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Re: Labour leader.

#61 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:27 pm

Fox, actually they needed so many candidates they had to recruit people who had actually had a job. They made much of Blyth Man having worked in the NHS.

Also, apparently BJ impressed the fish workers in Grimsby by actually lifting and carrying fish boxes and also a Cod, all the others strictly hands behind their backs.

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#62 Post by OFSO » Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:07 am

Someone last night said Diane Abbott was "special needs" and everyone laughed. Don't understand...

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#63 Post by 4mastacker » Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:24 pm

Clive Lewis has thrown his hat in the ring - he was one of those who indulged in some unseemly behaviour at the Speaker's chair when Parliament was prorogued in September.
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#64 Post by Sisemen » Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:12 am

Face like a smashed crab =))
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Re: Labour leader.

#65 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:00 am

Well, lessons were learnt . . .

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Re: Labour leader.

#66 Post by ian16th » Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:36 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:00 am
Well, lessons were learnt . . .
If you look at the hats in the ring for Corbyn's job, it appears that the PLP hasn't learnt a thing.

IMNSHO The people that are sufficiently motivated to join the Labour Party, are by definition, well to the left of the voters that they need to attract to get labour candidates elected.
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#67 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:16 am

Ian, I thought you knew the collary, the RAF has used it for over 40 years - lessons have been learnt but we will carry on as before.

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Re: Labour leader.

#68 Post by barkingmad » Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:31 am

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:57 pm
I do feel sorry for the workers. Their party has been hijacked by marxists to play grown-up student politics. The lib dems are what happens when you let a middle class dinner party where too much drink has flowed get any power. And the Tories are still mainly a bunch of privileged tossers who wouldn't be seen dead outside a chippy except during an election campaign. Who represents the workers now? They'll have to start a new party.
Fox, was this to what you referred? Also it’s a relatively early example of identity politics spotted long before the latest plague of PC and ‘snowflake’ Stasi!



Also for light relief is their dinner party discussing the Mayoral Election. =))

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#69 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:33 am

Exactly! =))
Or this

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#70 Post by 4mastacker » Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:57 pm

The result of a Britain Elects poll on the Labour leadership contest.
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Burgon was looking at a print-out of the results and thought he was near the top until it was pointed out that he was holding it upside down.
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#71 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:02 pm

And the other 63% said Jeremy?

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#72 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:03 pm

So the remaining 63% want who? Coco the Clown? At least he's a professional clown.

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#73 Post by llondel » Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:14 am

Most of the other 63% were Tory supporters who are happy to have Corbyn as leader because it helps return a Tory government.

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#74 Post by AtomKraft » Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:52 am

Let the chattering classes amuse themselves with choosing a new head girl.

In a loony bin, it doesn't matter much which loony is the senior loony.

What matters is who is head Doctor, and the loonys aren't allowed to apply for that position!

The position of senior loony is only of interest to the other lunatics.

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#75 Post by barkingmad » Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:42 am

Ed Miliband to join review of Labour's election failure https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50888060

The maestro of bacon sandwich eating and of how to lose an election in one quick lesson is now riding to the rescue?

Presumably his brother David will exercise his talents as a wheel in “International Rescue” (Thunderbirds fictional organisation?) and also come galloping to the aid of the ailing Party?

There’s gotta be heaps of comedy sitcom scripts to be derived from the previous few years of UK pollyticks but maybe just better to try and forget it all and move onwards to the sunlit uplands (cont’d on page 94).

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#76 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Tue Dec 24, 2019 12:12 pm

Steve is the only Millerband who can possibly save the Labour Party....

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#77 Post by barkingmad » Mon Dec 30, 2019 9:32 am

“Wrong-Daily” quoted on MSM this morning as having been one of Jewemy’s principal strategists over the last while so don’t expect anything new and radical and sensible to emerge from that direction if she wins the vote.

Clive Lewis was allowed to speak and banged on and on about nothing in particular to the extent that the BBC(!) interviewer had difficulty terminating the monologue.

When Greta was about to speak alas my radio suffered a temporary malfunction in the volume........

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Re: Labour leader.

#78 Post by OFSO » Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:09 am

At least one of the 'candidates' for leadership, Long Bailey, has said that (after three months thinking about it) she can't decide whether to throw her hat in the ring or not. Obviously a decision-maker following in Corbyn's footsteps.

She should consider changing her name to a long Bailey's Irish Cream. A pleasant drink...

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Re: Labour leader.

#79 Post by om15 » Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:21 am

It seems that the best solution would be for any moderate sensible labour party members (are there any left) to decamp and join the lib dems, now that their embarrassing and child like leader is blown out perhaps they could regroup and become a useful opposition.
This would leave the current labour party run by momentum and comprising of 1970 trade unionists, anti Semites, Marxists, women and the deranged, completely unelectable and about as relevant to UK politics as the SNP.

I fear that it might now be impossible to clean out the Labour Party, if they are inviting Ed Miliband to tell them where they have gone wrong there is little hope, Jumbo Thornbury is another labour leader candidate, she has to be one of the most off putting candidates possible.

Fate gave us Jeremy Corbyn which guaranteed a massive Tory landslide, it appears to be still smiling on us.

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#80 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:55 am

I don't think any of those involved are actually idiots. They all know what's wrong, they are unelectably too far Left. The problem is that they won't fix it in one Parliament because there are far too many Momentum members in the Party structure. The next leader will have to get rid of them, will succeed at that but too late to win the next election, and so will be dumped. None of the current leadership candidates want to be that leader, even if like the last one (Kinnock) they get a First Class seat on the Gravy Train as compensation. All the candidates people are proposing are quite young. They all want to be Blair, not Kinnock; they all want to be PM.

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