Labour leadership

[DotCommunist]

Great find that. A particularly weird angle since she isn't even Jewish anyway, the Bolivian marching powder must be very exceptional in New York at the moment.

nah, its the same angle that used to get thrown at 'red' ken everytime he stood for election. An old labour right smear that even coked up quitters like mensch can grasp at through the fog of self importance and vibrating eyeballs

 

[J Ed]

nah, its the same angle that used to get thrown at 'red' ken everytime he stood for election. An old labour right smear that even coked up quitters like mensch can grasp at through the fog of self importance and vibrating eyeballs

I looked at her twitter account and she's just quoting a random selection of anti-Semites with nothing to do with Corbyn or even Britain or quoting people who back Corbyn but are critical of Israel rather than anti-Semitic and then she bangs the #antisemitesforcorbyn tag on them. She is a bit mad I think.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

What the fuck is all that stuff she just said about John Prescott's dad? Is this what twitter is usually like? It's bizarre.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

#kittehsforcorbyn

 

[J Ed]

I like the red collar

 

[Sifta]

She is a bit mad I think

Burchillism. It will be a recognized syndrome in ten years

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I like the red collar

full article here

And apparently Matthew Parris's llamas have had their memberships rejected.

Seriously, whose bloody stupid idea was this sort of election anyway?

has any other serious political party done similar?

My understanding of the US presidential primaries, which I think this was an attempt to do something similar to, is that you're only allowed to vote in one party's primary. How many people choose to vote in the primary of the party they dislike, to try and bugger it up, I don't know.

I think this election process is fucked.

Go through with it, and whoever wins, nobody is going to have the faintest idea if s/he has won by virtue of majority support within the party / party supporters, or whether they were elected by (tory / marxist / whatever the fuck suits the agenda of who's talking - delete as appropriate) infiltrators.

Suspend the whole sorry shower now, and the party can be portrayed as anti democracy, and whoever finally gets elected by whatever process they put together can also be argued as lacking legitimacy.

 

[Kaka Tim]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b065xk23#play

Corbyn does well. Toynbee is a patronising fuck wit.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

#kittehsforcorbyn

There was me thinking that this was your own cat that you had photographed just for us. It turns out this is an actual cat in real life and has just been on Sky News.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

There was me thinking that this was your own cat that you had photographed just for us. It turns out this is an actual cat in real life and has just been on Sky News.

I dropped a bollock - intended to put a link in the post with the picture...

 

[Sifta]

She is a bit mad I think

Even the Mail has this now. She's fucked

 

[Dogsauce]

I looked at her twitter account and she's just quoting a random selection of anti-Semites with nothing to do with Corbyn or even Britain or quoting people who back Corbyn but are critical of Israel rather than anti-Semitic and then she bangs the #antisemitesforcorbyn tag on them. She is a bit mad I think.

First the Tories laughed at Corbyn, now his populism has some of them worried, they see a threat. It's just an extra bit of fun to play out alongside the Blairites spitting pips.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

That Louise Mensch is proper caining the coke since she went over to the States.

 

[Kaka Tim]

fuck me, John Woodcock is a bell end and a half. Does he actually believe the deluded drivel he spouts? -

John Woodcock, the chairman of the Progress group and a supporter of Liz Kendall, has suggested there is a “highly organised” attempt to play up the idea that there has been a purge of voters on the left in order to pave the way for a purge of those on the right of the party if Corbyn wins.

He said: “Councillors and MPs to whom I have spoken are concerned that the hard-left is crying foul about a purge now to prepare the ground for a mass deselection of elected representatives if it wins control. The false notion that the party’s process of vetting the electorate for supporters of other parties constitutes a purge is intended to muddy the waters for the genuine purge of longstanding councillors and MPs that is to come.”

from here - http://www.theguardian.com/politics...adership-election-result-final-corbyn-burnham

 

[Kaka Tim]

 

[Favelado]

fuck me, John Woodcock is a bell end and a half. Does he actually believe the deluded drivel he spouts? -



from here - http://www.theguardian.com/politics...adership-election-result-final-corbyn-burnham

Hope he's right.

