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

you've got admit she's pretty funny though!

broke: paying an unconscionable two-thirds of your wages to keep a roof over your head
woke: paying a meagre half of your wages to keep a roof over your head, as long as the council picks your name out of a tombola

Fucked up thing I never knew til recently was the practice some councils have of allowing people bidding for council housing to see who else is doing so.

wait, what?

I’m sure I read this somewhere relatively recently and it shocked me cos I was thinking how potentially dangerous it is.

anyone bigging up right to buy shouldn't be anywhere near the Labour party. That that is taking to the next level.

well, yeah xp

like how is that even legal?

just when all the talk of gin, chocolate and messy houses made me think Emily Thornberry was actually my people

(that council housing thing is nuts, surely there are rules about not handing out sensitive personal information, like even beyond the dreaded EU-imposed GDPR bla bla)

it's alright bitching but it's either this or taxing the rich and what kind of monster wants to do that?

Simultaneously needing to keep house prices buoyant and make housing more affordable will drive better people than Thornberry up the wall.

RLB and Burgon get the Unite nomination. Is that enough to put them on the ballot?

Don’t think this new RLB video was posted? It’s good

This is my pledge to you 🌹 pic.twitter.com/B6RzsbvexB

— Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) January 24, 2020

anybody who first choices Starmer is a cunt basically

sorry if this is the kind of horribleness that drives people away from the thread

I'm hoping the polling is way off or some YouGov skullduggery.. Lol denial being the first stage and all that! One positive could be maybe its better not to live with hope and the constant nagging fear that your future might be living in a tent with Chris Williamson making a doc about you for crank left YouTube!

Is that enough to put them on the ballot?

They also needed to be nominated by at least 5% of Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs), meaning at least 33 CLPs, or at least three party affiliates that consist of at least 5% of affiliate members including at least two trades unions.

that rlb video is........ not it imo

them new green deal jobs dangling off a turbine on a harness 120 ft high suck shit imo!

I like it cos a lot has been put into her supposed lack of personality and being too quiet or whatever, this is her addressing people directly. It’s not as good as her first one.

I hate personality and leadership I'm sorry I am a naive child

no correction they are good things for football managers to have

re: campaign videos i think alexandria ocasio cortez kind of ruined it for everyone

The RLB video is neither good nor bad. What so good/bad about it?

i don't think she has the same relish for soundbites and self-aggrandising bullshit as some pols do like Starmer "I have a track record of leading a large organisation (and sending paupers down over a few hours cash-in-hand work and being a frontman for the human rights abusing Night Courts!)and I'm the fucking shit"

I think she comes across much better at the hustings than these videos.

at the hustings ppl will become more aware that Nandy is a confused racist and Starmer is a bit of a Maybot in the making

it just feels like what anyone would say. the emphasis on green new deal is good but i feel like i've heard "green jobs" for like 10 years from various politicians, some of whom even get elected, and it just feels like..... something that sounds good to say, rather than anything tangible? (not judging rlb herself here - just this video!)

at root i'm probably just reacting to that music

I think it just the usual stock imagery of some fule dangling off a turbine !

we haz a great new green job for you. whoops a slightly redder job now

re: campaign videos i think alexandria ocasio cortez kind of ruined it for everyone

Not sure many people outside the US have ever seen an AOC campaign video tbh.

By “everyone” i of course mean “me”

And by "not many people" I of course mean "me".

I think she sounds fine (I don't get this idea that she's overly dull, I mean she's no Nate Dogg but its just a person speaking). Not really saying anything but its kinda tough to give it the big fu mate when you've just been battered by the pensioner class and their little voting pens

she should have done a video like Starmer where he revealed his radical past: he was the uncredited lyric writer who wrote r wyatt's Shipbuilding for him and during the miner's strike he once clawed out a copper's eyeball and ate it like it was a juicy lychee. And in the 70's he was thrown out of the UK communist party for for trying to raise up armed worker brigades!

sorry i've literally been sniffing glue (trying to fix a bin lid) and it seemed funny until I pressed post!

I enjoyed it, you forgot his key role in the Angry Brigade tho

he was Angry Brigade- Codename: Bomb Stormer!

We should start a melt provocateur cell called The Tetchy Brigade

RLB seems to be racking up the CLPs today.

yeah about 6 in the last few hours innit?

Don’t think she’ll need the CLPs with one more affiliate

Another one just now - Wirral South

looking a lot better than it was yesterday. I mean she obv has to make the ballot for this fucking Starmer procession!

Kinda want it all over now and the managerial class to take back control so I can stop caring

it would save me a another direct debit for the next few months. But remember.. hardly anything plenty could happen in that time other than the media doing the find the most "Irish" (wi' the red rosy cheeks of a true IRA colleen f'sure) looking pics of RLB every day challenge. While all the might of Toynbee/Dunty/Cohen/Graun/Stoya all fighting to chod on Starmer's dick like a nest of baby pterodactyls on a feeding frenzy.

I shall have such lovely dreams tonight

the heading of that hilarious Freedland piece: "Without the BBC we could be facing a post-truth dystopia" is probably a bit too on the nose for The Onion. Just over a month passed since the election and already there is a collective amnesia amongst the media classes on the BBC's shitting all over Purdah and putting out outright lies that were reported completed unchecked as news on the Mail and Graun sites.

completely unchecked/ uncorroborated I meant to say...

Freedland is on quite a tear this week:

https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/when-corbyn-insulted-me-what-did-he-mean-1.495769?fbclid=IwAR3jlr67JPnPJYSvxvUec3nI5Dg3wF-9pQSVkqFKZsXMTnd-hSr6rUgzovo

Part of it was a vague journalistic scruple that no matter how interesting we might find ourselves, we journalists are never the story.

Say what?