Labour Leadership 2016

I have a horrible feeling Ed Balls is now gunning for the popular celebrity vote. I saw this on the Guardian newsfeed and my heart sunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=108&v=Czqtjk_iGFU

What did I just watch?

I think I might need to bleach my eyes again. Back in a bit.

He's done in politics (after spending pretty much his whole life doing nothing but politics) and must be feeling a bit directionless. Also he has a book to promote. Poor man needs something to do though, even Yvette Cooper said he's having a mid-life Crisis.

When Fox News call Farage the Opposition and you have to check yourself.

Wut.

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like? You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that?

I think what he's trying to say is that we need to decide before how far we need to look to more like. It's a tough decision to replace more people with the cyber but thats what the internet of things ultimately wants first. We do need to do look more as anyone can but whichever way you paint the turtle, its mostly a beige/maroon trispoke kind of affair.

I hear the cakes are good though.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords

you mean Tony Blair right? isn't he making a comeback somewhere?

that's amazing. obviously written by the internet's very own edgy white liberal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/labour-brexit-revolt-tony-blair-john-major

^Yeah, whatever...unity would be good, but there's no unity in the left. We have 4 socialist parties in NI only and it's tiny! Coalitions, maybe, I'd welcome that, but the Greens also don't want to leave the EU and go full Cuba.

My frustrated two cents:

The UK wants to have more socialist conditions on capitalism (like Scandinavian states) but socialism is anti-xenophobia so now the UK is awfully confused with itself
It doesn't want to vote Labour, if anything Tories approval is up (though brexit means clusterfuck)
And somehow Corbyn isn't a career politician, but then people complain they want more normal people in politics and don't vote for him

Blergh. It's enough to turn you into a neo liberal, at least the key performance indicator of "i has more cash" is simply ;)

Ironically, it is socialism that started this internationalist thing.

With the Nuttall 'strategy' and that recent awful article by Douglas Carswell in the Garnuadi, I think it's become more abundantly clear than ever that UKIP is just a Tory tool for splitting Labour. Most of the things that they accuse Labour of apply more or equally strongly to the Tories, but for some strange reason they are never mentioned.

"Tory tool"

Illuminati Confirmed? :p

Not that my birth grounds The Netherlands have such a good record lately, VVD which is Tories-light (though not the nasty party...but...not that bothered with social income equality) and Wilders.

People aren't...all stupid. But politics really blinds, nobody wants money spent on wars and palaces, probably not even most of UKIP. But the tribalism may just catch us.

Not a great result last night, and the polls aren't looking too hot.

#jezwecan

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Labour could take a leaf out of the book of the SNP and be very, very clear on Brexit.

Instead we get some wishy washy message and an amendment to invoke article 50 anyway, with no conditions of "but if we don't like the result of the negotiations, we veto leave".

It's too bad as I think Corbyn really has good principles.

It's too bad as I think Corbyn really has good principles.

Like leaving the EU? Because that's his principled opinion. So the lack of clarity over Labour's Brexit position is somewhat unsurprising, no?

It feels like everyone has lost interest in Labour.

And the sad thing is they probably haven't even noticed (such is their self-awareness).

I was wondering this morning that no news coverage of Labour. Is the media keeping Corbyn quiet or is he just absent?

Like leaving the EU? Because that's his principled opinion.

Are you serious?

This is embarrassing and part of the problem with having adult conversations about these issues.

I asked a similar question a few weeks ago. I'm seeing the LibDems in the news more than labour at the moment.

Your a adult.