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Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)
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Emily Benn says Corbyn's policy adviser should go - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-expulsion-of-andrew-fisher?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews
She's quite correct.
She's quite correct.
Really? Aside from the muted furore over Lionel Asbo, and some entertaining hatchet-job-reviews of his previous books, he's only featured in literary news for his latest opinion or his view of British life from the safe distance of his American home...
And despite all that he's still easily one of the best authors of his generation, which is why he remains famous. Not because of a few modestly controversial broadsheet spats.
Do you also support Emily Benn being expelled for the tweet she posted encouraging people to join the Women's Equality Party?
Quite; he's the Rooney of letters - a promising future behind him.
They're both wrong. But she isn't a senior policy adviser in the leaders office.
His tweet was reportedly a joke at the expense of Class War, which is perfectly plausible given that, as anyone who uses twitter knows, it's easy to lose context when you read isolated tweets months after the fact.
Luckily the NEC will have an easier decision to make with Benn's tweet, which she acknowledges and has since reiterated and defended.
Benn's retweet is not in breech of the above rule, Fisher's statements on the other hand leave no room for such doubt.
Upon what basis should people believe that his tweet was a mere joke?
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Don't know the details of that, if she broke the rules then of course. Fisher clearly did, and is a key adviser to Corbyn ffs. I don't want Labour turned into a hard left organisation, which I'm increasingly concerned about given this and Milne.
I had the pleasure of being at University while Martin Amis played a short-lived honorary role at it. I remember distinctly him doing nothing and earning 75,000+ per annum for it. His father was right about him.
Analysis: Cameron’s rating down – but Corbyn’s down more
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/10/28/camerons-rating-down-corbyns-down-more/
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/10/28/camerons-rating-down-corbyns-down-more/
That's pretty poor for Corbyn...Analysis: Cameron’s rating down – but Corbyn’s down more
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/10/28/camerons-rating-down-corbyns-down-more/
For a pm who has already said he won't stand for election again it's not great but it's much less of an issue
PMs more often than not have negative favorability ratings. Occupational hazard. See page six.
https://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Polls/political-monitor-september-2015-charts.pdf
Worry for corbyn is that the drop comes from people who hadn't decided making up their minds against him. Suggests rather than winning over people who don't know him, he's needing to win over people who have bad first impressions.
Most of the detail is as expected, most popular with young and in the north of England, least popular with the old and the South outside of London.
One notable point is that his score among UKIP voters is at -42, so not much sign of any breakthrough there. I always thought it a bit odd that people thought he'd resonate with kippers simply because he's not a spad.
Latest local council election in Euxton North of Chorley council sees Labour up 12.7%, UKIP down 12.4% Tories down 0.3%. Again, only a council result so nothing to get too excited about but Labour winning back a significant proportion of the votes they lost to UKIP
The swing comes from a drop in turnout, Labour only actually got 5 more votes than last time.
Edit: Same reason that Labour suffered such a huge fall in Risedale (Barrow in Furness) (25% swing to Tories, but seat held)
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Is it really surprising that people who didn't know much about Corbyn feel like he's not doing a very good job given that the media has run a 24/7 smear campaign against him?
I doubt he's concerned about it yet, would have known it was the likely way it was going to go and you'd hope is prepared to fight back.
He's also given the media plenty of material to work with though, and I don't see that stopping.
With his appointments of John Mcdonnell, Andrew Fisher and Seumas Milne I see it getting worse - will be interesting to see what happens with the Labour Candidate to replace meecher - will it be an imposed corbynista? - certainly Kate Godfrey and Jim Mcmahon are in the running and would not fit that agenda- (what would the response be is even David Milliband decided to stand?)
The underlined text is quite concerning, that's an appalling academic record for someone in his position.
I find the reference to the GOP interesting as watching the US republican debates it struck me that candidates take up such extreme positions (abortion, taxation, immigration etc) in order to appease the evangelical and tea party type base of the party but if they were to win the nomination they would be so far out of touch with the swing voters that they could never win an election.
The corbynistas seem basically like the tea party (obviously very different politics) in that they are dragging the party into un-electability and just like the tea party will probaby blame the liberal press for them ending up with a democratic president the corbynistas will put their head in the sand and blame the press.
In truth I cant help think that perhaps this was the original corbynista as this is how many of the younger corbyn fans seem to me
you would certainly have expected much better from somebody who had the unfair advantages of preparatory school then grammar school
You can add two more expected appointments to the list.
First is James Meadway. On the plus side, he’s economics chief at NEF. On the downside he’s a founder member of the Socialist Worker Party splinter group Counterfire, last seen trying to delete his old tweets supporting people who were standing against Labour in recent elections, and celebrating the death of Thatcher. Second is Karie Murphy, being the controversial Union figure at the centre of the Falkirk scandal under Ed Miliband.
I would have described those two appointments as unbelievable 6 weeks ago, but at this point I wouldnt even be surprised if Galloway returned to the party.
I’m increasingly of the view that he’s not bothered about being successful at the ballot box, so opinion polls mean nothing. No-one can seriously argue that the British public would put that team anywhere near Downing Street. My guess is that this is about shifting the party to the left, and if they lose votes in doing so, so be it.
Its almost like his appointments are designed to force the moderate elements of the party to jump ship... I personally expect a mutiny before I expect that to happen.
As for Galloway if he had retained his seat I actually think he would be back now - probably as something he is completely unsuitable for - foreign secretary or defence minister spring to mind
Well, under the current regime we currently have a equalities office with 2 MPs who voted against gay marriage.
Who cares? It was decades ago, and he's been in politics for an incredibly long time now. His academic record doesn't really matter all that much.
Considering Milne said a couple of weeks ago that the current shadow cabinet is just a "stabilising" one and they'll no doubt start moving their own people into it before long, it looks fair to say that the worst is yet to come.
Scottish Labour's new launch video went well.
According to a corbynista BMG research are just a puppet of the right wing media determined to smear dear jeremy.
The spokesman from tooting said the following:
Come the glorious revolution BMG will be first up against the wall - along with anybody who is centrist or anyone who votes against comrade corbyn
In all seriousness though how long before those on the left realise they are becoming un-electable... or more to the point how long before a centrist candidate challenges Corbyn?
How can a non-voter be centrist? What are they defining as centrist as surely if the had clear positions they'd have voted?
Am I misunderstanding something something here? I'd read the report but its Friday commute time
Am I misunderstanding something something here? I'd read the report but its Friday commute time
plenty of people dont vote...
The turn out in the labour election where you could vote online was only about 3/4
(from wiki)
My wife didnt vote in the general election this time - our child wasnt well so she didn't make it to the polling station - it does not mean she does not have a clear understanding of what political policies she favours.
29% of all respondents described themselves as at all to the left. 48% as centrists.
It probably goes like this
"Are you left wing"
"Nope"
"Are you right wing"
"Nope"
"What are you then?"
"Somewhere in the middle"
Which is in truth where most people in the UK are. They like some stuff that is classically left wing, other stuff that is classically right wing, but don't like extreme views on either side of the spectrum.
Look up Winston Churchill sometime.
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As someone who visited the poppy installation at the Tower of London (it got the tone just right), i think it is a great pity that Corbyn couldn't see beyond his politics on the matter.
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Remember seeing it on tv and it looked incredible and very moving. Although with that said Corbyn is right it's essentially a pretty tribute that detracts from the issues of the first World War.