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

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.

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

Dude y’all have no idea

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

5 years

It will never end.

G4S total scum, work at a lot of detention centres.

Lynsey Hanley delightfully otm

Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth about Speaking the Truth, which came out in 2017, is an everyday tale of one middle-class city-dweller’s struggle to reach Westminster from a professional public-sector background, having gone to a highly selective grammar school and two Russell Group universities.

is this the crap the bbc have commissioned for a series this year? god help us.

http://www.drsallybaker.com/uncategorized/everywoman/ :O

That's pretty Guido even before it gets to Ruth Smeeth

Ann Milton is a former nurse! She trained at Barts – which was one of the London hospitals reputed to attract nursing students who were trying to bag themselves a Nice Young Doctor, rather than having any enthusiasm for a career in nursing. Ann’s wiki entry tells us that she undertook ‘NHS work’ for twenty five years, including work in palliative care as a district nurse. Well, she might have – but rather than being like something like Chummy out of ‘Call The Midwife’, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ann Milton’s career more closely resembled the ‘NHS work’ that Jess’s mum did. A lot of NHS managers are Angels who have received promotion, but they’ll always describe themselves as nurses because they know how loathed NHS managers are.

a lot of what she says about the JP backstory is otm tbf, and she's obv done her research better any Graun hacks ever seem to do. But then she's written it in that breathless ranting style that doesn't exactly endear you to the piece or her own perspective in a few places!

You might like Dawn Foster’s piece on the same subject better if you haven’t seen it already.

The fact that she lives in a house was proffered by the Daily Mail as a slight against her. The attacks last week were openly anti-Catholic and quickly dispelled. Now, the fact that she held an interview in a meeting room where Jeremy Corbyn once sat apparently has allegedly shown she was a “puppet” of the “Corbyn regime” according to a London Times reporter, words he would never use for anyone on the Right.

Dawn otm as ever

the piece linked by conrad is more concerned about her book and the various half-truths and outright porkies involved in the JP origin story, although slightly unhinged in places it still amused me!

Dewsbury CLP nominates:

• Keir Starmer to be leader of the Labour Party
• Angela Rayner to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

This CLP didn't nominate any candidate in 2015 and nominated Jeremy Corbyn in 2016.

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) January 23, 2020

I have attached the procedure guidelines for your information as we need to follow them strictly & you will see that in each section members will have the opportunity to speak, if they wish to, but only once and for a maximum of 3 minutes.

I got the email invite last week... but knew I wasn't going to turn up and I don't think my votes would have made any difference, but at least I could have spent 3 minutes talking about how foul Starmer is and then walked out in a huff.