Labour leadership

[Bakunin]

who's caught a dose?

Lord Sewell, probably.

 

[Bakunin]

Joint Entrepreneurs. S'aspirational, y'see?

 

[DotCommunist]

grass and posho

 

[Buckaroo]

The dead posh grass roots resistance thing.

 

[Plumdaff]

If you've affliated through your union to vote check your emails. I've just been given 72 hours on a Friday afternoon to prove I'm on the electoral register. I should manage it but the timing seems a bit fishy to me

 

[Pickman's model]

If you've affliated through your union to vote check your emails. I've just been given 72 hours on a Friday afternoon to prove I'm on the electoral register. I should manage it but the timing seems a bit fishy to me

piece of piss if you kept your voting card or recent e.r. reg form

 

[Plumdaff]

piece of piss if you kept your voting card or recent e.r. reg form

Which I didn't and lots of other people won't have either. And it's less the ease of proving it - my council will no doubt provide me a letter - it's noticing the email and sorting it by Monday afternoon from a demand sent very close to 5pm on a Friday.

 

[ViolentPanda]

He is critical of NATO, has talked about withdrawal in the past

And in fact was very rarely critical of NATO before the adventures in former Yugoslavia. A lot of his criticism is about what NATO became, not about the existence per se of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

 

[Fingers]

Corbyn has delivered his ten point plan this evening in Glasgow in front of hoardes of Scots, whilst the others have not really delivered much at all today

• Growth not austerity – with a national investment bank to help create tomorrow's jobs and reduce the deficit fairly. Fair taxes for all - let the broadest shoulders bear the biggest burden to balance the books.
• A lower welfare bill through investment and growth not squeezing the least well-off and cuts to child tax credits.
• Action on climate change - for the long-term interest of the planet rather than the short-term interests of corporate profits.
• Public ownership of railways and in the energy sector - privatisation has put profits before people.
• Decent homes for all in public and private sectors by 2025 through a big housebuilding programme and controlling rents.
• No more illegal wars, a foreign policy that prioritises justice and assistance. Replacing Trident not with a new generation of nuclear weapons but jobs that retain the communities’ skills.
• Fully-funded NHS, integrated with social care, with an end to privatisation in health.
• Protection at work – no zero hours contracts, strong collective bargaining to stamp out workplace injustice.
• Equality for all – a society that accepts no barriers to everyone’s talents and contribution. An end to scapegoating of migrants.
• A life-long national education service for decent skills and opportunities throughout our lives: universal childcare, abolishing student fees and restoring grants, and funding adult skills training throughout our lives

http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/jeremy_corbyn_launches_standing_to_deliver

 

[J Ed]

I want to hear more about his backtracking on Clause 4 to be honest, in his justification for that he seemed to be hinting at supporting worker co-ops in lieu of top down nationalisations but that hasn't made it on to the top 10.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

That new poll is fucking hilarious, every argument the right of the party have been making about electability, appealing to non-labour voters, 'credibility' has been torpedoed. They've got nothing now.

I dunno about that poll. I wonder if he's just in the lead through little more than name repetition. And the others being shit of course.

 

[agricola]

I dunno about that poll. I wonder if he's just in the lead through little more than name repetition. And the others being shit of course.

The influence of the sterling efforts that Blair, Campbell, Umunna and the rest have put in to opposing him has probably helped him to be more popular as well, lets not forget.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

The influence of the sterling efforts that Blair, Campbell, Umunna and the rest have put in to opposing him has probably helped him to be more popular as well, lets not forget.

It's true. If The Warcrim-In-Chief said I was that big a threat to whatever, I'd probably never need to buy another meal or drink in public ever again.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Its like watching a carcrash in slo-mo. They've learned nothing from scotland, nothing from the GE defeat overall. Despite being straight out the gates with 'we realise we failed to blah blah'.

Like most public relations specialists, Hameron included, Labour's front bench can't quite bring themselves to believe that their message is wrong, so they fiddle around the edges and gabble mea culpas for the failure, all the while cursing the stupid plebs who weren't convinced by their shallow charlatanry.

 

[Pickman's model]

Which I didn't and lots of other people won't have either. And it's less the ease of proving it - my council will no doubt provide me a letter - it's noticing the email and sorting it by Monday afternoon from a demand sent very close to 5pm on a Friday.

see if your local archives open tomorrow and if so visit them and note down your e.r. ref.

 

[J Ed]

 

[Pickman's model]

It's true. If The Warcrim-In-Chief said I was that big a threat to whatever, I'd probably never need to buy another meal or drink in public ever again.

you think the death squads would be put on you?

