Jeremy Corbyn

When there’s a “Unite the Union Ice Cream Van”, it’s alread beyond parody.

I’m glad they found the space for a Unite ice cream van.

I bet the sprinkles were on strike though.

If we rush on over, there *might* still be an ice cream left:

https://twitter.com/freespirited_p/status/1008002429198262272?s=08

Woodstock:

Laughing stock:

Here’s the full banner, held up as Corbyn took to the stage. #LabourLive pic.twitter.com/44ERIzcO7y

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 16, 2018

They probably should have pointed it the other way….

cranberry. That made me LOL. Thanks.

For the few, not the many.

The Woodstock/laughing stock bit was shamelessly stole.. err..redistributed.

brilliant to see pressure on Corbyn over brexit!

& loving the Toryboys jealousy that Labour can organise a festival & pull a crowd,

And they said they wouldn’t come…. Never mind the mendacious haters. We’re taking our country back! #LabourLive pic.twitter.com/I8PykhZqM4

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) June 16, 2018

How much money do you think they lost Kimbers ?

Kimbers. Corbyn’s weak stance over Europe is losing my vote. I do like the sign though. The fact they DID turn it the other way is great. I have to say, I am not that impressed by the turnout though. Steve Rider seems to have more people watching him than Jeremy Corbyn does.

no idea, depends how much they charge for the veggie burgers, if its glasto prices, theyll be minted!

So funny that people feel the need to select photos taken before breakfast to make a point 😆

Corbyn can draw crowds get over it!

agree that hes losing votes over brexit, well mine anyway & he certainly seems to have lost momentum of late 😉

They probably should have pointed it the other way….

.@jeremycorbyn stop backing Brexit. #PeoplesVote #PeoplesVoteMarch pic.twitter.com/cmhM9gQOzC

— Our Future, Our Choice (@OFOCBrexit) June 16, 2018

seems to have lost momentum

😀

kimbers. I would love to vote for Labour, however I feel such a deep sense of disappointment with Corbyn. I hate going into cliche territory, but where are Labour on the ground? Where I live Labour have almost gone into hiding. I have only just found out that this event took place in North London, which is distant to most of the core support. Corbyn recently came up to my old home town where he stood on a back street for photos with a few loyal party supporters. Far from the vison of clench fisted throngs at this rally. Rightly or wrongly, the SNP manage to encapsulate the feeling of Labourfest in most towns and cities when a fairly prominent leader visits. Labour are dire at the minute. Any semi decent leader would be trouncing the Tories right now. I reckon if Andy Burnam had won the leadership contest originally, then he would be Prime Minister right now.

CTK  -maybe the many were queuing up for food, in socialist, fraternal sympathy for the people of Venezuela when the photos that I’ve seen were taken.

There was enough space that even Jezza could have found somewhere to sit.

& loving the Toryboys jealousy that Labour can organise a festival & pull a crowd,

There are Labour boys who want out too …

Loving the in the face banner … LOL !

Cant disagree that Labour & Corbyn should have been doing much better as the tories squabble like drunken goblins over Brexit !

On the ground; I live in Milton Keynes we were canvassed quite a lot by labour activists before the last election & I had a full & frank discussion with the candidate over brexit on my doorstep!

Corbyn did come here last summer & was well received

but theres plenty that are afreared of the evil socialists & believe all the IRA bobbins, I know Ive spoken to them!

Murmurs from Robert Peston about a General Election for Autumn. Mainly because of the NHS spending ‘increase’ and messing with taxes (ditch the corp tax reduction?) that is possibly forthcoming; ready to sell to the public.

I imagine that’s a best case scenario. Do we think she can limp on till the Autumn?

The NHS money does smack of desperate policy-making on the hoof.

What athgray says, up here Labour are pretty much invisible, I couldn’t even tell you the leader of Scottish Labour’s name, Richard something? who knows, but tbh, he follows a long line of useless irrelevants, Dugdale, Gray et al were all pretty much an embarrassment. It’s quite something in Scotland for the leader of the Scots Tories to be more popular than their ‘red’ counterpart.

Despite coming from a working class background, and still remaining of that ilk, I’d vote SNP, Greens, LibDem, hell even the Tories before I’d put a X next to Scottish Labour…

For the simple reason that along with their complete incompetence to form a realistic challenge to the worst shower of lying shitebags in the history of the Westminster parliament, I haven’t a foggiest what they actually stand for any more….

