love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

yup! they sent me a pm saying he was "an odd character but not a racist as far as we know" - choosing to laugh at this rather than argue with her.

granted, 'square-jawed white man' is about the limit of what he truly represents in the minds of most, and it's appalling how this is ample qualification

― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

You've just moved to 'in the minds of most'. Wasn't talking about that.

Who was it who made the comment "anyone who nominated Corbyn to broaden the debate needs to be taken out and shot"?

BREAKING: Very significant Labour news. Emilie Oldknow, the party's Executive Director for Governance, Membership & Party Services has quit. Source: "She was the brains and the muscle of the whole party operation. That's it for the Labour party."

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) March 13, 2018

never forget

BREAKING: Very significant Labour news. Bobson Dugnutt, the party's Executive Director for Governance, Membership & Party Services has quit. Source: "She was the brains and the muscle of the whole party operation. That's it for the Labour party."

powerful tweet imo

It's not enough to say "if you leave, they will get what they wanted" - you have to show that, within the Labour Party, it's possible for it to be any other way

— Dan (@d_j_frost) April 12, 2020

the news that bobson dugnutt is a woman is HUGELY significant

Emilie Oldknow who made some of the most egregious WhatsApp posts is Mrs Jonathan Ashworth.

Have fun, comrades:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eq5c3qnd375rj69/The%20Work%20of%20the%20Labour%20Party’s%20Governance%20and%20Legal%20Unit%20in%20Relation%20to%20Antisemitism%2C%202014%20-%202019%20%282020%29.pdf?dl=0

You've just moved to 'in the minds of most'. Wasn't talking about that.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:23 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, he represents the status quo, or at least, the notion that everything can be like it was in 1998

crumbs what is this

I think flying rodent on twitter said it best: all the weird Labour right criticisms of the left are projecting. Like that “they put ideology over winning” shit - there’s so much of it in this document even just in snippets!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVaw42AWkAETiS_?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVbHgvmXgAA6dEj?format=png&name=large

Slamming F til my keyboard breaks.

unsalvageable party

fuck the labour party fuck the UK state

how many suspensions for members/MPs making dark insinuations about the "north london elite" etc?

"expel tony blair" should be the centrist position. he's lucky to still have a head

*thousand-year jack-off gesture* pic.twitter.com/Kxf00t5lWn

— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) April 12, 2020

corbyn memes were embarrassing enough already

McDonnell memes >>>>> Corbyn memes

the power he could’ve had as chancellor :( pic.twitter.com/ukEe4d5KpE

— mimi🏴🚩 (@ameliamcd_) April 2, 2020

total dreamboat

My thoughts on Johnny Mc are best not explored.

I'm seriously going to miss him, what a wasted opportunity... and now look at the shadow cab.. the stark contrast is too fucking depressing.

so wait exactly whose call was it not to submit this report? the thought of the next CLP meeting is the best argt for staying in the party

meanwhile on my twitter my ex MP Paula Sherriff is pushing me to unfollowing her because she keeps liking extremely bad Mrjamesbob posts like they are a precious resource.

just fuckin’.... no

This is not the language of opposition. pic.twitter.com/rZoiCfzhh1

— Brian Whelan (@brianwhelanhack) April 12, 2020

just fuckin’.... no

This is not the language of opposition. pic.twitter.com/rZoiCfzhh1

— Brian Whelan (@brianwhelanhack) April 12, 2020

so wait exactly whose call was it not to submit this report? the thought of the next CLP meeting is the best argt for staying in the party

― ogmor, Sunday, 12 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Reading out some of these WhatsApp messages in the next Labour meeting, as a treat

I've decided to be the man on the inside for my pals

good luck whatever you guys do. it's always easier to say fuck every last one of these cowardly melts and fuck the PLP.

Tories that have the lack of moral integrity but at least the political conviction to actually join the Conservative Party>>>>>>Kier Starmer or every last melt in the PLP who have worked so hard to keep the Tories in power - fuck these people forever.

so wait exactly whose call was it not to submit this report? the thought of the next CLP meeting is the best argt for staying in the party

― ogmor, Sunday, 12 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Reading out some of these WhatsApp messages in the next Labour meeting, as a treat

Hahaha fucking hell

Yes, Ben, seems right to me. Always felt like the Party machine opposed my pro-public NHS & social care policies between 2010 & 2015. Not sure I had even-handed treatment from them in either the 2010 or 2015 leadership elections. https://t.co/TnURFisaah

— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) April 12, 2020

I think even in just cold electoral terms the party is deeply fucked and Starmer doesn't have the clarity to see what he needs to do or the strength to go through with it, but I think it will be an Interesting Experience

Actually Andy Burnham....otm? Throughout that thread?

This is the thing that has always been my undoing: I’m a loyal Labour man. If I’d rebelled & spoken out more, life would probably have worked out differently.

— Andy Burnham (@AndyBurnhamGM) April 12, 2020

He's had a good year or two. Still feel Burnham might make another push for leader when it seems like a better job than mayor i.e. 8+ years

He seems p popular round here

Btw if I was Starmer (as regular readers of this thread will know i am recently ousted vampire John Rentoul MR Seumas Milne) id be looking at this and planning a clearout. If the wreckers went after Burnham and Corbyn, he’s on borrowed time too.

And Ed Miliband - who convinced KS to stand fit Holborn and St Pancras in the first place!

Given how egregious the comments are and how well proper disciplinaries/a purge will play with demographics who do not trust starmer and may not even vote labour again it seems a no brainer... but who knows

I regret to inform you the centrist music journalists are at it again. I've had to unfollow one of our ILX colleagues because his feed is full of the cunts crowing away

I am really very happy with the heavy Twitter pruning I did after the election, have not seen any of that.

Col so far otm i hurt myself shouting at the screen about how otm you was

now brexit and jeremy crobyn are just very slight insignificant details of history what can a pathetic bullshit melt with frazzled brain do with their time anymore?

what if we all just join the lib dems en masse? a plan so birdbrained and flawed, it might just work...... https://t.co/eoqCShd1TO

— tristandross (@tristandross) April 12, 2020

let's take over teh libdems fer laugh!

And Ed Miliband - who convinced KS to stand fit Holborn and St Pancras in the first place!

I regret to inform you the centrist music journalists are at it again. I've had to unfollow one of our ILX colleagues because his feed is full of the cunts crowing away

you can still order his authoritative and peerless George Orwell book on AMAZON though!

the lad knows politics and shit 90s straight white boy music

god he was such a condescending slimeball cunt on here.. really feel pity for any of his irl ilxer pals!

actually it's not that one. afaik the music journalists never posted to ilx, but the ilx poster isn't a music journalist, just someone who likes to collect them as FB friends

they are crowing about the antisemitism investigation

But...why? The report shows a lot of the complaints were vexatious, and although there were tons of legitimate complaints, they were backed up by wads of evidence that the complaints were soft-pedalled for factional reasons. Anyone who cares about antisemitism should find this report to be a fucking outrage.