Labour leadership

[youngian]

This is great, names and details the silver spoon clowns who keep getting it wrong.

Another quality contribution from Bastani. With Crick its questionable if he's actually well with his obsessive anti-Corbyn Tweeting. He's turning into Louise Mensch.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Great interview with Caroline Lucas, starts off with concilliatory noises towards Corbyns Labour

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I see a Lib Dem councillor has just resigned and gone over to Labour, explicitly because of Corbyn

presume s/he has been in some sort of trance since early 2010 and just woken up?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

presume s/he has been in some sort of trance since early 2010 and just woken up?

Saw better long term job prospects, that's all.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Saw better long term job prospects, that's all.

would it be wrong to hope that their new local party de-selects them at the first possible opportunity?

 

[gimesumtruf]

After the election the party was demoralised and imho hadn't a clue what to do. The party had been in a sorry state for such a long time, the heart was hollowed out.
Along comes Corbyn and brings new heart, new members but as the PLP see it, retro grade policies.
I suppose the PLP has principals but they have no chance of keeping all those new members if they win out with their policies, why not give Corbyn and peace not war a chance. Why not just talk to the man for the parties sake, for our sake.
I can't see any sign though of the leader having the talent to heal the rift in the party at present, maybe it will come good at the conference but that seems remote.
The PLP don't want to talk, do they? And he is even having a job keeping his cabinet in line and are pulling him to the right, away from peace.
Now all the pundits seem to be saying Labour are unelectable because of squabbling and may well be for a generation.
I fail to see where any determination to bang heads together will come from, seeing as there are so many against him.
Will Tom Watson come to the rescue? I really hope so but suspect not.

I'm a bit .

 

[Santino]

After the election the party was demoralised and imho hadn't a clue what to do. The party had been in a sorry state for such a long time, the heart was hollowed out.
Along comes Corbyn and brings new heart, new members but as the PLP see it, retro grade policies.
I suppose the PLP has principals but they have no chance of keeping all those new members if they win out with their policies, why not give Corbyn and peace not war a chance. Why not just talk to the man for the parties sake, for our sake.
I can't see any sign though of the leader having the talent to heal the rift in the party at present, maybe it will come good at the conference but that seems remote.
The PLP don't want to talk, do they? And he is even having a job keeping his cabinet in line and are pulling him to the right, away from peace.
Now all the pundits seem to be saying Labour are unelectable because of squabbling and may well be for a generation.
I fail to see where any determination to bang heads together will come from, seeing as there are so many against him.
Will Tom Watson come to the rescue? I really hope so but suspect not.

I'm a bit .

Hasn't fucked a pig though.

 

[DotCommunist]

Tom Watson come to the rescue

he's of the blair mould. Fuck him.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hasn't fucked a pig though.

give him time.

 

[treelover]

 

[billy_bob]

Saw better long term job prospects, that's all.

Apparently even fucking a dead pig results in better long-term job prospects than remaining in the Lib Dems.

 

[scifisam]

Corbyn Resigns From Stop The War Coalition After Fresh Queen Controversy

Wow, misleading headline or what. The only Queen controversy that could actually force Corbyn to leave any organisation would be if he said Freddy couldn't sing.

 

[03gills]

Quote from JC's interview with the NS:

When I ask about his relations with the media, Corbyn laments that they have not paid “the slightest” attention to his demand in his victory speech for them to leave his family alone. He says: “I don’t expect any fair treatment from some of our media to me personally. That goes with the job. I have already said and will continue to say that I won’t respond to personal abuse and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don’t do that kind of politics.

“What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family. I have asked them [the media] to respect the privacy of people. They don’t. I just find it depressing. But I have to say a big thank you to all of my extended family, some of whom I’d never met before, some of whose existence I was barely aware of before. Thank you for your kindness and solidarity and I’m sorry for what you’ve been put through.”

He's just so not taking the bait from these fuckers, I love him even more right now.

