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

Just forced to join Labour to cancel out the vote of someone I know voting for the member for Bab

thank u for yr service

Bab-mania

She probably won’t even make the ballot tbh but whomst among us can resist a bit of spite to motivate them?

polling suggests she's doomed, has she really been thinking all these years that if she stood there would be hundreds of thousands of new members signing up just to vote for her?

evidence points to... yes?

The BBC news item on the Labour leadership election has a collage of the contenders and um

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51000133

It’s not about winning, it’s about self promotion and future positioning.

She’ll get on the ballot but will ultimately wish she had the rock-solid support enjoyed by Liz Kendall. Everyone I know that isn’t a columnist/media type whose salad days were in the ‘90s fucking hates her. Also she must be thanking her lucky stars that Stella Creasy is on mat leave, because all those people would stampede thattaway and forget all about her if that were not the case.

xxp I think those are all pretty stock photographs? Actually I've just checked and they're the big Wikipedia photos for them.

I think the point is that RLB is not included in the picture, but presumably that's because she hasn't officially declared yet?

Secondly, many of us will not support the Lansman backed candidate. She’s lovely, don’t get me wrong, but he is tarnished, and we want to be more than an internal power hungry avocado munching student protest group. The party belongs to us, not him.
2/9

— Rachael Swindon #Lavery4Leader (@Rachael_Swindon) January 6, 2020

this is a depressing thread and the 'Lansman as all-powerful puppet master' stuff is dubious for obvious reasons

worried that the bloc of Labour members and supporters who elected Corbyn in 2015 and 2016 is going to fracture between RLB supporters and people who would have voted for a credible soft-left candidate in the last two contests had there been one on offer who will go with Starmer, with a smaller number of crank-left Rachael_Swindon types who will vote for Lavery if he stands, or just drift away from the party altogether.

They’re the official parliamentary photos from 2017 parliament, fuck knows why they used that blue lighting, makes almost everyone look terrible.

She’ll get on the ballot but will ultimately wish she had the rock-solid support enjoyed by Liz Kendall. Everyone I know that isn’t a columnist/media type whose salad days were in the ‘90s fucking hates her. Also she must be thanking her lucky stars that Stella Creasy is on mat leave, because all those people would stampede thattaway and forget all about her if that were not the case.

6th paragraph (IE 6th sentence): "A sixth contender, shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, is also expected to throw her hat into the ring."

2nd photo: a photo of RLB, larger than the others.

xxxp
what an idiot crank swindon muppet is, I avoid her like the plague. But depressingly she might represent what a whole block of the Corbyn vote is like.

(to CAL, not yrself)

xp you probabaly missed this tweet from her yesterday then calz so just for you:

Tell me this. How many politicians do you know that can get away with wearing Fred Perry and not manage to look like a total knob? Mr Lavery is one of them 😍 #Lavery4Leader pic.twitter.com/1CrmZLwVOo

— Rachael Swindon #Lavery4Leader (@Rachael_Swindon) January 5, 2020

I'm sure the masked singer would beg to differ with that tweet!

worried that the bloc of Labour members and supporters who elected Corbyn in 2015 and 2016 is going to fracture between RLB supporters and people who would have voted for a credible soft-left candidate in the last two contests had there been one on offer who will go with Starmer,

It's a transferrable vote, tho - if they both get on the ballot, and if there's a majority who would prefer either of them to anyone else, they'll be fine.

maybe the whole leadership election should be done "Masked MP" style

Oh good Lord. I muted Rachael Swindon in 2017 and I was right to do so. Ian Lavery won’t be on the final ballot.

