Labour leadership

[cesare]

I'm having an Obama moment here It's good to have a bit of an uplifting fuck you type moment without being wedded to the politics, you joyless bastards

 

[J Ed]

I don't watch Newsnight so I missed this but wtf it's like Brass Eye

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You seriously think that he is a centrist?

You're one of those who believed Ed Milliband was too left-wing to be elected, aren't you?

If so, your lot lost today.

 

[cesare]

The bastard!

30 +

 

[pesh]

Who doesn't?

We can go halves next time if you like?

It figures you'd be paying for it.

 

[SpineyNorman]

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

More's the pity.

 

[danny la rouge]

30 +

Can you imagine Tony or Gordon managing to gather that many assorted family and friends at a non-specific broadly regional cuisine establishment?

 

[pesh]

I'm having an Obama moment here It's good to have a bit of an uplifting fuck you type moment without being wedded to the politics, you joyless bastards

I don't really know what to think but I'm glad things seem slightly less bleak than they did yesterday

 

[cesare]

I don't watch Newsnight so I missed this but wtf it's like Brass Eye

 

[cesare]

Can you imagine Tony or Gordon managing to gather that many assorted family and friends at a non-specific broadly regional cuisine establishment?

Decadence

 

[LDC]

I don't watch Newsnight so I missed this but wtf it's like Brass Eye

OMFG is that a spoof?

 

[the button]

30 +

Britain's junta-in-waiting

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don't watch Newsnight so I missed this but wtf it's like Brass Eye

Fuck me. I only made it half-way through that, but did they really try to get him on the basis that he wouldn't be prepared to order a nuclear strike?????

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Tom Phillips at Buzzfeed peers into his crystal ball to see what the next few years will be like...

What Will Happen Now Jeremy Corbyn Is Labour Leader, According To The Media

 

[cesare]

I don't really know what to think but I'm glad things seem slightly less bleak than they did yesterday

The "fuck you" vote, electing the unelectable, lifts the spirits eh.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Wasn't the "mightiest war machine the world has ever seen" the Wehrmacht ?

No.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Don't get me wrong - so sure was I of his prospects that I bet actual money on Corbyn when the odds were 5 to 1 against, and so I've won big today.

But, it seems from posters' comments that his career-long lack of achievement and lack of ambition are being held up as virtues. Not typically the attributes of a successful leader.

"It's about the things he wants to be done." 32 years is a long time to want to do various things, but not actually get anything done.

Not read beyond this but it's annoying me...
A good local MP is representing their constituents, as much as (if not more than) they are involved in making huge policy changes in the party which they can claim as their own.
I'd far rather be represented nationally by someone who continually opposes bills that plunge the poorest further into poverty and head us into war (etc etc) and who has quietly and consistently got on with supporting that, than someone who fits the definition of *a leader*, if those qualities don't even count...wtf?!

 

[Fez909]

I don't watch Newsnight so I missed this but wtf it's like Brass Eye

What the actual fuck was that? You're right, it's Brasseye.

"Do you have the stuff to lead the country?"
"We're embarking on a high speed car chase, within the statutory speed limit"
"There's a fug of journalism in here"

 

[cesare]

Britain's junta-in-waiting

Vast swathes of teachers expose their elbow patches

 

[Belushi]

Vast swathes of teachers expose their elbow patches

 

[Fez909]

Just had an email from Corbyn asking what he should put to Cameron at Wednesday's PMQs

 

[cesare]

Just had an email from Corbyn asking what he should put to Cameron at Wednesday's PMQs

Tell him to put to him that he's a ham faced cunt and should fall on his sword.

 

[Diamond]

Anyone here want to hazard a guess about how Corbyn gets into No.10 in 2020?

Any ideas at all???

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Just had an email from Corbyn asking what he should put to Cameron at Wednesday's PMQs

Why can't such a wealthy country provide housing, health care and education for all those who need it...just for starters.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Anyone here want to hazard a guess about how Corbyn gets into No.10 in 2020?

A police officer opens the door for him then hands him the key?

 

[The Boy]

Anyone here want to hazard a guess about how Corbyn gets into No.10 in 2020?

Any ideas at all???

By crywanking to the sound of his flatmate having a threesome?

 

[Sprocket.]

Well quite. We can't have our representatives going around voting according to the wishes of their consitituents after all. Next thing you know they'll be voting with their consciences, and at that point you might as well just fly a hammer and sickle from Buckingham Palace and start speaking Russian.

Well said brother, was about to post in a similar tone myself.

 

[Pickman's model]

30 +

yes, he's a do for his friends in their 20s tomorrow

 

[red & green]

Just had an email from Corbyn asking what he should put to Cameron at Wednesday's PMQs

He should ask Dave if he was drinking Bolly or claret in Yorkshire last week - or both

 

[DotCommunist]

It's a funny thing, party background. I let my Labour membership lapse in (I think) 1985. And since then have gone on a long political journey away from parliamentarism and electoralism. But I was still pleased to hear the news of Corbyn's victory.

ennit. Even as utterly dissilusioned with parliamentary politics I am, you can't help feel that a good bloke won today, overwhelmingly. Can he ever change the vehicle or system he's in? not likely. But its nice to smile for once when watching the political charades.