 

[DotCommunist]

lots of padding here but I'll quote the quote that I found amusing:

The Corbyn earthquake – how Labour’s leadership contest shook the party to its foundations | Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt

Months later, one leading figure in a rival campaign could barely control their rage: “To have [the close of nominations] at 12 o’clock on a Monday – we must have been on fucking crack cocaine. You can’t get to anyone, so people were wandering in after a weekend of spending time with their bloody constituency secretary or their leftwing wife, they just fucking wander off the train and hadn’t even had a cup of tea in the tea room by 12 o’clock on a Monday. They go straight down to the PLP office and do something stupid. The people that are around on a Monday morning are the London lot – and for fuck’s sake, it’s the home of the left, it’s all the fucking mayoral candidates and deputy leader candidates.”

oh and

Shell-shocked members of the shadow cabinet, some on the verge of tears, gathered together in small groups in the foyer

LOL

 

[billy_bob]

lots of padding here but I'll quote the quote that I found amusing:

Months later, one leading figure in a rival campaign could barely control their rage: “To have [the close of nominations] at 12 o’clock on a Monday – we must have been on fucking crack cocaine. You can’t get to anyone, so people were wandering in after a weekend of spending time with their bloody constituency secretary or their leftwing wife, they just fucking wander off the train and hadn’t even had a cup of tea in the tea room by 12 o’clock on a Monday. They go straight down to the PLP office and do something stupid. The people that are around on a Monday morning are the London lot – and for fuck’s sake, it’s the home of the left, it’s all the fucking mayoral candidates and deputy leader candidates.

Fucking leftwing MPs, listening to their women before they vote

 

[DotCommunist]

Fucking leftwing MPs, listening to their women before they vote

blates trying to channel malcom tucker

 

[teqniq]

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

“We were trying hard to persuade people you didn’t have to choose between your heart and your head,” Cooper said, reflecting on how Corbyn’s entry into the race seemed to have changed the mindset of Labour members. “But the debate became dangerously polarised between choosing your principles or choosing power.”

Still absolutely no idea.

As far as the debate became about principles v power that was because her wing of the party tried to make it like that, over and over again. What they still seem to be missing is the point that the right seemed to offer no principles for no power.

 

[billy_bob]

give him time.

Even a stopped clock fucks a pig twice a day?

 

[Pickman's model]

Even a stopped clock fucks a pig twice a day?

something the swiss clockmakers might be better able to assist you with.

 

[Wilf]

Apparently even fucking a dead pig results in better long-term job prospects than remaining in the Lib Dems.

BEING the dead pig results in better long-term job prospects than remaining in the Lib Dems.

 

[brogdale]

Mandelson: it’s too early to force Jeremy Corbyn out

Slackers; it's nearly 2 weeks, after all.

 

[billy_bob]

BEING the dead pig results in better long-term job prospects than remaining in the Lib Dems.

Judging from the 2010-15 period, being the dead pig results in exactly identical job prospects to being a Lib Dem.

 

[billy_bob]

Slackers; it's nearly 2 weeks, after all.

Ah, he only means because they'll look like cunts if they do it now.

And I thought for a moment he'd had a conversion

 

[brogdale]

Ah, he only means because they'll look like cunts if they do it now.

And I thought for a moment he'd had a conversion

"heart transplant"

 

[laptop]

"heart transplant"

Doesn't that sort-of imply the previous presence of a similar organ?

 

[Pickman's model]

Doesn't that sort-of imply the previous presence of a similar organ?

i don't see why. the 'transplant' only means to move something to somewhere else.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ah, he only means because they'll look like cunts if they do it now.

And I thought for a moment he'd had a conversion

a pointed stick shoved up his jacksey

 

[J Ed]

i don't see why. the 'transplant' only means to move something to somewhere else.

Yea like how the Prime Monster transplanted his penis into a dead pig's mouth

 

[laptop]

i don't see why. the 'transplant' only means to move something to somewhere else.

I was thinking "heart graft" should be introduced into the discourse, for clarity.