Labour leadership

[DotCommunist]

maybe cameron will adopt the same tactic and tell us all about that time he met someone again?

 

[nino_savatte]

Either that or use his dead son.

 

[Diamond]

What's the relationship between authenticity and methodology?

As for your perception of logicality. Do please explain.

The self-effacing leader representing the whole of the party, not simply himself as the executive, chooses 6 questions by executive authority to his liking from 40,000 submitted without explaining his methodology on the basis that there is a more authentic grassroots element to the process...

 

[YouSir]

The self-effacing leader representing the whole of the party, not simply himself as the executive, chooses 6 questions by executive authority to his liking from 40,000 submitted without explaining his methodology on the basis that there is a more authentic grassroots element to the process...

You assume. Though judging by the numbers he cited I'd say he took examples of the most popular questions. Most people probably would. Though evidently not you.

 

[skyscraper101]

maybe cameron will adopt the same tactic and tell us all about that time he met someone again?

"I once met a black man, he was aged 6, he'd spent the last 30 years in the navy, it was in Plymouth"

 

[belboid]

we pretended to be Fred West, and got Corbyn to ask a question about housing policy!

Still can't see it.

Trump fell for it a couple of times

 

[nino_savatte]

The self-effacing leader representing the whole of the party, not simply himself as the executive, chooses 6 questions by executive authority to his liking from 40,000 submitted without explaining his methodology on the basis that there is a more authentic grassroots element to the process...

Thanks for your screed. Your points have been noted.

I guess the idea of a people's democracy in which the legislature and the executive are held to account doesn't appeal to you. Am I getting warm?

 

[Ted Striker]

It is a question of authenticity/methodology - pretending that you are being democratic by executively selecting questions from a raft of your supporters doesn't logically work unless you can demonstrate the way you have gone about it.

It wasn't an exercise in proving a democratic process? Simply reflecting the (quite believable) main themes of the responses?

(Unless I'm missing something?)

 

[Crispy]

Like reading out tweets on breakfast tv

 

[J Ed]

Jeremy Corbyn changed PMQs for the better, says the woman who suggested his first question

Marie, from Putney, had suggested that the new Labour leader ask about solving the UK’s housing crisis after he opened his door to ideas from members of the public.
“I think Jeremy put that point over very well today. I liked the way he did it, and in a calm and collective way he was quite censorious of the prime minister,”

 

[emanymton]

Just to flag up that I found a missing ) in a formula that Excel had "helpfully" inserted in the wrong place. I've adjusted the numbers in the original analysis accordingly. It makes the swings considerably more in Labour's favour.

It actually only takes a 25% engagement with non-voters (keeping everything else constant) to get to a Labour majority. And a 15% engagement would start to push Labour into largest party territory.

Apologies for the amateurish error.

What is it you do for a living again?

I though they seemed a bit large.

 

[eoin_k]

...

 

[billy_bob]

The self-effacing leader representing the whole of the party, not simply himself as the executive, chooses 6 questions by executive authority to his liking from 40,000 submitted without explaining his methodology on the basis that there is a more authentic grassroots element to the process...

I bet he sat in his castle laughing at the stupid proles he'd tricked whilst wiping pheasant juice off his chin on the back of a disabled child.

FFS, I think you've got whatever slim mileage you're going to get out of this 'issue' - as everyone else seems to grasp, it was a small and very preliminary step in the right direction in terms of involving a broader base of people in what goes on in a political party - nothing more, and never presented as the be-all and end-all of bottom-up policy-making from here on in, some vast exercise in rigorous, scientifically verifiable data-gathering and -refining.

And it's so obvious that it's hardly worth commenting on that, whatever his style and convictions, Corbyn is still a politician and was hardly likely to do it if it was going to land him with the necessity of asking lots of questions he didn't really agree with or that weren't really about the issues of the day on his first ever PMQs.

 

[discokermit]

i asked corbyn to ask, ''why don't you piss off, cameron, you cunt?''

predictably he didn't read it out. this is a lesson in the limits of reformist politics.

 

[maomao]

i asked corbyn to ask, ''why don't you piss off, cameron, you cunt?''

predictably he didn't read it out. this is a lesson in the limits of reformist politics.

There were probably a good 39,994 emails on the same theme.

 

[skyscraper101]

PMQs is now on the Parliament YouTube account

 

[discokermit]

There were probably a good 39,994 emails on the same theme.

goodness me. this man has no regard for even a figleaf of democracy! what a swizz!

 

[Ted Striker]

There were probably a good 39,994 emails on the same theme.

 

[LDC]

PMQs is now on the Parliament YouTube account

I haven't seen PMQs for ages. Corbyn is about the only one I wouldn't happily throw under the guillotine after a viewing of that. I think he actually comes over quite well.

 

[Fingers]

I took part in this and requested he asks Cameron if IDS sleeps at night, but I suspect a lot of people asked that as well.

 

[Coolfonz]

"I had an email from Jamie in Stevanage who asks "What's your favourite dinosaur"?"

Allosaurus. One scary bastard.

 

[elbows]

He's given the BBC an interview:

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that he will not campaign for Britain to leave the EU.

Mr Corbyn said that while policy was "developing" he could not foresee a situation where Labour would campaign for a "Brexit" under his leadership.

He has come under growing pressure from Labour MPs to clarify his position.

Mr Corbyn also said it was "very strange" his decision not to sing the national anthem at a Battle of Britain service had attracted so much interest.

Jeremy Corbyn: Labour won't back EU exit - BBC News

 

[SpineyNorman]

It is a question of authenticity/methodology - pretending that you are being democratic by executively selecting questions from a raft of your supporters doesn't logically work unless you can demonstrate the way you have gone about it.

Christ you're a boring irritating bastard.

 

[eoin_k]

Christ you're a boring irritating bastard.

How dare you sir!
Diamond has a wit as sharp as the eponymous crystalline allotrope of carbon. I, for one, should feel privileged to have such an incisive and eloquent mind advocate my case.

 

[elbows]

C4 news interview:

 

[Weller]

Christ you're a boring irritating bastard.

I thought politics had just got a bit more polite today

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I thought politics had just got a bit more polite today

That is the polite way of responding to Diamond.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I thought politics had just got a bit more polite today

It has. He's not going to have to use a straw to eat his next meal

 

[agricola]

Christ you're a boring irritating bastard.

Careful, that is how Judas got started.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Careful, that is how Judas got started.

Yeah but I don't reckon Jesus got started by acting like Diamond.