Priti Patel as International Development Minister. Who weeks earlier looked to abolished the department and criticised the UK as being “workshy”. Why promote her, it’s a statement.
Priti Patel advocating the death penalty
Yeah yeah. Mountain bike! We all know JC got hold of him!
Don’t give him ideas. I can see tomorrows Guardian headline already,followed by hourly stories on other people he has beaten.
Still, at least he seems happy about it.
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Wonder how long he waited at A and E?
Really?
Just curious.
edit: ah… I see he wasn’t here.
I’m guessing he’s got medical insurance
Wonder what his premiums are like?
I’ve been musing on one of Smith’s central claims. It’s not a new one. It’s the repeated insistence that Labour can’t do anything without power, justifying the sort of grubby compromises that were made by Blair’s team to get into government.
Was inspired by Paul Mason’s claim that the only reason that the coup was launched is because he is electable and this was the rebels’ last chance to get him out.
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couple of typos:
2nd paragraph: “the mantras needs to be countered”: should be need
3rd paragraph: “that seems only to happy to collude.” should be too happy to collude.
6th paragraph: “many of them with secured with percentage swings?” extra ‘with’
You’re welcome 
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Cheers GB. Keeping me in with a semblance of looking competent there 
Nice to see the train story is still going. I do believe someone mentioned this before.
More developments, or more accurately, a long-planned change taking place.
Two hundred Labour seats – more than 85% of the party’s total – could be affected by a review of parliamentary boundaries due next month, with up to 30 constituencies held by the party being abolished altogether, according to a detailed analysis of the review’s likely impact.
The Guardian covers this a little, but having checked out the maps of the seats under quota (those likely to be changed), it includes a significant number of RW Labour MPs.
All of Liverpool looks under quota, which is one of the first places the LP right wing like to push their preferred children into.
When will they learn? All the smears are getting thrown back in their faces, at an accelerating pace. Surely they understand that people can now check the facts very easily(and will). People also have a bad habit of sharing it when they do. I don’t understand a plan that seems to be: Lie, smear and sneer.
I know a lot of people don’t see it yet, but the public sharing info is becoming more and more important in their decision making. I generally get more info from the comment sections in the press than i do from the article(admittedly you have to trawl through a fair amount of shit).
Anyway i look forward to the next installment. Ballot papers have gone out so i’m hoping for lots of sneering from some of the old guard. Will anyone be able to top Blairs “if your heart is with Corbyn, get a transplant” from last time? Classy bloke!
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Learning doesn’t seem to be their strong point. New Labour was never the best of listeners or a good place to offer competing opinions. According to Claire Short, Blair’s style was very much avoiding confrontation within the debates themselves, either having a quiet word himself or sending Alistair Campbell to scream at them.
New Labour just doesn’t listen. It didn’t listen on Iraq and not only took their working class core vote for granted, but also intentionally exacerbated many of the problems. The decision to waive the seven year qualifying period for new entrants, taken deliberately and with an electoral calculus in mind.
They’re not listening to their own members now, yet still cling to the idea that they know best, despite losing millions of voters and eventually, two general elections to a pack of Tories that are even more brazen in their banditry than Thatcher, comprised mostly of the alumni of some elitist schools. You can forgive people for being fooled back in 2010; we didn’t know Cameron back then.
There was no excuse for New Labour’s performance in the 2015 General Election. The Tories, fully unmasked as NHS-scuttlin’ moustache-twirling villains by this point, were entirely attackable. Labour barely tried, talking in terms of which Tory policies they would repeal rather than offering any radical reforms, letting their opponents frame the debate.
I do agree with your point about the raising levels of savvy with the civvies, and as someone that has referred to my fellow countrymen as The Moronic British Public in the past, I am amazed with the changes we’ve seen in the past year alone.
Brexit has been a complete disaster for the credibility of the traditional media. Corbyn’s teaam has successfully opposed the government, but more importantly than that, has changed the way we speak about austerity and has managed to convince the public that its a political choice.
I reckon people forget how bloody “certain” and “inevitable” austerity was, as sold by the Conservatives and every other major party. Cameron was up for permanent austerity. He’s now out of a job, and when Theresa May chose the outfit for her inaugural speech, it was Corbyn’s clobber she tried squeezing into. The change on that one issue alone is huge, and probably feeds into the public distrust of traditonal media.
The huge pain that the public was told was unavoidable, was entirely swervable. Corbyn convinced the country of that within months, causing a Conservative course correction. I’m convinced he can win a general election.
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Pap, all the polling data shows that a Corbyn led Labour Party will be trounced in the next election?
There’s certainly more work to do Ted, if Corbyn wants to win a GE. What’s your view on social media and comment sections in the press for changing people’s views? Surely one of the best way to get someone to take notice of anything, is for someone they know to question it, especially publicly.
Is that not the same Labour party that were ahead in the polls shortly before the coup kicked off?
Smith et al are on the losing side, that’s certain, but they’ll do everything they can do try and damage JC’s credibility along the way. Saying that he is unpopular and can’t galvanise support is a bit stupid given he’s proven he can do that - even after dealing with a year’s worth of squabbling and bitching from his own cabinet!
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