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

Who will imago vote for now?

Keir with a heavy heart

I wonder what will happen to her £60k 'Jess For Leader' Crowdfunder if she drops out.

trebles all round!

NEW: @jessphillips is NOT attending this morning’s GMB hustings.

All four other candidates have arrived at TUC HQ.

— Joe Pike (@joepike) January 21, 2020

tbh, i don't think it makes sense for her to drop out now. She has to be stymied by the party (probably through not getting union / CLP endorsements) for the narrative to work.

this is supposing she has a coherent plan, of course

It's very inconvenient for the other candidates as Phillips has been doing most of the work for them in attacking RLB/Corbyn and allowing them to remain above the fray and posing as unity candidates.

Can’t believe hard left union *checks notes* GMB is keeping Jess Phillips from doing slightly better than Liz Kendall.

Also there are rumours that she hasn't managed to secure any CLP nominations including her own.

Starmer's team isn't doing much of a good job of posing him as a unity candidate, what with his top comms man running a voter registration ad with all candidates apart from RLB on it and the "inexperienced" jibe yesterday. the claws are already out before jess strops off.

KS not sticking up for RLB being the subject of blatant sectarianism plus a lot of his high profile supporters deciding to go full loyalist on it didn’t go unnoticed. He doesn’t deserve a vote from me either.

find it hard to believe what a shitshow is emerging after the incompetent uselessness of Jermy Gulag

it's almost like for years he has been slurred as incompetent by people whose own levels of competence makes them not even fit for a tent on clown alley.

the plot thickens

Hearing Jess Phillips has submitted a written statement to the #GMB hustings & sent apologies.

That she couldn't make it due to a prior engagement that was "impossible" to change. https://t.co/UEeujhPS0D

— Jessica Parker (@MarkerJParker) January 21, 2020

angry dog chases car, has no idea what to do when it gets a mouthful of bumper

er that's an xp, not describing jess as an angry dog, honest

Could be a personal issue but let’s see

Seems like Jess Philips is going to be pulling out of Labour leadership contest. I think that's a bit of a shame, I think she would have been a breath of fresh air for them.

A normal working class person, not someone who learned about working class life out of a textbook.

— Andrew Morrison 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@AndyEMorrison) January 21, 2020

other rumours that JP is making a "campaign announcement" this afternoon tho

we need a fresh new Indie Group for 2020

(xp) Jesus, people are so fucking thick.

the even more independent group for additional change

i know under Blairism we all magically became middle class because of *massive* tax-credits, but the idea that someone with a holiday home in France is w/c is just taking the piss

grr..good job you weren't xp-ing me BG or I'd have subjected you to a violent internet ad hominem!

pvmic

calz you know you’re my favourite angry dog

very much in lack of character would be fairer! Sorry if but if I'm not angry and moaning about Blairite scumfuckers that usually means I've given up and heading out for a Reginald Perrin swim in some pond you can't even drown in!

we are lucky that the independent group / change uk / independent group for change / etc. have befowled so many wishy washy centrist names

hopefully the new party will be called Britain Against Boris

bollocks to boris shurely

...

Turning Ever Rationally Forward

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/The_Centrists_France_logo_2016.png/270px-The_Centrists_France_logo_2016.png

of course the French are the best at that game.

more like SEN Tristes

Sometimes, the truth one speaks to power is so blisteringly honest, that it becomes dangerous to say it, because it would hurt power's feelings.

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) January 21, 2020

If she triangulates properly she might go for The Workers Party or something similar, try and synthesise with blue labourism

The Woke-Ass Party

triangulating with geordie labourism

the jess phillips party for jess phillips, bab

she has a series coming out on the bbc this year. that's her real game isn't it?

I see @jessphillips has written another op-ed about her failure to appear at the GMB hustings. pic.twitter.com/4ZlLa4ejhJ

— old maaaaate cans (@cansfordaysmate) January 21, 2020

With Jess Phillips looking like she may drop out of the Labour leadership race, we've recalculated our results to show what the first round would look like:

Starmer – 53%
Long-Bailey – 33%
Nandy – 10%
Thornberry – 4%

Original data from: https://t.co/Wi7JwQQ5NW

— YouGov (@YouGov) January 21, 2020

everyday is just a melt-tastic victory parade rn - might as well join the lib-dems!

mmmmmm profoundly depressing

Phillips confirmed out

what a wild trip that was

bah! just to deprive us of seeing her die a death at every hustings between now and April.

a nation of centrist opinion columnists mourns

lol


I truly believe that unless we talk to the country on their terms, not just on ours, that we won’t be able to make the gains we need to win an election - and do what everyone in the Labour movement wants to do, and that is make people’s lives better.

In order to do that, The Labour party will need to select a candidate who can unite all parts of our movement, the union movement, members and elected representatives.

And I have to also be honest with myself, as I said I always would be throughout this campaign.

At this time, that person is not me.

In order to win the country, we are going to have to find a candidate, in this race, who can do all of that, and then take that message out to the country.

A message of hope and change, that things can be better.

Now, I want to send a message to all of the people who joined our campaign. Tens of thousands of people have signed up, and in doing that, tens of thousands of new people have joined the Labour party.

It is brilliant they will get a say in this race.I want to say to those people. This is not the end.

Together, we can now use our strength, to make the changes we want to make. To use our voices in the Labour party, and in the country, to make sure that the Labour party win elections again.

This isn’t the end.

It’s the beginning.I also want to send a message to all of those in the Jewish community, many of whom have been in touch with me to say that in me, they found somebody who would stand up for them.

That doesn’t change.

I will always stand up, I will always speak out and I promise that we will change the problems in our party that we have seen.

I’m going to go out into the country and join the fight back.

Because the Labour party is not about the job description you have.

We are the strength of our common endeavour, and everybody who has joined in, now we go out into the country, in the local elections, the mayoral elections and we fight back.

We make sure we are out there, speaking to the country, and making sure the Labour party can win elections again.

At this time, that person is not me.

otm

Her run looks like a test balloon for a media career rather than a breakaway party.

'At this time'

How about never? Does never work for you?

has she offered to give the huge wad of kickstarter money back yet?