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I just saw Len mcklusky at Euston station.
Fair play to him a blind guy, cane and everything was getting buffeted about in the concourse by 1000 important commuters and he came up and offered to help the guy find his train.
Really wish I'd asked him what he was going to do about corbyn tho
Fair play to him a blind guy, cane and everything was getting buffeted about in the concourse by 1000 important commuters and he came up and offered to help the guy find his train.
Is this a metaphor?
Is this a metaphor?
for helping corbyn find his way/the exit 😀
wasnt intended as such, Im brutally hungover today and incapable of going that deep
its just what happened, to my shame Id seen the guy and decided I didnt have time to help as Id miss my train 😳
Len probably did not need your help anyway 😉
Is this a metaphor?
Allegory?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39498275
The rule they used seems to be a complete catch all: "no member of the party shall engage in conduct which in the opinion of the NEC is prejudicial, or in any act which in the opinion of the NEC is grossly detrimental to the party"
Allows the NEC to make any arbitrary decision.
Mental, IMHO.
"It's only a flesh wound"
"At the moment Len (McCluskey's) said 15 months, so I mean he's our boss apparently"
Funny because it's true.
Jezz blaming the messenger. He is a little tetchy, did he burn his fingers making jam ?
[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/04/jeremy-corbyn-loses-temper-blames-media-dire-poll-ratings/ ]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/04/jeremy-corbyn-loses-temper-blames-media-dire-poll-ratings/[/url]
He's had his mate Kens little 'Hitler was a Zionist' thing to sort out. Given his previous form he probably just wondered what all the fuss was about.
And he's got the biggest issue presently facing the country to attend too....
The Unite leadership election.
It's no wonder he's being a bit short with people
Never mind that what both he and Ken Livingstone said is true - the truth doesn't matter any more.
When the story is you (and your disastrous poll ratings), and not what you're saying (or trying and failing to say) its time to go.
Unfortunately, given his pig-headed, denial-of-reality mindset, when Labour is absolutely decimated at the local elections next month, I'm sure he'll just blame the press/weather/lack of car ownership again and carry on regardless. Marching on to the socialist uplands/electoral oblivion.
I'll also have a side bet on him claiming ownership of Andy Burnhams dead cert Manchester Mayoral election victory, at which point my irony meter will explode 😆
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I've come round to thinking he should go too, but only because of the dire state of out national media making it impossible for him to do his job. I look forward to seeing who Labour try to blame when they install some vapid Blairite and discover it isn't a magic route to electoral success.
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Don't know what I'm doing here
I'll carry on regardless
Got enough money for one more beer
I'll carry on regardless
Good as gold, but stupid as mud
He'll carry on regardless
They'll bleed his heart 'til there's no more blood
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I look forward to seeing who Labour try to blame when they install some vapid Blairite and discover it isn't a magic route to electoral success.
Tenner says they do exactly what you've just done and blame the media for everything.
I don't blame the media for everything. Corbyn isn't perfect by any means. But for a functioning democracy we need to have a fair, balanced and responsible national media. If you think that's what we've got then you're an idiot, frankly.
There is academic research backing up the ludicrously one-sided treatment he receives in the press, it's not just a lefty conspiracy theory.
I've come round to thinking he should go too, but only because of the dire state of out national media making it impossible for him to do his job.
So just given more favourable media coverage of his supreme political prowess, towering leadership qualities, and clear and concise vision, and fully costed policies for the future of the country, Labour would be sailing ahead in the polls? Instead of a full 19 points behind the Tory's, and at their lowest ratings since 1983?
Lets see how well they do when he quits/is ousted eh binners? That will be the Labour glory you're describing presumably.
Yep, that's it. It's those nasty media types
.making it impossible for him to do his job
It certainly isn't that he's not up to doing the job, not at all. It's all the media's fault that he can't do it.
grum - even if Corbyn falls on his sickle, the momentum/entrists inside the labour camp now will only replace him with another nut job, not a vapid blairite (who may well be more electable).
"There is academic research backing up the ludicrously one-sided treatment he receives in the press"
It's one sided because he genuinely is terrible at his job. Trump gets the same. Unbiased doesn't mean 50/50 positive and negative.
The aids virus doesn't get much positive press - is that a stitch-up too?
He might get better media coverage if his press office actually got out their reaction releases before the media's deadlines - often takes them a day when LibDems manage to produce something within a couple of hours.
What Stoner said. The Momentum half-wits are busy trying to change the rules further in their favour so that any potential leadership candidate only needs the support of 5% of the parliamentary party.
Thats ambition for you eh?
They're doing this as they know that none of their favoured muppets has a hope of getting the present 15% support from within their own party. Never mind win a general election!
