That Corbyn fella...

What an arrogant, pompous fuckwitted thing to say.

I shouldn't be surprised, we all know he's a massive cunt.

As someone posted on Twitter - it sounds like he's preparing for a drone strike on Labour HQ.

I asked him if all the mirrors had been removed from Chequers.

I would discharge all the ballast, but I'm not moderate like Corbyn.

Ha, and slightly more subtle than the usual tweets he gets. I follow him - the abuse he gets after every tweet is hilarious.

It really is a disgusting thing for a PM to say though. Pretty quick to the offense as well.

Regarding twitter.. this made me smile…

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/jeremy-corbyn-becomes-labour-leader-today-is-our-darkest-hour--we-have-become-unelectable-10497770.html

"We have just chosen a leader considerably less electable than Michael Foot, after whose election..."

Wut?

Pretty quick to the offense as well.

Yes - `they want to define him to the wider public, before he can do it himself.

They do balance it with this though http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/an-unelectable-extremist-who-hijacked-their-party-has-already-served-as-prime-minister--her-name-was-margaret-thatcher-10482479.html

Lots of nasty people out and about right now outing themselves. It's really depressing, but it'll pass.

"Labour are now a serious risk to our nation's security, our economy's security and your family's security," he said.

And your children's security! And your children's children's security! And your children's children's children's security!
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If this was actually true the Labour Party would be subject to the Terrorism Act and should be banned.

First they come for the trade unions...

^ Chilling parallels.

Just read Corbyn's ‘Britain can’t cut its way to prosperity. We have to build it’piece in the Observer. Thought it came across well, but obviously it's preaching to 60% of the choir there and really needs to be in the Sun

McDonnell appointed shadow chancellor. Good start.

I don't know how to feel about the lack of women appointed to the Shadow Cabinet...

My gut feeling is that it's a bad thing not to have a healthy gender balance if only for representational purposes, which leads me to wondering whether or not it is necessary for a person to be like you in order to represent you. I guess the answer is no, but then that philosophy could easily lend itself to forgiving all manner of representative shortfalls.

It is an issue that I'd imagine Corbyn himself feels a little uneasy about, due to his insistence that his cabinet would be more representative of diverse Britain. It does ostensibly seem very white and male, but then one could argue that the ideas are more important than those expressing them. That would be my view but perhaps it's easy enough for me to say that, being that I'm white and male etc etc...

At the end of the day it's not really his fault that all the Red Tory women outed themselves and fucked off.

I don't know how to feel about the lack of women appointed to the Shadow Cabinet...

8/14 are men, and there are still 9 more to go. The big complaint is that the "top jobs" are largely filed by men.

McDonnel response to that claim was pretty entertaining:

Mr McDonnell said the health and education portfolios were more important than the traditional "great offices of state".

He said: "It is interesting, Jeremy said very, very clearly that we don't accept the hierarchical nature of what we have inherited by these supposed top jobs.

"They largely stem from the 19th century when you had an empire and all that.

"For most people the real top jobs are the ones that provide the services like health and education, those sorts of things. So he has broken with that tradition and I'm really pleased."

Make of that what you will, but the claims of gender imbalance yesterday and today seem to be exaggerations at most.

And now that all the positions are full there is a majority of women. Also a pro-Trident shadow defense secretary (Eagle).

Having now seen the full line-up it seems like the women thing was just more smear (surprise surprise).

Genuinely excited about this country's politics for the first time in a long time. Hoping for plenty more Dennis Skinner style heckling of the bastard tory scum over the next few years.

Also its about the 'top 5' jobs, of which 2 positions were voted for by the party. So that's only 3 positions really. not really big enough sample to make conclusions on his intent I'd say.

Hurray for the Queen! This will be interesting:

By custom, the leader of the opposition becomes a member of the Privy Council—the small body of advisers to the Queen. When you are first sworn in as a Privy Councillor, you must observe a particular ritual: kneel on one knee, on a stool; raise a Bible in the right hand, for the lengthy intoning of the oath; stand up, walk three paces forward, and kiss the monarch’s hand; then walk backward, preferably without tripping over the stool. All of this is enough to strike terror into the privileged. So how will it affect someone who is a self-confessed republican, and an atheist to boot?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-corbyn-supremacy

Corbyn or Obi Wan Kenobi?

I don't want to link to the Daily Mail but there's a hilarious article berating Corbyn for taking a salary for being an MP. I'm so confused.

It's a bit like saying that Corbyn is an apologist for terrorism

That's exactly what I am saying..

Labour HQ on fire. Literally.