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He’s going to get Bitch-slapped all over the commons, week in, week out. And all that means is loads of TV shots of that narrow-eyed peevish face he does where he looks like Steptoe.
I don’t even think he cares. All PMQ’s is about is him getting his ten second shouty soundbite bit in, which Seamas edits down and the Corbynite drones then Tweet out to all the sixth formers
Then back to the bunker until next week.
It’s going to be carnage though. The media are going to love it! Cheering Tories with rows of glum faces sat despairingly behind grandad
Sadly, it’s just going to lead to the bunker mentality becoming even more entrenched
Well Manifestos are usually fairly broad you can argue over the points within, but that’s not the issue
Well they are a good starting point to show the limitations within which they will operate.
Its interesting tracking that declared fact he is a democratic socialist back to a somewhat vague quote.
the issue is his entire career has been based around a strong democratic socialist belief of shared ownership and protectionism
Apart from its unclear how far he takes it eg socialism vs a mixed economy with socialist bias. The shared ownership mostly applies to the infrastructure companies. The Employee ownership fund is probably the most radical of the ideas although even then not overly so and, as much as anything, seems mostly about pushing the German approach of active worker engagement in the business. Not overly convinced about it but is the sort of question needed around develoing the economy.
today however his puppet master John McDonald is hinting they might vote with a Tory deal
I thought McCluskey was supposed to be the puppet master. Although I am not sure its much of a hint really. "look at" followed by i cant see it happening. So not shutting down the discussion before it is seen but not showing much faith in it.
Frankly, I don’t trust him, a 70 year old career politician
Fair enough. Although which politicans do you trust?
Why not? I know it’s not very socialist, but in Politics there are only winners and losers.
Actually its a tad more complicated than that. There are some interesting articles in the economist etc about how the right having dominated for so long have lost their way in pushing policies and are now being forced to react rather than lead.
Thats without going onto.
The ‘core constituencies’ will vote Labour, no matter what. you win elections by winning over the marginals and swing voters
Apart from you end up with a drop in vote with those people not voting feeling disenfranchised and potentially lashing out both politically and more directly. A perfect example is, ermm, brexit. You know where some people voted out just for a change because they couldnt see the difference between the parties despite one reemerging.
Its a short term tactic and one which is horrendously damaging to the country as a whole. Two countries were leaders in the triangulate policy. Just look at them now.
or accept some people actually want the chance to get ahead in life at the same time
Sorry I wasnt aware I wasnt accepting it. This seems to be a repeat of the inane trope pushed by the tories fairly successfully whilst skipping the fact their policies actually reduce the ability of people to do so, unless they are already ahead.
Maybe I want an unreachable ideal but I want a system where we have a proper representation of the most points on the political scale since all have their pros and cons and represent some in society.
I want Labour to be the traditional party pushing workers rights.
I want Conservatives to be the traditional party pushing the traditional conservatives views.
I would like the Lib Dems, Greens and other parties to have better representation to provide other views.
The pushing of the "centrists" position is horrendously corrosive to the political environment. It removes any real choice and whichever side captures the position drags it rapidly their way until we have a hard reset with all the unpleasantness that involves.
I reposted it because I want to know whether any of you actually have a coherent response to those articles as opposed to either:
I consider engaging with you about as worthwhile as Binners.
That piece really wasnt that interesting since it showed absolutely no sense of proportion placing the blame all on one side (the point where it had to admit that possibly the "centrist" equivalent did bear some blame for a couple of massacres it quickly pushes into history). The casual comparison of a Stalin controlled party vs Labour nowadays is curious.
A more balanced approach would find both the SPD and KDP to be to blame and not absolve the centrists of all blame. Looking at how, for example, they chose to support the equivalent of austerity measures for example.
There does seem to be an odd belief amongst "moderates" that they should be allowed to launch rabid attack after rabid attack on the more left wing part of the party and do their best to undermine it but any response to this is met with horror and concern.
Binners: is that your username because you like to trash talk? You are forever belittling Corbyn for his impotence, but I cannot remember once any suggestions you have made of how or what he could do.
