Labour leadership

[brogdale]

Did the Tories win the popular vote or not?

That is not contestable; the tories won more votes (relative majority) than any other party and, as such, they had the plurality.
However, your assertion that the country wanted a tory government is not supported by those facts.

 

[rutabowa]

Joking aside, all that can be concluded from the fact that the tories won the election in 2015 is that they won the election in 2015. It doesn't mean that will always be the case in the future, just as it wasn't always the case in the past. Times change. People can't second guess them. Go with your personal preference. Follow your heart.

VOTE CORBYN!

 

[rutabowa]

lol

 

[killer b]

VOTE CORBYN!

Surely you mean #jezwecan

 

[gosub]

Satire is dead. I saw it gunned down on the streets of Paris.

Quite a lot of jokes at the expense of Mohamed at this years Fringe, as a result

 

[emanymton]

But they did not win on 24% of the votes cast - how difficult is this for you to understand?

They won on 37% of the votes cast.

It is really, really not that difficult to understand.

FFS people he is trolling, no one could actually be this thick.

 

[Pickman's model]

FFS people he is trolling, no one could actually be this thick.

they could you know. no one could deliberately appear so stupid over so many threads.

 

[emanymton]

they could you know. no one could deliberately appear so stupid over so many threads.

You make a good point. But surely no one could post what I quoted seriously at this point in the thread?

 

[DotCommunist]

if d is really trolling then he's got quite the scalp getting dannylarouge to be giving him grief. I mean, i'm hair trigger easy but that blokes all zen.

 

[nino_savatte]

But they did not win on 24% of the votes cast - how difficult is this for you to understand?

They won on 37% of the votes cast.

It is really, really not that difficult to understand.

24% of the electorate (translated as 37% of the votes cast) voted for them.

That isn't a mandate.

Can you not wrap your head around that?

 

[ViolentPanda]

and mad frankie fields who inexplicably hasn't been kicked to death or smoten with a thunderbolt yet

His constituents are Woollybacks. They're too soft in the head to plan out kicking him to death (casts anxious glance over shoulder at Woollyback - Birkenhead-born - wife).

 

[Pickman's model]

You make a good point. But surely no one could post what I quoted seriously at this point in the thread?

would anyone willingly appear so crass and thick on thread after thread after thread?

 

[Sprocket.]

Available from all good retailers that also sell these:

I'm pleased to say I don't know what that is.

I am the proud owner of both as illustrated triple and single variants of these ever useful examples of top pocket furniture!

 

[emanymton]

would anyone willingly appear so crass and thick on thread after thread after thread?

I think I've probably manged it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

STAAAAAN TOOK MY LIVER, MY MUMMY AND MY WIFE

Fixed that for you.

 

[ViolentPanda]

remind me again why this tosser is being allowed to fill the thread with bollocks?

Because we pity him?

 

[jd79]

Diamonds are forever...and ever...and ever...and ever....and ever. Till the end of time.

 

[Argonia]

 

[ViolentPanda]

You really are a stupid, boring cunt.

Sadly, he isn't stupid.

 

[ViolentPanda]

the whole anti-semitism thing seems to be coming to a head atm - anyone any thoughts on if it's going to have any traction?

Only with those for whom it's politically and/or socially advantageous to believe the story. Frankly the Board of Deputies of British Jews rarely get taken seriously, and like Stephen Pollard, the JC editor and Richard Desmond (notorious plastic Jew who is forever buttering up the British Jewish "establishment") employee, tend to react almost hysterically to any perceived threat, or even to the "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" debate.

 

[teqniq]

Something from the Electronic Intifada on this

4 reasons the “anti-Semitism” attacks on Jeremy Corbyn are dishonest

 

[ViolentPanda]

I rarely comment in P&P threads but you are aware that you're getting one hell of a kicking, aren't you? It reminds me of the bit in Raging Bull where De Niro's cumbersome slugger just keeps on walking forward onto the rapier jabs and uppercuts of Sugar Ray Robinson. It's all he can do even though his face is a mess. Just sayin'

Diamond is no Jake LaMotta.

 

[treelover]

I am the proud owner of both as illustrated triple and single variants of these ever useful examples of top pocket furniture!

So, what are they then?

 

[brogdale]

Only with those for whom it's politically and/or socially advantageous to believe the story. Frankly the Board of Deputies of British Jews rarely get taken seriously, and like Stephen Pollard, the JC editor and Richard Desmond (notorious plastic Jew who is forever buttering up the British Jewish "establishment") employee, tend to react almost hysterically to any perceived threat, or even to the "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism" debate.

Yep, but it must be very encouraging for Corbyn's team to see the right pivot so dramatically from the 'let's all vote for the joke lefty' position into one of attack mode. It would appear that they have twigged that Corbyn's momentum/agenda might actually undermine their interests.

 

[Argonia]

Brian Eno on Corbychev: I trust him.

 

[brogdale]

Brian Eno on Corbychev: I trust him.

"Here come the warm Jez"

 

[rutabowa]

Yep, but it must be very encouraging for Corbyn's team to see the right pivot so dramatically from the 'let's all vote for the joke lefty' position into one of attack mode. It would appear that they have twigged that Corbyn's momentum/agenda might actually undermine their interests.

quite.

 

[JimW]

My Life With The Ghosts of Bush

 

[Sprocket.]

So, what are they then?

Pen holders for the top pocket.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Russell Brand backs Jeremy Corbyn
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...backs-jeremy-corbyn-in-labour-leadership-race