Rayner is a shoe-in to be the next leader

She is indeed. Its obvious that the next leader will effectively be anointed by St Jeremy because thats what the sixth formers demand in this tragic ongoing 1980’s remake. The Tories may well out-do the 18 years they were gifted by the labour party last time, before it hopefully see’s some sense and limps back to the centre ground and tries to restore some credibility after this Corbynite debacle

At least Rayner showed she has the ability to think on her feet, unlike Jezza who stands there mute and motionless when presented with an open goal, and seems to actually be in possession of a personalty and a degree of political instinct.

But thats about it when it comes to positives.

Her line on Brexit is no doubt the same as Jezza’s but at least she’s being straight about it. Its surely glaringly obvious to anyone sentient that Jezza (in the laughably unlikely event of getting a majority) would go to Brussels, come back with Mays deal (for thats all thats on offer) and return to campaign enthusiastically for everyone to vote for it in a second referendum, against the wishes of the majority of his MP’s, membership and voters

If anyones buying this ‘honest broker’ bullshit then you need your bumps feeling. He’s a brexiteer and he wants us out. Looks like Rayner is too.

I don’t know, perhaps we’ll find out after they get Brexit done.

Dear God!

looks like Cummings chucking threats around is working a treat on the media. They’re using any old excuse to stop him facing any scrutiny. Quote from yesterdays FT

“It’s clear what the strategy is,” says one person close to Mr Johnson’s highly disciplined campaign. “Keep him out of tough debates, keep him away from the public, stick to the message, make him look prime ministerial.”

I am making a personal apology for last week describing the PM as looking tired and emotional and saying he’s not drinking.

News 101: Sky TV host says something offensive about your candidate. Hardly anyone sees it live, it receives very little press.

Sky TV host repeats something offensive about your candidate attached to an apology. Hardly anyone sees it live, but it goes viral on Twitter and receives plenty of press as a result.

Win!

I certainly hadn’t heard or seen reported Boulton’s original comments.

(Whoever leaked it is an ass, however.)

Leaked what? (Sorry, I’m a bit slow today.)

Russians leaked it just to **** with us

NB no idea what CF is on about

NB no idea what CF is on about

I’m more worried by the fact that he’s on the phone chatting bantering to Zuul the Gatekeeper.

But then again, it’s hardly a revelation that the majority of Corbyn’s MPs can’t stand him. Even the idea that Corbyn is going down like a cup of cold sick outside metropolitan areas is not entirely surprising.

Greg Barker/ Baker a tory activist is the leaker.

Leaked phone call reveals Labour shadow minister doesn’t think Corbyn can win

Ed, that’s a particularly nasty side you are beginning to show.

When the same person is reguarly sexist, thinks it’s OK to use the circle gesture and the JD expression it’s not nasty to point it out.

The member in question has been around for only 4 weeks, until there is any eveidence to the contrary I’ll take his stories with a pinch of salt, object to his sexism and argue against the use of JD and the circle symbol being “innocent” on 10/12/2019.

The key here is indeed context. The context of the QT interview was one of racists being racist. The context of this forum is one of an Internet in which alt-right trolls and bots are doing their utmost to influence an election result. If you think STW is immune, think again.

Morning comrade

Gutted to see last night that my constituency is being predicted to go tory in the election. We’ve had a really hard-working (or so it seems) labour MP who has been vocal in Westminster for the benefits of the area and she is predicted to be beaten by a girl who has been outed as a racist and someone who has publically put on her facebook that anyone on benefits should be shot.

Labour can stick in their current direction as long as they like (I support most of their policies), but until they find a way to get into power it is meaningless. I don’t think that waiting till next GE after the brexit hits the fan and everyone feels the squeeze will make a blind bit of difference as so man people equally blame Corbyn for what is/has happened.

On that note, the tories plan to repeal the fixed term parliment act – what replaces it or do we go back to the previous way?

Interesting times – a claim on social media that the photo of the little lad at LGI was ‘staged’ allegedly came from a hacked account, propagated onwards by a large number of low-follower accounts.

Despite the claim that the photo was staged having been acknowledged as false, it has continued to spread on both Facebook and Twitter, largely through individual low-follower accounts cutting and pasting the original text to share with their friends.(Guardian)

If someone in the civil service has a copy of the Russian Interference report and cares about their country, now would be a good time.

We’ve had a really hard-working (or so it seems) labour MP who has been vocal in Westminster for the benefits of the area and she is predicted to be beaten by a girl who has been outed as a racist and someone who has publically put on her facebook that anyone on benefits should be shot.

Labour can stick in their current direction as long as they like (I support most of their policies), but until they find a way to get into power it is meaningless.

Solution – for Labour to out-racist the Tories?

Google “circle gesture Question Time”, Squirrelking

https://twnews.co.uk/gb-news/question-time-man-goes-viral-after-making-controversial-circle-game-symbol-on-air

https://metro.co.uk/video/question-time-audience-member-caught-making-circle-game-gesture-2066646/

https://lastminute-news.com/news/question-time-viewers-spot-audience-member-s-strange-hand-gesture-metro-news-breaking-news-last-video-news-last-minute-news-904

They all state that since 2017 the gesture is associated with race hate. You can’t posssibly ignore that, Squirrelking, nor could the guy on Question Time when he used it in a debate in which Brexit (with all that implies in terms of xenophobia) is one of the main issues in people’s minds. Nor could the JD expression user.

BBC Politics Live…..’Mr Ashworth says the comments weren’t serious and that he was trying to convince the person who recorded the conversation, a friend who is also a Conservative activist, that Tory attack lines were working’.

A conservative activist?
Try again. Former tory gov minister; now a tory life peer is more than just an activist.

Add to this ‘In February 2019, Barker took a leave of absence from the House of Lords upon accepting an executive chairmanship position within En+ Group, a Russian company linked to the Russian oligarch on the U.S. sanctions list Oleg Deripaska. Barker was credited with having helped the Russian company to have the U.S. sactions lifted earlier that year, for which he was awarded a bonus of about 3 million to 4 million pounds ($3.9 million to $5.2 million) that he described as “relatively modest”.
Deripaska usually described as being loyal and close to Putin.

Ashworth should choose his ‘friends’ more carefully.

FWIW I don’t know anyone that ever took that white power thing seriously, obviously my generation are just dog whistle racists in your world and we are the ones out of touch.

I’ll take the word of the Anti Defamation League over theirs thanks.

The labour party will have to return to something resembling the real world at some point, just like it did in 97 under Blair. Though you and the rest of the sixth formers clearly want to see another decade+ of completely unopposed tory rule before thats allowed to happen. Hey it’ll be the 80’s all over again, seeing as it was so ****ing great last time around

Party leaders don’t need to be likeable; they need to be credible – relatable would be a bonus.

Which one is is Johnson – credible or relatable?

He is likely to be winning.

Err no. Not to suite you it won’t.

You can vote libdem.

FFS. Pushing people away Labour still?

People. Please vote Labour. Ignore the cultists. They are few but vocal.