 

[treelover]

fuck me, John Woodcock is a bell end and a half. Does he actually believe the deluded drivel he spouts? -



from here - http://www.theguardian.com/politics...adership-election-result-final-corbyn-burnham

Nasty piece of work.

 

[agricola]

fuck me, John Woodcock is a bell end and a half. Does he actually believe the deluded drivel he spouts? -



from here - http://www.theguardian.com/politics...adership-election-result-final-corbyn-burnham

Probably not, and kudos to whomever the Guardian internet sub was that chose that precise link to demonstrate who Woodcock was:

Woodcock tweeted: “Disappointed Yvette attacking @LizforLeader as ‘untested. Seen others over two decades, that’s why I’m backing Liz … Might be put on someone’s blacklist for that, but you know what? We need to turn the page on Labour machine politics and ‘doing people in’.”

 

[youngian]

fuck me, John Woodcock is a bell end and a half. Does he actually believe the deluded drivel he spouts? -

It was John Woodcock that helped move me to backing Corbyn; after weeks of personal attacks shadow chancellor Chris Leslie decided to engage on the issues by making some 'criticisms' of Corbynomics (mention Venuzuela and Greece). Richard Murphy, an economist who speaks plain English, went straight on World at One to defend it. Leslie couldn't be arsed to turn up and sent Woodcock along. He clearly hadn't read the proposals and had no idea how to criticise it beyond a few soundbites. Pathetic stuff, meanwhile Chris Leslie was backed to insults and yah boo sucks the next day.

Apologies if someone has already posted this wonderful summary from Aaron Bastani (4 minutes onwards) about what's wrong with ABC but I couldn't have put it any better myself

 

[two sheds]

Great vid, love the conclusions at 5:30 and 6:00

 

[youngian]

Exactly and the latest attempt to challenge the ballot shows as well as being talentless politicians they are in total denial of the changing landscape, which again makes them unfit to lead. If Burnham seizes the crown he'd just be seen as a laughing stock Ruritanian puppet monarch among the party and the country.

 

[brogdale]

Exactly and the latest attempt to challenge the ballot shows as well as being talentless politicians they are in total denial of the changing landscape, which again makes them unfit to lead. If Burnham seizes the crown he'd just be seen as a laughing stock Ruritanian puppet monarch among the party and the country.

Hoping to lead a party that can't even organise its own (rigged) leadership election. This is going to be like shooting fish in a barrel for the vermin.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Its a good point about the whole blair generation of mps who came up through the party machine and have not a got a clue about how to do real politics.

 

[brogdale]

Suggestion that those LP members associated with the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts are being blocked...
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-got-purged-from-the-labour-party

 

[youngian]

Its a good point about the whole blair generation of mps who came up through the party machine and have not a got a clue about how to do real politics.

When you look at some of the few MPs that are backing Corbyn: Rashnari Ali, Clive Lewis, Cat Smith these are MPs that either won back Labour seats or defended handsomely, they know how to connect with the public like the new SNP in-take. In fact this is just an internal version of what went on in Scottish Labour seats in May.

 

[treelover]

It was John Woodcock that helped move me to backing Corbyn; after weeks of personal attacks shadow chancellor Chris Leslie decided to engage on the issues by making some 'criticisms' of Corbynomics (mention Venuzuela and Greece). Richard Murphy, an economist who speaks plain English, went straight on World at One to defend it. Leslie couldn't be arsed to turn up and sent Woodcock along. He clearly hadn't read the proposals and had no idea how to criticise it beyond a few soundbites. Pathetic stuff, meanwhile Chris Leslie was backed to insults and yah boo sucks the next day.

Apologies if someone has already posted this wonderful summary from Aaron Bastani (4 minutes onwards) about what's wrong with ABC but I couldn't have put it any better myself

Does Aarron ever get invited on the talking heads shows?

 

[brogdale]

The party's lawyers speak.

 

[teqniq]

Looks like the torygraph have decided to get all frothy

Jeremy Corbyn must be stopped

 

[Belushi]

Looks like the torygraph have decided to get all frothy

Jeremy Corbyn must be stopped

Lol that's as good as yesterdays Mugabe one

 

[Lord Camomile]

The party's lawyers speak.

We don’t think that there is anything clever or funny about that.

That's just one of those phrases that immediately loses your audience...