Labour leadership

[Favelado]

Not enjoying our trip down Punny Lane?

Very strange.

 

[Argonia]

To be fair to the mainstream media it is quite prevalent now for Corbynchev to be described as the "frontrunner" in the leadership contest.

 

[Libertad]

Unwatches thread.

 

[WaiGong]

I've put a tenner on Corbynchev today. Gonna be checking out the result with trepidation. Just wish I'd punted on when he was 100-1 but then it's a bit like being prescient on Bitcoin or something and mining a whole load of it just months before it went stratospheric.

Stuck a fiver on him when he was still 14-1. I'll be pleased with £75, but like yourself wish I'd got in there on 100-1...

 

[J Ed]

Britain’s oldest Jewish newspaper has attacked the Labour leadership frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn, claiming he associated with “Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright anti-Semites”.

In a strongly worded editorial on its front page, the Jewish Chronicle said it was certain it spoke for the vast majority of British Jews in “expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr Corbyn’s election as Labour leader”.

The paper wrote: “If Mr Corbyn is not to be regarded from the day of his election as an enemy of Britain’s Jewish community, he has a number of questions which he must answer in full and immediately. The JC asked him earlier this week to respond. No response has been forthcoming.”

Pretty irresponsible stuff from the Jewish Chronicle

 

[frogwoman]

Has there been a refutation of the paul eisen stuff?

 

[Crispy]

Stop it now

Calm down, even?

 

[Favelado]

Calm down, even?

Fazakerley.

 

[goldenecitrone]

They're not so much top class, more Form B.

Knowledge comes, but Whiston lingers.

 

[ViolentPanda]

https://twitter.com/petewylie

Lots of interesting people now joining LP, inc Pete Wylie

btw, just noticed his daughter is called 'mersey'

taking it a bit too far?

Imagine if she married Otis Ferry.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Anti-revolutionary behaviour noted.

A suitable candidate for the Peoples' Re-education Holiday Park, comrade?

 

[billy_bob]

Imagine if she married Otis Ferry.

The fox hunting arse whose dad thinks Nazis are cute? That's a bit much even for mainstream Labour.

 

[ViolentPanda]

this is just an aside because of the old labour nostalgia I don't have having never known that party. In what became known as the battle of cable street Labour local organised a seperate protest, some miles away, and left the residents and anti fascists to fend for themselves against mosely's boot boys. Which they did with great aplomb.

Now this was Labour at its heights of what people hope corbyn might return it to- its roots. And yes 'its got to better than the tories' is a good rejoinder, 'we can force them leftwards from the inside' not so much, we'll see how corbyn fares. Just worth remembering that the labour party has traditionally acted as a negotiator between the working class and capital. Not more than that. No red dawn.

TBF, there were a few "local tensions" informing the Labour Party's decision to stage away from Cable Street, including the high Conservative vote in parts of Bethnal Green, Wapping etc (but also personality clashes,as ever! ).

 

[ViolentPanda]

Wirral sick of them to be honest.

Just wish he'd shut his birken' head!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Blair getting desperate and inadvertently doing his best to help to Corbyn campaign again...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...annihilation-if-jeremy-corbyn-wins-leadership

He's starting to sound like a man who is seriously losing his shit. Like Lady Macbeth or something.

 

[Libertad]

A suitable candidate for the Peoples' Re-education Holiday Park, comrade?

Indeed, don't bother to pack a bag Cmbbe frogwoman .

 

[frogwoman]

I really hope he wins now as I recently lost my job and could do with some extra cash.

 

[treelover]

Nice one

Britain’s oldest Jewish newspaper has attacked the Labour leadership frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn, claiming he associated with “Holocaust deniers, terrorists and some outright anti-Semites”.

In a strongly worded editorial on its front page, the Jewish Chronicle said it was certain it spoke for the vast majority of British Jews in “expressing deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr Corbyn’s election as Labour leader”.

The paper wrote: “If Mr Corbyn is not to be regarded from the day of his election as an enemy of Britain’s Jewish community, he has a number of questions which he must answer in full and immediately. The JC asked him earlier this week to respond. No response has been forthcoming.”

Pretty irresponsible stuff from the Jewish Chronicle

Seems to be a pattern, Louise Mensch has twitted that Corbyn has been associating with the dubious cartoonist Carlos Latuuf and will be sharing a platform with in the next couple of weeks.

leaving aside these attacks, foreign policy will be a Corbyn weakness

 

[treelover]

 

[frogwoman]

He's been a labour mp for 32 years is it any surprise his politics are shit?

As for that fb comment, erm, wow

 

[treelover]

The above was a reply to the Jewish Chronicle posted on Jack Sommers twitter(above)

twitter wouldn't embed properly

dark side of the left?

 

[Fingers]

He's starting to sound like a man who is seriously losing his shit. Like Lady Macbeth or something.

With Corbyn's popularity and Cameron putting pressure on the Chilcott enquiry, the smell of the Hague is getting rather strong in Blairs nostrils and he is not liking it one bit.

 

[frogwoman]

do people not realise all this stuff makes them look like a bunch of lunatics? That 'fuck off to israel' guy sounds like he'd be happy in an ex labour breakaway New Party

 

[treelover]

“The Holocaust was the most vile period in human history and the Jewish people were scapegoated by the Nazis. Some people in Britain, including Jeremy’s own parents, stood in Cable Street in 1936 to halt the rise of Nazism in our country.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...s-jeremy-corbyn-associating-holocaust-deniers

Interesting

 

[Fingers]

I believe his parents met on a Spanish anti fascism rally during the civil war.

 

[killer b]

Blair is never going to the hague - it won't be figuring in his recent interventions at all, because it's not going to happen. He just fucking hates Jeremy Corbyn and everything he stands for (an animosity they clearly share).

 

[treelover]

https://twitter.com/HollyJohnsonfan

really vicious stuff against JC on this twitter, for a moment I thought it was Holly himself

it may be, if not someone should send him a line, Holly that is,

btw, I suspect its going to get a whole lot worse.

 

[DotCommunist]

still, at least we have the satisfaction of him looking a bit like skeletor if skeltor was to go undercover in an election campaign to decide the future of Eternia

 

[SpookyFrank]

Watching all the blairites throw their toys out of the pram has been really enjoyable. They really are a bunch of entitled little children aren't they?

 

[Fingers]

The Guardian have endorsed Cooper and it has not gone down well with their readers

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-yvette-cooper-jeremy-corbyn?CMP=share_btn_tw

It seems that the entire establishment is shitting bricks.

Fantastic stuff.