So what will we have to look forward to next, I wonder, from our 6th form socialist revolutionaries? Our next female PM..... Dianne Abbott? 😆
Actually the person who said that clarified that the leader's office were very quick.mefty - MemberHe might get better media coverage if his press office actually got out their reaction releases before the media's deadlines - often takes them a day when LibDems manage to produce something within a couple of hours.
Ill do VAT another time!!
Bit late with this one, sorry. But you can't just exclude VAT from a tax system to make the overall point about a tax system.
Actually the person who said that clarified that the leader's office were very quick.
It wasn't based on a quote it was based on a litany of tweets by political journalists trying to get reaction before they filed their pieces. Here is a recent example
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Its a bizarre contradiction, isn't it? Day to day incompetence, endless procrastination, and a failure to understand how things actually function in the real world? It's not something you generally associate with lefties like Jezza
The media clearly has a large bearing on success of a party. As the majority of media is Tory then whoever is Labour leader will get represented only negatively.
Those who don't think the media are anti labour, do you honestly think the media would back a labour leader even if they were the best leader the world has ever seen?
The only time Labour tend to get in is when the Tories have managed to really piss everyone off or when people realise what they are up to and the negative impact it is having on them.
I am guessing that will be around 2025/2030
Those who don't think the media are anti labour, do you honestly think the media would back a labour leader even if they were the best leader the world has ever seen?
This is the thing - if Labour had a leader who had the exact same principles/policies as JC but was more efficient, media-friendly or whatever, does anyone honestly believe the press would give them fair coverage? It's conform to our nasty bigoted heartless capitalist worldview or **** off, basically.
It's all the media's fault that he can't do it.
Or possibly its a mix of the two.
When you look at what the likes of Major have said about the press it is rather daft to pretend that they cant have an impact.
Or you could look at the referendum mess.
Careful dissonance, people on the internet and STW in particular can only cope with a black and white worldview.
It's Marie Le Conte, that later stated that the Leader's Office were very quick.
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But it seems that there is some kind of wall between the Leader's office and the rest of Labour.
That needs to be broken down very quickly, or Labour are screwed.
Would it not be an idea that all the anti corbyns defected to the Lib dems?
When I've finished dancing on May's grave I'll go and have a jig on corbyn's for letting this country down when we needed an effective opposition. He seems to think he is the deputy pm.
Its worse than that. He still seems to think he's a backbencher. In a constituency where you could stick a labour rosette on a pot noodle and it'd get elected.
Just sort of muddling along, not doing anything of any great importance....
I think I might go and spend the day on the allotment, as there's not much going on.....
It's Marie Le Conte
What about the other journalist I illustrated, what about the fact that Labour don't put a phone number on Press Releases so no one to call get to further information etc etc.
Even in his rant he misses an opportunity, rather than talk about his colleagues whose work that isn't mentioned, he could mention the policy.
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Do you miss him Binners?
It's precisely because nobody thought they could trust the spin, that Labour lost the 2010 GE
Do you miss him Binners?
Not him specifically, as such. Just someone within the vicinity of the Labour front bench who looked like they knew their arse from their elbow, and who's politics had advanced beyond 6th form common room level.
It's precisely because nobody thought they could trust the spin, that Labour lost the 2010 GE
Cobblers, quite frankly. And the Tory's, who are as spin-heavy as Nu Labour ever were - in fact more so, as they had the press onside - still couldn't get a majority against a tired, discredited GB.
Spin hasn't changed. In fact, its far worse, and more pervasive now than it was when Malcolm was in his prime. Its just that in Jeremy-land they've decided they're not going to bother with that. All part of the kinder, gentler politics, I presume. Great idea!
The only trouble is that when your opposition are very much doing it, are pretty bloody good at it, and have an inbuilt advantage of a friendly press, its like sending your team out minus a goalkeeper, a striker, and most of your defence.
And thinking that having some left-wing, 6th form numpties ranting into their echo chamber on social media is a replacement for an actual media strategy is (one of many, many reasons) why they're 19 points behind in the polls. You can't win people over if your communication 'strategy' is to put posts about why everything is, just, like, SOOOOOOO unfair on Facebook
As with so many things Jeremy does when do 'principles' just become plain old self-defaeting stupidity? Maybe thats a question he could have someone like Malcolm Tucker ask him before he actually [url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/15/jeremy-corbyn-silent-during-national-anthem-battle-of-britain-service ]went and did it[/url]?
the only trouble is that when your opposition are very much doing it, are pretty bloody good at it
Are they?
It was entertaining to watch how Cameron went from being a master of the press to being slated as soon as he went against some of the press barons interests.
