Labour leadership

[ViolentPanda]

Not long to wait now? What a choice though - 3 light-weight career politicians and a populist rabble-rouser? Come back Tony, all is forgiven.

In your dreams. Blair himself is/was a "lightweight career politician". One who happened to lead the Labour Party at a time when almost anyone could have won against the Tories. What won it for Blair was superficial charm and the ability to convince the boss class that he could out-Tory the Tories, while convincing people to eat that particular shit sandwich.

 

[DotCommunist]

oh god watsons humblebrags now. Jog on ya cunt

 

[gosub]

oh ffs. They told the media result at 11am, half an hour of talking bollocks so far

 

[Mr Moose]

Angela may be shadow chancellor under Corbyn

Interesting, but the prime job for an MP lacking charisma. Look at Gordon Brown.

 

[Mr Moose]

C'mon. Get on with the main feature.

 

[DotCommunist]

watsons solidarity is worth nothing

 

[ViolentPanda]

Really?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

One supposes that Evander is measuring Corbyn's "populism" and "rabble-rousing" against his 3 adversaries, in which case he could be called such.
In terms of actual populist rabble-rousing though, he's way too wedded to social democracy's predicates to be either.

 

[tim]

Interesting, but the prime job for an MP lacking charisma. Look at Gordon Brown.

The last thing I'd want to look at on a Saturday morning.

 

[Tankus]

flints sucking on a lemon......

Laurel and Hardy double act ......comedy gold to come

 

[wtfftw]

Heh. BBC camera cuts to chuka when Watson is talking about unity.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I AM GROOT

 

[DotCommunist]

guardians of justice and equality? pull the other one tom

 

[DotCommunist]

I AM GROOT

actual lol

 

[Mr Moose]

watsons solidarity is worth nothing

Solidarity with his local cake shop seems strong.

 

[J Ed]

god Watson is boring as shit

 

[SpookyFrank]

god Watson is boring as shit

Init. 'Very brief words' mate, kindly jog on.

 

[Evander]

One supposes that Evander is measuring Corbyn's "populism" and "rabble-rousing" against his 3 adversaries, in which case he could be called such.
In terms of actual populist rabble-rousing though, he's way too wedded to social democracy's predicates to be either.

Yes, I did retract that term a bit earlier in the thread.

 

[J Ed]

he is still talking wtf

 

[cesare]

god Watson is boring as shit

They all are, tbf

 

[DotCommunist]

HOPE

 

[ViolentPanda]

Crude workerism, not to mention inherently orientalist, as if the British working-class is mainly composed of Brits. great we haven't moved beyond 1930. Off to the labour party with you and leering at women in pubs. How are you going to appeal to the BME w/c and all those dependent on the wage fund like this?

You were probably a student at one point so you can fuck off with this purer than thou I'm more working-class than you look at me gosh aren't I special snowflake rhetoric. My inability to organise at the moment is none of your concern (not to mention discriminative) but given that you'll probably end up some kind of right winger in your old age and who knows (siding with fash, to preserve your workerism) I shouldn't be surprised.

And the real enemy is labour and the left. The tories are a bunch of incompetent blobs of cowshit. They can't disguise their real motives if they wanted to. You'd make a terrible military strategist.

Crude identity politics and generalised assumptions.
Not what I expect from you.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Burnham is not wearing the face of a victorious man.

 

[DotCommunist]

he is still talking wtf

he's got a few more cliches to get in yet

 

[ViolentPanda]

I think you've won us all over with the above; and if you haven't then that's just evidence that we are at best would be right wingers, and at worst enablers of fascism.

Good work - Louis MacNeice

We iz teh fash.

 

[westcoast1]

This is quite exciting even though we know the result.

 

[kebabking]

bbc cut to Burnham and Cooper as Watso said 'we will win in 2020' - their expressions suggested they thought otherwise. not smiley happy people...

 

[westcoast1]

Who is that asian mp the cameras keep cutting to?

 

[Mr Moose]

COR-BLIMEY!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Alright then, delete 'populist rabble rousing' and insert 'left wing gallery'. It's only a question of semantics. Incidentally my views are my own - I'm not persuaded by opinion polls.

Your opinions (and terminology) are straight out of Right-wing Broadsheet Central. It's quite amusing counting the cliche-content of your posts.

 

[J Ed]

Landslide