Labour leadership

[ItWillNeverWork]

There's not been enough laughing at Liz Kendall's 4.5% IMO.

For a split second during that excruciating moment when they had to read her result out, I felt kind of sorry for her. Then I just thought 'fuck it, your a tory' and continued laughing.

 

[stethoscope]

Can you re-size that fucking picture, cynicaleconomy?

 

[belboid]

He did a piece for jacobin that's pretty good too: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/jeremy-corbyn-labour-benn-kendall-blair-leadership/

that one is far better, and not just because it doesn't read like a sixth former trying to be clever

 

[killer b]

the value of an editor eh?

 

[andysays]

48 hours. Not bad.

I refer you to this post made almost exactly 48 hours ago

The backlash begins

Do keep up at the back

 

[Kaka Tim]

Owen Smith at DWP, he will be watched closely, can't find too much about his opinions.

yeah i was wondering what to make of that. Anyone know owt bout him?

 

[belboid]

yeah i was wondering what to make of that. Anyone know owt bout him?

fairly soft left, i think. Abstained on the Welfare bill tho

 

[andysays]

There's not been enough laughing at Liz Kendall's 4.5% IMO.

I remember thinking at the time "that's a lost deposit for Kendall..."

 

[J Ed]

 

[agricola]

no doubt we can all expect "Jeremy Corbyn and his Hitler cat" headlines tomorrow, then.

 

[Sprocket.]

So Mr Cameron we meet at last!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Daily Maily caption: Jeremy Corbyn prepares to sacrifice a cat to his lord and master, Beelzebub.

Guardian caption: Jeremy Corybn prepares to sacrifice a cat to his lord and master, Michael Foot.

 

[Sprocket.]

You see that's the difference between Jeremy Corbyn and me.
At PMQ's he will put forward reasoned, calm and collected questions and responses, where as I would have a bag full of darts and be throwing them at the bastards opposite and some of those around me as hard as I possibly could!

 

[SpookyFrank]

You see that's the difference between Jeremy Corbyn and me.
At PMQ's he will put forward reasoned, calm and collected questions and responses, where as I would have a bag full of darts and be throwing them at the bastards opposite and some of those around me as hard as I possibly could!

If it's pub-themed weaponary you're after then you can't beat the old sock-and-snooker-balls IMO.

 

[The Pale King]

If it's pub-themed weaponary you're after then you can't beat the old sock-and-snooker-balls IMO.

The nuclear weapon of pub combat

 

[Sprocket.]

If it's pub-themed weaponary you're after then you can't beat the old sock-and-snooker-balls IMO.

I fear I would be thwarted by their footmen and butlers!

 

[Pickman's model]

If it's pub-themed weaponary you're after then you can't beat the old sock-and-snooker-balls IMO.

bottle of whisky with beer towel fuse

 

[J Ed]

I'm watching BBC Parliament (lol) for the first time in ages while doing the ironing. They are debating the trade union bill and I could be wrong but the Labour MPs seem a lot more emboldened than before and Sajid Javid looks rattled.

 

[killer b]

That Javid has the job at all suggests to me that the Tories thought this would be a walkover, he's a total fucking lightweight - guess an angry left-wing leadership wasn't what they were planning for...

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm watching BBC Parliament (lol) for the first time in ages while doing the ironing. They are debating the trade union bill and I could be wrong but the Labour MPs seem a lot more emboldened than before and Sajid Javid looks rattled.

they're focusing the outrage over jc's victory on the tories

 

[Sprocket.]

bottle of whisky with beer towel fuse

My dear wife demonstrated how to do this on one of our first dates, I thought she's a keeper.

 

[belboid]

Labour narrowing the Tory poll lead already

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Worth a re-visit?

A Very British Coup

A good book

 

[treelover]

I'm watching BBC Parliament (lol) for the first time in ages while doing the ironing. They are debating the trade union bill and I could be wrong but the Labour MPs seem a lot more emboldened than before and Sajid Javid looks rattled.

Incredible to see John McDonnell on the front bench, had to pinch myself,

not that he shouldn't have been much earlier though, he is a smart operator.

I also note the Tory brayers are out in force, but now they will face some real opposition.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I think 2 things are really going to be the stretching point for Labour, thats Trident and the past record on Northern Ireland.

Going to be tough to convince people that at the very fucking least we can afford either decent gear for the troops or a deadman switch. NI they can't do a fucking thing about.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I'm watching BBC Parliament (lol) for the first time in ages while doing the ironing. They are debating the trade union bill and I could be wrong but the Labour MPs seem a lot more emboldened than before and Sajid Javid looks rattled.

I'm watching it too. So refreshing to see a labour party defending union rights without any shame whatsoever. I only wish I could see the faces of the careerist Blairite worms, wherever the fuck they are now.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Incredible to see John McDonnell on the front bench, had to pinch myself,

not that he shouldn't have been much earlier though, he is a smart operator.

I also note the Tory brayers are out in force, but now they will face some real opposition.

Angela Eagle is doing an excellent job with the analysis of the Trades Union bill tearing it apart paragraph by paragraph. The carefully orchestrated interventions from the Labour benches are superb and the Tories do seem to be on the back foot. I am enjoying this a lot. What a pity it will not affect the final vote.

 

[DotCommunist]

Labours record on NI is delivering the Good Friday Agreement and ending the war. Yes thatch n major had begun the process but blair sealed the deal. Consider the GFA what you like ( I think its a lid on tensions that haven't died), its hardly something labour as a party can be taken to task for in the media. For a brief reading looks like they made the 'peace'. Walls. More potent might be the friend of hamas shite wrt c-byn personally but its not got much traction yet

 

[existentialist]

Even a couple of days later, and despite the evident success of Corbyn's campaign, taking a step back, this all doesn't really make sense to me...

The wrong Miliband lead to Corbyn and then almost certainly to electoral suicide.

Fair enough - Corbyn won a democratic landlside in the Labour movement but the suggestion that he might persuade the wider franchise to vote for him on his current platform and with his record, let alone keeping control of the PLP, is simply ludicrous. Politics is the art of the possible etc...

Opinions, they say, are like arseholes. Everybody's got one, but nobody wants to look at anyone else's.

In some cases, such as this, there's an additional similarity.

 

[laptop]

What a pity it will not affect the final vote.

I just found myself pondering whether it was possible to clone David Davis (bcs "Trade Union Bill Has Echoes Of General Franco’s Fascist Dictatorship, Warns David Davis MP").

May I not, on balance, get what I wished for.