Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?

[sir roger]

4 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

It’s sound. Rog will be along shortly to put it right. 

Sorry it was a while Cap'n, Ive been out dogsitting for the daughter

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Sorry it was a while Cap'n, Ive been out dogsitting for the daughter

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Creator Supreme]

20 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

I think it's a non-starter, he's 73, why would he be arsed with it?

 

I think he's best off continuing as a backbench independent MP, seeing as Keith won't restore the Labour whip, until he's ready to pack it in!

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

I think it's a non-starter, he's 73, why would he be arsed with it?

 

I think he's best off continuing as a backbench independent MP, seeing as Keith won't restore the Labour whip, until he's ready to pack it in!

I doubt he'd be arsed with it. It would definitely get some scumbags spitting feathers though. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Might well win it tbh. 

[Jack the Sipper]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

 

The link takes me to an article about Prince George, but I read an article with a near-identical headline in the Mail round my mums earlier, and once you get past the click-bait style headline there's fuck all in it, just claims that people who know him that want him to run for Mayor. They even say he's 'extremely resistant to the idea', and quote his spokesman saying that he's fully focused on his constituency and fighting the Tories etc. I'd imagine MyLondon have taken the story from there.

 

edit: just seen the video. Yep, it's the same non-story.

 

 

Edited July 23, 2022 by Jack the Sipper

[Bjornebye]

26 minutes ago, Jack the Sipper said:

 

The link takes me to an article about Prince George, but I read an article with a near-identical headline in the Mail round my mums earlier, and once you get past the click-bait style headline there's fuck all in it, just claims that people who know him that want him to run for Mayor. They even say he's 'extremely resistant to the idea', and quote his spokesman saying that he's fully focused on his constituency and fighting the Tories etc. I'd imagine MyLondon have taken the story from there.

 

edit: just seen the video. Yep, it's the same non-story.

 

 

Yeah nothing from him or anything at all concrete but as I've said, it's funny seeing people who are so fucking gullible or right wing gobshites up in arms at the mere mention of his name. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Fuck these 70 year old politicians off have a political retirement age. Do the same for the Lords the scrounging twats.

[Creator Supreme]

2 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Fuck these 70 year old politicians off have a political retirement age. Do the same for the Lords the scrounging twats.

Interesting thought, but the rub is, who replaces them?

 

Dennis Skinner originally planned to retire at 65, but stayed on because he knew that Labour would parachute a Blairite drone into Bolsover to replace him.

 

Sad really, would have been better for him to retire, than for those cunts to vote him out for a Tory!

[sir roger]

Quite amusing comment from Marcus Brigstocke at Latitude.

 

Boris Johnson bragging he was against Putin and for the vaccine, what does he want, a badge ? 

You would have to be both Jeremy and Piers Corbyn not to do that.

[Kevin D]

 

 

[Arniepie]

8 hours ago, Kevin D said:

 

 

I mean.

You can see why normal working people would choose boris johnson over the utter nonsense spoken in that clip.

[Numero Veinticinco]

2 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

I mean.

You can see why normal working people would choose boris johnson over the utter nonsense spoken in that clip.

I still can’t believe Boris Johnson is was ever deemed a suitable person for PM. Madness. 

[Creator Supreme]

8 hours ago, Kevin D said:

 

 

Nowt but respect for him!

[Arniepie]

Just now, Numero Veinticinco said:

I still can’t believe Boris Johnson is was ever deemed a suitable person for PM. Madness. 

Got all the big decisions right don't you know?

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Has he borrowed one of our infamous FA Cup final suits? 

[Gnasher]

Bloody hell, at this rate JC will become the new James Bond.

 

 

 

 

[Anubis]

Has he been labelled a Jihadist yet?

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

[Creator Supreme]

46 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I saw an advert on FB this morning for a company called Zilch. Who are offering interest free credit.... to buy your shopping at Iceland!

 

Is this the next attack, "Oh you're skint, put your weekly shop on the drip!"?

[Arniepie]

Getting a lot stick today for saying we should be looking for a peaceful solution in Ukraine

 

[Anubis]

21 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but I saw an advert on FB this morning for a company called Zilch. Who are offering interest free credit.... to buy your shopping at Iceland!

 

Is this the next attack, "Oh you're skint, put your weekly shop on the drip!"?

 

Probably. Always some cunts trying to profit off other people's misery. And if you're desperate for food...

 

EDIT:

 

Iceland Press Release. Maybe not as bad a s it first sounded, but still another burden on people they shouldn't need.

