have you quit the labour party yet?

Odds were neck and neck at first but briefcase is drifting

As I said earlier in the thread, if it was down to the working class voters (traditional Labour voters, you might say) Corbyn would win in a cakewalk but I don't trust the Guardian reading liberals in the constituency.

Just in case though Corbyn canvassers should be making the point to waverers that one less Labour MP isn't going to mean five more years of Tory government.

A Labour candidate for a seat in east London is being investigated over an allegation of sexual harassment.
Cllr Darren Rodwell, the leader of Barking and Dagenham Council and Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Barking, has been accused of “inappropriate touching” of the hands and legs of an attendee at an event last month.

The investigation emerged at the same time as a BBC report claiming Mr Rodwell asked police not to respond if they were contacted by a resident he was planning to confront at their home.
Mr Rodwell claimed he used official systems to find the address of the person who had threatened him online.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-candidate-barking-darren-rodwell-investigation-b2555315.html

(this is the 'worst tan for a black man' guy btw)

― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Monday, 3 June 2024 13:07 (one hour ago)

The thing that's not being spotted around all the selection outrage is that the new Labour parliamentary party is going to have *a lot* of talent in it. Plenty of really impressive people standing.

The Guardian-reading liberal vote will be split between Lab, Lib Dem and Green, with the latter two parties taking slightly more than their 2019 totals.

I’m quite hopeful for Feinstein’s numbers in Holborn and St Pancras because there are promising amounts of white lefties in addition to thousands of cross Muslims who do not want to vote for Changed Labour.

Labour 1.002, Feinstein 51, Green/Reform/LD 201

Not looking good, from this vantage point at least

Where are you getting these numbers?

bet365

Sorry, should have put the actual link

https://www.bet365.com/#/AC/B157/C20721929/D1/E102045762/F2/

I'm sorry to say I think Feinstein has no chance of winning, but if he can shrink the leader of the labour party's share significantly and embarrassingly in his own back yard it will have been worth it.

I can see anti-trans SDP and anti-trans Workers Party now both have candidates lined up in my own constituency. The (local councillor) Green guy is the only one I could conceivably vote for at this point.

Anvil I think I preferred you posting vague questions that betray zero understanding of foreign politics over these constant betting odds. Nobody asked.

Maybe update us about how Russell Brand’s conversion is sincere again, that was a good one.

Anvil loves a bet.

The size of the political betting market is tiny btw, odds are only offered for publicity purposes. The bookies don't have any particular inside track, nor do they care very much

you'd think Kieth might be kind enough to share their private polling, focus group feedback, insider gossip etc.. with bet365, one of the shitheel companies (disclosed after he'd won) who donated to his leadership office, to pay for biggest fucking campaign mailouts in Labour Party history!

The late Dawn Foster won £4k when one of the betting shops gave her 200/1 on Corbyn winning the leadership in 2015, before nominations started.

<3 good on her! Dawn was one of the best. I wish I'd done the same, but would never have rated his chances of getting on the ballot at that stage, even though I generally always go for longshots. The joke on here at the time was Hitler... Hitler... and Hitler.

Starmer has lost ilx favourite + self-confessed Blairite/Labour right-winger, Michael Crick! He won't be voting for Labour and is furious at Morgan McSweeney, who he thinks has massively overreached with all these twattish NEC appointed MPs + he could be Starmer's DomCum in govt. I wonder if he voted for Corbz, which would be quite amusing now that he's said he's not voting for Starmer.

He's a big tent believer.

Funnily enough, Dawn rented a room from him for a while.

Not a big tent?

Faiza Shaheen, the Labour leftwinger who was blocked from standing as the party’s candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green, has announced that she has resigned from the party. In a statement posted on X, she says that she has faced “a relentless campaign of unfair treatment, bullying and hostility” and that that the party’s decision to block her shows the views of local members “mean nothing” to the party’s leadership. She goes on:

I cannot, in all conscience, continue to contribute to a party that seems to think so little of people like me and has moved so far away from my values.

Shaheen has already she is considering running as an independent in the constituency and she says she will make a further announcement about her next steps tomorrow.

is she going to post in the thread then?

What?

about quitting the labour party

might have to settle for a much lower calibre of pol-celeb when ilx lurker Michael Crick logs on

oh lol

is she going to post in the thread then?

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I am posting for her!

I won’t rest until baggymp posts itt

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xp he hasn’t scrobbled in over two years but the comment box is still a treat

https://www.last.fm/user/baggymp

new antisemitism crisis for Labour

"They have abandoned very much of their Jewish identity. They don't go to shul at all. It's become a purely cultural thing around a bowl of chicken soup."

This shocking clip shows Labour GE candidate Luke Akehurst, a non-Jew, launching an antisemitic rant about non-Zionist Jews. pic.twitter.com/jDm7QKBYCZ

— Red Collective (@RedCollectiveUK) June 5, 2024

to seasoned Akehurst haters this is just his standard shtick, he would need to employ a crack team of social media cleaners to conceal how much his prolific online racism has gone on unchecked by the Labour Party for over a decade. Could you imagine if a left-wing white English member of the party had decided they were an arbiter of what constitutes Jewishness and were filmed making anti-Semitic comments in public.

No-one in the media seems interested in any of this. Unfortunately. Luke Akehurst MP in a few weeks time.

fucking hope not

5th July will feel terrible. Our enemies will have (temporarily) won :-(

The aftermath will be worse because they will definitely go after all those left wing MPs they were shamed into reselecting.

People like Sultana, Begum can always turn into Indy MPs if it gets to that.

By the end of the parliament it won't matter as things get even worse.

Can he remain on the NEC if he’s an MP?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/06/labour-drops-lawsuit-against-ex-staffers-accused-of-leaking-antisemitism-report

I thought pissing away over a million bucks on a frivolous and vindictive lawsuit that you're never going to win was what Donald Trump did, not the UK Labour Party.

A Labour MP and former shadow cabinet member reacts by criticising the selection of Alex Barros-Curtis, the head of Labour's legal unit, as a Labour candidate in the general election on basis he has "wasted eye-watering sums"

This is really useful. Could Mr Akehurst set himself up as a gatekeeper we could go to, to find out if we qualify as being Jewish? Perhaps he could have a checklist that he could go through with us and then he could decide whether we could have the certificate or not.

— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) June 5, 2024

Big columbo moment when I read this https://t.co/prOxfl2JhF pic.twitter.com/7NFKbIFJQx

— Babble (@Babble____) June 6, 2024

forensic twitter detective confirms what Tim Shipman and Mrs Starmer already knew

#noweddingringtruther

People like Sultana, Begum can always turn into Indy MPs if it gets to that.

Agree with this. More independent MPs would be good in general, reduce the hold all the parties have if voters punished them for these moves by sticking with their MP over the party more

Having published several anti-Corbyn screeds by David Bennun and Taylor Parkes, the meltiness of the Quietus was never in doubt, but still

I campaigned for Faiza at the last election and would have done so again (with reservations) this time around. Standing as an independent is a really bad idea that risks splitting the vote and allowing Iain Duncan Smith, one of the worst Tories in my lifetime, to get back in. pic.twitter.com/WvGz07qyYS

— Luke Turner (@LukeTurnerEsq) June 5, 2024

That kind of solidifies it for me. Its not only a good idea for her (and others) to stand as independents, to some degree its incumbent on them to do so, to curtail party bureaucracy from making these kinds of decisions

Labour clearly think unseating IDS is less important than being racist cunts, maybe that’s something that can be interrogated idk