Same with May. Her mastery of spin appears to be as soon as they start shouting to fold immediately.
Exactly. Con didn't take Labour votes, Lib Dem did, until everyone thought they had sold themselves to the devil too, and let them know in 2015.Cobblers, quite frankly. And the Tory's, who are as spin-heavy as Nu Labour ever were - in fact more so, as they had the press onside - still couldn't get a majority against a tired, discredited GB.
We might need a good centre ground now, but posting pics of spin doctors isn't going to get you that. Neither is this sub-twitter black/white rocks/sucks bollocks.
As noted by Stoner though, this is all academic for the time being. We've got the totally useless Corbyn who's basically handed May a 'Get out of Jail Free' card. And as the labour party has been taken over by the 6th form, what comes after him could well be - difficult to imagine this is possible, I know - even more completely hopeless.
I believe this is Momentums anointed one...
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Anyone who saw her on QT the other week, will know that this would be the greatest gift that Theresa could ever receive. Clueless! Absolutely clueless!!! Truly the spawn of Jeremy! To quote Mrs Binners directly while she watched it... "Who the * is this muppet?!"
So as an unrestrained Tory party goes galloping off to a world of right wing nationalist UKIP style populism, And Labour to navel-gazing, never-ending leftie pettty bickering and irrelevance, I suppose all of who aren't totally unhinged in either direction are just going to have to look to the Lib Dems and wonder how the * we ended up here?!
& your choice is binners?
Didn't see the above on QT but generally am unimpressed with Labour peeps on it- jokey/ friendly having a laugh, saying **** all etc.
Possibly connected my local Labour councillors are a bunch of wet blankets.
Like I said.... it's all academic anyway. When Jezza steps aside, probably after reducing the party to 100-120 seats at a general election, and destroying the party as an electoral force, who'd fancy the 'William Hague' job?
They won't get it anyway because Len and Momentum get to decide who gets to 'lead' the Labour Party into eternal, irrelevant single-figure-polling and deliver permanent single-party-state Tory rule.
At the moment I'd say for the labour leadership .... absolutely anyone apart from the catastrophic bearded ****-wit or any of his clueless, and totally unelectable lefty Momentum acolytes. Can you imagine anyone ... ANYONE.... doing a worse job of it?
I truly now believe he is ushering in the end of the Labour Party as a relevant political force, and it's just going to be interesting to see what emerges from the wreckage.
I just hope it happens soon. Before it's too late. Because unless he goes, which he won't, then he's already gift-wrapped a landslide for Theresa, no matter what she does
Investigate Livingstone for 11 months, wrist slap, tsunami of complaints, launch another investigation ...
"big" policy announcement tomorrow. VAT on private school fees. Last proposed in '83 manitesto .. cool at least thats not the '70's
Good policy. Not sure its a good policy to announce though.
Note to J.C we know your a lefty
ctk / VAT on private schools so when do Unis follow ? How many parents will be unable to pay extra so send kids to state schools = more pressure on those. How many staff made redundant so more pressure on welfare system?
Private edudcation is a gift to UK state schools, people paying income taxes for services they don't use. I understand the politics of those parents kids in classes of 35 being hacked off at classes of 20 for those with money to pay privately. So address state system.
[url= http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/15827362?ir=UK ]Huffington Post: Yvette Cooper Blog[/url]
Ken's ensured the "big policy" announcement with get little coverage
"ctk / VAT on private schools so when do Unis follow ? How many parents will be unable to pay extra so send kids to state schools = more pressure on those. How many staff made redundant so more pressure on welfare system?"
This.
It's mental. Last year there were three private schools in my area. All struggling. One went under last year, the other two are still on a knife edge.
All the kids leaving private education due to closures and the additional cost are going to need state school places, funded by the tax payer.
Moreover, my kid's state school has already double in size at the expense of the outside play area, are they going to build on more of it to make space for additional kids who previously provided their own education.
So kids in state and private schools are going to lose out through this. Who's going to win? I can't think of anyone.
Thank Christ this nutter is never going to get power.
Yes VAT on uni fees for anyone who had a private education- good idea Jamba.;-)
I've not really been following this thread but i am genuinely curious, do the Labour Membership not see that JC is totally unelectable? Surely the aspiration of a political party like Labour is to be in Government, why then do they perservere with a Leader that will simply never win a general election?
I've not really been following this thread but i am genuinely curious, do the Labour Membership not see that JC is totally unelectable?
Nope, they reflect their own hate back at them, like CTK arguing for VAT on university fees above ( I mean, really, WTF ? ).
Electability, who cares!
