Jeremy Corbyn vs Angela Eagle

can't see this leading to anything but even more pissiness and chest-beating the next time someone from Corbyn's "side" says something vaguely off-colour on social media, as much as anything else

The exasperating thing about all this is this crying eagle bullshit that pretends Corbyn is on the verge of some Castro-esque dominance and not just some dude who isn't very good at his job and will be gone in three or four years max.

If he leads Labour off a cliff then he's also leading his own movement off the same cliff. If he does better than expected then it benefits the Blairites who won't lose their own seats. This whole thing has been preposterously unnecessary and counterproductive.

now that there's only a few hours to go I suddenly feel this sense of dread that the predictions are all wrong and that Smith is actually going to win

Corbyn win announced at 61%.

*party whistles*

it shows how shit the PLP are at cheating, I thought it might be at the most a 50 odd % victory this time.

excellent, now the whole party can get behind Corbyn and concentrate on offering a genuinely transformative politics to a British electorate tired of bigotry and meanness

part of me thinks it'd be a pretty swish move to resign now

if the resignation involved a suicide vest and senior members of Progress

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/779638409027608576

Presented without comment.

Chuka Umunna "disappointed immigration wasn’t more of an issue in this Labour leadership race", Umunna setting a high bar there in the "most dispiriting reaction to Corbyn's victory" stakes

xp

i too yearn for a more racist Labour party

hang on, immigration isn't a racist issue is it? a bit like hating islams.

feel like best case scenario is reluctant unity and a whimpering defeat at the next GE albeit performing not technically worse than in 2015 (based on the boundary review, Brexit bog, recession, war, print media dead in the water by then etc.)

The long-term Continuity Blairite project: note Mandelson's contribution, entirely acknowledging they didn't have the firepower or the manpower at this stage (tacit admission the heavyweights of this faction entirely sat this campaign out)

(caveat: minor richard seymour klaxon, major jacobin klaxon)

"manpower" excuse corbynite misogyny there: EAGLE PERSONPOWER

Owen Smith is still favourite to be next Labour leader with Paddy Power for some reason.

I assume we will do this all again in a year's time.

i don't think i'll ever get tired of laughing at Owen Smith so fair enough

From what I'm hearing on the BBC coverage it sounds like the purge people have been hoping for won't happen. Or at least all talk seems to run in the opposite direction. So the likelihood of somebody trying something next year doesn't seem to be being countered.

But the BBC is saying that he has increased his mandate and the likelihood of a further leadership challenge is unlikely.
Would just think that that idea of future leadership challenge was already there and only going to go away if dealt with in the wake of this victory.

They've been talking up the idea of another leadership challenge for as long as it has been obvious Smith was going to lose.

The objective will be to try to recruit 100k more to the Saving Labour camp and have another go when they think they have the electorate they need.

luckily i don't think there are 100,000 billionaire shitty children's authors who want to destroy the labour party because they hate proles

they're called muggles m8

Hogwarts is a grammar school

*party whistles*

― imago, Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:56 (one hour ago) Permalink

Dogwhistles... erm, Labour Party, that is... oh fuck it.

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Corbyn, Jeremy Corbyn
He's the greatest guy in history
From the town of Shrewsbury
He's increased his major-ity

think i might develop a Maoist infatuation with Jezza now just for the lulz

Lamest opponent silver lined starclutch of the hour:

Jim Pickard ‏@PickardJE 52m52 minutes ago
Statistic of the day is that Owen Smith got more votes than Ed Miliband did six years ago.
Smith, 2016: 193k
Miliband, 2010: 175k

That's certainly statistic of the day for anyone deeply concerned with bragging rights between Owen Smith and Ed Miliband.

But hey, the real statistic of the day in the hundreds of thousands of people dependent upon food banks for basic subsistence, right?

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/304/media/images/71358000/jpg/_71358805_citizensmith.jpg

There will come a time for unity, a time to bury hatchets, a time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together.

Not today though, today is for gloating, and clowning fuck out of these smarmy progress clowns on the internet

this is interesting/unexpected: according to an exit poll, Smith beat Corbyn 55 to 45 with 18-23 year olds

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/owen-smith-exit-poll-jeremy-corbyn-yougov-electiondata_uk_57e652e2e4b0e81629a9d393

(I guess a lot of folk in that age range who supported Corbyn may have been those caught out by the cut-off date for voting rights, may have been less likely to be able to afford to pay £25 for reg supporter vote, may be more likely to have been purged due to something they wrote on social media?)

smarmy progress gimps, rather, blue pencil that re-use of clown

Labour youth orgs all seem dominated by Blair/Progress types, which may have had an influence.

kids interested in politics swings more middle class than the electorate as a whole

Yeah and also, don't want to sound too cynical about young peoples involvement in labour, but perhaps has a highish proportion who have an eye on politics as career, certainly compared to older age cohorts

Probably a higher margin of error in exit polling too as they make up a small proportion of total.