Scotland’s a special case tbh, the party has basically fallen to bits and is still trying to figure out what to do next- but it’ll be all about damage control and recovery rather than moving forward for the forseeable future. And as far as I can see, they don’t seem to really have got to grips with the fact that they put a Tory government into power yet. There’s a lot of Scottish floating voters that won’t forgive that in a hurry

It’s a sort of bitter irony… Back when Scottish Labour had decent leadership, Westminster famously treated them like a branch office. Corbyn on the other hand realised that he doesn’t know Scotland, that the Westminster party struggled with them, and that there’s a lot of resentment between the Scottish party and westminster, and decided to give them free rein- which could have been the right thing to do with a different leader but with Dugdale was just disastrous.

It’s honestly pretty hard to see how it could have gone worse. Dugdale couldn’t have done more damage if she’d been a Tory infiltrator, you basically had to watch from behind the sofa.

I’m not sure that Corbyn could have done a lot about it tbh, on the one hand he basically gave SLab the go-ahead to throw themselves off a cliff, but on the other if he’d tried to intervene he’d have been painted with the same brush as previous leaders and they’d probably have worked even harder to destroy themselves, then he’d get the blame anyway. And he had enough on his plate without trying to reverse a disaster that was 10 years in the making. But it’s incredibly sad.

Jeremy has a notice outside his house:

Classy eh….

Just checking how many civilians the Israeli army have killed this year so far?

Yeah, that’s a pretty classy one. Amazes me just what right wing nut jobs will masturbate to sometimes.

For the Kremlin? Going to be a bit awkward when all the hard right agents turn up for their latest briefing.

Well that’s me convinced, won’t be voting for that evil genius again

Oh wait. ……

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2018/07/18/voting-intention-conservatives-36-labour-41-16-17-/

It’s almost as if the more mud is slung the less people believe it.

Right-wingers always entertaining !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45438855

Is Blair right that Michael Foot tried to expel militant tendency Labour members? Google hasn’t helped me.

The inquiry which led to the expulsions started under his leadership, and the decision to de-affiliate Militant was taken at the party conference. I’m not sure he gave expulsions his open support, though (may have even spoken against them).  Kinnock was the party leader subsequently most associated with anti-Militant action.  Corbyn, obviously, opposed these expulsions.

The inquiry which led to the expulsions started under his leadership, and the decision to de-affiliate Militant was taken at the party conference. I’m not sure he gave expulsions his open support, though (may have even spoken against them).  Kinnock was the party leader subsequently most associated with anti-Militant action.  Corbyn, obviously, opposed these expulsions.

Thanks that answers my question. I think of Kinnock as the guy who fought and defeated Militant, I hadn’t thought about Foot in that context.

kind of obvious now that all the momentum and £3 members are the militant lot reapplying and no-one has checked the background

would also explain why Derek Hatton is crawling out from under his rock (and when I say rock I really should say ‘multimillion pound house in Bowdon Cheshire’ which I don’t have a problem with him owning per se but do object to him playing the WorkingClassAverageBloke persona from that address)

**** me that militant lot have aged well!  & also have managed to expand their numbers from 5000 to 100000.  But yes obviously all these new Labour members are ex Militant.

Does this even need comment?

I suppose the comment would be, pick a polling company & see what you like in it?

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 40% (+2)
LAB: 39% (+2)
LDEM: 7% (-3)
UKIP: 6% (+2)

via @Survation, 10 Oct
Chgs. w/ 07 Sephttps://t.co/itOMg0M30I

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 21, 2018

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 39% (+1)
CON: 38% (-)
LDEM: 10% (-)
UKIP: 5 (-1)
GRN: 4% (-)

via @BMGResearch, 03 – 05 Oct
Chgs. w/ 22 Sep

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 6, 2018

this one is more important tho

Preference for…

Theresa May's Brexit deal: 34%
A second referendum: 42%

via @YouGov
h/t https://t.co/GjPemNFjRO

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) October 21, 2018

It is deeply disturbing that Labour aren’t ahead of the tories by around 7-8 points at the moment. An unpopular and divided party led by an unpopular PM. And just when the country needs a great PM in waiting. Oh well…….

Should also be alarming that you can vote multiple times on the YouGov website for the same poll.  If those sorts of polls are on the website that is.

It is deeply disturbing that Labour aren’t ahead of the tories

Labour have much the same divide though with the added fun that its not just split over brexit but anything else the “moderates” dont like.

Polls have more often than not been wrong in the recent past.  They’ve been wrong about Corbyn ffs.  Why pay any attention to them?

I think survation was about right on the EU vote.

Nearly all of the polls are within the margin of error.