Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

She's my local Labour candidate. I will enjoy not voting for her.

Here is the briefcase who is going up against JC

Congratulations @prafulnargund - you will be a fantastic Labour MP for Islington North, and I can’t wait to join you on the doorstep to help get you elected! https://t.co/2T7eaiZpOw

— Sem Moema 🌹🐝💪🏾 (@Semakaleng) May 24, 2024

good luck chump

even before you read about his private healthcare background, he's just so visibly an absolute cunt!

yeah he definitely gets voted out early on the apprentice

I've got to admit I was somewhat worried they might pick the other candidate, who seemed quite pleasant and sympathetic, but how beautifully in character for them to settle for this utter bellend.

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The other one had to dip out because she was a political ally of the Hackney P**do.

So many Labour supporters online seem to be apoplectic about Corbyn's decision to stand as an indie and his resulting expulsion from the LP. Why?
You'd think they'd be happy he's out of the party and they now have the chance to win the seat for Starmer's Labour? What gives?

only Islington North betting I've seen quoted was from William Kedjanyi who had made Corbyn the 8/13 fav, but was from before the stuffed suit challenger was unveiled.

I was looking on the bet365 site, it has a ton of consituencies there but no sign of Islington North yet

xxp

like he has waited until the day the Labour candidate is announced, not badmouthed the party. There is nothing they can criticise him for here.

I expect Will’s odds will go even more favourably for JC. The stuffed suit looks like someone who appears on You’re Fired in week 3 of an Apprentice season.

they’ve never let ‘there’s nothing they can criticise him for here’ stop them criticising him before tbf

Lol just came across this interview with members of D:Ream

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/05/how-we-made-d-ream-things-can-only-get-better-tony-blair-election-alistair-campbell-

"The song’s become associated with great times and positivity. This year, for the first time in my life, I’m voting Labour."

Published in...2017

to be fair it's not really possible to vote Labour when you live in Northern Ireland.

Standing down: Michael Gove!

Fantastic! Get tae fuck!!!

OMG this guy... the teeth, the hair, the eyes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdpQT9bb5M

He looks like Garry Shandling.

Gove should check with Baddiel whether he fancies making another series of A Stab in the Dark

I genuinely dislike making fun of names, but the fact that this guy's name is similar to pratfall is apposite, for the role he's being given

Apparently we are also saying adieu to Dread Some Anal.

Has this cunt got the easiest path to PM ever? This is like when some extremely mid NBA team winds up facing injury depleted squads and lucks into a championship. Corbyn had fuckin Brexit around his neck the whole time

So Kieth is the Minnesota Timberwolves now?

The path looks stupidly easy, it's mainly for comedy's sake I hope he fails, but also because he's an evil cunt who represents evil, either way

He's an evil reperasentative!

All set up for him to win 400 seats, be completely useless and doom y’all to another 12 years of Tories right?

that could conceivably happen with him getting 2 million less votes than Corbyn got in "worst ever result for the Labour Party since 1935". It won't happen though because of Gaza, Galloway, the Greens, other Indies after encouraging results in the Locals, I think the SNP will do better than the polling suggests and of course even the Tories are never going to get wiped out as badly as the polling suggests, especially against an insipid cunt like Kieth.

its likely to be a low turnout election, probably the lowest post 1945 (and therefore presumably ever), as support for all of the parties has evaporated (and the new ukip/brexit party doesn't look like taking any advantage of that at all)

If Labour win the Tories will self-immolate though, one part will say they weren't right wing enough and the other part will say they were too right wing. Can't tell which side will win out and it could take a long time to pan out, think the first group will eventually win out though. UK voters have a relatively unusual incumbency bias, and in the aggregate tend to vote for 'the government', whoever that is. Might change going forward but if Labour win this one they'll be odds on for the next one too and potentially the one after that

There's also structural stuff about how each party torches part of its future vote that doesnt come into play until years later, with voter distribution changing with tomorrow important seats not necessarily being todays important seats

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/25/election-pm-change-politics-keir-starmer-rishi-sunak

frankly amazed The Guardian still lets Chakrabortty call out what they essentially stand for

Boris Johnson launches an attack on Keir Starmer in the Daily Mail

"He takes responsibility for everything that took place on his watch - except of course for the failure to prosecute the paedophile, necrophiliac and BBC superstar Jimmy Saville"

Boris otm. You vote Starmer - you get legalised necrophillia.

Sounds good to me

Boris speaking truth to power

The Mail's front page is somewhat amusing for having the Johnson 'back to the 70s (you know a decade we were in power for half of) with Fidel Keirstro' rehash directly above the splash of a desperate vow by Reeves that they won't ever deviate from the What Would Tories Do? little blue book.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/thames-water-vomiting-bug-cryptosporidium?

The incoming collpase of Thames Water is another reasson for an early general.

I would love to be certain that Corbyn will win but there's a lot of soppy middle class liberals in this area, all of whom are going to turn out to vote and will experience no problems trying to vote.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/loved-islington-voters-40-year-connection-to-jeremy-corbyn

yeah tbh I think it's 50/50 at best

i don't think he's a lock either and fun as it will be if he wins there are bigger PLP fish to fry

Doesn't matter if JC loses he'll - - and I don't say this to slight him - - just keep doing campaigns till he is no longer able.

Yeah but the briefcase banter will be intolerable

Today on Twitter: many briefcases complaining about the_far_left calling them briefcases.

If I see one more "Starmer is a horny-handed son of toil" tweet I'm gonna run amok I swear

Guardian reporter doing the rounds in Islington North just happens to bump into Boaby G (I had no idea he lived in the same constituency as me!)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/defeat-would-be-a-big-blow-labour-faces-double-trouble-of-corbyn-and-abbott-in-islington-and-hackney

... no guarantee that he does, of course.

I think he’s up in Highbury?

Further up Highbury Park, the Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie is on his way to celebrate his wife’s birthday. “I’ll definitely vote for Corbyn,” he says.

He described the former Labour leader as a “great British patriot who wants the best for everybody”. Getting into his stride in a long disquisition on the state of Britain, he says he’s disillusioned with parliamentary politics, quotes Noam Chomsky and denounces the “worldwide network of financial capitalism” before finishing off with a two-fingered salute and: “Fuck Labour.”

Right on Boaby :)

Getting into his stride in a long disquisition on the state of Britain

You can sense said journo edging away, panic in their eyes

"But by the same token, defeat would mean an ignominious end to a parliamentary career that has spanned five decades and will almost certainly be the final nail in the coffin for Corbynism."

Thames Water will need a government rescue by the end of the year. The things thrown up by the Corbyn leadership will not go away.