Resign?
I don't post much on the Corbyn thread but I agree with much of what binners says. It's pretty funny and largely true. I am assuming Labour wish to be elected into power sometime within the next decade. They need to drop Corbyn. He is useless.
A good article by Johnathan Freedland on what Labour needs to do. What the Tories have done - dump an ineffectual leader and unite behind an unambiguous position
Boris Johnson is uniting leave. Labour must do the same for remain
It wont happen, of course. Corbyn is virtually invisible at the best of times, with parliament now in recess I doubt we’ll hear a peep out of him.
As pointed out in that article, what’s. Needed here is decisive leadership. That’s one thing that you can be absolutely certain we won’t be getting with Corbyn.
Just more hiding in plain site, endless dithering and fence sitting.
The Tories are clearly gearing up for an election, behind a rabidly pro-Brexit right wing agenda. The Labour Party needs to be opposing that as it will be hugely damaging to the people it is supposed to represent
It won’t, of course. Because Corbyn has clearly either forgotten that that’s his job, or like the eternal sixth former he is, he simply can’t be bothered. Too much like hard work
That'll be dismissed because "YouGov" but there's a similar result from Deltapoll.
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1155215917304991744?s=19
Comres and Opinium have it much closer.
I'm surprised labours numbers are still that high!
Johnson has a dilemma, his honeymoon period will be short-lived, look at May, Brown etc & Johnson has to figure out a way to get a Brexit 'win' or he'll be in trouble, but a GE is risky, even if his most favourable poll only has him 10pts ahead.
Well, whoever thought that this was the week for Labour SM teams to focus on the new LibDem leader, and for Momentum SM teams to focus on deselecting Labour MPs… only time will tell if that was a wise move.
Th result could be very different if Boris doesn't get Brexit through and there is a general election as the polls above are clearly showing a swing from Brexit party back to Conservative. If he screws up Brexit (which he will as parliament won't allow his No Deal, then expect the Brexit party to get their 10% back.
Really @Kerley ?
“Parliament has stopped me from taking the UK out of the EU, without a deal, despite your clear instruction that we must Leave, and Leave we must. So, I ask you, at this election, to vote for your Conservative Brexit candidate to save our very democracy, and the independence of this, our, your, Great Britain. I thank you.”
Corbyn has made a rare foray out of the bunker to 'clarify' Labours position on Brexit. Must have been confusing for him.
He stated labour will campaign for remain in the case of a no-deal Brexit, but when pressed on what they would do if elected he deferred to the standard Brexity red unicorns nonsense about renegotiating the deal with the EU, then finished with the rather telling...
“Investment, jobs, trade and equality - both in or out of the EU."
https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1155393361664204802?s=20
Once a brexiteer, always a Brexiteer
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Really @Kerley ?“Parliament has stopped me from taking the UK out of the EU, without a deal, despite your clear instruction that we must Leave, and Leave we must. So, I ask you, at this election, to vote for your Conservative Brexit candidate to save our very democracy, and the independence of this, our, your, Great Britain. I thank you.”
You think there will be a split in the Conservative Party? Phillip Hammond, Ken Clarke, Grieve et al all kicked out? I don't think the above speech will pass muster.
Yes, some of those will simply not stand, others will be deselected, or be so small in number as to be virtually ignored. Or, even more confrontationally, their seat targeted by a Brexit Party Company candidate with support from “Conservative Brexit” party members and government ministers.
Anyway, the point is, there are ways for Johnson to look “pure” as regards Brexit, to win over those currently voting Brexit Party (including his members) even if we haven’t left… as long as he (and the papers that support him) successfully portray the delay in leaving as the fault of others.
Corbyn will be painted as one of those others, even if he his promising his own red unicorns still.
“Investment, jobs, trade and equality – both in or out of the EU.”
What a terrible position for labour to be campaigning on. :-/
But every single analysis shows that there will be a massive reduction in Investment, jobs, trade and equality in the event of any form of Brexit
Therefore its a totally ****ing stupid position to campaign on!