They’re the official parliamentary photos from 2017 parliament, fuck knows why they used that blue lighting, makes almost everyone look terrible.

yes! that cold blue colour cast to all those photos has been driving me nuts for years

xp at least two candidates would drop out under that condition

might be a problem for any candidates with pronounced regional accents

maybe the whole leadership election should be done "Masked MP" style

starmz in their eyes

It's a transferrable vote, tho - if they both get on the ballot, and if there's a majority who would prefer either of them to anyone else, they'll be fine.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, January 6, 2020 4:39 PM (six minutes ago)

sorry, I wasn't clear - I meant that I'm worried Starmer will beat RLB (who would be my first choice) because a significant % of the people who voted for Corbyn in the absence of a credible soft-left candidate in 2015/6 will back him over her.

gyac - why?

soref - sure, if these are people who would like Starmer and no-one but Starmer, who would rather throw away their second preference than spend it on Lewis / Nandy / Thornberry / Phillips or on RLB. But these people presumably wouldn't have been voting before anyway?

I want her to declare and get on the hustings before I pick but I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Starmer is the best one in the ring at present. Thornberry is a good shadow Foreign Secretary but not a good leader prospect.

xp it’s not good for the brand, bab

Gloria De Piero
Jonathan Ashworth
Lucy Powell

have all backed Rayner for dep leader.

She went on to criticise shadow education team members Angela Rayner and Tulip Siddiq, saying: "Angela and Tulip really think they’re going to be ministers in an actual Labour government very soon."

I thought I remembered Powell accidentally slagging off Rayner in a text that accidentally went out to the entire PLP a couple of years back!

she thought the text was going to a melt whatsapp group!

Yeah she did, it was the women’s PLP WhatsApp group and she was slagging off an article Rayner did!

Rayner more crucially has RLB’s backing. Virgin is not a serious option for any left MP to back, if they want to go left they should support Butler.

Lol, BURGON

Also got the backing of this ledge

Really powerful speech from @AngelaRayner launching her campaign for Deputy Leader in Stockport. I'm proud to be part of a broad church of Labour MPs backing Angela- we can't heal the divides in our country without healing divides in our party. Labour gingers represent! 🧡🦊 pic.twitter.com/orWGxiQf1F

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) January 6, 2020

joining labour to vote for gyac's phone

Well gyac, if I didn’t know he’d dated Shelly Asquith I’d say he was officially deed polled in ILX as Richard Virgin from now on.

This poor fox became tangled in a football net in South Yorkshire and had to be cut free: https://t.co/rHtP7p0G2N pic.twitter.com/U6MAxkfmAm

— BBC Yorkshire (@BBCLookNorth) January 6, 2020

here you go Joylon, shall (us barbarians of the north) we show you how not to be an evil, pointlessly sadistic cunt?!

Don't blame me when it turns up on your front door with a baseball bat

Oh good, Ed Balls is doing a documentary about populism.

Ah yes, I imagine the fella whose big policy idea was *checks notes* “cutting the deficit slightly slower than the Tories” might have some worthwhile opinions to be heard

his other program on vulnerability was utter garbage for about the 2 min 38 secs I could bear of it - like the masked postman pat gimp he thinks he's a fucking celeb.

someone who is a supremely arrogant incurious prick having the fake modesty to talk about vulnerability! I won't go into it but it was bad.

Imagine how bad Alan Johnson smelled after wearing that costume though

ugh! care home smell crossed with old spice

last year there was an interview with AJ and what an empty vessel, what a self-regarding poltroon. An actor melt I had an argument with described his book This Boy as a very moving read. I can actually guess every 2nd hand bullshit cliche it contains without reading it!

top Trade Unionists leaders are always complete bell-ends. Decent human beings tend to just carry on being exploited, it's always the ugly competitive bigmouths with that rise up that career ladder.

I've not put this controversial theory to much testing scrutiny, but which ones aren't complete cunts?

Don't blame me when it turns up on your front door with a baseball bat

Oh good, Ed Balls is doing a documentary about populism.

I've not listened/watched but always smile at the pretence that they are going a journey of self discovery and learning here, not got any strong feelings of course...

If they'd just be more honest and occasionally shame the devil by admitting their own ideology it might be funny and interesting. But like that classic quote from Larry Sanders: "Don't start pulling at that thread; our whole world will unravel"

one might argue that leveraging a turn as the comedy act on a popular reality TV show into a job presenting political commentary disguised as documentaries was a populist move but that would be cynical and paranoid