I've not really been following this thread but i am genuinely curious, do the Labour Membership not see that JC is totally unelectable?
Would think most do. However, the lack of somebody better is the crux of the problem and is why he won the last 2 contests.
If I was trying to get into power I would be picking the most presentable and likeable leader as a front man with true labour policies underneath. The policies are largely irrelevant as most people who would be better off under labour don't realise it or don't look at the policies.
Again, same problem - who in the labour party is likeable, charismatic, good on TV etc,.
Private edudcation is a gift to UK state schools, people paying income taxes for services they don't use.
Oh look, another example of those wonderful rich people doing the rest of society a favour out of the goodness of their hearts. You really do believe this bollox don't you?
"Oh look, another example of those wonderful rich people doing the rest of society a favour"
Well they are, aren't they? Every kid in a private school is a kid who's not in front of my kid in the list for our first choice school and a kid who's taking up zero education budget.
Again, same problem - who in the labour party is likeable, charismatic, good on TV etc
We don't know yet, do we? Nor will we. Because everyone in the Labour party knows that to stand up as a leadership contender at the moment is a futile exercise in political suicide, as the decision is entirelyin the hands of Momentum.
And as we know, they have little or no interest in fielding a candidate capable of winning a general election (tory-lite Blaire scum), and just want to float pie-in-the-sky ideas they've resurrected from the early 80's, and wave their placards. As todays finger-on-the-pulse announcement confirms. VAT on private school fees is going to provide free school meals for every primary school child in the country? I'd like to see the figures they used to work that one out. Its almost as if they've settled on being what the Lib Dems used to be, and just announced any old uncosted nonsense, because they know they'll never have to deliver it. Not really a good place to be for the Labour party really, is it?
Well they are, aren't they? Every kid in a private school is a kid who's not in front of my kid in the list for our first choice school and a kid who's taking up zero education budget.
The solution to problems in state schools is to fund them properly and fairly, not to subsidise some parents to buy a better* education at the expense of everyone else. What you're basically saying is that you could solve the problems in state schools by getting rid of them.
*Not that I think private schools automatically offer a better education, in many cases research has shown it's no better than many state schools. What they do buy though is privilege and access to social and professional networks which will be of advantage in later life.
You said:
Oh look, another example of those wonderful rich people doing the rest of society a favour
I said:
Well they are, aren't they? Every kid in a private school is a kid who's not in front of my kid in the list for our first choice school and a kid who's taking up zero education budget.
Then you said:
The solution to problems in state schools is to fund them properly and fairly, not to subsidise some parents to buy a better* education at the expense of everyone else. What you're basically saying is that you could solve the problems in state schools by getting rid of them.
Forget the non-sequiters. Defend your original point which strikes me as bollocks.
*Not that I think private schools automatically offer a better education, in many cases research has shown it's no better than many state schools. What they do buy though is privilege and access to social and professional networks which will be of advantage in later life.
I must have been off the day that they did privilege and professional networks.
You've not been to a private school, have you ? I suspect you read about them in a book ?
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You've not been to a private school, have you ?
He can't have been.
In September I went through the process of choosing schools. The local Private Schools are struggling and one of the three has already gone to the wall. In contrast the State Schools are superb. For me it was a no-brainer, the state school shone in compared to the private schools and I get them for free. AFAIC the parents who send their kids to the three schools I saw *are* subsidizing the state schools at the expense of their own kids.
The pupil-teacher ratio is completely misleading as well - at primary level there are two teaching assistants and a teacher which makes the ratio comparable to local private schools. *BUT* the local private school pupil/teacher ratio isn't 'low' enough to survive long term. So far being positive an 8-1 ratio is more likely to mean the schools going to go down the tubes imminently. (I said to the reception teacher at one of the schools were saw how impressive the 8-1 ratio was - he said "Yeah, but if we don't get it to 12-1 we won't be here in 3 years time.")
I see the problem in very different terms to Corbyn. The 'non-elite' private sector seems to me to be on its last legs and there's a real danger that the state is going to have to place a few hundred kids at very short notice.
Corbyn's acting out of pure spite. He want's to punish wealthy people and if that means normal people suffer, that's a price he's willing to inflict on my kids.
ulysse - what's wrong with being a waiter? It's an important front of house sales role.
Nothing. It's the attitude of the scum on the left panel of the cartoon i take issue with.
Corbyn's acting out of pure spite. He want's to punish wealthy people and if that means normal people suffer, that's a price he's willing to inflict on my kids.
Difficult to take people seriously when they come out with nonsense like this.
Britain has some of the worst social mobility in the developed world. I'm sure someone is going to claim that private schools don't entrench privilege next. 🙄
ulysse - what's wrong with being a waiter? It's an important front of house sales role.