 

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We know that many of the families in the communities we serve are living on a budget: many struggle to make ends meet and their access to credit or additional financial support is limited.  Being rooted in these communities, with the overwhelming majority of our store colleagues living locally, we have a better understanding than most of these challenges and, from speaking to our customers, we know just how hard it can be to feed a family on a spend of as little as £25 a week.

 

When one of our store’s sales fall off, in the absence of new local competition, we know that we are more than likely losing customers to food banks or, worse still, to hunger. According to the Food Foundation, nearly one in ten adults were going hungry in some parts of the country in January last year. It is shaming that this can be a reality in a rich G7 country in 2022.

 

Despite recent positive steps to raise awareness, and the good work done by Marcus Rashford’s Child Food Poverty Taskforce, food insecurity remains a real issue across the UK and is causing stress and misery to far too many families. It is also a problem that escalates during every school holiday, including Christmas. The continuing challenges presented by Covid-19 are adding to the already huge pressures on the most vulnerable members of our society.

 

Supporting our customers and their communities is a key pillar of Iceland’s Doing It Right strategy, so we challenged ourselves to think of creative and strategic ways we could offer even more of a helping hand in the face of these challenges. And we concluded that, alongside the measures already in place such as Healthy Start Vouchers, affordable and flexible credit – delivered with dignity, compassion and respect – could be a huge help to families struggling to find their way out of the poverty trap, especially to help them deal with unexpected costs or even the additional pressure of providing school holiday food, when they have no safety net to fall back on.

 

Because the reality for many families is that  mainstream lenders almost certainly won’t be willing to help, driving them into the arms of ultra-high-interest lenders, or even illegal loan sharks. Research shows that more than 10 million people in the UK are unable to access mainstream credit.

 

To meet this challenge, we are trialling an ethical and affordable alternative: the Iceland Food Club, operated by the well-respected, charity-owned lender Fair for You. This offers short-term microloans of £25 to £75, uploaded to a dedicated Food Club card, and repaid at the rate of £10 per week. On a £75 loan, repaid over eight weeks, a Club member will pay interest of £2.89. On a £25 loan they pay 40p interest.

 

Starting in 2020 with a pilot in two communities in Yorkshire and North Wales, we have now rolled the Iceland Food Club out across North West England and South Wales, and have so far extended more than £1 million in microloans, with the support of HM Treasury and philanthropic funders.

 

And the results, as seen in an early social impact report, are encouraging. Before we launched the Food Club, 84% of participants went without because they could not afford to buy food, and half were referred to food banks – though even among those who meet the tight eligibility criteria for food banks, there are many who are simply too embarrassed to use them.

 

Since joining the Food Club, however, 83% of participants tell us that they no longer need to access food banks, 80% report an improvement in their mental health, 85% say that they are less worried about meeting their monthly expenses, and 75% report that they are feeding their children more healthily. These are outstanding improvements, but based on a small number of people over a short time period – a more detailed, independent social impact report will be produced this year will tell us more.

 

For families facing food insecurity this is all about – to use a well-known phrase – taking back control. Giving people the power and the freedom to spread the cost of food, particularly over tricky periods like the summer and Christmas holidays, and also enabling them to do a better value weekly shop.

 

The success of our Food Club trial underlines for me how much more could be done if only mainstream lenders and others were prepared to come forward with improved support for more vulnerable consumers. That is why Iceland, Fair For You and our funding partners are calling for banks and other mainstream lenders to reconsider their approach to serving this customer group, and greatly increase their investment in the affordable credit sector. Given their expertise and economies of scale, no one is better placed to serve the non-mainstream credit market either directly, or by supporting other providers who are willing to take on these customers.

 

We will share our next set of results with other retailers so they can consider whether they too might be able to offer affordable credit to their customers. They would be meeting a very real need in an ethical and responsible way.

 

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

 

Probably. Always some cunts trying to profit off other people's misery. And if you're desperate for food...

 

EDIT:

 

Iceland Press Release. Maybe not as bad a s it first sounded, but still another burden on people they shouldn't need.

 

 

Like you say doesn't seem too bad, and I suppose fair does for them trying to do something, but why charge any interest? If you want to help people with shit like this at least do it interest free.

 

This should be the responsibility of the welfare state and those paying piss poor wages though! We're a broken country when shit like this could become the norm, very much a step backwards.

 

By the way, am I misremembering, or is the head of Iceland foods a massive tory?