Labour leadership

[Fez909]

What had Cameron 'done' before being elected? Osbourne? Blair? Fuck all. Career politicians don't get anything done. Welcome to UK politics.

 

[LDC]

Then again, maybe he won't die. People die at all ages, sometimes they die rather young.

I think you'll find it's a narrowing of the odds the older you get. Although I do like your suggestion there's something of the vampire about him.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Lack of ambition? He's chair of the STWC - their aims being to stop the mightiest war machine the world has ever seen. And he's pro-nuclear disarmament - another huge aim.

Is someone who gets their modest aims implemented more or less ambitious than someone who aims high and has not yet achieved?

He failed to stop the war!

 

[Fez909]

He failed to stop the war!

What a loser

 

[maomao]

I'd vote Corbyn in a General Election tomorrow but we'll see how the next 4 and a half years go first.

 

[LDC]

Yeah, I have to admit for all my skepticism and moaning, I think I would vote for him in an election too. It'd be my first ever vote, and I think it would make me feel physically sick, but I might just do it...

 

[Jackobi]

LOL - i thought this must be from a spoof account at first:
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Hide yo kids, hide yo wife.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I think you'll find it's a narrowing of the odds the older you get. .

So he gets elected then gets ill and dies. So what? I think you're scraping at the dregs in a very small barrel if you're objecting to him on age grounds.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

What had Cameron 'done' before being elected? Osbourne? Blair? Fuck all. Career politicians don't get anything done. Welcome to UK politics.

Blair was a barrister beforehand. I'll just post this telling snippet about his career from Wikipedia:

He appears in a number of reported cases, for example as in Nethermere (St Neots) Ltd v Gardiner[24] where he represented employers unsuccessfully in an attempt to deny female factory workers their holiday pay.

Yeah

 

[Orang Utan]

what do people mean when they say they'd vote for him? he's not running for president!

 

[J Ed]

I wonder how much articul8 has had to drink today

 

[bi0boy]

Unlike Brown, Cameron and Milliband, I guess Corbyn won't be supporting hard-working families? Or maybe he will. I will watch with interest.

 

[DotCommunist]

Is the Green Party fucked now then?

nah, reduced numbers, back to what they had, but not dead.

 

[Fez909]

Average life expectancy is now 81 years in the UK, and that's distorted by the fact that poor people die younger and the rich live longer lives. Corbyn is rich and has had an easy life. Of course that doesn't mean he'll live til 90, but he's got a better chance of doing so than most of us.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

nah, reduced numbers, back to what they had, but not dead.

Or they prosper as their agenda receives wider coverage.

Biggest potential losers at the next election could be the SNP. A Corbyn-led Labour could get right back up in Scotland.

 

[DotCommunist]

Yeah, I have to admit for all my skepticism and moaning, I think I would vote for him in an election too. It'd be my first ever vote, and I think it would make me feel physically sick, but I might just do it...

I'm still loyal to Proleterian Democracy and as such would rather eat my own shite than vote labour. Hary from the left! keep him on his toes!

 

[DotCommunist]

Or they prosper as their agenda receives wider coverage.

Biggest potential losers at the next election could be the SNP. A Corbyn-led Labour could get right back up in Scotland.

I recon they've pissed their chips north of hadrians tbf. Snappies will stay.

 

[cesare]

He's only 66 ffs

 

[maomao]

what do people mean when they say they'd vote for him? he's not running for president!

They mean they would vote Labour in a General Election in the hope of a government lead by C-Byn. It's not hard.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Average life expectancy is now 81 years in the UK, and that's distorted by the fact that poor people die younger and the rich live longer lives. Corbyn is rich and has had an easy life. Of course that doesn't mean he'll live til 90, but he's got a better chance of doing so than most of us.

He's also a teetotal, non-smoking, non-drug-taking, vegetarian cyclist.

The boring fucker...

 

[J Ed]

Or they prosper as their agenda receives wider coverage.

Doubtful, if Labour become the party of protest they will absorb all of those votes which would make me happy. Bye bye Green Tories

 

[Belushi]

He's only 66 ffs

Innit. He looks a good deal healthier to me than Cameron or a lot of other younger politicians

 

[ska invita]

There is also an h.

h) claim they never stopped being socialists, deep down, really...

aka the Toynbee defence Free to dream, I’d be left of Jeremy Corbyn.
Though no one can do it as unflinchingly straight-faced as can she

 

[J Ed]

aka the Toynbee defence Free to dream, I’d be left of Jeremy Corbyn.
Though no one can do it as unflinchingly straight-faced as can she

Bit fucking rich from an ex-SDPer

 

[cesare]

Innit. He looks a good deal healthier to me than Cameron or a lot of other younger politicians

Definitely. That photo of Blair that Rob Ray touched up looks a lot more drawn and unhealthy than JC for instance.

 

[Fez909]

When's the next PMQs?

 

[Orang Utan]

priti patel lol: audioBoom / Tory Minister Priti Patel gives a lesson on how not to react to a Corbyn victory

 

[ska invita]

priti patel lol: audioBoom / Tory Minister Priti Patel gives a lesson on how not to react to a Corbyn victory

Parrot though she is i 'agree' with Priti - I wouldnt congratulate her for winning whatever it is she has ever won. Too much chuminess between MPs who should be opposed to each other.

 

[DotCommunist]

fucking hell toby young just chatting some epic shite

 

[ska invita]

fucking hell toby young just chatting some epic shite

no!!