Labour leadership

[killer b]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

 

[DotCommunist]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

When he is Eternal Leader, will we have full communism?

PD entryists have been expelled from various activities and fronts the party had on- will he welcome such waifs and strays?

Have you ever bought a used car (socialists always drive crap motors, its the rule) from Andy Burnham?

What are your opinions on the declining rate of profit and the essentially unviable nature of capitalism?

 

[J Ed]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

"All this social democracy stuff is fine, you're just trying to get elected I get that, but the important question is what are you doing to bring about full communism and attract the aliens which will implement it?"

 

[agricola]

I have to say I am impressed by this article over all, and this bit in particular

While slashing college funding, George Osborne boasts of increasing apprenticeships. Yet too many are low quality, failing to give young people the transferable skills they need to get on.

It is clear that some employers are using apprenticeships and traineeships as a means of circumventing minimum wage legislation. This has to end. The minimum wage must be equalised across the board – with no poverty rates like the current £2.73 per hour apprenticeship rate.

First time I've heard a Labour politician say what is obvious to any young person who has looked for work in the past three years or so. In fact the Labour MP Paul Blomfield actually claimed that he abstained from the welfare bill because it contained a provision for more apprenticeships.

He loses points for mentioning PWC, though.

 

[brogdale]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

Apart from never joining the single currency, what lessons can the left learn from the experience of Syriza?

 

[YouSir]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

Ask him of he can play Ring of Fire.

 

[Lo Siento.]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

When is he planning to convene the soviets as I might need a day off work.

 

[treelover]

Could you ask him will he in media interviews reveal the number of deaths from the welfare reforms, many at their own hand, and the media blackout on this figure and consequence of the cuts, etc.

 

[YouSir]

Ask him how he's going to purg-... er, negotiate with the portion of the party that hates him if he ends up as leader.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I thought this article goes to the heart of labours problem.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...ilderness-labour-jeremy-corbyn-or-liz-kendall

There are two paths to a Labour victory in 2020, argues Michael Chessum: either Labour reject the principles of neoliberalism with Corbyn, or embrace them with Liz Kendall.

 

[stethoscope]

Cheese or beans first?

 

[DotCommunist]

When is he planning to convene the soviets as I might need a day off work.

If the whole thing goes as we obviously know it will, there will be no more work.

 

[DotCommunist]

oh and obviously, the key question- Pistols or Clash?

 

[butchersapron]

oh and obviously, the key question- Pistols or Clash?

He's a jethro tull man. Or Robert Wyatt.

 

[killer b]

I dont dare ask about music. imagine

 

[treelover]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Lewis_(politician)


Some interesting people amongst the new intake of LP M.Ps, such as this guy Clive Lewis, born on a Northampton council estate, Dot Com? ex army reservist, VP NUS, against austerity, seems to back Corbyn.

btw, the Times is thundering that "Labour's leaders must stand up to mutiny on the left"

Never said that when the Blairite entryists were mobilising in the mid 90's

 

[DotCommunist]

Iimagine

perhaps he is a secret Laibach fan

 

[belboid]

I see Janine Booth has had her application for Registered Supporter status turned down. Various other such letters being sent out now, apparently. o one here had one yet, I guess

 

[butchersapron]

I reported free spirit to the police.

 

[J Ed]

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/im-more-convinced-ever-jeremy-corbyn-going-win

Of course, polls have been wrong before. But crucially, the polls felt wrong before the fact. Labour’s poll lead was nowhere to be seen at the European elections, when they finished a limp second, or in the local elections, when they fell back in the marginals, foreshadowing the rout they’d suffer at the general election. Ashcroft constituency polls showed Labour in contention in seats where headquarters had long stopped funnelling resources. And every ordinary conversation about politics inevitably spun round to Miliband’s unsuitability as Prime Minister.

The polls don’t feel wrong this time. Defections from the three candidates of the right to Corbyn are being picked up by all three campaign’s phonebanks, and by the mayoral campaigns as well. At the hustings, which were bossed last time by the two Milibands, it is Corbyn who is getting wildly applauded. “The surge is real,” was the verdict of one staffer I spoke to this weekend.

Privately, none of the deputy campaigns expect that Corbyn will finish anything other than first in the race for the top spot. Volunteers return from phonebanking sessions, in the words of one “utterly convinced it will be Corbyn now”.

 

[belboid]

At one [CLP] contest there were just 25 ballots: nine for Jeremy Corbyn, eight for Andy Burnham, four for Yvette Cooper, and one simply reading “Fuck Kendall”.

 

[Kaka Tim]

fuck - does this really drag on until september 12th?

 

[J Ed]

Hey I found the Blairite reply to Corbyn's article on education today

Educating the underwealthed is all about leveraging incentivized design competencies for ROI on social equity. The key, though, is to catalyze cross-pollinated blue-skying sessions with enough of an emphasis on agile optimization and keen rightsizing deliverables. What the underwealthed say time and again, when surveyed through the appropriate instrument, is that evidence-based flexibility matters: flexible contracts, curricula liberated from regulation, experience-based real-world classrooms, MOOCs, and so on.

Perhaps a parable can help illustrate the matter: A man walked into the ancient desert in the ancient, mysterious, eternal, unchanging, story-like, unmodern Middle East somewhere. After a while, he became thirsty and realized that he had not brought water with him and was unprepared for the harsh savage conditions of the mysterious desert of the exotic orient. He wandered on until he saw what appeared to be an oasis, with footprints leading to it. As he walked towards it, the footprints disappeared but the oasis remained. But when he finally arrived at the oasis, it disappeared in front of him, as is want to happen in the magical, inscrutable, ancient, exotically mysterious, orient-like Orient. He spun around in confusion only to see that the footprints had reappeared – and when he turned around again, a bright shiny water fountain stood in place of the oasis.

The lesson of this parable is crystal clear: Leverage gamified 3D-printing and lifelong learning hackerspaces with an emphasis on risk and creative-class disruption. It's the only approach that enables the incubation of staggering and robust innovation curves alongside tapered synergies. Without the emphasis on gamification, the innovation curves you develop will lack financial wellness webinars and thus produce lethargic ROI arcs and morose ‪#‎BIGDATA‬ ecosystems. And that's clearly not the desired outcome when working with – indeed, FOR – the underwealthed.
Hope that clears things up.

 

[gosub]

fuck - does this really drag on until september 12th?

Depends who wins, might just be the start

 

[rekil]

Corbyn is doing a gig at my local this Saturday. Vaguely tempted to go... any questions I should ask?

If alien questions get fobbed off, demand that he endorses PD's new 'one strike, three anti' campaign. Or else all our #activists will be exfiltrated from his campaign.

Enthusiastically play table tennis, beloved of the global proletariat.

Oppose bourgeois racquet sports (badminton and lacrosse subject to non-negotiable decision of regional committees)

Oppose the petty nationalist mock heroic defeatism of "Come-on-Tim-ism"

Oppose John Inverdale in all and every circumstance.

 

[Pickman's model]

fuck - does this really drag on until september 12th?

yes. it will all be over by christmas.

 

[nino_savatte]

Hey I found the Blairite reply to Corbyn's article on education today

Rarely have I seen such a clunking prose style. That's one for Pseud's Corner.

 

[Kaka Tim]

yes. it will all be over by christmas.

 

[mather]

Hey I found the Blairite reply to Corbyn's article on education today

Jesus Christ, is this for real?

I guess the only upside to this is that hardly anyone will understand what this twat is on about as it is all gobbledygook and no substance.

 

[Pickman's model]

Spoiler: blairite xmas message