A big thank you to the Labour MPs for giving me the biggest laugh of today. Karaoke at the Labour Christmas Party

Like a Virgin (reference to Virgin trains sat on the floor shambkes)
Things can only get better (accompanied by pro Blair chants)

and the best …

Back in the USSR

At this point Corbyn, McDonnell and Chakrabati got up and left 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Mike Gapes MP tweeted: “Jeremy and co left after I sang Back In The USSR and everyone sang Things Can Only Get Better” after the Christmas party last Tuesday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/18/jeremy-corbyn-walked-labour-christmas-party-mps-sang-tony-blairs/

Absolutely brilliant !

It seems even union leaders are tiring of the bonkers, retro-tactic 70’s lefty comedy

At this point Corbyn, McDonnell and Chakrabati got up and left

Shame they didn’t hang around for Its My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To.

did that flounce by Corbyn really happen?

If you hated, and were hated by, just about everyone at your workplace, but obliged to show your face at the office party, I imagine you’d have a token pint then bugger off as soon as possible to enjoy the rest of your evening somewhere else.

did that flounce by Corbyn really happen?

Maybe, maybe not. Different reports

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/18/jeremy-corbyn-walked-labour-christmas-party-mps-sang-tony-blairs/

Claims that it did and didn’t happen. Interesting that Jeremy had a very full calendar that night, when the opposite was reported the other day.

Like a virgin
Seated for the very first tiiime

did that flounce by Corbyn really happen?

Who knows? What I do know is that I would give no credence to anything the Mail says about him. This is the paper that claimed he was “dancing” on the way to the Cenotaph:

In fact, they cropped the picture, and he was actually talking to a war veteran:

Like a virgin
Seated for the very first tiiime

🙂

Who knows? What I do know is that I would give no credence to anything the Mail says about him. This is the paper that claimed he was “dancing” on the way to the Cenotaph:

IIRC that was the Sun online.

IIRC that was the Sun online.

The Sun and Mail Online Backtrack on Jeremy Corbyn “Dancing” Stories

Ta Ransos, both. W@nkers.

Labour has had its Secret Santa

🙂

chatting to the FiL last night, who is a staunch lefty, lifelong Labour voter, (and I suspect was once a member of the communist party). He also looks like Jeremy Corbyn.

“What do make of Corbyn at the moment then?”

*sigh*. “Well, I’m still waiting….”

Ed Milliband still getting air time I see 😆

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/19/ed-miliband-blowing-his-nose-nbc-nightly-news-former-labour-leader-flu-vaccination

🙂

Sending a gun to Corbyn is not in good taste given Jo Cox’s murder

Ed Milliband still getting air time I see

And people said he was good for nothing!

Sending a gun to Corbyn is not in good taste given Jo Cox’s murder

So is newsthump any worse or better than the tory press who just make stupid stuff up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38390152

Indded. Huffingpost front page says “Nuclear Option” (clever that)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-mp-jamie-reed-quits-parliament-triggering-by-election-in-copeland_uk_585a815fe4b0f24da6e680ae?t6iara4i&utm_hp_ref=uk

Feb by election, narrow Labour win to Tories in a constituency which voted Leave. Very tricky.

My 2 cents is he can’t be bothered, no chance of anything except being in opposition in 2020 and a good chance he’d be deselected or lose the seat anyway. The seat looks like won which needs a moderate and not a Momentum Corbyista if you want to win it.

I expect he won’t be the last labour MP to think that it really isn’t worth the mither with the present irrelevant gang of Islington looney tunes at the controls.

That seat is already as good as gone. As he well knows. Hence deploying the ejector seat. Along with swathes of other formally nailed-on Labour constituencies throughout the north, whenever the electorate is next asked their opinion.

Anyway Merry Corbyn Christmas

😀

Again the northern heartlands of Labour thank you for your sterling effort in maintaining the labour vote

Your constant reference to him as Islington based is of course a great hammer blow to redress the drift away for the northern labour voters

Thanks for your efforts Bin bins

FFS you sound like a DM headline writer
th mash article is as trite and predictable and lacking in humour as your posts so no doubt you admire it

It will be interesting to see where the Labour votes go though. I take it no one expects them to retain this seat?

You think I”m wrong then? Think the socialist revolution is going to start in Whitehaven?

Tell you what JY, put your money where your mouth is. I’ll have you fifty quid on that constituency being lost by labour at the upcoming by-election? A Labour Party losing a northern seat, mid-term, to a sitting Tory government? Imagine that?

But it’s going to happen.

You game for that then? I”ll happily make it a hundred if you like? To be paid in cash or Greggs gift vouchers! 😀

Greggs gift vouchers

The card is rechargeable I think 🙂

Cheers Jammers. I’ll nip into the purveyors of pastry-based goodness with my vegan chum, once the Maybot, somewhat unbelievably increases her majority.

We doing fifty or a hundred JY?

Oh… just one thing…. you know who the biggest employer in the constituency is, right? Clue: the somewhat smarter sitting MP has just jumped ship to go and work for them. It literally fuels and powers the local economy?

