:labour: New Old Labour in trouble

Q: “Why do men think with their dicks?”
A: “Because they haven’t got enough blood to service their brains and their erections at the same time.”

Danczuk wouldn’t be the first bloke to be caught with his pants down. That said, someone in his position should be mindful of the responsibilities he has, not sexting seventeen year olds one-handed.

Now I know that in the age of internet porn, calling any bloke a wanker is an exercise in redundancy. Not this bloke; I feel it needs pointing out on this occasion :lou_wink_2:

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The long-rumoured reshuffle is underway. We’ll see who keeps their jobs. An unnamed Labour MP on the right of the party that if Benn is demoted, mass resignations will follow.

HuffPostUK Politics Retweeted Graeme Demianyk@ GraemeDemianyk 7m7 minutes ago

Corbyn tells reporters to do one http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/04/corbyn-cabinet-reshuffle-revenge-reporters_n_8911368.html?1451922827

Michael Dugher is first to go. He’s having a little whine about it on Twitter, but seems to be inhabiting some alternate universe where it is okay to badmouth your colleagues and boss without getting sacked.

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Another big milestone this for Corbyn. Either sack the dissidents and threaten splitting the party for good, followed by an internal coup, or keep them in there and face constant undermining from his own cabinet. I actually feel sorry for him to be honest.

Yeah, what’s the point in giving them a free vote if you’re going to get upset when they don’t vote how you want them to?

Didn’t realise that Labour were offering a “vote” on whether Corbyn was running a religious cult or not. Restricted to Syria, I believe.

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That’s the second time you’ve baffled me with a response to a post of mine!

The reshuffle is being mooted as “revenge” reshuffle, partly for the people that have openly criticised him (fair enough) and partly for the people that voted for air strikes in Syria (Hilary Benn). Am I missing something else?

The point is that Dugher is getting sacked for more than his stance on Syria. He was interviewed over the weekend and described the party as a religious cult.

And seriously, don’t get your knickers in a twist over a term the media invent. Do you honestly think anyone, even the hardest left Labour acolyte going, would brief on those terms? What possible benefit would they derive from labelling it as such?

It’s a media invention and while I can’t escape the smell of shit, I can elect not to smear it into my understanding.

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My knickers are perfectly straight and confortable thanks. I was unaware of Dugher’s comments so had not context for your reply.

Maybe a re-alignment reshuffle might be better wording, that is he is re-aligning his cabinet with his perspectives and viewpoints.

Here’s a list of recent juicy quotes that probably helped Dugher get the sack.

Who? Waiting for some names I know. Maybe I should go to a conference soon so I know who is who a bit more.

A wag on the #reshuffle hashtag gently inquired as to whether anyone else had heard of Michael Dugher before today.

Conference would be fun.

I think some people have very different definitions of fun…

Shall we go? I’ve been to two. One in Glasgow (young people and women one) and one in Brighton (proper one).

Once you have sat through a day of speeches then there are lots of interesting fringe events. I ended up at a party for some Caribbean country meeting the premier of said country. Great fun. Cannot remember name of country or return to hotel. So must have been great. :wink:

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The Shadow Cabinet is dead, long live the Sahdow Cabinet

Hillary keeps his job after agreeing to “conditions” or did he?

I bet the mainstream media are going Whoop de Woo over this. It detracts from Cameron’s difficulties and weakness in kowtowing to some of his own ministers re the referendum.

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Apparently agreed to six point plan for moving forward. Needs to resign if he has another difference with Corbyn on foreign policy. Think the main thing was to stop the the Shadow Cabinet from briefing against the leadership. I reckon they’ve probably identified the worst of them, got shot, and read Hilary Benn the riot act.

If he has another disagreement, he goes.

That’s a good result for everyone, I reckon. Benn isn’t PM material. The FB group “Hillary Benn for Labour Leader” has 51 members, total. His FB page has 1.7K likes. Perhaps I’ll start believing the spin when he’s anywhere close to Corbyn in perceived public popularity. Until then, I’ll treat him as a not-Corbyn candidate puffed up by the media as something he isn’t.

Corbyn’s FB page has 463K likes, FWIW.

I think the general election should be done via Facebook from now on.

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