This is why the Tories are so much better at grabbing power. Fucking Rees-Mogg staunchly supported four people in the space of as many weeks and nobody's calling for his resignation
― stet, Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
tbf to the lad that's just about supporting A.N. Tory, Corbyn's problem is the Tories who will never support him, electable or not
― i bill everything i duck (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
it was fun watching a seething heidi alexander on the politics show, she has no answer for "if the PLP were concerned about Corbyn bringing the party too far too the left, why were basically Smith's domestic policies identical?"
She is another one trying to call the terms of defeat without any leverage. Like why on earth would Corbyn let the PLP fill his shadow cabinet with his enemies as a compromise? He might as well resigned back in april if he was going to immediately capitulate after another leadership victory.
― calzino, Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
there's been a notable absence of contrition and bridge-building so far hasn't there? i think Corbyn can live with that for a few days, allow the worst culprits to show everybody what they are. the centrists - cough - have to come to him now, unless they're genuinely prepared to split.
― i bill everything i duck (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile conference has decided not to debate Brexit.
― stet, Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Chuka took a break from making tough on immigrants speeches to make some conciliatory noises earlier, but he definitely has a touch of the Rees-Mogg about him. I'd love to hear what McDonnell is saying behind closed doors about the no-compromise crew's offer of selecting their shadow cabinet.
That Liz Carr speech at the conference about the real effects of austerity on the disabled is telling it like it is.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/actress-liz-carr-stuns-audience-8911590
― calzino, Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
That's some speech
― i bill everything i duck (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I wonder how many present who were clapping the speech were cowardly abstainers who aided and abetted the tories in bringing in the welfare bill.
― calzino, Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Andy Burnham is beside her in the photo. I like him. I like the way that throughout the Corbyn era, he has knuckled down and got on with working for Corbyn, whether he entirely agrees with him or not, pausing only occasionally to make quite polite appeals for other people to do the same.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 25 September 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Jeremy Corbyn is doing well !
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
he needs to do better
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
http://www.primaryteaching.co.uk/prodimg/H69_1_Zoom.jpg
― conrad, Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:57 (seven years ago) link
lol fair
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
best be safe and order more of the ones with the red star
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:39 (seven years ago) link
His own work is good but he distracts others.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
Untapped potential from the rosy-cheeked whippersnapper.
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
The net tightens around Stevolende
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/19/angela-eagle-abusive-homophobic-messages-labour-members
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
Can you stop using my name please, I find you creepy enough already.
Had hoped we'd seen the last of Eagle after that manipulative shite she pulled earlier this year. Had hoped people would have wised up to her after that. Obviously some people didn't.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
in other news, Mark Sandell has been expelled from Labour along with 15 other members of Brighton and Hove CLP. the CLP is going to be split in 3:
http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2016/10/19/suspended-labour-official-expelled-as-brighton-and-hove-party-faces-break-up/
― soref, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
― Stevolende, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:24 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sweep sweep
― *-* (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
Stevo you do realise that a guy has actually admitted to sending her a death threat, right?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Corbyn more Baldrick than May, sez Baldrick
@Tony_RobinsonTo those tweeting me about 'MSM', Corbyn faces no more hostile media than every Lab leader in history. He's just inept at dealing with it
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
for a bloke who presents history programmes that's one v short memory right there
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 October 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
liquidate all these fucking awful New Labour luvvies imo
― calzino, Thursday, 20 October 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
is complaining about the "MSM" a thing now?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 21 October 2016 07:12 (seven years ago) link
always and #4evah
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 October 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
a bunch of otherwise sensible leftist friends of mine talk a lot about conspiracies where I would be reluctant to use that word but there's no reason they're not broadly correct
― nom de grrrrr (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 October 2016 08:35 (seven years ago) link