Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, Boss said:

That'd only work if everyone knows their local MP and votes specifically on that basis. We all know the vast majority of people vote on the basis of who the leader is. Hence why the likes of Berger and Umunna got in.

Nope, they literally vote for them. Whether or not they do so on the basis of party or person or whatever, that’s another thing. 

[Pidge]

16 hours ago, Boss said:

 

May legitimately won an election. Johnson hasn't been in post long enough to have one.

Would it be spin to say she didn't win an election, since her party didn't command a majority?

 

She did, however, successfully form a government from represented members and their parties.

[Barrington Womble]

2 hours ago, Boss said:

 

McDonnell and co trying to get him in as emergency PM after a no confidence vote.

Why would that be undemocrtic? In order for him to do that, he would need the backing of more than half the house. No different to how the previous 3 tory PM's have done with the liberal's and DUP. It sounds perfectly democratic to me. In fact far more democratic than payting the DUP for support as this tory administration does. and not out of tory coffers, out of the public purse! 

[Boss]

It'd be undemocratic because the people haven't voted him or his party into power. It'd be like Hitler setting fire to the Reichstag. That was a crisis entirely of his own making. The only reason why we haven't sorted out Brexit is because Corbyn and the Labour party vote against every proposal. The stalemate is caused by Labour. They are trying to claim it's a crisis because of an impasse they have caused.

[Jenson]

8 minutes ago, Boss said:

It'd be undemocratic because the people haven't voted him or his party into power. It'd be like Hitler setting fire to the Reichstag. That was a crisis entirely of his own making. The only reason why we haven't sorted out Brexit is because Corbyn and the Labour party vote against every proposal. The stalemate is caused by Labour. They are trying to claim it's a crisis because of an impasse they have caused.

This is beyond parody. 

[cloggypop]

31 minutes ago, Boss said:

It'd be like Hitler setting fire to the Reichstag. 

That was Marinus van der Lubbe. One of Leiden's most famous sons. 

[TheHowieLama]

Very divisive.

 

[Moo]

34 minutes ago, Jenson said:

This is beyond parody. 

Got to be fishing. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

7 hours ago, Boss said:

 

McDonnell and co trying to get him in as emergency PM after a no confidence vote.

MPs using their Parliamentary powers to install a new Prime Minister is how 3 of our last 4 Prime Ministers first got the job.  If that process is undemocratic, it's no more so than the whole of the UK Parliamentary system of which it's a part.

[SasaS]

11 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I'm not convinced by the first sentence.  During an election campaign  (in the UK) reporting rules mean that the filter of media bias isn't so effective: this will both harm Johnson and benefit Corbyn.

 

I'm intrigued by your second sentence.  What have you got in mind? Corbyn leading a military coup (maybe by calling in some favours from his pals in the IRA, Hamas, the Czechoslovakian secret police, etc.)?

It's time for Jeremy to cash in some old Czechs.

[Bjornebye]

The fucking state of world leaders right now. Trump, Johnson, Kim Jong chow-mein tits, Bolsonaro yet people are digging out Corbyn. A man with more humanity in his little toe than any of those fuckers. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

The fucking state of world leaders right now. Trump, Johnson, Kim Jong chow-mein tits, Bolsonaro yet people are digging out Corbyn. A man with more humanity in his little toe than any of those fuckers. 

See also Putin, Modi, Salvini, Duterte, Orban, Erdogan, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu,  Duque, Mohammed bin Salman, Assad, etc. 

 

Cunts are still running the world.

 

(To keep Rico happy, I'll add that Maduro is a prick and to keep Gnasher happy I'll point out that Macron, Merkel and the neoliberals at the top of the EU are arsewipes.)

 

What a time to be alive!

[Rico1304]

With policies like this how could he fail?!

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

What's your point?

 

There's a list of over 100 policies a few pages back. The lobster thing isn’t on the list, but other actions to prevent animal cruelty are. I thought you'd approve of the consistency, kid.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Just now, AngryofTuebrook said:

What's your point?

I suspect the point is two fold 1) there's more important things to worry about 2) FUCK LOBSTERS. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I suspect the point is two fold 1) there's more important things to worry about 2) FUCK LOBSTERS. 

3) Rico is desperate to find something to sneer at now that Corbyn is emerging as the country's last hope to stop Brexit. 

[Spy Bee]

45 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

With policies like this how could he fail?!

 

 

May you spend eternity locked in a room, waste high in sea water with 100 lobsters nipping at your nads!

[Numero Veinticinco]

11 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

3) Rico is desperate to find something to sneer at now that Corbyn is emerging as the country's last hope to stop Brexit. 

4) Rico is a cunt.

 

[Chris]

11 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

3) Rico is desperate to find something to sneer at now that Corbyn is emerging as the country's last hope to stop Brexit. 

 

Maybe if he hadn't fucked about for the last two years it wouldn't have come to this in the first place. If he's our last hope, fucking god help us all. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

18 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

3) Rico is desperate to find something to sneer at now that Corbyn is emerging as the country's last hope to stop Brexit. 

He wants his 'Top Troll' title back from 'Boss.' 

[Mudface]

18 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

Maybe if he hadn't fucked about for the last two years it wouldn't have come to this in the first place. If he's our last hope, fucking god help us all. 

I don't get this. The opposition parties (and most of the Tory party aside from May and close advisers) were deliberately excluded from any involvement in the Brexit negotiations, well until May got desperate at least. The whole affair has been a Tory-run shitshow from start to finish, with multiple attempts to subvert the usual processes in the House, culminating in this ridiculous nonsense right now. At no point until a few months back, have the Tories tried to get consensus that could pass- it's always been about what they want to do- and now it's too late, we've got a hard right bunch of pricks willing to ram it through.

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

With policies like this how could he fail?!

 

 

 

This is one of our policies from decades ago.

 

Maybe there should be a law against reheating old Lib Dem policies.

[Rico1304]

Lobster lovers of the world unite! 

[Numero Veinticinco]

13 minutes ago, Sixtimes Dog said:

 

This is one of our policies from decades ago.

 

Maybe there should be a law against reheating old Lib Dem policies.

And that’s why you never got into power 9 years ag... ooh, wait. 

[Rico1304]

34 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

He wants his 'Top Troll' title back from 'Boss.' 

So good to have you back.  Remember when you blocked me, then unblocked me? Block me again.