 

[Pickman's model]

at least 2 should be disciplined then

 

[Fingers]

The Blarites are getting battered into the ground if this poll is to be believed, all this talk of him making an unelectable party unelectable.....

http://news.sky.com/story/1536004/voters-more-likely-to-choose-corbyn-led-labour

 

[Pickman's model]

Corbyn has delivered his ten point plan this evening in Glasgow in front of hoardes of Scots, whilst the others have not really delivered much at all today

• Growth not austerity – with a national investment bank to help create tomorrow's jobs and reduce the deficit fairly. Fair taxes for all - let the broadest shoulders bear the biggest burden to balance the books.
• A lower welfare bill through investment and growth not squeezing the least well-off and cuts to child tax credits.
• Action on climate change - for the long-term interest of the planet rather than the short-term interests of corporate profits.
• Public ownership of railways and in the energy sector - privatisation has put profits before people.
• Decent homes for all in public and private sectors by 2025 through a big housebuilding programme and controlling rents.
• No more illegal wars, a foreign policy that prioritises justice and assistance. Replacing Trident not with a new generation of nuclear weapons but jobs that retain the communities’ skills.
• Fully-funded NHS, integrated with social care, with an end to privatisation in health.
• Protection at work – no zero hours contracts, strong collective bargaining to stamp out workplace injustice.
• Equality for all – a society that accepts no barriers to everyone’s talents and contribution. An end to scapegoating of migrants.
• A life-long national education service for decent skills and opportunities throughout our lives: universal childcare, abolishing student fees and restoring grants, and funding adult skills training throughout our lives

http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/jeremy_corbyn_launches_standing_to_deliver

 

[Plumdaff]

see if your local archives open tomorrow and if so visit them and note down your e.r. ref.

That's helpful - have managed to unearth May's poll card so I'm ok, I wonder how many people will only notice the email on Monday.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's helpful - have managed to unearth May's poll card so I'm ok, I wonder how many people will only notice the email on Monday.

tbh in the not too distant past the labour party got a load of current electoral registers so they could prove if you were on there.

 

[DotCommunist]

hoardes

hordes

 

[Wilf]

Just revised it to include our Lady of Kendall too, then realised I was getting carried away and went back to arguing on Twitter.

Lady Morgana, shurely.

 

[DotCommunist]

Corbyn has delivered his ten point plan this evening in Glasgow in front of hoardes of Scots, whilst the others have not really delivered much at all today

• Growth not austerity – with a national investment bank to help create tomorrow's jobs and reduce the deficit fairly. Fair taxes for all - let the broadest shoulders bear the biggest burden to balance the books.
• A lower welfare bill through investment and growth not squeezing the least well-off and cuts to child tax credits.
• Action on climate change - for the long-term interest of the planet rather than the short-term interests of corporate profits.
• Public ownership of railways and in the energy sector - privatisation has put profits before people.
• Decent homes for all in public and private sectors by 2025 through a big housebuilding programme and controlling rents.
• No more illegal wars, a foreign policy that prioritises justice and assistance. Replacing Trident not with a new generation of nuclear weapons but jobs that retain the communities’ skills.
• Fully-funded NHS, integrated with social care, with an end to privatisation in health.
• Protection at work – no zero hours contracts, strong collective bargaining to stamp out workplace injustice.
• Equality for all – a society that accepts no barriers to everyone’s talents and contribution. An end to scapegoating of migrants.
• A life-long national education service for decent skills and opportunities throughout our lives: universal childcare, abolishing student fees and restoring grants, and funding adult skills training throughout our lives

http://www.jeremyforlabour.com/jeremy_corbyn_launches_standing_to_deliver

clearly this means corbyn is a red menace who must be destroyed by- *gasp* the Resistance!

The arrogance of those wanks to take up such a name.

 

[Bakunin]

tristram hunt's a cunt

Separated at birth? I think we should be told...

 

[Pickman's model]

Separated at birth? I think we should be told...

dk about separated just sorry not smothered at birth

 

[brogdale]

How did Chucky know all this was going to happen?

 

[DotCommunist]

And in fact was very rarely critical of NATO before the adventures in former Yugoslavia. A lot of his criticism is about what NATO became, not about the existence per se of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

can't really find much to fault in that- as I'm sure you know NATO was formed to cohere the various arms and armies of western europe in opposition to the warsaw pact countries. Not to be an international military force that operates outside the bounds of the UN. I mean, they called the league of nations a paper tiger but when the fuck have the blue helmets actually sorted anything out? never. Watched the rwandan massacre and did nothing.

But that doesn't give NATO the right to go around acting like the armed wing of dominant capitalist nations now does it. Standardised ammo. Thats the sole good thing they did (for a given value of good obvs).

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Amazing to think JC is likely to win and could in fact be a runner to win the next election...