General Election 2019

Are you a doctor?

I must say, yesterday's result made managing the homeless shelter a much harder experience last night.

. That’s the sort of behaviour of someone with health difficulties like Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Yeah, no.

Making a differential diagnosis from third / forth hand observations?

Based on, what, a relative that presented with an intersection of symptoms, identified post-diagnosis?

No.

Having worked in a care home. Shit, sorry I cared about the lady

But did you put two left or right shoes on? That’s harder to do

Labour had a chance in 2011 to get behind electoral reform in the referendum for PR. At the time they chose not to campaign for it because the current FPTP system was benefiting them and PR would have benefitted parties like the Greens and LD (who were in their 21st century peak having gained enough seats to be part of a collation govt.).

They had their chance. Moaning about it now is just sour grapes.

The issue with Diane is the fact that she, and the likes of Barry Gardiner are deemed worthy of being the top level talent in the current Labour party. They're a far cry from John Reid, David Blunkett, Gordon Brown et al.

Doesn't change the fact the system is just shit though.

I don't buy this "you had your chance" stuff.

Politics is about what people want. So what if they didn't want it when you asked before?

Pointless. Can say exactly the same for all elections in this country ever.
The result is a huge tory majority. That is all that counts.

She has been incoherent once or twice and had explained it as complications of diabetes. It's tough to manage type 2 and have a full schedule. I believe her explanations over the armchair diagnosis of dementia.

Labour have lots of problems:
Assuming the working class is white and northern
Assuming they'll always vote red
Having a real lack of young talent and brains and emotionally relatable people
Having no reliable media outlets
Having a complicated message

Hypoglycemia isn't it?

But also racist Northerners. I hope they get the hardest of hard Brexits, bunch of thick cunts

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Fucking foreign bastards......

It's the internet and I just don't know what's real anymore

"it’s been Labour for too long. We need a change. Things can’t get worse."

it still blows my mind that the media managed to convince a nation that a lifelong anti-war and anti-racism campaigner was a dangerous racist terrorist.

another thing im still confused by is this labour post-mortem. up to 10pm on december 12 everyone was enthusiastically urged to vote labour. by 11pm on thursday all those people had posted screeds explaining all the patently obvious flaws in the labour party since 2015.

I don't know what to think any more

I don't know what to think any more

This.

it still blows my mind that the media managed to convince a nation that a lifelong anti-war and anti-racism campaigner was a dangerous racist terrorist.

You must stretch your credibility. A Labour government in the future depends on those who represent you understanding how to shape a strategic narrative, and counter your opposition's counternarratives. They failed this time and we paid the price.

and counter your opposition's counter narratives

Which wasn't helped by Corbyn's response to the Salisbury poisoning.

Shit, sorry I cared about the lady

I don't think I suggested otherwise.

I stand by my statement though.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3mmex/paul-mason-general-election-labour

Paul Mason is a fucking idiot.

Eh?

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn, and I'm proud of the way he stood up to
vilification, dragged the party strongly onto the agenda of climate
change and fought Brexit. Brexit was always a right-wing, xenophobic
project – it would have been easy for a traditional Labour leader to
go with the flow, throwing migrants and democracy under a bus. Corbyn
understood that to support the Tory Brexit was suicide: those MPs in
Stoke and Doncaster who did so paid the price just as badly as those
who opposed it.

But we have to move on from Corbynism. I'm supposed to be one of its
architects, but I never liked the label. I'm a radical social
democrat, committed to an open migration system, tolerance of
minorities and to pursing social justice alongside economic justice.
Too many of my Labour comrades were simply nostalgic for the post-war
system, and some even for the Soviet Union.

By waiting to hear the results of the investigation before shit slinging?

Selective copy paste ahoy