference without any consultation with the leadership?
Anyway, what happened to that guy?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
6-d? half a shilling?
ks is a shilling short of a pound if he thinks his decisive leadership is going to lead to installation in number 10
Wouldn't give you thruppence for him tbh
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Not really though, his first reaction to the EHRC was to clumsily reignite the problem even when ostensibly accepting it. If his opponents were looking for ways to kick him he spared them the bother of looking too hard for a way.
It does feel unfair that he cannot simply say what he thinks, defend himself and speak freely but this is politics and every reiteration of this row leads his supporters on social media to repeat their claims of invention and conspiracy, often in pretty nasty ways.
Corbyn never appears to try to influence that debate. It wouldn’t hurt him to say, that as much as he disagrees with her, constantly abusing Rachel Riley and others is wrong. But he doesn’t and so he remains a conduit until he shuts off the possibility, either by the right actions or keeping his head down.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Abusing Rachel Riley is absolutely fine though, she's awful
It's not
I have some farthings and old ship ha’pennies.
Plus two great catapults.
Well now you're qualifying it
Well that's, like, your opinion man
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Yeah, but you can say you have a reason. Every right wing sad sack has a reason for abusing David Lammy or Sadiq Khan, but you look at the sheer tonnage and ferocity of it and you think, no this isn’t acceptable and infer the reasons why. And people do the same with pro-Jezza abuse.
I'm not bothered enough tbh. She's a dick, she gets called out for being a dick. Struggling to care really
Plumdaff
joy in people
Depends on which variety of loon you wish to avoid.
There's loads in the Private Eye archives about Hodge at Islington Council and her long-standing enmity with Corbyn but here's a summary from the Independent about what she got up to there With a past like hers, Margaret Hodge might show a bit more humility
Here's her being criticised by Corbynite loon, Alan Johnson, over comments she made about housing in Barking (report from the BBC) BBC NEWS | Politics | Hodge attacked for 'BNP language'
And here's a report from a South African non profit which lists its donors over "lifelong anti-racist" Hodge's long term profiteering under the apartheid regime there | Unaccountable 00001: Dame Margaret Hodge MP – a very British apartheid profiteer
There's more but I'm ending my lunch break.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
What's the alternative? Don't say anything even when she's being out of order and what she says has consequences for the likes of Corbyn specifically or, say, the cause of Palestinians generally?
Riley doesn't have to say the things she says, and I don't think the comparison to Lammy or Khan is at all valid. She is a leading voice seeking to equate all kinds of anti-Zionism, and pretty much any criticism of Israel, as anti-Semitic. That needs calling out, no?
Had forgotten about the South African stuff, thanks for the reminder
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
My new favourite is to retweet Trump/Johnson/Starmer/Celebz/other enemies of the narrating class and paste the ‘This claim is disputed’ warning that Twitter was using with Trump. A guaranteed 15 ‘likes’ from other gimps who do the same. A preserve of the FBPE crowd and the left that only exists online
She's a horrible individual.
She's also mind numbingly dull. Another enduring mystery is how someone with no personality can become a TV personality.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Some say she’s just there to make up the numbers
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Even when her 'side' in this question has basically just won? I respectfully disagree. I'd love to be able to say that the likes of Rachel Riley, or the person who is trying to get the barrister expelled for criticising the Jewish Labour Movement, were irrelevant. But they're not.
ska invita
back on the other side
Was there something about Shami Chakrabarti bringing a court case over Corbyns suspension? I wonder if thats still on then
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