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

Streatham being the obvious place to carry out a terrorist attack...

Met police are describing it as "terrorist-related"

In 2015:

-> 152 CLPs nominated Corbyn
-> 111 CLPs nominated Burnham
-> 109 CLPs nominated Cooper
-> 18 CLPs nominated Kendall

So far:

-> 37 Corbyn CLPs have voted (24%)
-> 100 Burnham CLPs have voted (90%)
-> 35 Cooper CLPs have voted (32%)
-> 9 Kendall CLPs have voted (50%)

— Stats for Lefties (#VoteRLB) (@LeftieStats) February 2, 2020

"Over 100 pro-Corbyn CLPs still have not voted yet"

some interesting stats, maybe the CLP's have not all melted as bad as polling suggests members have - we'll soon find out.

Dawn Butler now has enough CLP support to get onto the ballot.

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) February 2, 2020

Was just coming here to post that. She’ll get my vote.

Same.

I bet there isn't one CLP who goes for Starmer/Butler. Bush was joking:"when you love Corbynism but hate women" when one of them went for Starmer/Burgon.

I like this theme of outsiders of the field moving up on the front-runners, apart from if you consider Nandy an outsider!

love too have a free press
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPzHYmDU0AA54pY?format=jpg&name=large

no they won't start attacking centrist knight-rider for saying the same things until he's the leader

But .. he'll be singing a different tune at that point anyway.

pathetic media Blairites are the worst strain of tories, fuck every last one of 'em.

but at least they are nuanced tbf, unlike us unpolished and angry peasants!

sorry i meant "nuanced"

The collegiality just shines through! pic.twitter.com/vV4MaTK5NI

— Sonia (@yet_so_far) February 3, 2020

How dare a lecturer whose PHD is in philosophy express the opinion that another left wing candidate would be her preferred next leader. melty fucking academia dickheads trying to bully a work colleague is the type of lowlife behaviour you expect from them Momentum thugs!

A #brexit play in 3 acts pic.twitter.com/Ge7tOxxT4u

— Peter Hopper (@ptr_hppr) February 3, 2020

there will be a lot more of this to come in the next few years. Which is precisely why I think this ridiculous clamour for a melt LOTO amongst the membership is so short sighted and wrong. By the next election lots more of the electorate will have experienced a bit of UC action or have friends/family that have, the economy will have shrunk, austerity will have got worse. The Labour Party doesn't need to melt.

what labour needs more than anything is bernie sanders to win the democratic nomination and beat trump tbrr

it's the only bit of vicarious hope and positivity I can experience until the next election!

A Bernie Sardy victory and to a lesser extent the continued success of Alex Oxlade Chambelain are pretty crucial no doubt

it's been quite entertaining reading Dan Hodges trolling the FBPE lot including Emma Kennedy, because despite him being Dan Hodges just about everything he says about all they did to enable hard Brexit and a Boris Johnson govt is is correct. The Customs Union deal lost by 3 votes they wouldn't facilitate a GNU unless the leader met their oh so stringent standards etc...

hodges vs kennedy is a real 'whoever wins, we lose' situation

I’ll side with the one not bleating on about how she needs an Irish passport so she can retire in Italy. It’s some real “the worst person you know makes a great point” heartbreak though.

still staggers me that Hodges came up with that famous US gun control tweet despite being awful in every other respect

makes me wonder what my one good post might be despite being awful in evey other respect

have i made it already? it it still to come?

it's 'great revive' isn't it

I thought that was pom’s?

disgusting

ffs

there it is

it’s clearly posting pictures of your very fluffy cat

I'll have to bake a comment-rative cake when I finally make a good post, but don't hold your breath folks - I'm a shitposter to the core!

what labour needs more than anything is bernie sanders to win the democratic nomination and beat trump tbrr

― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Bernie winning some of the primary events could bring a bit of confidence back in members who are left but are thinking of melting.

xp Douglas content counts as objectively good

yeah, exactly xp

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An impossibly cute black lab is the true shit posters best friend

Johnson gave his whole 45-minute speech and took questions without mentioning Brexit, saying it was now in the past and the country needed to move on. He also refused to acknowledge that leaving the transition period at the end of 2020 on World Trading Organization terms was tantamount to leaving on no-deal terms.

this seems healthy

Was going to mention this yesterday as the news started to indicate that yep the controls are still set for the heart of no deal. Not that this will diminish them in the eyes of their voters, grim lol at those of you still thinking a Brexiter will ever blame Brexit for any calamity that befalls them.

I wish you hadn't made me want to read Hodges sticking it to the FBEEBs but I think I can resist the temptation.

the leaked documents from the early stages of negotiations with the usa made it clear that america wanted no-deal to be the foundation of the trade agreement, so yeah we're definitely on the start of the slide straight into the shitter

if only someone had warned us at the time &c &c

warm thoughts back to those prelapsarian election campaign days, where jeremy corbyn could point to actual proof that the uk government was planning to make catastrophically poor deals with america, boris didn't even try to deny it, and the media still broke their backs trying to explain it away

Yeah, the phrase we'll hear a lot is "Australia-style trade deal" - which is something that Australia would like to know what it is.

i think Raab said "sub-Canada" or something yesterday i dunno i've been trying to ignore them

sub-Custos at best

xps to bg it’s really cool that the media latched onto “waaah Corbyn is Trump” as though the media in this country is anything less than a bought-and-paid-for disgrace and I just cannot bring my self to give a fuck about them whining about government ministers avoiding interviews. What the fuck did you cunts expect, a democracy?

one of the negotiators during the Canada/EU deal gave birth to two children that had reached High School by its conclusion. I think Canada went through a few PMs as well. But they just casually keep throwing it about!

they didn't have our british pluck

GET THINGS DONE

https://twitter.com/multistoreyhi/status/1224330223325454337/photo/1

and who better to do those things than rory stewart, who did you know once walked across afghanistan and speaks dari

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP2x1d0XUAEbx9N?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

how genuinely original, he's cooking with gas is this fella!

what kind of monster would be AGAINST things getting done ffs, he's a dead cert

It's so predictable seeing Mayor Khan attacking the most right wing Tory govt of my lifetime.. sort of from the right really (re: criticising them for proposing to tax US tech giants). There might be more to it but because he's such a prime melt who I choose to see it like thus!