Labour Leadership Contest

[Anubis]

Head and shoulders of Cameron with that phrase underneath with this picture as the background.

 

[Ginny]

 

 

 

 

 

David Cameron

3 hrs · 

 

Fucks sake - is that real?

 

 

 

 

 

The Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security.

 

 

From Facebook

 

 

Seems the tories have a message.

 

 

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.[/size]

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

That's the trouble though, the country is full of morons who do believe it. Especially if it's the S*n what says it.

Right throughout the Coalition Government, Labour never even tried to counter the There Is No Alternative mantra.  At least this time there will be a voice on the front benches - and on the news - arguing against their shit.

 

Maybe four and a half years of that will win over enough people.

[Anubis]

Natalie Rowe

@RealNatalieRowe

 

When @George_Osborne has paid me for sex & drugs,crawled around on the floor role playing as my dog, how can I take him seriously

[Anubis]

My favourite reply under that Cameron tweet was a classic Facebook piss-take:

 

U ok hun?

[Spy Bee]

I'm going to join the Labour Party now.

[Bjornebye]

[Etienne77]

See its on. We just needed someone to get behind. Let's go for it. We have absolutely fuck all to lose

[Bobby Hundreds]

I made the mistake of reading some Daily Mail comments. Jesus. Apparently unions are evil and the working class are now the scrounging classes. The Labour party is dead and thank god for a one state party. I think i'll move to Norway.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I made the mistake of reading some Daily Mail comments. Jesus. Apparently unions are evil and the working class are now the scrounging classes. The Labour party is dead and thank god for a one state party. I think i'll move to Norway.

 

Fuck it, arm yourself.

[Bobby Hundreds]

It's mad how they hate unions so much. Thank fuck for Unions, I like having rights, a safe working environment, weekends off, paid holidays and a certain amount of job security. They hate them because it stops them exploiting people as much as they'd like the degenerate bastards. The same people probably benefit greatly from rights and privileges that where fought for by the scrounging classes.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I made the mistake of reading some Daily Mail comments. Jesus. Apparently unions are evil and the working class are now the scrounging classes. The Labour party is dead and thank god for a one state party. I think i'll move to Norway.

 

When I read such drivel on the internet it just confirms that my decision to stay in Germany when I left the forces was the correct one. You get decent folk in the UK but the majority are self centred racist pricks who can't think for themselves, they are driven by the media and are more bothered about reality TV than they are about their fellow human beings suffering. I fucking hate the Little Englander mentality and the way the think Britain is still a great nation, it is fucking miles away from the country I once felt proud to be born in. 

[Jairzinho]

What's your media generally like, PB? Telly and papers. The British public just seems so uninformed compared to most of Western/Southern Europe (I've no idea about Eastern Europe). 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

What's your media generally like, PB? Telly and papers. The British public just seems so uninformed compared to most of Western/Southern Europe (I've no idea about Eastern Europe). 

 

German media isn't perfect either mate, but not half as bad as the UK. I tend to stick to the local papers/web for news. The Germans have "the Bild" group with many people reading their news through them, it is basically as bad as shitty Sky or the cunting shit paper we all love to hate. 

[Pidge]

It's mad how they hate unions so much. Thank fuck for Unions, I like having rights, a safe working environment, weekends off, paid holidays and a certain amount of job security. They hate them because it stops them exploiting people as much as they'd like the degenerate bastards. The same people probably benefit greatly from rights and privileges that where fought for by the scrounging classes.

 

They think they breed corruption. Unlike having an unaccountable centralised government serving a passive, distracted populace...

[Red Phoenix]

Looked at The Daily Mail last night, and it's hard to describe. I honestly think it was the most over the top madness that I've ever seen in any media. It was just story after story linked on the front page about Corbyn and Labour, and crazily over the top. I really have never seen anything like it.

 

That quote from Cameron is pure fear. They think they're being smart playing their fear games (even though they're actually in fear instead), but because it's so over the top, like the Daily Fail, it's probably going to have the reverse effect. Partly because it insults the intelligence of so much of the public on a stupid level. So while they think Corbyn is going to down Labour just by being who he is, it could actually be the lying and propagandistic responses that the Tories repeatedly come out with from now onwards that could actually piss off a lot more people and get them to vote Labour.

 

So instead of supposedly allowing Labour to down itself with Corbyn, they might actually be strengthening them. Probably because the truth is hitting them that no, Labour isn't going to simply down itself with Corbyn, and that they're now in serious trouble because they don't know how to deal with it. In fact a lot of the shit they have going on in this country is now in serious trouble, like it should be, and like it always should have been.

[Boss]

The Tories always play the fear game, it's the same with the Republicans in America. Keep the masses docile, under threat and fearful of change so the corporate monopoly's can control all the wealth and manipulate the masses as they see fit. The Tories are just the mindless drones of the corporate, capitalist, free market forces world that we live in.

