Just need him to flip-flop on Iraq a few more times and he's golden.
Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Think it'll likely be him that goes onto the ballot.
Him having actively pushed for privatisation of NHS services could be problem for him.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/07/entirely-fake-owen-smith/
All we need now is for him to squash a few poor people and he'll be golden for the Labour gig.
What do you think of his background?
I like the fact that he retains centre left policies, some very similar to those of Corybn, and also appears media savvy; potentially better quipped to face the inevitable media onslaught. I'll wait for the leadership debates before I form a solid opinion (and Corbyn has my support as of this moment), but I'm open to a new leader if someone competent and bipartisan enough presents him or herself.
Blairite scum.
What do you think of his background though? He seems shifty as feck to me.
He is shifty as feck. There's nothing wrong with the idea of a decent, viable Labour candidate to replace Corbyn. The problem is that there isn't one at the moment...and if Eagle or Smith are the best Corbyn's opponents have to offer, I don't exactly know what it is they're expecting to achieve.
Is there anything on his past from a credible journalist? By that I mean one that doesn't use the term "red Tory" in their writing.
What specific part of his background are you referring to?
Ex-lobbyist for Pfizer, known as "oily smith", the fact he's been planning this campaign since at least January for 3.
There's a fathers4justice bloke protesting on the roof of Angela Eagle's office at the moment.
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Whoever we get if Corbyn is not reelected will be unsatisfactory. I just want the best of the worst.
At least someone knows she exists.
Well he was one of the great welfare abstainers so he's certainly had a good go at that.
All we need now is for him to squash a few poor people and he'll be golden for the Labour gig.
No doubt if it comes to him vs Corbyn in a vote off, Corbyn will win by one vote due to Smith abstaining.
It depends what you are looking for I guess.
I'm trying to like the guy because he's a good speaker and he'd probably be a good campaigner but something seems off about him.
Also what do you think about his proposal to give the UK a vote on the Brexit deal? It seems like a good move on the face of things but would it not affect our ability to actually negotiate the deal if they know it can easily get rejected by the public?
He's a turd that won't flush.
It would also be futile because once we start the process that's it. It's out or re-apply.
I need to find out more about this because if hes just offering policies which sound nice but which would actually hinder us then I can't vote for him. I mean hed just be another Cameron who would sell the country's future for a year in office.
So... The NEC try to keep JC off the ballot and fail. They then rule that the 130,000 new members can't vote. Unite and other unions say "join us and you can still vote". The NEC then rule that new union members can't vote either. In case the disenfranchised new union/labour party members want to raise their concerns (or worse, try to get their MPs deselected) at their next LP meeting - the NEC have ensured they won't be able until after the leadership contest is over, by imposing a ban on local party meetings until then.
In 1953 in East Germany there was an uprising against the Stasi-backed regime. Bertholt Brecht wrote a poem that finished with the lines:
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Lösung
Seems apt.
In 1953 in East Germany there was an uprising against the Stasi-backed regime. Bertholt Brecht wrote a poem that finished with the lines:
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Lösung
Seems apt.
There's something very, very wrong in the way the NEC are behaving. Preventing people from voting is not democracy in action. It's akin to fixing, or trying to fix, the result. Labour should be ashamed. They are not the party of the people any more.
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At best my understanding is that is questionable and in practical terms probably not the case at all
There is no actually established procedure for withdrawing the notice of intention to withdraw under article 50 - that much is true
Though there is nothing within article 50 that states it can not be withdrawn at any time - the precedent would seem to be that until negotiations are finished (2 years max unless all parties agree to extend which can in theory be indefinite) then the UK remains a full member of the EU with the same obligations and indeed the same rights - one of which would be to determine if they wished to withdraw or continue just as it is solely down to the UK to determine when to submit notice of intention to leave under article 50)... given that certainly on the face of it the EU are saying there preference would be for the UK to remain I suspect that if there was a will the EU and UK lawyers could certainly find a way to justify the process.
If there is any legislation that states article 50 can not be withdrawn Id love a link to it as I have seen nothing to suggest that is the case.
Im also torn on that as he cant deliver on it. Then i thought okay perhaps itll actually put more pressure on May to call a GE if there's movement to Labour because of it.
He's a better choice than Eagle thats for certain. If the PLP choose Eagle over Smith as their anti-Corbyn candidate then itl2l demonstrate that their intentions arent as stated.
Received today by email. It's disgraceful, it really is.
I love the justifying paragraph, with its vague reference to a "marked increase in reports of intimidation and threatening behaviour". If there's any intimidation or threatening behaviour from someone towards someone else, I consider that the remit of the police, not the NEC.
Oh hey, they're still treating me as a member pre-January, result.
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The suspension of CLP meetings is just as bad. Its a ridiculous use of power and as you say its a police matter first and foremost, if they recommended the closure of certain events then fair enough. Why should peaceful CLPs be affected?
Im expecting them to propose Trident should be a secret ballot. If not i'd question their reasoning.
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Affiliate membership has the same freeze date as standard membership I'm afraid.
Booo.
Indeed. Well put.