have you quit the labour party yet?

there is a whole other Rap Sheet category for Barry, like when he puts out his mini Garden Bridge type follies in the Hudds rag as part of doing his bit as a professional lobbyist for his construction industry pals. One of his ideas was to build cable cars going down Leeds Rd (to breath in the lovely traffic fumes and get good view of the waste incineration plant) or converting the square in front of the station into a covered area for no reason other than to piss off the taxi drivers. yet somehow Reeves is even worse than him.

Nia Griffith's lucked out in being drawn against Duffield.

Anyway it’s a disgrace Sheerman is losing by 4% ffs

Liam Byrne has a lot to answer for tbf, his stupid note was a vital propaganda win in favour of austerity.

I like how the rap sheet runs the full gamut from 'supportive of Saudi intervention in Yemen' to 'attended a Shed Seven gig with Therese Coffey and Michael Dugher'.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTVvpfeZ_qq3nCC9VEjsJjs9VjUoXFoX9dC2w&usqp=CAU*

Sheerman would probably have lost his seat in '19 because even dyed in the wool Labour voters have their limits, but the daft fucking Tories ran the *Mekon against him, who is a classic evil Tory baddie who is that reviled in Hudds when kids throw stones at him the parents usually join in rather than scolding them.

my old Labour MP still follows me on twitter. It's amusing sometimes thinking about how she's often RT-ing any positive opinion pieces on Starmer or his own tweets, while I'm clicking like on juvenile photoshops or tweets calling him a "cop wanker" or comparing his complexion to sliced ham!

Liam Byrne has a lot to answer for tbf, his stupid note was a vital propaganda win in favour of austerity.

there was some weird kind of paralysis there, either that or just plain old cowardice and complete lack of conviction. I mean ffs like retorting: we didn't cause the 2007-08 global financial crisis actually. But no they just let the narrative take hold and tamely took their medicine. it was quite pathetic really.

His successor, Lib Dem David Laws, broke with tradition and made the note public, accusing Mr Byrne of flippancy.

Mr Byrne said he had been following a tradition dating back to Churchill.

Not entirely convincing tbh - 'oh well if it's tradition I guess I'll just have to...'

far be it from me to post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8c3BjFWsw

well

i refer the thread to my comment of monday evening

I only regret that there is but one labour party for me to have quit.

I have just finally quit the Labour party.

last one out's a meeeelt

xp to Daniel
Same.

Having said that, Jewdas, who are my heroes atm, present a decent, and inspiring case here:

For everyone tearing their hair out or their membership cards up, we want you to look at this image. The old adage that you get conservative with age only applies to babyboomers and their kids. The rest of us are what Israel might call a "demographic timebomb". pic.twitter.com/fkcoMa9Hem

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) October 29, 2020

that's a nice thread

Definitely feel like if a viable alternative to labour doesn't appear now, it never will

lol @ jewdas quoting the ira tho

"viable" is the big issue isn't it? no left-oriented political party starting from scratch is going to be able to get the access to media and etc to mount a meaningful challenge in parliamentary elections any time soon. and i have to say that any left-oriented party has to run the gauntlet of wresting itself from the usual dipshit Stalinists and etc

well, there you go then

i guess the answer is "never"

I wouldn't say never now tho, UK political processes feel exceptionally broken

Jewdas's graph kind of skipping around the conservatism of Gen X, isn't it?

"their kids"

i'm Gen X don't slander me

#notallboomers

I bet it wasn't all boomers and gen X'ers in the membership that melted like butter over that shitty Starmer vid back in January and voted for the twat.

that Kieth vid in full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTup9yo6T9M

https://vice-images.vice.com/images/content-images-crops/2016/08/08/owen-smith-bbq-in-london-fields-body-image-1470651753-size_1000.jpg?output-quality=75

bloomin' boomers + gen x'ers, what are they good for eh?

God, if I'd remembered to send in my "stop giving any of my union subs to the Labour Party" form three months ago it could have been processed by Christmas

Did send my NEC ballot, like a good boy

The results of @UKLabour NEC elections are being delayed from lunchtime to (approx) teatime as some people who were ineligble to vote appear to have done so and this is being addressed. I have no sense, though, that any faction is about to hire Guiliani

— iain watson (@iainjwatson) November 13, 2020

Update: The chair, co-secretary and a number of other members in Bristol West Labour have been suspended from the party: https://t.co/GTfALr1QHV

— LabourList (@LabourList) November 13, 2020

Local parties were warned by general secretary David Evans not to “have discussions about, or pass motions in relation to any aspect of individual disciplinary cases” in an email to local officers last week.

The guidance stated that the party would “not hesitate to take appropriate action – including against individual members” if it considered that the advice had not been adhered to.

....

But McLaughlin told LabourList: “The anti-democratic suspension of Jeremy Corbyn has, rightly, been a topic of huge debate within the party.

“Because of this it is absolutely right that members should be able to have their say, as Keir Starmer does in every interview he gives.”

I've written off the party and am past the point of caring about right-wing purges and wotnot, thankfully because if I was still a concerned Labour member I might genuinely be getting high blood pressure from ranting about this arsehole. As it is now, I've achieved a reasonable distance and acceptance of events, where I can let thingss pass calmly + coolly observe this dismal jerkoff dying a slow political death, and witness him slowly fading into the obscurity the cunt richly deserves. With still a bit of Grrr! but not enough to give me high blood pressure.

(1)So this is why Labour NEC election results are late: HQ Officials are obsessively combing through the ballot to see if they can cancel votes of members who sent angry "I resign" emails over Corbyn suspension After they were given a vote, but before they actually cast the Vote

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) November 13, 2020

Five for the left. Was always a stitch up.

The following candidates have been elected as CLP representatives to the National Executive Committee:

• Luke Akehurst
• Johanna Baxter
• Ann Black
• Gemma Bolton
• Yasmine Dar
• Nadia Jama
• Gurinder Singh Josan
• Laura Pidcock
• Mish Rahman

— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) November 13, 2020

Luke fucking Akehurst back on the NEC!

thousands of souls chanting "stay and fight" in weary unison, shovelling their hopes and dreams into a giant furnace with HER MAJESTY'S LOYAL OPPOSITION in giant letters on the side, slowly filling the room with poisonous smoke

— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) November 13, 2020

i am fully sympathetic to both sides of the "stay and fight" vs "fuck this joek party" divide tbh

Momentum text suggested to rank them on the ballot as: Bolton, Rahman, Jama, Henderson, Dar, Pidcock

when i saw Pidcock's name i had a weird flash of "oh yeah you exist"

There’ll be at least one ilx poster who’ll be pleased about Pidcock

don't call it a comeback she's been here for months

iirc Pidcock is good not bad, or did I get that mixed up?

she's decent i think, just joking about how she's dropped off the radar since the beginning of the year

she made some racially clueless comments in the leadership election iirc

She’s also a terf

ah fuck don't remember that, bollocks to her then

The left chose to go along with her rather than ask tough questions. Very grim stuff xp