Wow … Hopefully you’re being ironic?
One feels that one day, we’re going to get the motherlode of posts from TedMaul.
It’ll be comprehensible and precisely no-one will need the Mind Reading Helmet of Knowledge +5.
Today is not that day.
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Ouch! 
Now that the leadership contest is done and dusted, it’s probably worth reflecting on what a massive victory Corbyn has just won, and what he has had to overcome to do it. Remember the early days of the chicken coup? The staggered resignations, the symbolic vote of no confidence from his own MPs, the attempt to “break him as a man” on the Monday evening following Hillary Benn’s sacking?
Once the bullying angle had failed with Corbyn, administrative and legal paths were pursued to prevent Corbyn from getting on the ballot, while the media was employed to legitimise the idea that there was any grey area in the first place. He managed to stave off his own party plus a private court case brought by Michael Foster, to stay on the ballot.
The vast majority of MPs were telling their members to vote in support of Owen Smith. The electorate was cynically shrunk to exclude new members, thought to be Corbyn supporters. The £3 supporter’s levy was raised to £25 in order to keep poorer peeps from voting.
The final days of the campaign were dogged with more accusations of antisemitism, which seems to be a persistent angle of attack these days.
Despite all that, Corbyn increased his mandate. And here’s the thing. So many people did not get to vote, either because they were suspended or just didn’t receive a ballot. His true mandate is probably closer to 75%-80%.
A huge victory against some fairly powerful forces. Thought that worth noting.
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Don’t read Nick Cohen in the Guardian/Observer or the ginger haired twat. It continues with a fury.
To put things into perspective it is also worth noting that more paid up members of the party had their votes stolen from them, for various spurious reasons, than voted for Owen Smith.
This week the noble Lord Mandelson gave an interview in which he expressed the wish that May would call an early general election so that Corbyn could be got rid of once and for all. In other words he wants the party of which he is a member to lose the election, and it can be taken as read that he would use his position to actively campaign for this. Alistair Campbell has also expressed similar views. Yet there are no calls for them to be ‘purged’. So tweeting ‘I fucking love the Foo Fighters’ is beyond the pale and grounds for suspension of voting rights, but publicly campaigning against the interests of the party by ‘grandees’ in a position of influence is not! Laughable!
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I’ve also wondered about this. I would go even further and suggest there are MP’s that have put themselves in a position where they could quite easily be expelled from the party, if their comments and actions were looked at under party rules. Also anyone associated with progress should be automatically expelled. They have released multiple statements about how to undermine the leader(and consequently work for the tories). An article today from them saying the are calling out to the 300,000 members that disagree with Corbyn. How do they reach this figure? Are they including the people they stopped from voting? Going to be a shock, if that’s what they think.
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If I was Corbyn I would go for Operation Big Red Broom and expel every one of the motherfuckers.
Offer the olive branch and if it’s not grasped, beat the fuck out of them with it.
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I would also dress better.
Originally posted by @Goatboy
I would also dress better.
I think the days of Labour leaders with 50 quid haircuts and Armani suits spouting right wing Tory policies are consigned to the pages of history. Thankfully!
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Is right. It would be a huge shame to lose the new shadow cabinet.
A deal on shadow cabinet elections will not be settled before November andJeremy Corbyn insists that allies who filled major posts in July will not be moved whatever compromise is struck, according to sources close to the negotiations.
The Labour leader believes he will be in a position to have a fully functioning new shadow cabinet by the start of parliament on 10 October without needing to offer the parliamentary party a deal on the election of posts.
Corbyn’s praise in his Liverpool conference speech of those who came to his aid when more than 60 frontbenchers resigned this summer irritated former shadow cabinet ministers but has set the tone for behind-the-scenes talks on the make-up of the frontbench.
Jackie Walker, suspended for a second time. This is the talk that she was suspended for. Cannot help that this is coming to a head. Either society has a proper chat about antisemitism, or we never discuss it again.
I don’t see much wrong with what she’s said.
Diane Abbot gets shadow home Secretary job. Is this a wise move? She wouldn’t be my choice for such a prominent position.
There has to be some reward for putting out in the past
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I don’t mind Diane Abbott. She’s a hypocrite. She sometimes says stupid things. She’s human. In one sense, her appointment could be inspired. Having a BAME Home Secretary will be interesting, may even win votes. Unfortunately I think she could be something of a liability.
She got the job for a couple of reasons. First, Corbyn has to get women into his shadow cabinet. Second, she has been incredibly loyal and probably deserves a shot at it for that purpose. That said, if she’s a liability, possibly best to give her a different brief.
Perhaps the bigger news is that the chief whip Rosie Winterton was sacked. To be replaced by a Corbyn ally, Brown.
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Shami Chakrabati is Shadow Attorney General. That’s delicious. I think it’s a canny move that carries an element of danger. She is already being smeared for apparently producing a whitewash as her report into antisemitism. Hugely capable, I’d back her not only to face down any storm before the General Election, but also (shock of shocks) think she’d guide good law.
And “bang”, Corbyn’s decided to commit suicide by putting that fuckwit Abbott in the Home Secretary chair. Jesus H Christ.
That’s rather intemperate political language, Mr Cherts. Perhaps you’d like to enumerate your concerns in a substantive manner.
I’ve never liked her, mainly because of the fact she’s spent the last 10 years making a tit out of herself on Newsnight, and in pretty much every interview she gives on TV. I see her as the female equivalent of Red Ken.
Great. I’m sure everyone’s political IQs just multiplied. Thanks, Cherts!