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

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

populism should only be a bad word when it is connected to profusely sweating ugly-fuck ex-pols who will do anything to raise their media profile. When it is connected with popular policies that strengthen the social fabric of the UK and improve citizen's lives ... it's actually a fucking good word.

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/01/rebecca-long-bailey-labour-leadership-socialism

For some, there will be a temptation to compromise on our anti-racist and internationalist principles. Let me be clear: as leader I will never throw migrants or BAME communities under the bus. Never again will our party put ‘controls on immigration’ on a mug. It would be a betrayal of our principles, and of our core supporters and activists. We must defeat Johnson and the nationalist right, never pander to them.

Rebecca Long Bailey "I have decided to stand for election to become the next leader of our Party. I don’t just agree with the policies, I’ve spent the last four years writing them." pic.twitter.com/j3YQXF2Ukj

— Ilyas Nagdee (@ilyas_nagdee) January 6, 2020

"Many candidates in the leadership election say they will not return to the triangulation and Tory-lite policies that held our party back before Jeremy. But we need a leader that can be trusted with our socialist agenda."

This is key for me. ken loach style vids pulling at yr heartstrings aside, the records of some of the other candidates doesn't quite match up to their bullshit patter and they aren't trustworthy in the least.

Lavery has endorsed RLB.

where does that leave Swindon Muppet and her merry band of CW apologists?

The gaps for me are: councils, deselectin and these anti-Semitic cranks but it's not even midnight yet

Very nicely coordinated huh?

I think (completely unbiased) that is quite a strong pitch! But tbh I was expecting to be underwhelmed and be on the defensive - but that is the strongest pitch yet because a lot of it isn't posturing, revisionist bullshit for starters!

I have just released a statement regarding the Leadership of the Labour Party. It has been truly humbling to receive so much support from our fantastic members and my @UKLabour colleagues. Please read the full statement below 👇 pic.twitter.com/fPDl53FD3g

— Ian Lavery MP (@IanLaveryMP) January 6, 2020

sale of fred perry shirts in Swindon has just taken a serious dive.

It matches my strong feelings that yes the election result was awful, but we need to plug on and not capitulate to the right of the party - who have consistently proven they are the worst and most clueless people in UK politics.

the crank left bloc can't go to remainer Clive can they? Nandy would seem the only logical beneficiary of Lavery dropping out but she's no friend of CW. Where do they go now?

https://t.co/qO0YQNK1of pic.twitter.com/eScCHjqXTs

— THE MIDNIGHT RIDER (@wariotifo) January 6, 2020

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— Lara McNeill (@lara_eleanor) January 6, 2020

otm

Tell ‘em RLB. That’s my number one.

I haven’t rushed to announce my candidacy because I wanted to take time to reflect following the devastating results in December. I didn’t emerge from the election with a ready-made leadership campaign because my every effort during the election went into campaigning for a Labour victory. I’m not driven by personal ambition, but by my principles and an unwavering desire to change our country and our world for the better.

the crank left bloc can't go to remainer Clive can they? Nandy would seem the only logical beneficiary of Lavery dropping out but she's no friend of CW. Where do they go now?

they dislike RLB because she was part of the "AS witch-hunt" against comrade CW - so where do they go?