Labour leadership

[DotCommunist]

Polly goes in to reverse ferret Those who flounce out on Jeremy Corbyn will not escape blame if Labour crashes | Polly Toynbee

LOL still manages to work it into telling everyone else who they should back. With friends like those eh...

 

[brogdale]

Not a paper in sight. Corbyn's "green baize" thinking?

 

[DotCommunist]

maybe he's having a round of billiards after the meeting

 

[nino_savatte]

Not a paper in sight. Corbyn's "green beige" thinking?

Green baize.

 

[brogdale]

maybe he's having a round of billiards after the meeting

If so, the prospect seems to be making them fucking miserable.

 

[brogdale]

Green baize.

Corrected!

 

[DotCommunist]

If so, the prospect seems to be making them fucking miserable.

Watson in particular looks like he knows C-byns gonna hustle him out of his pocket money. Slapped arse of a visage there

 

[IC3D]

The look on those faces doesn't instil much confidence

 

[brogdale]

Watson in particular looks like he knows C-byns gonna hustle him out of his pocket money. Slapped arse of a visage there

also looks like he might have spotted the beer & sarnies on the table over in the corner!

 

[billy_bob]

Watson in particular looks like he knows C-byns gonna hustle him out of his pocket money. Slapped arse of a visage there

Thinks: 'Feckin WATER!'

 

[billy_bob]

Cooper: has almost certainly fellated Ed Balls

This site has provided me with some horrific mental images over the last 11 years but that's a new low.

"She's a threat to prosperity, she's a threat to national security, and she's a threat to Ed Balls's celibacy"

 

[DaveCinzano]

It looks like he's explaining the rules of Soggy Biscuit to an amateur dramatics society which has accidentally double-booked the village hall with the local stroke support group

 

[Doctor Carrot]

just logged in to youtube and top of the homepage the promoted video is this

That's extraordinary! It reaches the level of piss poor election commercials in America. It has production values of a conspiraloon video too, all sinister etc. Coupled with the sun headline yesterday I'm surprised by how desperate and yet how hysterical and weak the attacks are this early on.

In other news Osbourne's come out and said the appointment of McDonnell has broken decades of economic consensus. That's quite an admission to make!

 

[DotCommunist]

good, the consensus has been 'we get steak you get beans and rice if you're lucky'. Trickle down cunts

 

[ska invita]

good, the consensus has been 'we get steak you get beans and rice if you're lucky'. Trickle down cunts

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[Favelado]

Not a paper in sight. Corbyn's "green baize" thinking?

Maybe it's a green screen and they're going to project cool stuff onto it to make meetings more interesting. How about a Millenium Falcon theme for example? The possibilities are endless and fun.

 

[Crispy]

Maybe they could all wear period costume like a holodeck episode of Star Trek?

 

[Doctor Carrot]

good, the consensus has been 'we get steak you get beans and rice if you're lucky'. Trickle down cunts

Indeed. It's the fact it's been said out loud I find extraordinary.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The look on those faces doesn't instil much confidence

That's because Corbyn's just explained that he won't allow his MP's to put prostitutes on their expenses any more.

 

[SpookyFrank]

In other news Osbourne's come out and said the appointment of McDonnell has broken decades of economic consensus. That's quite an admission to make!

Why should there be consensus? Consensus in this context is just another way of saying 'stitch-up'.

 

[belboid]

maybe this discussion should continue on a new thread perhaps titled "the corbyn years"

Years? You crazy optimist you

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Why should there be consensus? Consensus in this context is just another way of saying 'stitch-up'.

Well yes obviously but it's still existed for 30 odd years. To have the chancellor say, out loud, that's now ended is pretty monumental.

 

[gimesumtruf]

Judging by the comments it looks like blairism and toynbism has gone deeper than expected.

 

[killer b]

which comments?

 

[Fez909]

They used his imagery without permission? Or just a sneaky way to take down the video?

 

[SpookyFrank]

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They used his imagery without permission? Or just a sneaky way to take down the video?

Maybe someone with a brain at tory HQ has pointed out that the video is a massive own goal and removed all trace of it.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Heh, I did report it for inciting hatred, same with Camerons tweet

 

[03gills]

She did say it was a joke but it was delivered to camera in a very straight face. It's not surprising it can be misinterpreted.

All I can picture in my head is of the times that I got gobby with my Mum when I was a teenager. She would instantly call me on it & I'd retort like a fucking tool, 'I WAS ONLY JOKING!'

 

[treelover]

no, more subtle than that. they think that economicly, Corbin has an attractive message - whether its viable or not is entirely another matter, and not really part of this - there are lots of people who's living standards have gone into reverse, lots of middle England who fear for the ability of their children to ever buy their own home, and lots of people (and not just of the Corbyn-ite left) who feel completely ripped off by privatisation and PFI. there are large parts of Tory England that do not believe that saying 'long term economic plan' endlessly means that either you have one, or that its any good for them.

they think however that Corbyn's weakness - in terms of being in tune with the public - on defence, foreign policy, interesting causes abroad, NATO mebership, Trident, immigration etc.. will probably more than counter-act the popularity of his economic message, and they also - from bitter experience - know that divided parties do not win elections.

they think that Corbyn will lose the next election on his own merits, but not being idiots they aren't going to bet the farm on it, so they want a plan 'B' - and plan 'B' is having the Labour party self-distruct over the above issues. Labour will probably implode over those issues anyway as they are big, important issues and opinions on them are dearly held and not easily compromised over, but the tories take the veiw that a little poke might help the timing of that.

they also take the view that having Corbyn fall in the first 18 months or so, and having his energised, social media savvy supporters wander off into the political desert having got their fingers burnt on the fire of parliamentary politics would be no bad thing..

Yes, remember the Tory election poster on Labour's Defence Policy in the 87 election, I think, with a image of a soldier surrendering, it had a massive impact. Foreign and defence policy used to have a major impact on voters, something the CND'ers(I never was) had no awareness or interest in, it could have again, I have already heard people calling JC a 'Putin lover', etc and worrying about the Russians buzzing our airspace.

 

[treelover]

The look on those faces doesn't instil much confidence

In Corbyn or his shadow cabinet?, Corbyn has a huge mandate to change the party which was remodelled and hollowed out in the last twenty years: apparatchiks, blairites, parachutists, time servers, and even much of the soft left are not going to like it.