They've been talking up the idea of another leadership challenge for as long as it has been obvious Smith was going to lose.

The objective will be to try to recruit 100k more to the Saving Labour camp and have another go when they think they have the electorate they need.

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Saturday, September 24, 2016 1:13 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd think that the leadership challenge was a constant want from that part of the party and that Owen Smith was just a current manifestation. Which is why the only way to get rid of that challenge or a manifestation thereof would be to try to get rid of that element which is what I thought a purge would at least be attempting to do.
But would also think that the Party wasn't going to remain at any one point for any long period of time, since the party consists of a mass compromise over issues that are in continual change over time.
Just thinking that the elements of time and change are central to any mass movement so focus is continually shifting.
But would hope that getting rid of something that is inevitably going to create conflict at any one point must be a positive.
Or something to that effect.

hold an olive branch out to the right whilst insisting you have a mandate to control the party's agenda, let the right wing fucks purge themselves or show themselves up with more attempts to ignore the membership and unseat Corbyn. a wise strategy from the Great Leader.

think i might develop a Maoist infatuation with Jezza now just for the lulz

― door unlawful carnal knowledge (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2016 12:27 (one hour ago) Permalink

I'm already there and I can tell you I like the view

He's the greatest guy in history
From the town of Shrewsbury

point of order: this is in fact me (runner-up = charles darwin obv) since corbyn is from chippenham, even if he did grow up in north east shropshire

james butler on what's next for labour

What's happening about the purged masses. I thought if Corbyn won there would be an attempt to get the loads of people that the PLP had excluded from the party back into it, is that possible without purging those who'd purged them?

many months of appeals i should think

xp such hubris to put yourself above Darwin and Percy Thrower:p

I have only briefly listened to some unconvincing and equivocal PLP responses to their defeat on R4 this aft. But i get the feeling they will try a slower and more effective game next, but that might be crediting them with more nous than they have. It was lovely listening to some butthurt Labour right activist types ringing R4 this aft about the death of "their" party.

I'd love to know how many people out of the 250000 purged actually joined to support Smith. It probably wouldn't have made a shit of difference, but it does highlight the PLP's authoritarian habit of running roughshod over people rather than winning them over.

what the

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtDDISBWIAAUZ53.jpg

https://twitter.com/owensmith2016/status/778573499233296389

https://twitter.com/owensmith2016/status/778637926825459712

https://twitter.com/owensmith2016/status/778951996959186948

he's either the self-clowning oven of UK politics, or the greatest conceptual artist of all time

listening to 5live Pienaar coverage. shocking spin against Corbyn and for his opponents.

I am appalled at the way the anti-Corbyn Labour people have undermined, abused and launched a coup against him, staged a contest, have lost -- and now react by saying they're going to dictate terms, making demands, setting ultimatums, etc. They lost! After trashing their party and dragging it through the mud! When will they have some dignity and modesty? (Mostly, I suppose, never.)

Just makes the idea that nothing is going to be done in retribution all the more annoying. At least they'd learn there wasa line they couldn't cross.

& the idea that people who were bounced out of the party vote because they might just support the person that did wind up getting voted in aren't going to get back into the party without further struggle is more than slightly wrong innit?

agree. especially on your second point.

we are told (by Sadiq Khan!) that there is now a danger of a 'left-wing purge'. of course there has only been one purge - a right-wing purge.

what retribution there should be, I'm not sure. but yes it's infuriating that these people are always placated and treated with kid gloves, then say they're being purged and attacked and complain.

it seems to be groundhog day with Yvette Cooper and she sounds a bit confused, she is still insisting Corbyn needs to deploy the complete control she constantly infers he has over every unpleasant idiot on social media. Even the abuse she is quoting is from way out of the Labour sphere of influence, I mean from Trump supporters - wtf!

"She told the paper: "The worst I get as a Labour MP is usually from the far right. Recent grim tweets include an Australian who wants to behead me and a Trump supporter who hates refugees.

"But no matter where it is from, abuse and intimidation entrench prejudice, silence debate and poison democracy. Even a small minority can drag everyone else down."

She said Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell should "insist on higher standards and proper enforcement".