How do you think Mr beardy, lefty CND is going to play out there? I doubt the Tories will even bother campaigning. It’s already in the bag

Can’t think why MP’s want to leave, check out the name checks they get at the JC4PM Christmas Party

“Bastards” Chuka, Stella and Jess Attacked at Corbyn Christmas Party

WHilst I admire your ability to ignore all I said and rant about something else I was rather hoping that you might engage in a grown up debate

TBH [ and thanks for saying they will definitely loose as your rallying cry to the labour voters BTW] I was just wondering if you accepted that died in the wool lefties like you ranting like a right winger and using their tropes to make their points was actually hindering any chances that labour have of success.

Do you not think that maybe… just maybe… it’s just the way I express my frustration at watching this bumbling clueless ****-wit drag the party I’ve voted for all my life l, and which I firmly believe to be the cornerstone of British social justice, to irrelevance, and the inevitable day of electoralreckoning that beckons?

He’s going to completely destroy the Labour Party and deliver permanent Tory rule

Angry at the ****ing useless ****ing clueless beardy lefty ****? In case you hadn’t noticed I am absolutely ****ing apoplectic at him and all the stupid, gullible, naive, hard-of-thinking, virtue-signalling, naval-gazing, self-absorbed, totally detached from ****ing reality **** who have brought this lunacy about in the first place!

Hey…. let’s all vote for Jeremy, yah, cos he’s like so principled, n stuff

Yeah, right…. do me favour… **** off!

So…. we doing fifty or a hundred comrade?

And blaming the Daily Mail? FFS! That idiot writes their headlines for them. He’s the gift that just keeps on giving. And he’s too ****ing clueless to even see it. John Reed just has

So…. Fifty or a hundred?

naval-gazing

Hello, sailor.

It’s Christmas so it’s good to have lots of twinkly stars.

It’ll be interesting to see who Labour put forward. One of Corbyns anti-nuclear acolytes won’t play well…
I’d like to see a resurgent lib dem vote just to show the rest of the country we’re not all half-witted brexiteers in the North.
Unfortunately I think Binners is right – we’ll end up with a tory or worse yet, UKIP.

It’ll be interesting to see who Labour put forward. One of Corbyns anti-nuclear acolytes won’t play well…

Yes it will be interesting, a Leave constituency where the MP has returned to his ex employer the local Nuclear plant. Hard fo imagine a less Corbynista constituency. In fact I would not be surprised if he was basically asked to stay away from the by-election.

Tories to win it, UKIP may even knick second although they are quite a way back.

More from the Corbyn fan club

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/jeremy-corbyn/news/81930/excl-jeremy-corbyn-ally-condemns

To cheers from the audience, he said: “I see that Jamie Reed has resigned as Labour MP. Can’t say I mind that. But he’s resigned to go and work for Sellafield nuclear facility, telling you all why nuclear power is such a good idea.

“Now what I find objectionable is not that he should resign, but that he thinks that to go from public service to self-serving, representing the nuclear industry is in any way compatible with being on the radical side of politics in this country, because it’s not.”

He added: “Think what it means that somebody who only yesterday was representing a core working class constituency in this country thinks that that’s a good job to go and take. Now that’s why there needs to be a complete transformation of the Labour movement in this country, and why Jeremy Corbyn and the principles that he represents, not least the question of green energy, is the right person to be the head of the Labour movement in this country.”

The cluelessness truly knows no bounds

I think Jezza is looking for an epitaph to truly eclipse the Ed Stone.

Looks like he will have many many opportunities to do so as everyone else with anything between their ears goes for the Jamie Reed option

JY – fifty or a hundred? You can pay it in Greggs vouchers. In the ridiculously unlikely chance of you winning we could do Bolivian organic tofu? 😀

Indeed @big_n_daft, I mean there are no working class people actually working at Sellafield.

i dont bet and i fail to see what a by election result has to do with my points re your outbursts

Labour may well lose and you will have played your part

It would also be a tragedy if i lost and your fine figure was ruined by a poor diet

PS i would want shampoo 😉

The following comes from a Huffington Post piece on the EU (link in that thread)

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Professor Matthew Goodwin says that Brexit has exposed a deep and widening divide in the Labour Party.

It faces tensions between its working-class, struggling, northern, eurosceptic and anti-immigration seats – where 70% of Labour seats voted Brexit – and its more middle class, financially secure, southern, pro-EU and cosmopolitan constituencies.

Goodwin also sets out the huge risks to Labour, pointing out that unless it dramatically reversed its situation in Scotland, to stand any chance of winning a majority at the next General Election it would need a poll lead of at least 12.5 percentage points.

“To put this challenge in perspective, in late 2016 Labour is typically 12-16 points behind the incumbent Conservative Party, which since the referendum has enjoyed strong poll leads. The prospect of a Labour majority at the next election is therefore very slim. Additional pressures have also started to bear down on the Labour Party – far more than at any other time in its history.

“Were a General Election held tomorrow, forecasts suggest that Theresa May would be handed a much larger parliamentary majority, perhaps of more than 100. Labour, meanwhile, could be reduced to its lowest number of seats since the 1930s.”