Labour Leadership 2016

^That could also be interpreted as Blairite MPs being proved right about the chances of Brown and Miliband.

how well are you ever going to do if your party members are spending all their energy trying to stab you in the back and dominate the news cycle in a way that undermines your authority?

The Tories seem to make it work.

That's cos the press is on their side

I don't know if it's comparable though;

Cameron's had a pretty steady two terms, with ministers falling into line at important points (i.e elections) despite bickering about the EU that's only really climaxed in the last 3 months.

Corbyn's opposition has been beset by infighting within the PLP from the moment his candidacy was secured despite then earning a huge mandate from the party members. The PLP clearly oppose not just their leader but the policies and principles that he (and by proxy their members) represents.

Instead of staging mass resignations the cunts could be trying to perform some kind of valid opposition that gives value to their salaries.

It was a dig at the Tories for being back stabbing wankers. Only real reply needed was "lols, ur AWSOME dst" then a hashtag about missing rep.

But was the Tory leadership (non-)election ruthlessly efficient because the press was on their side?

Or because they actually pull together pretty well on the whole, considering the needs of the wider party, the importance of electability and moving out of the way when they are clearing adding no value (c.f. Johnson, Gove, Leadsom, etc.)?

Nah, they just got lucky that the last person to oppose May was a car crash but not so much to not know it.

They were inches from a blood letting

#bringbackrep

johnson appears to have fallen up again. foreign secretary.

what a time to be alive.

Maybe it'll keep him out of the country.

Duly noted, feeling especially tired and humourless today, so apols...

moving out of the way when they are clearing adding no value (c.f. Johnson,

A "me fein" man if there ever was one. And they're equally as split and back stabbing as Labour. But the press, the right wing, Tory supporting press, don't paint the picture like that.

They are but they're much better at not looking like it though.

Well he's been rewarded now hasn't he, despite backing Leadsom not May. I despair.

My hope is that May has made him Foreign Secretary in the hope she's given him enough rope to hang himself. Let's hope.

It means he has to buy into collective cabinet responsibility, so in one aspect it's a smartish move, but she could've given him a brief like Agriculture or Culture, Media and Sport where he'd still have to toe the party line, but be in a role without much responsibility.

But to give someone so lacking seriousness and gravitas a role that demands it is mind blowing.

Look at how much trouble he caused without any official powers as leader of the Leave campaign. I'm terrified to see what he's capable of with a piece of rope.

^ boom

Can you imagine him dealing with the ongoing crisis in Syria?

You set 'em up.

https://opendemocracy.net/uk/bart-cammaerts-brooks-decillia-joa-o-magalha-es-and-ce-sar-jimenez-marti-nez/when-our-watchdog-be

Fucks sake. He tries his hardest to be a backbencher, and that's how he gets repaid. The poor man.

Maybe it'll keep him out of the country.

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