Yes of course, a major political party telling the 52% who voted to leave that they are totally ****ing stupid is sure fire way to win the next election.
What percentage of that 52 % would, when faced with the option of Boris 'No Deal' Johnson or Nigel 'the EU can eff off' Farage opt for Jeremy ' a bit in, a bit out, depends on the audience I'm talking too' Corbyn?
I don't know if you've seen the polls, but he's never going to win an election with his present genius 'strategy'
And don't say 'the polls were wrong last time', because that was Peak Crobyn and it's been the law of diminishing returns ever since
What percentage of that 52 % would
If the strategy is to give up on anyone who voted leave then they've already lost. Of course it's easy for the libdems to do that cos they are never going to win, but labour don't have that luxury. As I've said before, taking an absolutist remain position only ensure we get whatever Boris serves up, which will be a no deal brexit. I really can't see any outcome where a remain vs no deal election results in anything but a no deal brexit.
What % of those now eligible to vote voted Leave back in 2016? It’s a fun little sum… I’ll leave you to it. Anyway, the next election won’t be fought in the same way as the 2017 one… and that is what Labour should be preparing for. Step one… fresh leadership. Step two… point out your alternative to the Conservative Brexit policy that so many people want to avoid.
Corbyn actually broke cover and appeared in public? Wonders will never cease. Strategy at the moment appears to be disenfranchising the 48% who voted remain and three 52% that voted leave. Their numbers are in the toilet. They're not getting anywhere near government with the current 'message'. Perhaps it's a good time to change strategy? Too late.
Brexit May well no longer be the will of the people, if it ever was, but it’s certainly still the will of the leader of the Labour Party, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
I go all misty-eyed when looking at how effectively he’s fulfilled his promise to restore democracy to the party. After all, Brexit is what all Labour MP’s, members and voters want...
Isn’t it?
Perhaps it’s a good time to change strategy? Too late.
If that's true then get ready for no deal and another 5 years of Boris. I'm sure being proved right will compensate for everything that happens between now and then.
After all, Brexit is what all Labour MP’s, members and voters want…
Shame not enough voted for remain in the referendum then isn't it?
I think you need to look beyond Brexit for how we got here.
Yes, because Corbyn and the leadership we’re so present and vocal in their backing for remain during the referendum campaign, weren’t they? They definitely didn’t run off to hide in the shed on the allotment for 2 months.
I love the way you’re happy to blame everyone else while absolving the shower-of-shite leadership of any responsibility for being, at best utterly ****ing hopelessly incompetent and more than that, a bunch of Brexiteers (who didn’t even have the balls to come out and say that’s what they are, and still haven’t)
Corbynism in microcosm, that. It’s all a conspiracy! No blame at all may be apportioned to Kim Jong Beardy
Echoing what you disciples are saying, this has just been posted up on the (fanatically Corbynite) Red Labour friendface Page, which is always one of the most reliable places to take the pulse of the PFJ
"Labour’s lurch to a blanket anti-Brexit position must be halted and even reversed. Backroom plotting with ex-chancellor Hammond — the chief representative of monopoly capital in the Commons — and Dominic Grieve, a pillar of the legal and intelligence services establishment, must end forthwith.
Labour must return to the policy which helped secure an extra three and a half million votes in the 2017 general election, boosting the party’s share of the poll by one third. This was to honour the referendum result by leaving the EU with safeguards, while proposing forward-looking policies that would cut across EU treaty provisions, directives and court rulings.
Labour will have already seen expert legal advice on the barriers presented to so many Labour manifesto pledges by EU and single market membership. Setting out this information in public is long overdue."
So let me get this straight. When a no deal happens the tories will be blaming the europeans, and remainers will be blaming the labour party, and the end result will be continued govt by the liars who really were to blame. You really couldn't make it up.
I’ll be blaming the people who were actually responsible. Dominic Cummins, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and their shyster cronies, who lied and deceived their way to victory with whatever dodgy funders were behind them
In the exact same way that they’re about to at the general election they’re shortly going to call.
