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

so tough on knife crime then

Stating the bleeding obvious but the ongoing two-way RLB vs Starmer camp attacks are going to let Nandy cruise to a fair new union / CLP nominations with almost zero scrutiny.

Rayner's also got the GMB nom, good day for legitimate concerns

🐦[Jess Phillips was too truthful for Labour members to bear@IndyVoices🕸 https://t.co/HabD2xhqcL🕸
— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) January 21, 2020🕸]🐦

I think she has enough union
/affiliate nominations for it not to matter if she gets CLP ones

xp the undead have different values than us daywalkers

Can't handle JP's truth rn

GMB is probably the most right wing union, neither nomination is a surprise.

as a former member i concur

xxp
https://i.postimg.cc/fLD1qLrD/257613-EF-5-D2-F-44-AC-9637-EF9-F4241107-E.jpg

All I am going to remind you is that the king over the water didn’t bother canvassing his colleagues for support or making any effort with them either, and he’s still sore about losing almost a decade later

I just looked at the MPs who nominated her and that’s some kiss of death group right there, lol

Andrew Fisher has written a bit about the contest

Jess Phillips only just scraped over the MP nomination threshold, and won no union or affiliate backers, and not a single CLP.

For comparison, in 2015 Liz Kendall was backed by 41 MPs, won 18 CLPs and was backed by the Labour Party Irish Society.

— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) January 21, 2020

Here's a big thing: Rebecca Long-Bailey is to announce tonight her support for open selection.

Not even Corbyn went that far. A clear break not only with the 'continuity' mantle, but with a pack of candidates who all (at least purportedly) are in agreement on domestic policy.

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) January 21, 2020

Side note: am I going to have to join Labour Irish too? Looks like, ffs.

London Irish are looking for a flanker, I hear.

a bit of a flanker? that bald lad at Spiked could do a job

sorry I'm training to be on HIGNFY

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOzQWBMU4AEF_0B?format=jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKdS_oNe9o

also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziZYL_gtDc

real liberal men wear scarves and don't have a seriously fucked up leg!

I think Dunty sees himself as quite an exceptional character. How could someone would give final approval on such an abysmal piece of book cover design!

fucking hell, Dunty is actually happy with that cover. I thought this was something old i'd seen on here before ..lol!

Dunty sees himself as a shining, golden figure striding away with his scarf flipped jauntily over the shoulder from the dull Brexit hordes (which he was a part of before the referendum, but we talk about that even less than his article about Blair’s dick).

omg I just spotted the fucked up legs on the Brexit hordes, serious Rob Liefeld energy

all this arch-remainers with dodgy pasts. Also Swinson who was calling for an EU ref 8 years ago. Yet it always Corbyn who was the secret leave voter.

Much like the accusations that Corbyn supporters spend their lives attacking the people whose votes they need and abusiveness on twitter, it’s all one big case of projection.

also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziZYL_gtDc
― mark s

this is amazing

amazingly good or amazingly bad I am not quite sure about yet

... talking of dodgy pasts.

that David Steel track is banging

It's by Jessie Rae, that's why it's so good.

He did a David Bellamy one too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJw3CGIqYE

it isn't as good as that one Django Reinhardt did with hitler!

checkmate, RLB

Rebecca Long Bailey gives an interview insisting she is not a puppet of the Corbyn regime.

SITTING IN CORBYN'S OFFICEhttps://t.co/YmEpcy2EsW pic.twitter.com/hCWXBjxRE9

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) January 22, 2020

corbyn was hiding under the table, directing rlb's responses by tapping morse code on her left kneecap

Seumas Milne holding up cue cards behind the interviewer

These quotes are ok, still wouldn't go this far

Fair go, I don't think I agree with her on much, but she's been a revelation in this campaign https://t.co/6TRnQpChfq

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) January 22, 2020

It's genuinely bizarre to me to see so many RLB voters suggesting she'll be their second pref.

Corbyn’s office is iirc just a big meeting room, he doesn’t use the actual LOTO offices?

Matt Ch0rl3y is a Tory cunt but you knew that already.

Nice little dig at (((the Corbyn regime))), conveys all the meaning of (((Jon Lansman))) but is a good deal more subtle.

brain worms

It is the kind of room that Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition, does media in

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) January 22, 2020

It's genuinely bizarre to me to see so many RLB voters suggesting she'll be their second pref.

― ShariVari, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Is it tactical in that they don't want Starmer to win?

Surely you give her your first pref if you don’t want him winning

Some of it might be tactical but people absolutely seem to be warming to her.

She comes across well - calm, serious, thoughtful- while talking utter bollocks.

We stood with the Russian government, and not with the people it oppresses, who suffer poverty and discrimination. We failed the test of solidarity.

full of shit

Who said that, Enver Hoxha?

Sorry I totally misread, I was reading this as RLB voters giving her their 2nd pref...idiot

I’m not planning on giving LN or KS any prefs. Maybe Thornberry for banter

Something desperately tragic about adults in their 40s flatsharing and still voting Tory while they prattle on about tone arguments.

Tory flatmate looks at Twitter:

“F**k me, look how they are speaking about Jess Philips ... and they are supposed to be on the same side.

I could never vote Labour again, all the time they behave like that”.

And I think most of the country agree.

— Caroline_Penn (@CarolinePenn2) January 21, 2020

"F**k me, look how they are racist and intent on destroying the poor. I could never vote Tory again, all the time they behave like that."

Most of the country, never.

Labour you have made it impossible for my Tory flatmate to ever vote Labour again for the first time - no wonder you finally lost an election after 22 years.

lol the person says their Tory flatmate was “a lifelong Labour voter til 2019” - yeah fucking right.