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

lol

Alarm bells ring as The Daily Telegraph pulls out of ABC audits

"The ABC metric is not the key metric behind our subscription strategy and not how we measure our success," TMG said - as the IPA says it is "extremely concerned" by the move.https://t.co/iCmpGOsi8g pic.twitter.com/yAh98GRIvE

— Mediatel News (@MediatelNews) January 16, 2020

"the lurkers support our model via DM" — the daily telegraph

Just caught up with the Nandy interview with Neil. That was seriously impressive.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) January 15, 2020

I'm almost glad my local MP lost her seat in December for liking this comment!

12 times fewer have registered to vote in the leadership election vs 2016, apparently. 2016 was special, but still, 12?

registering to vote?

I thought all members vote - registering?

members get a vote but also you can sign up to become an affiliated supporter and get a vote also

oh right..what was the figure of affiliated supporters voting last time?

That vote got 100k registered supporters because there was a principle at stake. This is a leadership election...

ah yes ... I'd argue it is still the same this time but i'll shut up ..it's late!

I'd have thought that most of the surge of registered supporters five years ago would have become the surge in memberships since then, though - this figure if it show anything probably shows that there's less #NeverCorbyn's returning.

But it might not show anything since a) it's cheaper just to join the party for a few months and b) there's two and a half months of this left.

Alternatively it's yet another sign that the much longed-for centrist unseen majority doesn't really exist*. Starmer and Nandy in different ways both seem to understand that - I'm not sure some of the commentators praising them have cottoned on yet.

*As should be completely obvious from the election result but hey.

12 times fewer have registered to vote in the leadership election vs 2016, apparently. 2016 was special, but still, 12?

Surges in membership usually follow things like leadership elections, general elections, and we’ve had two of each since then. I know a good amount of ex Labour members who’ve rejoined to vote, but don’t intend to stay back in the party. I also rejoined after not being a member (for seven years?) but I’ll see if I stay too tbh.

It's ace being a member, if you buzz off pdf's of local CLP meetings

real heads know ward-level is where it's at

branch officers and GC delegates' reports? directly into my veins

Weirdly, I used to get content from the Highbury East Labour Party when I was briefly a member in a nearby constituency. I have a parliamentary report from Jeremy Cromblyn from February 2011 that says stuff like this (bold his)

Finally, I feel very angry at the economic strategy being followed in this country and being followed with such aggression in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. It is neither necessary, nor right.

omg

28th: Highbury Grove School have opened a new shop for students, and I was there for the
launch. The shop stocks a range of healthy and morally right produce

vials of Toby Young's tears - £7.50 a pop

“Sure members of the Conservative party repeatedly promote, endorse and enact policies that ruin the lives of the poorest & most vulnerable in the country, but a few of them offered me condolences when my dad died so who can say if they’re bad or good?”

*wild centrist applause*

— Labour Towns Source (@judeinlondon2) January 17, 2020

in response to Starmer's Keunnsberg interview where he positions himself as a no holds barred melt-a-fucking-rino!

lol ofc

Could not agree more

— Ayesha Hazarika (@ayeshahazarika) January 17, 2020

Fuck millions of the people I'm supposed to represent - IDS once sent my dad a get well soon card so Tories are fine by me.

oh jesus fuck

I'm two years older than you - we'd have been at school at the same time. The last Labour Government changed the lives of kids like me, and if I'd been elected in December, I'd have been in Parliament, defending our record and fighting to do it all over again and more. https://t.co/1Lc3CU8J8Z

— Beth Miller (@BethMiller91) January 16, 2020

Lol state of her. Profile says she’s ex Bank of England too.

"policy nerd" and its variants is usually shorthand for absolute fucking twat.

i love to get GRANULAR about NOVEL APPROACHES to KILLING the POOR!

The year is 2024. Johnson has been PM for almost 5 years. His hair is just as floppy but now a little grey. He still doesn't know how many kids he has. He is up for election against Jess Phillips. Women, in particular, love her. She wipes the floor with him. The end.

— Beth Miller (@BethMiller91) January 12, 2020

can't wait for it all to be over

absolutely cursed content

Christ I thought that was a parody. It is, but unintentionally so. And then everyone clapped right, and sexism was abolished?*

*white wines only

Women, ffs

That too, though

Think you’d need something stronger to process that.

a pit filled with lime, perhaps

thought "white wines only" was a nod to all those horrible novelty cards/fridge magnets/socks which say things like "bring me a prosecco" and crap puns on "gin"

there's some crossover in vibe/audience w. that tweet, anyway

(however don't let me deter anyone from bringing me prosecco or gin, I mean I admit I am a pretty basic bitch and also I probably consume more booze than 99% of owners of "lol <3 gin" socks. I seem to have a reputation as my evening class alkie as the default post-xmas smalltalk was "so what drinks did you get for Christmas/get in for New Year's?")

https://www.gofundme.com/f/bigbenbongforbrexit

(i thought the bloke in charge had said it's just not possible, regardless of how much is raised, currently £140k)

firing up a big bong for brexit with my friend, ben

I’d have thought the vast numbers of women who have wall transfers in their open-plan kitchen/diners and call other women ‘hunni’ would see right through someone like Jess Phillips.

Single biggest story are the losses from Labour to non-voters. But note also the finely balanced Leave vs Remain losses. https://t.co/i4HnupANe4

— James Meadway (@meadwaj) January 17, 2020

Wait - the Tories didn’t have net losses to the Brexit party?

would've been quite a lot of greens going to labour too imo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOfKCKTW4AY3B7g?format=jpg&name=medium

some fine work here by the drunken bakers fellow.

(i thought the bloke in charge had said it's just not possible, regardless of how much is raised, currently £140k)

“I beg the prime minister to step up and tell the Commission they’ve got this wrong, and he and the government will overrule it unless they change their mind,” former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith tells the Telegraph this morning.

Strong Graeber energy from "there's a commission in their name - charge!"

just finished listening to a gloomy and wonkish "where are we now" on novara (james butler talking to richard seymour = @leninology), which was i think a good and serious and sobering :( :( dissection of some of what went wrong from a left perspective, and what to do about it

i'll post a link when it goes up on the resonance replay page

(nothing matters but) It's kind of amusing if not surprising that the first test of "Are there any significant fracture lines in the Tories, anything that will cause the mad bastards of the ERG to slap on the blue woad again" is something that Boris wandered arse-backwards into when a light bulb appeared over his head live on TV.

lol that was quick (it used to take ages when i did a resonance show): https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/novara-fm-17th-january-2020/

Vice have nabbed Loki's story on Jess being bent af and taking undeclared payments from a luxury property developer.

or maybe even declared but still bent af

They also said: “Serious questions should be raised over the affordable housing outline.”

VICE asked Jess Phillips's campaign if her donations from McCourt and his company came from somebody who shared Labour's values on housing, and whether they gave him any influence over her position.

A spokesperson said: “We are not commenting on individual donations. Jess’ campaign is aiming to raise a large portion of our funds from small individual donations from the public and we are very grateful to everyone who has donated so far through our crowdfunder. Of course no donation gives an individual any say or influence over policy positions or the direction of the campaign.”

would've been quite a lot of greens going to labour too imo
― jazz fusion is sex (NickB), Friday, 17 January 2020 13:23

I don't doubt there were a lot of Green supporters who lent their vote to Labour because there was no chance of the Greens winning in their constituency, but I think exactly the same thing happened in 2017. There's no reason to think more of them switched this time round.