They’re already gearing up for the same kind of ‘Cambridge Analytica’ style campaign, with the same dodgy backers and outriders, because why wouldn’t they? They got away with it last time. They will this time too.
I expect that in reaction to this, Corbyn will fare as well as last time, with much the same result
A useful idiot, so clueless that he’s essentially complicit.
You are forgetting CMD Binbins. The mans arrogance got us in to this. His lack of backbone failed to see it through.
Indeed the Corby still doesn't seem bothered that the likes of Kate hoey & trade unionist pro brexiters gave what is now the Brexit party/job hnsons inner circle a dump of labours own data on their members, that Cummings & co will once again be able to use.
I’m sure being proved right will compensate for everything that happens between now and then.
Looked in a mirror recently? You can advocate carrying on down the same path that has got Labour in to second place at best all you want. It's not going to change the result of the experiment. First of the losers and carrying half the blame. If you're lucky.
Looked in a mirror recently?
And this is why it will be a no deal. Instead of attacking the real culprits, the remain faction, led by the lliberal democrats, prefer to blame the labour party and labour voters. The numbers are already against remain, yet for some reason they choose to divide their numbers instead of uniting to beat Boris and Farage.
Unite around a Red Brexit to stop a Blue Brexit. Believe people… believe…
Many people will revert to voting Labour when the general election comes, especially in key Conservative/Labour marginals… but for many it will be despite the Labour leader, and because of the Conservative one. It won’t be enough though. Dump Corbyn to win. Dump Brexit to win. That’s how to beat the Conservatives now… not blaming “Labour voters” for being turned off by the Labour leader and his Brexit policy, and placing their vote with another party (or not at all).
Unite around a Red Brexit to stop a Blue Brexit.
Labour have guaranteed there will be a referendum on any deal they can agree. That is the opportunity to stop brexit that you want. Yet still that's not enough, even though a month ago you were all wailing that labour weren't going to support a referendum. Now they have, you've changed the tune and are complaining about something else. You got what you wanted, there is a cast iron guarantee of a second referendum on any deal including a remain option. Take it, you won't get a better opportunity to stop brexit.
Labour have guaranteed there will be a referendum on any deal they can agree.
You got what you wanted, there is a cast iron guarantee of a second referendum on any deal including a remain option
Sorry mate, but they have most certainly not said that. They have twisted and turned themselves inside out to avoid saying just that.
Did you watch Corbyns annual TV interview on Sophie Ridge yesterday? He was pressed on this and carefully said that they would support a referendum on a 'no-deal Brexit' or a 'bad tory Brexit'.
He then went on to say that if labour was elected, he would be 'respecting the result of the referendum' and push ahead with their fantasy, red-unicorn Brexit, on which they would categorically not be offering a referendum. We'd all just to have to suck it up.
By any benchmark, Labours policy is a shambolic confusing mess that seems to be constantly in flux. Ranged against that, you've got a Tory party that is saying categorically 'we're leaving in October' - 'come what may' 'do or die' 'under any circumstance'
The very opposite of labours fuzzy mess
Labour have guaranteed there will be a referendum on any deal they can agree.
Oh - I think I missed that one.
9th July -
24th July -
Happy to be corrected though
there is a cast iron guarantee of a second referendum on any deal including a remain option.
as above, this isn't what I've taken from their statements.
They've committed to campaigning to remain against a Tory Brexit, which is a lot better than nothing, and realistically, it's the situation they're most likely to find themselves in.
But as mentioned before, they appear to be saying that in a GE, they would campaign on a platform of Red Brexit, and I can't find any evidence to say that they'd have a 2nd ref on that.
So if you're a left-leaning remainer, currently you'll have to choose between Labour and Brexit with no guarantee of 2nd ref, Tories and Brexit with Labour fighting for a 2nd ref - or a protest vote, which makes the Tories more likely.
Argh!
