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Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?


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Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?  

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  1. 1. Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?



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6 minutes ago, Content Providicus said:

The membership would be down to about 100k by the end of the week.

 

I wouldn't vote for Burnham.

 

Burnham is a decent enough bloke but he’s no leader. 

 

I desperately want to see a socialist leader of the Labour Party and a socialist PM, Corbyn is the last chance of that ever happening. 

 

If he fails I’d have Keir Starmer as leader in a shot. 

 

Fuck the likes of Cooper, Chuka and the rest of the established Blair clones. 

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18 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Does having membership mean your vote counts double in the general election? I'm surprised that Labour didn't win last time out then.

Obviously membership is irrelevant. Good luck to all candidates going door to door 24/7 for about six months.

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6 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I agree with this to an extent but I also think one of the principal weapons of the establishment is sowing despondency.  

 

The idea that there's no point voting, or that the candidates are all the same, is something that's actively encouraged. 

 

I've said a few times that it's telling that Labour were miles behind in the poles before the election was called and we entered purdah.

 

The media then had no choice - legally - but to give both sides an equal shake.

 

Three things happened:

 

Corbyn got more popular 

Labour climbed in the poles 

May got less popular 

 

It's hard to overstate how much power the media have over how we perceive these people. Even without including the big scandals of Corbyn wearing an M&S raincoat for example. There's subtle stuff, calling him Corbyn and calling Johnson 'Boris'. 

Or the way they doorstep him every single day outside his house hoping for him to react.

 

I agree mate, I said in my post that the media have done a good job on him. Even the tv news coverage has been ridiculously biased in the way they cover Labour under Corbyn. Emily Maitlis was a disgrace on Newsnight last night, and Matt Frei was at it this morning on LBC. It’s just constant, and is the main reason I think it would be impossible for him to become prime minister.

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3 hours ago, Content Providicus said:

Fucking hell, the Dan Hodges article there. Utter, utter loon.

I got a 12-hour Twitter ban a while back for calling him a "lying cunt".  At first, I thought "fair enough; it may be accurate, but it is a rude word".  Then I checked the rule that I'd been barred under was the rule against racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, etc.  As far as I could see, there's no way to appeal; you have to accept it if you want to get back on Twitter.  

 

It's a bit irksome, but it also makes me doubt any numbers I hear about how many "anti-Semitic" tweets have been aimed at people.

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A statement from Wavertree.  I fully expect this to get the kind of media coverage that Streeting, Umunna and all the other twats got.

 

https://skwawkbox.org/2019/02/10/wavertree-rejects-bullying-smears/?fbclid=IwAR3x_rkvLsbHmtt6iJGxOXd1AGe4hRDoFqqnu_UNsYJpvOY94iiaA7fQRE4

 

The Executive of Wavertree Constituency Labour Party wishes to correct both the inaccuracies reported in the media, and the false accusations of bullying, which followed our announcement on February 7 of a special CLP meeting to consider two motions of no confidence in our MP. The motions have since been withdrawn by their proposers and the special CLP meeting cancelled.

 

Our role as an elected executive is to provide administration, governance and direction for the CLP. We have no control over motions submitted by CLP members and very little choice on whether to debate legitimately submitted motions. The two no-confidence motions met these criteria; our only intervention was to agree to debate them at a special CLP meeting. The purpose of this was to give our MP the maximum opportunity to take part when the motions were debated.

 

Since the meeting was announced, we have become the subject of much media attention. This came as no surprise, given the controversial nature of the motions (neither of which mentioned antisemitism) submitted by CLP members.

 

But we strongly reject the media inaccuracies and the accusations of political bullying, for simply adhering to Party rules and doing our jobs.

 

Furthermore, we as an Executive have always and continue now to express total solidarity with Luciana as a victim of misogyny and of antisemitism – coming mostly from the far right. Our Chair is himself Jewish and the suggestion that the CLP Executive is in any way a party to bullying and antisemitism is a false and slanderous accusation.

 

Dr Alex Scott-Samuel – Chair
Nina Houghton – Secretary
On behalf of the CLP Executive,
Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Labour Party

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59 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Jeremy Corbyn or Theresa May, what a time to be alive

A racist, self-serving, hapless neocon or a democratic Socialist promising a more just and democratic society, an ethical foreign policy and a commitment to protecting the environment.

 

Such a difficult choice!

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