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

"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.

Who said that, Enver Hoxha?

― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Hoxha and LJ failing the solidarity test again is it?

He's not even posting in here rn CA, all roads needn't lead to LJ.

"And I think most of the country agree."

this line is always a giveaway

Jeremy Corbyn “spent the last 4 years getting absolutely trashed by sections of the media including parts of the BBC - he doesn’t deserve to be trashed for a minute” says Rebecca Long ... sorry, Lisa Nandy. #r4today

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) January 22, 2020

Daniel -CA

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Comrade Alphabet

Lol ok

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

Anyone would think the Tories hadn't just chuck a whole lot of MPs out of their party for not being Brexity enough.

Anyone would think the Tories hadn't just chuck a whole lot of MPs out of their party for not being Brexity enough.

'Ultimately it worked for them, say what you like about them they know how to win'

'Yes but it was over a matter of principle core to who their voters are, they're throwing Jess under the bus just because she tells a few home truths, its hardly the same. And I think most of the country would agree with me endof'

'We should hold ourselves to a higher account and not throw our best performers away!!'

Well, the thing is, conservatives can disagree on issues such as whether non-whites are human and whether concentration camps are a good idea or not, and remain civil about it. True gentlemen all.

John Crace's sketch for the Guardian yesterday on the tragedy of JP withdrawing, contrasted with his evisceration of Swinson during the election for being unpolished, unprepared, self-obsessed, etc is a useful reminder that, for a lot of the commentariat, treating politics, voters and party members with contempt is always going to be a massive plus point. Phillips' only strength is that she appears to treat the business of politics with the same disdain they do.

@haringeycouncil rail road over their own scrutiny committee, vote against facilitating talks between @LatinVillageUK & @graingerplc & then @CllrEjiofor laughs in traders faces as he pushes through their dispossession.

This is an utter disgrace to @UKLabour & @PeoplesMomentum pic.twitter.com/CW27vKiZLj

— George S Briley (@StephenJMai) January 21, 2020

Crace, Dunt and all these tossers are clear that the biggest factor in who should be next leader is the extent to which they've criticised the previous leader. Thornberry had a go but her heart's not really in it and just makes her look too hypocritical.

Someone needs a visit to the inflation room

I can't believe I'm having to tell you this, but the leader of the opposition has a suite of offices, including a boardroom, and he has let one of the contenders to replace him conduct an interview in it to distance herself from him. That's a bit odd

— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) January 22, 2020

Nandy officially on the ballot without needing CLPs, thanks to endorsement from Chinese For Labour.

is... is matt chorley okay

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO4AfIHWAAEgvdS?format=png&name=small

Wonder who will get the Labour Irish endorsement? They deserve me if they endorse someone bad.

the officegate plot thickens, in every sense of the word

It’s one of the shadow cabinet rooms in the Norman Shaw, how do you not know this https://t.co/C6OTD7klup

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) January 22, 2020

Phillips endorses Nandy, predictably.

Hopefully the kiss of death.

Guardian poll in 33 leave-voting areas finds little support for Rebecca Long-Bailey as leader

The Guardian survey is the most comprehensive barometer yet of the leadership contest in areas where voters defected in huge numbers to the Conservatives in last month’s general election.

Interviews with 33 Labour leaders in the party’s leave-voting former strongholds...

Sounds incredibly comprehensive. 33 whole people.

'the most comprehensive barometer yet'

here we go again. Didn't they ask what they thought of Starmer's hugely successful brexit policy ?

oh yeah they already did that on dec 12th.

I can't believe there's another three months of this shit left to go.

and the rest

I'm glad there are 3 months to go tbh. If the leadership vote was next week it'd probably be game over.

"We have to let people be who they want to be"

Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey tells @bbclaurak trans women are women and that self-identification - where trans people self-identify their gender - "should be the law"https://t.co/nSvBU0GvpB pic.twitter.com/RgPnz6hEFz

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 22, 2020

Tell ‘em

Three months till the end of the Lab leadership

Five years before the end of Boris.

Ten years before the end of the union.

Twenty before the end of humanity.

Some out of character optimism?

a little late on the end of the union, a shade early on the end of humanity unless you mean as an abstract noun

Johnson will be PM longer than Thatcher, until eventually overrun by cockroaches

just like Thatcher

cockroach PM of cockroach England

Bad news for Scotland
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO6cnWyX0AAQjVg?format=jpg&name=large

there's a gap between the two kiers but he's blocked off all the major trunk roads

He really needs a bus with "Keir Is Here" on the side, like Pia Zadora's jet.

So GMB have signed a no strike agreement with G4S covering all staff they represent in the U.K. Utter disgrace.

— Sarah Dorman (@SarahxDorman) January 23, 2020

The union that backed Lisa Nandy btw.

Good bit by Lynsey Hanley on Jess Phillips on the LRB blog:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/january/performing-an-idea-of-ordinariness

great move from gmb, bosses historically have been moved to improve the material conditions of their workers solely through being asked nicely bur firmly, not direct action, so good to take that off the table even before negotiations even begin

yeah I liked that LRB piece xp

If Nandy was as northern and towns and pint supping as she is currently projecting, then she should be tearing GMB a new one.