bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

People saying in the replies to that thread that Miliband would have been a Polish citizen at birth?

xp Labour: turning its back on the working class!
Also Labour: has nothing to offer the aspiring middle classes!
Pundits: are cunts

I keep reading this thread as be-bop is king

without the accidental hyphenation

Keep getting a sade tune running under the first bit.

All in all Corbyn's overall record stands up well. Don't let any corrupt New Labour media pundit tell you otherwise. There is no way we should swing right. Quite the opposite. pic.twitter.com/GSPPDfkngE

— Thomas James (@ThomasJ58805552) December 18, 2019

no shame in failing good in an FTTP electoral system, despite what all these opportunist melt cunts are saying.

xp I read it as bozo is king, and in my head it plays to the tune of "TV Is King" by the Tubes.

Thought the name was familiar, it's the one who made the racist tweet then protected his account.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/18/extra-pathos-belongings-of-ex--labour-mp-who-lost-seat-incinerated

pouring one out for his silk suits

Big Clive has moseyed in. Could be a gamechanger

- hotheaded
- already landed in some hot and happening political incorrectness water
- served in the forces and people like that
- strong green agenda

tell me more clive

He's the jolly green giant of the PLP.

might have tell some of those nice folk on the doorsteps of Blyth Valley, Wales that he is actually green!

props to him for being one of the 48 who rebelled against Harman in '15 tho

Here to cite Clive’s credentials
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/590x/secondary/Clive-Vs-Wes-Labour-Twitter-row-428894.jpg

lool "jumped up turd"! sadly I think his edge has been smoothed out a bit since then and he's become much more professional.

Burn neoliberalism, not people. pic.twitter.com/2cEgXo6RBS

— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) June 16, 2017

I always forget how old he is (he’s 48)

that Grenfell post of his was attacked by ("oh she's done it so again -so so hilarious") Marina Hyde for not being nuanced/dignified/statespersonlike enough for a Labour MP to be posting.

Oh, Marina tone policing the anger of a black man who thinks Grenfell was an outage? How unexpected!

Paula Sherriff was another who rebelled against Harman in '15 on the welfare bill and this was her first year as an MP - cos according to some you can't expect new MP's to break the whip or oppose instructions from the top - yes you can!

Oh also Lammy and Khan did the right thing as well.

see it's taken less than a day for someone i like more than starmer to run. patience, patience

Big Clive has moseyed in. Could be a gamechanger

― imago, Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:06 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Clive4Leader flying out of the traps with this coveted anti-endorsement from John Mann

If there is one person who should never consider standing for Labour Leader it is Clive Lewis. https://t.co/LsIQGzvaHR

— John Mann (@LordJohnMann) December 16, 2019

(seriously though, is a Clive Lewis leadership bid a confirmed thing, or just a possibility?)

John Mann is a racist

I think Priti Patel spends a great deal of her life confused tbf.

― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:06 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Unfortunately I think Patel spends her entire life in deluded fanatic certainty

otm to both

both plaxico posts i mean

think lewis is confirmed in

john is right but let's not elide the fact that the SNP didn't vote for the early GE in the end (https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/734)... they walked labour right up to the edge of the cliff, then let them walk off alone. utterly ruthless

For historical accuracy, many of us wanted to delay election until after the Brexit legislation had been won or lost. This would have meant in the New Year but was impossible once SNP & Lib Dems decided to vote for one & gave Johnson the votes he needed. https://t.co/9mFjcPJury

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) December 18, 2019

Jess Phillips woth the face of Kevin Phillips. pic.twitter.com/DXJnlSTmYn

— Football Manager Hair on Politicians (@visualsatire) December 18, 2019

Outstanding reply from Michael Rosen to Mann's tweet.

(xp) Gerard Depardieu, basically.

Rosen is blocked by Racist Mann, but watching him ridicule him, his ridiculous position and the offensive title it holds to the very ppl he's supposed to be representing, his hypocrisy - at least 3-4 times a day is such a pleasure!

I just noticed that JP mentions herself 14 times in her op-ed for the Observer t'other day. A new modest sensibility creeping in by her standards.

Outgoing MP for Glasgow north east
https://i.postimg.cc/FRDd8k0F/4-ECB89-DC-F9-A0-41-A6-A965-D81-F40-E144-D2.png

Expecting Question Time audiences to still be going on about that note in 2040.

Things to do list...

Laura Pidcock writes: https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@la✧✧✧.pidc✧✧✧.m✧/letter-to-the-people-i-represented-406aea893243

By 2019, you seemed so much angrier about Jeremy Corbyn. I had a handful of angry people say “I would shoot him” or “take a gun to his head” whilst in the next breath calling him an extremist. But mostly people were not connecting with him for lots of different reasons. I know people on either side of the Brexit division wanted him to come down on the side of Remain or Leave. I don’t want to patronise anyone by saying that this was all the fault of the media. I know people make up their own minds. But I cannot and will not accept that the media had no part. So much of the coverage sought to demolish Jeremy from day one, not because of him as a person, but because of his politics.

And that demonization will happen to other leaders who try and challenge the way things are: the inequality, the poverty and merciless, brutal wars. It will happen to those who push for a different economic system to save the planet. It will happen again when we try and argue for a better, more equal world. For the last three years, on almost every interview on policy, or what we believe as representatives of the Labour Party, questions of his popularity intervened. That had an immense impact.

If you go to Westminster and fit in, it is a relatively easy job. The biggest pressure is the response time of the emails that come in from your constituents, the issues they need help with, holding the Government to account, speaking up for your community or being away from family. However, if you are there to take on the establishment, there is another whole layer of pressure and it can be all consuming. At every turn you have to be precise in your language and behaviour, because if you are not, there are thousands of people ready to point it out.

Telling the truth in Westminster can mean people want to punish you. You must accept that there are newspapers ready to write ridiculous headlines. It is so difficult to get the truth out once the lie has been sown. And so every day is a battle to get a hearing for those you represent and for the ideas you believe in. Without the constant demands of Parliament and representation, I am sure I will get more time with my little boy, partner and family and I can begin to grieve for my father.

Well written piece.

She was a CW apologist though (albeit in a couple of twitter posts iirc) which is either appalling naivety or just plain old anti-Semiticism if you are going to call it what it looks like.

Blair on Newsnight, loathsome lying cunt. LOL he wishes the left in the Labour Party could be more like it used to be: Nye Bevan, Michael Foot, ...er... John Prescott.

I lost count of how many people told me on the doorstep they would not vote Labour because of Corbyn

A lot of them went on to say, ‘but if Keir Starmer was your leader, I would vote for you.’ He was almost the only Labour person mentioned positively by name

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 17, 2019

lmao

That's...something else.

more apocryphal tales from the doorsteps.

I lost count of how many people on the doorstep asked me who the fuck I was and why was i campaigning for the Tories?

when that risible melt is slating RLB then I'm pretty much assured she's the candidate for me.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Keir_Starmer

41% “have never heard of”.

It was while I was was at mass during a skiing holiday with my family when I made the decision that Andrew Adonis is an absolute prick