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

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/long-bailey-says-labour-jobs-will-be-based-on-merit-not-patronage?CMP

This is better from RLB.

Xp
Ah what's an illegal invasion and war of regime annihilation involving a huge pile of civilian corpses between friendly melts!

Can’t believe we only have two precious months left of MR Seumas Milne, RIP skinny king. Article is largely encouraging but if she wins & hires back Ayesha Hazarika or any of those fucking losers, I’m out.

"promising to “professionalise” the party if she becomes its next leader"

isn't that basically saying they were amateurs!

TBH I think a lot of the people in key positions around the leadership were pretty much incompetent.

I mean advisers etc, not Shadow Cabinet members here (give or take a Lavery/Burgon or two).

who was the one who had a bit of a strop back in november and said they were resigning because they are all useless, was it James Schneider whose interview was linked on here the other day?

I forgot the story, it came out via a leaked email i think.

Long-Bailey has the tacit backing of Corbyn, though he has not declared his public support for any candidate.

Graun still working hard for its cups of coffee

Andrew Fisher is who you're thinking of I think, Calz. He later wrote an editorial (for the Guardian?) outlining why he believed in Corbyn's project and why it was important to vote Labour.

ah that's the one TH.

Lol...centrist conspiracy theories incoming

Due to a ruling by the Labour Party, Battersea CLP and Liverpool West Derby CLP have nominated Rebecca Long-Bailey rather than making no nomination.

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) February 3, 2020

Wait till they find out the latest rule changes have banned centrist melts with knighthoods and UKIP lite numpts from the ballot!

I bet there isn't one CLP who goes for Starmer/Butler.

Devizes has done just that!

Lool! What is the drily amusing S Bush style response to that?

If you aren't bothered about urban black w/c Londoners having their human rights abused but aren't essentially a racist? No perhaps i need to try harder!

Butler now second in nominations, way ahead of Ian Murray.

You’d need a heart of stone

bbc at their "all blacks look the same" shit again, this time with Dawn Butler's sister Marsha.

I bet there isn't one CLP who goes for Starmer/Butler.
Devizes has done just that!

― ShariVari, Monday, 3 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Our CLP did the same last week. Falls in line with the mix in here.

Was at a meeting for new members with our MP (who nominated Starmer/Butler too). Soft left, very civic-minded and hard-working for her constituents. A quiet about her. It's basically what Starmer is, and that's fine and needed, as long as it isn't leading the party.

Ah I noticed she was a Burnham backer in that novara interview but wasn't seeing any starm butler combos. But maybe she would at least disagree with Rayner on the teaching of British history.

She'd be the best deputy in Labour history in the shadow of baggy clothes mp.

What immense boots to fill, the legend who brought down the parliamentary peado ring!

lol we're all gonna die

Boris Johnson admitted he "doesn't really understand" climate change, according to the President of COP26, who he sacked last week.

🤔 Perhaps Downing Street needs an ice sculpture of its own.pic.twitter.com/FfcuuXFs5c

— Carolyn Harris MP (@carolynharris24) February 4, 2020

I mean Boris had an article where he admits to ringing Piers Corbyn (!) for climate change advice!

In my despair, I rang the great physicist and meteorologist Piers Corbyn. You know Piers: he is the older brother of Jezza, and he is famous for believing that the world – on the whole – is getting colder, and that the whole global warming theory is unsound, to say the least. Piers thinks that whatever the role of humanity in affecting the temperature of the planet, that role is pitifully trivial next to the Sun, the supercolossal boiling ball of gas about which we revolve and which enables life on Earth.

Omg!

jesus wept

this is fine

Councils are sharing information about users of their websites – including when they seek help with a benefit claim, or with a disability or alcoholism – with dozens of private companies.

More than 400 local authorities allowed at least one third-party company to track individuals who visit their sites, an investigation has revealed.

Some councils were found to be letting companies track use of sensitive sections of their sites, such as when people were seeking financial help or support for substance abuse.

Data obtained from cookies tracking where users go online can be sold by data brokers for profit.

Critics have argued that council websites serve a public purpose and should not let outside firms monitor their users’ activity, especially given the sensitive nature of some visits.

Councils have been absolute pricks about this since RIPA.

xxp I mean, it's Boris - 'admits' should generally be read as 'trolls'

Enough prevaricating, we need a government that will get climate change done

Planet Earth is oven ready, just need to turn up the heat.

the great thing about that ambition is that the government can do literally nothing and it will happen! politics is good again!

Love the way that Johnson was sold as the intellectual option to gammon/halfwits, shit thick + ADHD is never a good look.

don't hoard quality material like this, bg and gyac

Shut up and be grateful, brown woman.

Seriously, do any of these pricks have the slightest idea how they come across? Wonder why this particular young woman makes so many of them so angry?

it's really weird, the only people i see proudly flag-waving for the achievements of the Blair governments are white middle management types, you'd think the beneficiaries would be more grateful.

after reading that vacuous, bullying F Millar piece on Zarah Sultana, still just breathtaking the inability of 60 year olds who had free education and cheap housing lecturing 26 year olds who had neither, to realise Yes, You Are The Baddies

— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) February 4, 2020

it's really weird, the only people i see proudly flag-waving for the achievements of the Blair governments are white middle management types, you'd think the beneficiaries would be more grateful.

― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Or self-aware

Why should they have to be? They mistake their good luck for good judgement.

it's like how every rich person is self-made

Why is the struggle of the US left one that these UK comedians can support, when they couldn’t support that of the UK left? Is it just because they don’t pay tax in the US? pic.twitter.com/hskOYkoSl0

— Socialist Dad (@shirleymush) February 3, 2020

Didn’t Frankie Boyle support Corbyn though? Bernie is to the right of JC in a lot of ways. Better comparison is how they treat AOC with almost any female politician here. Esp when they’re left wing and young.

gyac otm on all counts

I think Boyle hates Corbyn. Although I haven't watched his show since he started using it for regular Corbyn bashing a couple of years back.

Slated Corbyn when exactly? I don't vote Labour because I'm to the left of them on Trident. I support Scottish Independence. I wrote loads of columns supporting Corbyn for leader, and then a big column before the election saying don't vote Tory.

— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) February 3, 2020

Yeah this is the level of the debate you get from morons here

Just remembered this excellent tweet pic.twitter.com/vf5mm1ZadO

— James Greig (@jamesdgreig) February 4, 2020

Boyle's being a bit selective there, but yeah no surprise a Scottish nationalist doesn't like Labour. But he did go for Corbyn on his show even though he seems to have forgotten. Playing that I'm to the left of Labour thing is what the Green Party used to do until the mask slipped.

On his show he even suggested Labour as well as having an antisemite leader were fiscally right wing on benefits. I saw it!

christ that absolutely cursed aoc / jess phillips take, i'd suppressed the memory of it pretty successfully until today :(