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Yes. And you've linked this to Corbyn.

WTF? Is Johnson a nonce?

Can't find where I mentioned Corby in that post

Who do you think is responsible for the weak labour party which may result in Boris getting elected?

Do you even the news bro?

Ed Miliband.

Googled Johnson Nonce and this was the first thing that come up.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/502101/adam-johnson-prison-pay-protection-Frankland-Durham-Ian-Huntley-Levi-Bellfield

"Adam Johnson to 'pay for protection' in horror prison where nonce was DISEMBOWELLED"

I do not necessarily endorse the political views of the Daily Star.

the weak labour party which may result in Boris getting elected>

Glad you agree on this point.

So in spite of the Blairites not being quiet recently, labour remains weak in IDS' eyes because of Ed Miliband?

If the labour party were looking very electorally strong, IDS and Boris might be planning the exact same thing, I'm just interested in IDS' thought process. What do you think?

Why are the labour party not electorally strong - in spite of an active group of Blairites?

Do you have any opinions or just alot if questions and a cool blank name?

Oof! Right in the feefees.

I'm just trying to work out your thought process. IDS and the Tory crisis are caused by a weak labour party due to EM despite an active Blairite contingent.

Seems to me Ed's somehow doing something (whatever that is?) right and that Blairites, whose actions haven't prevented IDS from resigning, are thankfully ineffective.

My opinion is that trying to win political points against Corbyn in the middle of a Tory crisis because he didn't seem to obviously cause it is moronic. Especially when you try to win those points by claiming he did cause it, but because he's just that weak.

Who'd have thought that top-class political discussion has a natural home on a fixie-skidder forum?

Things have been beginning to point in the right direction for them since the last General Election though... they won the Oldham by election with an increased share of the vote, and the latest poll put them a ahead of the Tories nationally.

While Corbyn apparently didn't address the current budget directly, he did have a jolly good diatribe against the ridiculous waste of an abacus that George Osborne is.

@dave4 - I'm not claiming they're not electorally strong. Just trying to work out why he thought they weren't.

I think the way Politicians manoeuver for power is affected by what they perceive is happening with their opponents. I'm talking about IDS et al's perceptions.

Just trying to work out why he thought they weren't.>

Because of the big UKIP vote in the last election, and the fact that Miliband's left wing policies did not get Labour a better result, among other things. But I think this is old ground. I think the tories view labour as weak, and this may cause them to be complacent. That might actually be good news.

99,000+ signatories against selling schools to private trusts. At 100k they must 'consider' a debate in parliament. Democracy inaction...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124702

Democracy inaction...

pithy!

I always thought the idea that BJ could ever take the top spot was a ridiculously London-centric notion..

tory party have now summoned undead blood sucker michael fucking howard to try and bail out their sinking canoe. haha what a catastrofuck.

interesting how it's only now that the shit has hit the fan regarding the parlous way this government treats vulnerable people that it's front and center on most news carriers. didn't see the bbc getting this worked up about the bedroom tax, work capability assessment etc.