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

Surely the main revenue stream for such a book doesn’t come from the fewer than 500 copies sold to the public, but from getting serialisation/excerpt dosh from a paper. Or a buy-in that’s given free with Progress subs.

god imagine the state of the fucking mutants who would willingly pay money to read the collected thoughts of stephen kinnock

actually i dunno if I can imagine them, do they even exist?

Frank Field seemed to have been knocking out a book a year since the 70's, the flow of great knowledge is far more important than profit in this strange realm!

The prevailing theory is that it’s a pamphlet that will be given away as a free PDF like Tristram Hunt’s heavily-trailed opus.

If you thought Ten Cities That Made an Empire was fucking riveting, this one will really have you bouncing off the walls!

Momentum clean sweep in the NEC election again.

Izzard unable to beat Willsman but closest of the bunch.

Great minds think alike:

absolutely howling that Stephen Kinnock and Will Straw's new centrist book uses the exact same cover as Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell's old libertarian fantasy manifesto pic.twitter.com/Gne49vN2m9

— Alex Sakalis (@alexsakalis) September 3, 2018

cover image available here: https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/vector/making-a-new-uk-gm525016070-92310513

Kinnock and Straw, together at last. It's like a nightmare.

The Willsman thing is very depressing but I guess a lot of the votes were cast some time ago?

Yes, people would normally have voted weeks beforehand.

It’s a good reason to look at who makes up the left slate in future, and how that’s decided, but not particularly significant in itself.

Possibly not weeks, actually, but certainly some time beforehand. It takes about thirty seconds to vote and a lot of people would do it more or less as soon as the ballot opens.

A few people who’ve repeatedly said they’re leaving Labour are now really, definitely leaving Labour because Willsman was elected. Does anyone think he’ll decline his own election and cede the position to Izzard?

No chance.

Regardless of the mechanics of voting, the most charitable of all interpretations is that its a terrible look for a party trying to show its serious about antisemitism.

The least charitable interpretation is pretty obvious.

The mechanics are absolutely crucial to the outcome.

The worst indictment is that you could have put Harambe as the 9th member of the Momentum list instead of Willsman and he would have been posthumously elected. The party needs better democratic structures.

Bannon headlining The New Yorker Festival?????

perhaps the biggest problem of left/Labour antisemitism is that 95 percent of these cocks genuinely don't understand or believe that they're saying antisemitic stuff. I say this not as an excuses but in pure despair

oh sorry wrong thread. xpost.

Has as much impact on our politics as yours at the moment, tbf.

I voted for Willsman and the rest of the Momentum slate very early doors and without any due diligence. Probably best leaving it till a bit later next time. All that JC9 mob are an embarrassment, just because there are troubling double standards and hypocrisy from the media it doesn't justify applying double standards to dickheads within the Labour party and deluding yourself that they are beyond criticism, and of course its an MSM fit up etc.... ad nauseum.......

Idiots like Williamson and Willsman's offhand and offensive dismissals of Labour AS have been much more damaging than the imbalanced BBC coverage or Margaret Hodge's latest rant, or the latest Dan Hodges smearjob, or whatever. Because I feel if I were Jewish, their attempts at trivialising something very real would have my AS radar beeping very loudly.

[SHAMELESS] lol my own novel's cover reads like an unwitting parody of those covers [/SHAMELESS]

For the uninitiated, how much of a centrist dad is Izzard?

Self-described Blairite in the past, backed heavily by the anti-Corbyn factions within the party but much less vocal than a lot of people in criticising Corbyn. He talks a good game about being a bridge between the different wings and probably wins some respect from the left on that basis.

I voted for Willsman and the rest of the Momentum slate very early doors and without any due diligence.

Yeah, me too.

SV on Izzard seems fair, he seems oblivious to inequality as a structural or economic issue rather than just people being nicer to each other, i.e. centrist af

Yes, he’s twee rather than cynical- which is arguably preferable even if it leaves you more or less in the same place.

but weirdly centrists like that get v radical v quickly when they engage with people who do believe that nothing will change until you change the economic base

for someone who is allegedly a comedian, he absolutely talks like a politician.

angrily demanding an iteration of the status quo = essence of politician

unless we live in the best of all possible worlds, my bad

Thrilled to say we are four minutes into politics live and we have our first Emily Thornberry eye roll. pic.twitter.com/r6EeRnkRr3

— Richard Morris (@imrichardmorris) September 3, 2018

For the uninitiated, how much of a centrist dad is Izzard?

All I know is we wouldn't be leaving the EU if it wasn't for this cunt and Geldof (slight exaggeartion... or is it?)

Tonight I was talking to the only friend of mine who voted Brexit, and did so from a left wing perspective, and now he's like, THIS MUST BE STOPPED AT ALL COSTS!!!! I regret to say he did use the phrase A People's Vote at one point :(

I've had it in for Izzard since the 90's now. Funnily enough it was an old acquaintance of mine who is the 1st cousin of another great Edinburgh fringe regular/prolific author/absolutely hilarious stand-up of our era, Dominic Holland, who kept playing this insufferable Izzard video when we were stoned. Watching Antonescu's death by firing squad on weed, dying of septicaemia, getting eaten alive by a komodo>>>>>watching a 90's Izzard video on weed.

We regret to inform you that A People's Vote is Coming Home.

it's letting people vote that has got us into this mess!

wait is that confirmed

these nobheads might get more support if they hadn't adopted such an obnoxious name

there is no fucking way this government will agree to it

I think even the Tory moderates who currently worry about UKIP entryism must know this option might not end well for their party.

so far these "tory rebels" have been whipped into line every time, and when push comes to shove they will put party first. I presume a People's Vote needs these fuckers to actually live up to their name for once!

the punchline on this thread of outraged tweets is chefkiss.jpg

THREAD: Has Jeremy Corbyn ever been to Auschwitz? It’s a mystery I can’t solve. He once said he had. 20 May 2008, Westminster Hall: 1/ pic.twitter.com/6tmXQlGfuu

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) September 3, 2018

i don't know which one you're talking about because threading is kind of broken

this one, after seven tweets of steadily-mounting anger about why corbyn isn't falling over himself to wear a visit to auschwitz like body armour against accusations of anti-semitism

UPDATE: A Labour party spokesperson now confirms to i24NEWS that Jeremy Corbyn visited Auschwitz in 2008.

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) September 3, 2018

amazing

has jeremy corbyn ever been to auschwitz? it's a mystery i can't solve

*three and a half hours pass*

i've solved the mystery - he has

"i am outraged that this politician isn't doing the thing politicians always do, which is using a visit to Auschwitz to PROVE they CANNOT be anti-semitic, even though politicians should NEVER do that... oh wait he must be LYING then... oh fuck, he isn't, he was there... guess he's not using it as an argument for not being anti-semitic... which is ok? help I'm stuck nevertheless amirite fellas?"

he scraped the internet

there was nothing

story of my life

he pinned the first tweet of that thread too lmao