Back to the oh yes they did, oh not they didn't panto I see. I'm not goinig to to rehash the whole thing again but I'll repeat the simple point that if there is a new election before the tories take us out with no deal, as is likely assuming the likes of Hammond and co don't bottle it, then the best chance of stopping brexit is a labour government. I know many have fantasies about the libdems riding to the rescue, but realitically that's not going to happen, so the choice comes down to the tories and their no deal brexit, or labour with their (potential) renegotiated deal and a second referendum. Also consider the fact that even if labour do win, it'll almost certainly be a minority govt. In that scenario you can count on the libdems and the SNP to ensure that a suitable democratic opportunity exists to stop brexit. All you have to do to make this happen is vote tactically for either labour, the libdems or green where it makes sense.
Back to the oh yes they did, oh not they didn’t panto I see. I’m not goinig to to rehash the whole thing again
There's a really good reason for that, aye? Seriously, is my understanding of current Labour policy, based on the two links above, incorrect?
You got what you wanted, there is a cast iron guarantee of a second referendum on any deal including a remain option.
WHEN there is this mythical cast iron guarantee, I will be voting Labour again in my seat. Yes. But it hasn’t happened yet. And when/if it appears, then my feeling is that it won’t be enough for enough others also to switch their vote to Labour. The leader doesn’t have to go to win my vote, but if he stays then Labour will not win a majority at the next election. Not a chance. They may be able to form a minority government or coalition… but with support from whom? And won’t the first priority of their partners be for Labour to change leader to someone they can back as PM? Someone they can work with? Get rid of him now, not later.
I've heard Corbyn and other senior cabinet members say many times that labour will guarantee a referendum on any deal. It's not yet official policy because that needs to be agreed by the membership at a conference. You can choose to either believe them or not. I'm 99% certain though that if we have an election before we leave, there will be an opportunity to stop brexit via a second referendum if labour win*. The alternative to that is no deal under Boris, or a vanishingly small chance of the libdems being elected and revoking article 50. As a remainer I know which of these options I prefer.
*Still think leave will win another referendum, but that's a different argument for the brexit thread.
I’ve heard Corbyn and other senior cabinet members say many times that labour will guarantee a referendum on any deal. It’s not yet official policy because that needs to be agreed by the membership at a conference.
fair enough.
But it seems odd, because at last year's conference:
<shrug>
But yeah. Who knows how likely any of this actually is. IMO Boris is gonna drive us off the cliff before calling a GE and then it will be too late to do anything about it.
I’ve heard Corbyn and other senior cabinet members say many times that labour will guarantee a referendum on any deal.
In person I guess because no one else has them on record saying they they want a referendum on whether to Leave on "any deal" or to Remain.
In person I guess
Sigh...
Not sure what else I can say. I've definitely heard Corbyn, McDonnell, Starmer, Thornberry, Gardiner and others say in interviews or in print articles that they support a referendum on any deal with a remain option. I guess we'll see if it does become policy at the conference, and if/when it does I fully expect that everyone will find some other reason to complain about it.
In the end the problem is that remainers want rid of Corbyn and can't separate that from stopping brexit. It's fair enough if they want a new labour leader, many do and there are good reasons. It doesn't mean however that the two issues are inextricably linked. It is perfectly possible to stop brexit without changing the leadership, and it will be somewhat tragic and ironic if remainers pass up the chance of stopping brexit because they're too focused on Corbyn.
Nah, many would have liked a left leaning government, with polices much like that Corbyn presented in the 2017 manifesto… and wanted Brexit resisted and the Tories dismissed to the opposition benches at the next election… but the last two years have led us to consider Corbyn a barrier, not an enabler, to those ends. How you can come to any other opinion, other than blind faith, I have no idea. But lucky you. He is clinging onto Brexit, and failing to present himself as our future PM to anyone beyond a small group of die hards. I’ll vote for a Labour Party, with Corbyn at the helm, if it guarantees a vote to let us stay in the EU… but millions will now stay away from Labour ‘till he is replaced, no matter what he belatedly promises. They do not trust him, or trust in him, and I can’t blame them.