Nothing.
So why pick it as an example of someone who's failed in life?
A decent waiter can add a fortune to the bottom line. An extra round of drinks, an desert for a whole table when people weren't going to have one.
Would Corbyn be an effective waiter? Is he articulate and charismatic enough to encourage a table of people to have a few extra drinks or a couple of extra side orders? I'd say not.
The VAT on fees is to fund free school meals, the spiteful bastard.
I don't think the point of the panel was the effect on the bottom line.
And would Corbyn make a good waiter? FFS
Do you really, in your own head, see that cartoon portraying the waitress as someone who's failed in life?
You see, right there, the gulf in thinking and empathy between someone like you, and someone like me
The VAT on fees is to fund free school meals, the spiteful bastard.
Another mental policy. Our local school had to split lunchtime to provide hot meals which was a nightmare plus they lost a big chunk of hall to hot food preparation. Kids need to be educated at school, they don't need hot food - parents can do food.
It was just an eye-catching policy that sounded good at first glance. In practice it was detrimental to education or perhaps neutral in schools that already had facilities to deal with hot food.
Diverting education funding to catering was madness.
Do you really, in your own head, see that cartoon portraying the waitress as someone who's failed in life?
To me it's saying she had a poor start in life and therefore ended up in a 'bad' job like a waitress. Do you see it as saying "she had a poor start in life, but isn't it great she finally ended up in a useful career"?
erm.... it's a construct so that she can be in the same place at the same time as richboy rather than a social comment on the importance or otherwise of waiting staff.
Some folks will pick an argument over anything 🙄
im see it as - despite the hills put in her developmental path, shes overcome, found a job and might still find her true potential given the opportunity. Shes certainly got the gumption.
The other character is an ungrateful unthinking spoilt shit who has had life handed to him on a plate, combined with a little personal struggle in education, granted, and he aught to look up the meaning of "therefore the grace of god go i"
it's a construct so that she can be in the same place at the same time as richboy rather than a social comment on the importance or otherwise of waiting staff.
We may have to agree to disagree because I think it's both.
They could have chosen the construct of her being rich boys dentist. They didn't they made her a waitress. Why? Because they think waitress is a bad job.
...and it isn't, it's a seriously important job.
Pretty sure outofbreath is just trolling.
Pretty sure outofbreath is just trolling.
Im absolutely convinced of that, but its interesting, never the less
i don't think they've made her a waitress because 'it's a bad job' (and i agree, it's a vastly underrated one in this country) - I think they've made her a casual waiting staff on zero hours contract, having to work 2 jobs to make ends meet.
And fair play to all those that have to do that, even if it isn't the same as being a proper waitress.
In the cartoon creator's own words:
This is a great way to explain privilege to someone who's having a hard time understanding — or someone who doesn't want to recognize it."Comics are very human and accessible — they're non-threatening and quite inviting to a reader," Morris said. "It's a lot less daunting than picking up a giant book or trying to decipher a really long or really dense article."
True story.
Make no mistake: Morris isn't taking away from hard work in his comic.
"I'm not trying to say I'm against that idea that if we work hard, we succeed," he said. "I would like to think that is true, for the most part, but I just think people often forget or don't realise that our starting points, or our paths to success, aren't all even. Some people have to overcome more obstacles in the path to succeeding than others."
He was also quick to point out that this isn't about anyone needing to feel bad or guilty for the privileges that they have, but rather it's about honesty and understanding — because maybe that's what could lead us to a better place.
"Acknowledging the issue is one step towards addressing it hopefully," he said.
Ultimately, success — or lack thereof — can be about hard work and other factors, some of which are beyond our control.
A lot of people have been able to relate to this comic — both sides of it — and have reached out to Morris to share.
"Personally, I've grown up somewhere in the middle," he said. Because his dad was in the army, Morris moved around a lot as a kid. "I experienced a lot of different neighbourhoods and schools and friendship groups — some well off, some not so much — and that experience lead me to this belief that ultimately people are all pretty similar wherever you go, we just don't all have the same chances in life."
He was also quick to point out that this isn't about anyone needing to feel bad or guilty for the privileges that they have, but rather it's about honesty and understanding — because maybe that's what could lead us to a better place.
And a big privilege is the genetic one. I am first to admit that I in the position I am today via the luck of genetics (intelligence). My upbringing wasn't that different from the girl in the cartoon and I also can't claim I have put in more effort than anyone else.
The thing is I am 100% aware of that and not pretending it is anything I have done or that I have a right to.
it's a vastly underrated one in this country
Sure is.
And a big privilege is the genetic one.
Yup.