Jeremy Corbyn vs Angela Eagle

gawd ben b\/tterw0rth was on the graun politics podcast recently and my eyes were doing 360s

he is poison

lol at any gorm who thinks they can seriously use "moderate" from their position of massive privilege in a massively inegalitarian sociopolitical structure

just a moderate, middle of the road, normal wealthy white middle class professional politico

love the subheading on this piece BB did for the Independent

http://i.imgur.com/DYcJcjJ.png

troll OTM

i hope every one of these crybabies has reviewed every word they've ever shared in public for bigotry, body shaming, mental health shaming, class prejudice etc.

"Labour" has a problem with trolling claims Twitter user

It could have been worse, they could have called him a Liz Kendall supporter.

at this point Labour has a problem with "trolling claims" unfortunately

his article doesn't mention this, but it appeared literally the day after he tweeted the following:

Post Clapham drinking hunger solved by trip to @byronhamburgers with @DEFS01. Such great great staff! 🍔🍷

and unsurprisingly received a lot of flak for it. (*apparently* he hadn't heard about the immigration sting and subsequent boycott Byron campaign, and it was all an unfortunate coincidence)

lol!

clapham

you can't expect an ordinary moderate man on the street to keep up with obscure political campaigns or news stories

man on the Clapham exploitative burger chain

If I was looking for content for an as-yet-unwritten poor-me piece on trolling due in two days' time that's probably the sort of thing I'd tweet as well. Chances are he doesn't understand what a troll actually is.

Someone should just run on a Keeping The Labour Party Safe For Nice People ticket.

ed miliband, following the milifan's lead, has endorsed owen smith

Miliband had already said that Corbyn needs to go and was one of the MPs who nominated Smith last month, seems weird that this is being reported as a new development.

I'm not going to make my mind up until tony blair reveals his preferred candidate

Henry Kissinger

Lol @ the idea of Miliband having an influence on the bulk of the membership - including many of which didn't vote for him in the last election and didn't even join till he had fucked off.

only thing i want to hear from miliband is the location of the headstone he carved CONTROLS ON IMMIGRATION into

I read somewhere that the headstone has been destroyed, though I can imagine fakes doing the rounds on ebay in future.

Here you go http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/21/ed-stone-destroyed-after-general-election

although the confirmation is just at the level of 'anonymous staffers say', so who really knows?

I'm sure some Labour grandee used the gravel from destroyed Edstone to surface a drive somewhere in Dartmouth Park.

I always imagine the Ed-stone, along with the racist mugs, being tucked away in some massive warehouse like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

looking forward to the movie where in the wake of Corbyn's disastrous 2020 electoral defeat Tom Watson in a fedora sets out to track down the Ed-stone and recover the Lost Spirit of Moderate Racism

... but as he attempts to leave the place with his prize, a huge spherical bacon sandwich bursts out of the passage behind him and mows him down

look forward to the scene where Frank Field melts

The Laboour right as those NEC results came in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZpsbGr7s8

*prayer emoji* etc

Local party meeting is at the end of my street tomorrow night including a (confidence?) vote on candidates. Dunno if they'll let me in - I think they've been thrown by the court decision. They say to bring your membership card, and mine says I'm a member, so we'll see.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cpaj-cRW8AAw0Ue.jpg

perhaps the tide is turning; bbc news article about recriminations following this tom watson interview refers to "moderate" labour mps :O

Bristol CLP Corbyn 267, Owen Smith 64, Spoilt 1.

‏@CLPNominations 11h11 hours ago
So far, 178 constituencies have made supporting nominations. 25 for Smith and 153 for Corbyn.

Not necessarily indicative but...

Corbyn's preferred candidate, Steve Rotherham, has just wrapped up the Liverpool mayoral nomination.

Don't know what to expect from the NE Fife party - things can be much more middle-class/liberal/right wing that the rest of Scotland. Never returned a labour MP - not as NE Fife, E Fife or Fife (so, ever).

Which *could* mean that they might be even more left-wing than avg: nothing to lose..

It probably depends how many students turn up. But my experience of being a student at St. Andrews was that they're all right-wing assholes, so who knows.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/10/leader-expelled-leftwing-group-militant-peter-taaffe-readmission-labour-corbyn

moderate Labour twitter up in arms about this, though I think they are underestimating the extent to which Taaffe is saying this because he knows it will get Militant/the Socialist Party the most publicity they've had in 20 years rather than because he actually expects it to happen. I can see why the Socialist Party would want to rejoin Labour, it's less clear why Corbyn would want them to rejoin, or what leverage they have to pressure him.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/10/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-contest-opponents-failures

some very pleasing fightback in the past couple of days against the Moderate Centrists - this piece in particular is like an ethering of what feels like 5000 social media conversations i've had the misfortune to read

bit startled to discover that taaffe is only 74, i somehow imagined him undyingly up there with castro, like some kind of unbending ultraleft númenorean

moderate Labour twitter up in arms

now that I find impossible to believe

few people in the world more pissy and hair-trigger than moderates

These extreme centrists are ruining the middle ground for all of us.

On Today this morning was an academic explaining why Watson has a less than elementary understanding of the true definition of Trotskyite and how the new influx of Labour members are a completely different phenomenon. He concluded with something like:"I'd be very surprised if there are more than 30 Trotskyites left in Hull these days".

we're holding on dammit

That many?

The context of him mentioning Hull was the 30000 crowd that greeted him the other week, as in probably 30 Trotskyites amongst them!