 

Whats worse is the people are so ignorant that they buy into the fear and actually vote for some soulless husk of a suit that's only interested in helping lobbyists and private backers. The only way they create this ground swell of approval is by creating an enemy from within, ie terrorists, people on benefits, the disabled, the homeless, foreigners, refugees, the labour party, communism or all of them in the case of this current regime. It's time people wake up.

[Anubis]

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[Guest Pistonbroke]

Sad cunts. 

[Jairzinho]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-shadow-cabinet-andy-burnham-labour#comment-59412584

 

Shadow Chancellor - John McDonnell

Shadow Home Sec - Andy Burnham

Shadow Foreign Sec - Hilary Benn (as before)

Shadow Justice Sec - Lord Falconer

Shadow Health Sec - Heidi Alexander

Shadow Business Sec - Angela Eagle

Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury - Seema Malhotra

Shadow Sec for International Development - Diane Abbott

Shadow Education Sec - Lucy Powell

Shadow Culture Sec - Michael Dugher

Chief Whip - Rosie Winterton (as before)

[Anubis]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/13/jeremy-corbyn-shadow-cabinet-andy-burnham-labour#comment-59412584

 

Shadow Chancellor - John McDonnell

Shadow Home Sec - Andy Burnham

Shadow Foreign Sec - Hilary Benn (as before)

Shadow Justice Sec - Lord Falconer

Shadow Health Sec - Heidi Alexander

Shadow Business Sec - Angela Eagle

Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury - Seema Malhotra

Shadow Sec for International Development - Diane Abbott

Shadow Education Sec - Lucy Powell

Shadow Culture Sec - Michael Dugher

Chief Whip - Rosie Winterton (as before)

Shadow Attorney Gen - Keir Starmer

[Jairzinho]

Shadow Sec for "Camps" - Joseph Stalin.

[Red Phoenix]

Just found out the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, is the guy from one of my favourite parliament clips :

 

[RoboRiise]

John McDonnell appointed shadow chancellor.  Former GLC finance chief.  Fish in a barrel stuff for the press this.

 

What's next, Diane Abbott for defence?

[Red Phoenix]

More on McDonnell :

 

John McDonnell: the loyal Corbyn ally whose rebelliousness could cause a stir

Newly appointed shadow chancellor played a vital role in the new Labour leader’s winning campaign but his straight-talking manner may prove fractious

 

 

It is third time lucky for John McDonnell, who twice tried to run as the left’s candidate for the Labour leadership but was kept off the ballot.

 

This time round, he decided not to try again himself but ended up persuading his close ally Jeremy Corbyn to stand, and helped mastermind the campaign as his agent. The role of shadow chancellor looks very much like a reward for his efforts but Corbyn will also know the importance of having someone with absolute loyalty in this role.

 

A former National Union of Mineworkers and Trades Union Congress official, McDonnell’s political career started in the Greater London Council as deputy to Ken Livingstone and he went on to become MP for Hayes and Harlington in 1997.

 

During his time in parliament, the 64-year-old has never served as a minister or shadow minister, but like Corbyn, has made his name as a rebellious backbencher. The pair have often worked together voting against issues such as the Iraq war and anti-terror laws. He also chairs the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs.

 

When it came to the post-Miliband leadership contest, McDonnell recently revealed he believed it was time for someone else on the left to step up. “I have done it twice already and had a heart attack a couple of years ago. We turned to Jeremy and said: ‘Come on, it is your turn, you have a go’,” he said.

 

Despite his crucial role in the winning campaign, McDonnell’s proposed appointment to the shadow cabinet has caused tension behind the scenes among MPs, with some holding back from confirming that they would serve under Corbyn if he was getting the job.

 

For a start, his manner is seen as less conciliatory than Corbyn. But there was also concern that some of his past statements and associations could prove controversial. In 2003, he sparked controversy with a call to honour the “bravery and sacrifice” of the IRA. At a leadership hustings in 2010, it was reported that he said he would be glad to go back to the 1980s to assassinate Margaret Thatcher.

 

Forthright and plain-speaking, he said in July that he would “swim through vomit” to oppose the Conservatives’ welfare bill. He is also such a fervent opponent of a third runway at Heathrow that he once picked up parliament’s ornamental mace in a breach of protocol and was temporarily suspended from the House of Commons.

 

In his new role as shadow chancellor, he will be charged with forging Corbyn’s anti-austerity message and key proposals such as quantitative easing to fund national infrastructure spending.

 

McDonnell is also a fierce critic of the response to the financial crash, supports renationalisation of the banks along with some other public services and described bankers as “jokers” during a campaign rally.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/14/john-mcdonnell-corbyn-shadow-chancellor-profile