the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

"Thanks to all the comrades who voted for me. I won,despite Momentum’s huge efforts to help Eddie Izzard. I hear Eddie wants to join his politically like-minded mates in Momentum." - Pete Willsman

— CLPD Labour (@CLPD_Labour) September 5, 2018

what a fucking jerkoff, early voters definitely aren't comrades and many of them feel remorse for blindly voting for such an idiot. Momentum need to do a much more thorough screening of their NEC candidates in future.

This is quite good on the dilemma the anti-Corbyn wing of the party is has:

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/09/after-summer-trouble-corbyn-s-grip-labour-stronger-ever

They're never going to win over soft-Corbyn-supporters who might be sympathetic to some of their aims with people like Angell, one of the most aggressively unpleasant people in the party, and Akehurst, whose day job is a lobbyist for Israel and who hasn't drawn breath since 2004 without attacking colleagues he thinks are to the left of him, including Chuka Umunna, leading the charge.

the idea of Akehurst trying to broaden his appeal has me irl lolling!

Talking of winning people over, Joan Ryan is taking her loss of a confidence vote ahead of possible deselection as well as can be expected.

So lost 92 to 94 votes hardly decisive victory and it never occurred to me that Trots Stalinists Communists and assorted hard left would gave confidence in me. I have none in them.

— Joan Ryan MP (@joanryanEnfield) September 6, 2018

This is also somewhat eyebrow-raising from the Northern Ireland Secretary:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/07/karen-bradley-admits-not-understanding-northern-irish-politics

“I freely admit that when I started this job, I didn’t understand some of the deep-seated and deep-rooted issues that there are in Northern Ireland,” Bradley told House magazine, a weekly publication for the Houses of Parliament.

“I didn’t understand things like when elections are fought, for example, in Northern Ireland – people who are nationalists don’t vote for unionist parties and vice versa. So, the parties fight for election within their own community.

christ almighty

waht is "nationalist"

Someone who loves the queen iirc. It’s all very confusing.

hard to believe the Tories would put in post someone so utterly inappropriate for the job

even their so called big beasts are wilfully ignorant on N Ireland.

having just endured Blair, Blunkett and Chris Williamson on the radio. I declare myself politically homeless!

it seems Joan did more than enough to earn that vote of no confidence. I'm sure I heard Robinson say the vote was broadcast live on Israeli tv as evidence of Labour's continued antisemitism.

the crassness and entitlement of declaring oneself "politically homeless" while actual real people are left to rot on the streets

I totally agree, was joking ftr!

although I found the existential angst of Blunkett and Blair much more fun than Williamson's triumphalist shrillness.

oh yes I know!

Gavin Shuker also lost a no-confidence vote last night, having spent the last two weeks talking up the possibility of Labour MPs going off to form their own party.

he's no Chris Shuker - one of my star signings on FM 06!

the gathering pace of these votes of no confidence is becoming quite a rush!

i really hope blair is suffering under the weight of crushing existential angst but somehow i doubt it

perhaps the least guilty-feeling catholic in all of history

not for his crimes against humanity, but he feels deep angst for the state of his "Labour Family" and what these ppl are doing to it.

must be awful to have your party hijacked by monsters who have no connection to its principals or history oh wait

Too busy talking oil pipelines with kleptocrats and far-right Italian politicians to have much time to reflect.

I know he pops up occasionally to deliver homilies on how Labour / Britain / Europe / the West has Lost Its Way but there's something quite impressive about how he has chucked in any attempt at reputation management / legacy-building to chase that sweet Central Asian $$$$$$.

just an honest working class boy getting some much-deserved remuneration from the opportunities his political skillz have earned him

a couple of years back he wound up his Windrush company, which I think specialised in providing PR to dictators and he announced he had work to do in UK politics. It seems only the BBC + The Graun actually still take the dickhead seriously these days, so he's given up!

Bless the Labour First and Progress people trying to convince the world that Labour took a sharp unpleasant turn when the Blairites were marginalised in the same week as Blair, who clearly dgaf, is pictured beaming with his arm around the guy who said Italy needed to be ‘cleansed street by street; piazza by piazza’ of Roma ppl.

Stephen Kinnock just can't keep his mouth shut

Colonel Gadaffi, President Assad, the government in Azerbaijan and now Salvini. Hell of a track record of encouraging "sensible politics" there!

my man likes strong leaders cuz he sees himself in them

Idk, do we think stephen kinnock et al, the progress, 'politically homeless' lot, are facepalming at blair, or is their hero worship toi strong?

Too strong

it seems to be a convenient blind spot to many of them, including.. [redacted bad taste joke].

missed this compelling evidence for a logan's run approach to population control a couple of days ago:

How the next general election would look if only 18-24s were allowed to vote (Data from @YouGov, 28-29th August). I'm expecting some great GIFs, everyone...

LAB: 66%, 600 Seats
LDM: 13%, 21 Seats
CON: 12%, 0 Seats
GRN: 4%, 1 Seat
SNP: 3%, 9 Seats
PLC: 0.4%, 1 Seat pic.twitter.com/CxaL1oBJ9u

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) September 4, 2018

as soon as people start getting into their 40's they start hankering for things like inadequately funded Local Authorities, more homeless ppl living on the streets, abandoned and dying disabled people, zero hour contracts etc... Their priorities change!

just caught 2 seconds of Vince Cable being given BBC airtime for some inexplicable reason. do these cunts honestly not recognize that since the political climate in this country has shifted hard to the right over the last 40 years the notion of being a "moderate" means approving and colluding with this shift, or do they actually realize this but don't care because they're self-serving Tories in disguise?

You have to respect the Lib Dems for staying on brand even when they're resigning: never knowingly principled or coherent. https://t.co/dkSWmyGxo8

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) September 7, 2018

self-serving Tories in disguise

The STD Party.

missed this compelling evidence for a logan's run approach to population control a couple of days ago:

IRL LOL @ this.

Who in the name of fuck decided Chris Williamson should be Labour's go-to guy on all media fronts? Corbz out.

he's a total liability and a truly ghastly K Livingstone apologist. The last sort of PR Labour need right now ffs!

Well done to the Love EU crowd for being the ones to agitate for deselection for Kate Hoey and Frank Field so now the rest of the membership can get rid of the "moderates".

Joan Ryan's "Trots Stalinists Communists" quip is interesting in the light of her recommending "show trials" for any MPs who opposed Blair on the Iraqi invasion, back in the day. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

Somehow I don’t think Labour comms are the ones putting up Williamson for talking head spots.

Same as it ever was </soz>

Damage limitation exercise by Boris and the Sun, I reckon, get it out there before someone else does and hope it goes away...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/10C36/production/_103326686_sun-front-page-for-07_09_20.jpg

BLOATED BLOND BASTARD BID BYE BYE

Williamson probably the Labour MP most likely to lose his seat at the next GE even before the bad antics of the last 12 months.

Somehow I don’t think Labour comms are the ones putting up Williamson for talking head spots.

I wish I could believe that.

He'll be the go-to pro-Corbyn pick across the media from now on and he's so damaging they should just ban him from speaking to anyone at all, including his own constituents.

To be honest if anyone in the country other than his wife had been at all bothered by BJ's serial infidelities then the last decade or so of British politics would have looked very different.

"Luton South MP Gavin Shuker said he was "sorry a handful of people" wanted to overturn his 2017 win."

he lost his vote of no confidence by 33-3!

anyone got any men in black style mind-erasers to tackle the revival of the phrase "BONKING BORIS"?