Go on then, who do you reckon will win? The Labour Leadership contest, that is...

xp also a reminder that, for all that Blair is the greater evil, it was Brown that came up with "hard working families" as the only unit of political merit.

'British jobs for British workers', another of his greatest hits.

He was also responsible for the "Hits Greatest Stiffs" album title. True, dat..

lol

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11808589/Yvette-Cooper-Andy-Burnham-is-too-similar-to-Jeremy-Corbyn-and-must-step-aside.html

URL says it all.

that sort of comic instinct deserves a place in the spotlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZsYvkTw4Rg

work to be proud of, newsnight

Terry Dicks may have been an awful racist bigot, but at least he wouldn't have put up with crap like this:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/tory-mp-shelbrooke-vows-to-wear-onesie-for-commons-vote-1-6373367

jeez, didn't realise that Dicks is still alive

Purges be happenin'..

Show trials next.

Peter Mandelson as judge and executioner.

Aug 21 1940 - Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky fatally wounded by Stalinist agent in exile.

Never forget..

Owen Hatherley was rejected as an entryist despite, in his words, never having "been a member of anything other than the NUJ and Crohn's & Colitis Society".

They also managed to block someone who stood for election for them in May.

maybe i'm secluded in my world of entryist people but it does seem that naebdy's getting in

That stable door is well bolted, for sure.

Any journalists looking into rejections, does anyone know?

Some guy on twitter is building a DB to get some numbers etc.

Owen Jones & George Monbiot seem to be involved with that too, at least in terms of publicising it.

Yeah looks like it will be reported on..

Yeah, just spotted mention of the guy with the database. Going to pass this info on.

http://labouroflatte.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/purge-away.html

http://i.imgur.com/JRDwEap.jpg?1

You too could be called a star by the compliance unit.

pay £3 for full stasi privileges

they're handling this more clumsily than metallica faced illegal downloading

Blair-Iraq levels of mishandling imo

wau

the lack of foresight to allow just anyone to put in a few quid online and then be able to vote in the leadership election, compounded by the heavy-handed and incompetent policing of said campaign really beggars belief.

incredible stuff

xp am i right in thinking that format was one of ed miliband's gestures to the left, making labour a party of the people again etc etc? and what a disaster for the plp that it actually worked

I think it was a gesture to the right - there was a panic a few years ago about the influence of unions over the leadership (lol) so they ditched the electoral college and went to one member one vote with union members having to opt in rather than being counted automatically.

Yeah, it was an attempt to placate the right by limiting the power of the unions in the choosing of a leader... blown up in their faces hilariously.

As someone suggested upthread it is deffo a timely period to re-watch Bleasdale's GBH and it has aged very well.

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The Stalinist bot that runs ILX has blocked that email! :-)

have those voting received their ballot emails yet? i haven't.

lol.

To go back to the thread's initial question, the only person in Labour who looks anything like a winner from this colossal clusterfuck is Chris Mullin, cos A Very British Coup is getting some hustle.

Incidentally, I like to imagine the Compliance Unit calling people 'Star' in Jamaican patois

disagree, Corbyn has played this far better than i expected so far, whatever the outcome

Chris Mullin is a fucking idiot.

:-/ u ok hun?

Corbyn has played this far better than i expected so far, whatever the outcome

I agree. He has done very well. I like that he hasn't got involved in personal sniping with his critics and opponents. But this Iraq war apology thing is a mis-step in my opinion. Not that people mocking him on Twitter for it can hurt him, but such an 'official apology', if enacted, would be the kind of empty gesture or feelgood PR move that I was impressed that he seemed to want to get away from.

kinda want to mail a list of people to that labour address. gerry adams, david cameron, jan moir, john terry.

xp

the apology for the war is part of distancing himself and, if he's leader, the Labour party from the soon-to-be-very-discredited-indeed Blair administration. it might just be for show but it's also a neat reminder that some of his fellow candidates are nicely implicated in that bullshit.

i kinda think it looks bad though, he clearly wasn't responsible. i don't think people are associating it with him.

the apology for the war is part of distancing himself and, if he's leader, the Labour party from the soon-to-be-very-discredited-indeed Blair administration. it might just be for show but it's also a neat reminder that some of his fellow candidates are nicely implicated in that bullshit.

I see what you mean. But needs to be handled carefully so it doesn't seem too sentimental and feelgoody. But do you see Corbyn being able (if he became PM) to extricate Britain from (or lessen) its participation in such wars in the future? Presumably that is what he would want.

i don't see any public appetite for foreign adventures so i don't think it would be hard to refuse any invitations that didn't come through the UN. it's not like we rode into Iraq on a wave of popular jingoism in the first place.

True. There's Islamic State, though. Not sure how that's going to end up. Incidentally, haven't heard much about the main military side of that recently (only the beheading of that archaeologist the other day; and the recent Turkish air attacks).

I think the idea of the apology is fucking sweet, but then I read it as an exercise in rubbing these New Labour cunts noses in it, and I am all about that.

Next step, arrest warrants for Blair, Jack Straw etc etc.

I think the idea of the apology is fucking sweet ... Next step, arrest warrants for Blair, Jack Straw etc etc.

Yes, I'm changing my mind now. Better move than I thought.