brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

it feels like that point in a game of chess where you've already won but your opponent either isn't smart enough to know or does know it but thinks they can force a swindle

Yes, I looked at a dozen or so seats and none had a majority of over 5000., almost all under 2000.

I am nowhere near that optimistic but I do want to see Labour gain loads of new Scottish MPs as part of the route to power, and think the rank impossibility of this has been strangely overstated since 2015.

You'll have heard of Kezia Dugdale?

who?

Andrew Percy has stepped down from his extremely fucking busy role as the Northern Powerhouse Minister.

yes the events dear boy events dog that didn't bark in my analysis is: the tories unremitting venal lust for power

Whatever Blairites say, the 1997 landslide was helped hugely by the steady drip-drip of terrible headlines that befell the Major government. Labour *might* be better off letting them form whatever cobbled together excuse for a government they can and then just hammering them on every single failure. The country as a whole has to decide "okay enough of this lot now", and that hasn't quite happened yet, or at least it hadn't by June 8th.

But yes, on the other hand, events.

By the way, I've been looking at the Scottish results and Labour could win, and could have won, a hatful and another hatful on top by persuading a few Sturgeon-hating Unionists to vote for them instead of the Tories.

Wonder why it didn't occur to them to try. Dugdale out imo

re ian blackford, looks like all SNP MPs abstained on the bill. presumably because it's a devolved issue?

re ian blackford, looks like all SNP MPs abstained on the bill. presumably because it's a devolved issue?

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EVEL was enacted in 2015?

application for the bold predictions club: theresa may's "I got us into this mess" will become the next liam byrne's "sorry there's no money left"

I hate liam byrne

No, Tories will still be repeating "Sorry there's no money left" long after "I got us into this mess" has been forgotten, they still bring up the Winter of Discontent after 40 years.

Re: EVEL / devolution of housing issues to Holyrood:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/12095904/Scottish-MPs-react-with-fury-as-only-English-and-Welsh-MPs-are-allowed-to-vote-on-housing-bill.html

... i.e. the equivalent of Labour politicians throwing Chamberlain in Tory faces in 1979. (xp)

I now nominate Tom D. as new Lib Dem leader oh wait hang on.

Tim Farron has resigned as LibDem leader.

who?

LOL, what a loser, I wonder why he waited a week to do it.

wtf, you fool

In a statement, he said he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader".

Please read my YA fantasy novel Tim Farron and the Lib Dem Fightback.

haha what a smug prick

Jo Swinson is the bookies favourite, with Vince Cable in second. Cable seems unlikely considering he's only two years younger than Paddy Ashdown.

he's only suspected of being a bigot bc he refuses to say he isn't and this suspicion is evidence our society isn't liberal and tolerant?

"OK, the homophobe has quit... do we have any women? Everyone else has a woman leader. Have we got any women MPs yet? I mean, ones who are better than Lynne Featherstone, of course... Joe who? I said woman MPs. She is a woman? She'll do."

Didn't like 80% of their MPs change over last week? Doesn't leave much to choose from.

Norman Lamb's still there. Ed Davey's back. Don't all cheer at once.

whither lembit opik in the libdem's hour of need

what better way to capture the nascent mood of anti-austerity abreast in the country than bedroom tax supporting jo swinson

Mark Oaten, where are you now?

Wow. Triggered by the Brian paddick resignation?

tiny beasts

weren't we all tbf

Mark Oaten, where are you now?

risky question iirc

In 2011 Oaten accepted a position as executive of the International Fur Trade Federation.

Liberals are a weird bunch.

Pretty clear from Farron's statement that he really did believe all the stuff people suspected.

_In 2011 Oaten accepted a position as executive of the International Fur Trade Federation._

i fuckin' bet he did, the dirty bastard

now farron retreats nursing a sense of injustice and lecturing everyone about tolerance, it's so gross

... cherishing his hard won majority of two men and dog.

'why can't u tolerate my intolerance i'm taking my ball and going home boohoo'

jog on you prick

lesley laird new shadow scottish secretary

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha fuck up ian murray

Owen Smith accepts Shadow Northern Ireland as penance.

ice cream all round should reduce the tension

I wld get in a few seconds of mirth before the despair set in if the new lib dem leader took them straight into another coalition with the tories

http://i.imgur.com/3Ev6K6m.gif

Lavery is the new party chair, Watson stays on as deputy to spare his ego.

lesley laird new shadow scottish secretary

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha fuck up ian murray

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GIRUY

Ian Blackford is a nasty piece of work and no mistake. Banned from Charles Kennedy's funeral for setting SNP activists down the 'Charlie The Alkie' route (including Brian Smith who ultimately was resigned from the party over it), Blackford campaigned on a "Where's Charlie" ticket despite knowing Kennedy was a full-time carer for his father and brother.