Labour leadership

[treelover]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-hunt-leadership-welfare-childcare-devolution

Tristam makes his play, and its firmly from the Blairite right, including higher rates of benefits for 'contributers'

btw, Wintour is loving all this, you can see the glee in every sentence

 

[treelover]

The introduction of a universal right to free childcare for working parents of children aged two or over by freezing or reducing child benefit

So, if you don't work, you won't benefit but will still have less CB.

 

[belboid]

Hunt drops out, backs Kendall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32800602

 

[billy_bob]

Hunt drops out, backs Kendall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32800602

Thank god.

The others may be little better in any really important way, but just imagine how teeth-grinding it would've been to have to watch Hunt and Cameron go head to massive posh swollen head at PMQs for 4 1/2 years, never mind the excruciating 2020 election run-up...

 

[billy_bob]

Mr Hunt said Labour needed a "100% strategy" that was "broad-based" and "forward-looking".

= "as watered down as possible" and "devoid of the slightest grasp of its founding principles".

 

[nino_savatte]

First, Chucky, now Tristy. They're dropping like flies.

This is from The [nominally] Independent.

Tristram Hunt has decided not to enter the race to replace Ed Miliband as Labour leader and has thrown his support behind fellow moderniser Liz Kendall.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...the-race-to-replace-ed-miliband-10262784.html

Tristy may have declined to stand for leader, but will continue to cross picket lines.

 

[Dogsauce]

The cupboard is bare, isn't it?

Can they transfer someone from another party for a fee, like in the football?

 

[laptop]

Can they transfer someone from another party for a fee, like in the football?

?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

?

I'm still undecided if Varoufakis is adorable or creepy.

 

[Libertad]

I think there's something of Herbert Lom about him.

 

[DotCommunist]

modeniser

twats. Regressive buzzword shouting echo chamber bubble world twats.

 

[Dogsauce]

I fucking hate the fact that the term 'modernising' has been appropriated by those seeking a return to the workhouses, soup kitchens and destitution of times past. Call it out for the backwards shite that it is.

 

[belboid]

I guess they'll all be desperate to avoid having Richard Burgon nominate them - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/05/20/labour-mp-richard-burgon-oath_n_7341252.html

 

[Idris2002]

I'm still undecided if Varoufakis is adorable or creepy.

Why not both?

 

[laptop]

Why not both?

Goth.

 

[Idris2002]

Goth.

Hun.

 

[laptop]

Hun.

Visigoth.

 

[frogwoman]

I hope jim murphy stands.

 

[DotCommunist]

the dearth of talent means that if he did he might win (in lalala land)

either way it'd be bare funny

 

[weltweit]

I know nothing about Kendall.
Would she be a leader or a manager?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Tristram Hunt ducks out of leadership race after discovering he's a Tory

TRISTRAM Hunt will not stand in the Labour leadership contest after finding out he was actually a Conservative all along.

The shadow education secretary made the discovery after some basic research on Wikipedia to find out his weaknesses as a candidate.

He said: “I knew I was a Blairite, but when I found out my father is a life peer in the House of Lords and that I went to Westminster School I thought ‘how odd’.

“I then discovered that my cousin is Virginia Bottomley, the former Tory cabinet minister. That is deeply suspicious.

“And, of course, my name is ‘Tristram’.

“Tristram.”

On checking his beliefs, Hunt found that he supported low taxes on wealth creators, cutting benefits for low-income households and tighter immigration controls.

He added: “Also, apparently I’m the MP for Stoke-on-Trent. I don’t know where that is.”

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I know nothing about Kendall.
Would she be a leader or a manager?

I have no idea what she is. She is a fan of free schools now. I never thought I'd back a Brownite over a Blairite but Cooper seems appreciably saner than Kendall.

 

[billy_bob]

Tristram Hunt ducks out of leadership race after discovering he's a Tory

TRISTRAM Hunt will not stand in the Labour leadership contest after finding out he was actually a Conservative all along.

The shadow education secretary made the discovery after some basic research on Wikipedia to find out his weaknesses as a candidate.

He said: “I knew I was a Blairite, but when I found out my father is a life peer in the House of Lords and that I went to Westminster School I thought ‘how odd’.

“I then discovered that my cousin is Virginia Bottomley, the former Tory cabinet minister. That is deeply suspicious.

“And, of course, my name is ‘Tristram’.

“Tristram.”

On checking his beliefs, Hunt found that he supported low taxes on wealth creators, cutting benefits for low-income households and tighter immigration controls.

He added: “Also, apparently I’m the MP for Stoke-on-Trent. I don’t know where that is.”

The man's full name sounds like what you'd hear posh parents shouting exasperatedly at their posh kids.

 

[emanymton]

I fucking hate the fact that the term 'modernising' has been appropriated by those seeking a return to the workhouses, soup kitchens and destitution of times past. Call it out for the backwards shite that it is.

See also reform.

 

[ViolentPanda]

See also reform.

And "radical", which often now means "incredibly reactionary".

 

[FridgeMagnet]

See also reform.

She said she was firmly on the side of wealth creation and public service reform

“When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public,” Kendall said. “Services should revolve around those who use them and be fit for the future, not stuck in the past. There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.”

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/21/liz-kendall-labour-leadership-election

 

[DotCommunist]

reform. Modernise. They cry as they take an oath to the queen then get led into a 300 year old palace by a man dressed as baldrick walking backwards

 

[gosub]

HoP is less than 200 years old

 

[oryx]

I fucking hate the fact that the term 'modernising' has been appropriated by those seeking a return to the workhouses, soup kitchens and destitution of times past. Call it out for the backwards shite that it is.

Indeed. Given the success of the SNP on an anti-austerity ticket, and the growth in membership of the Greens on the same, surely 'modernising' is the wrong word - isn't that looking back to a Blairite version of 'electability''?

 

[DotCommunist]

HoP is less than 200 years old

I can never remember when it burned down. Should be more frequent imo