Re: Anti-Corbyn coup fails - so far!

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:50 pm

You really would think Labour would have learned, after their 18 years in the wilderness, but no, they go and do it all over again.

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:54 pm

North West Tonight ‏@BBCNWT 2h2 hours ago
Gorton Labour Party in Mcr suspended by Labour HQ after allegations of infighting and bullying. Police have also been called in.

Pcorneater

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:02 pm

Anti-Corbyn coup fails - so far! - Page 8 CnKB7VPXYAAANXO

Seriously, can you imagine that as Prime Minister? Time he retired to his allotment.

**Lamplighter** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:16 pm

But, but, he's a working man, a man of the people, leader of the proletariat, son of the soil .... LL

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:20 pm

I know lots of 'working men'. None of them go around in baggy grey shellsuits, like some leftover from a failed 1980's commune. rofl

**Lamplighter** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:32 pm

bb1 wrote:I know lots of 'working men'. None of them go around in baggy grey shellsuits, like some leftover from a failed 1980's commune.

I was, in my furriner way, trying to be sarcastic, or was it ironic? LL Hide

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:47 pm

I don't think there are normal words that can describe Jezza, LL. hug

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:50 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/jul/12/labour-nec-jeremy-corbyn-leadership-from-labour-leadership-ballot-would-be-sordid-fix-politics-live

19:33
A vote at the NEC is due to take place shortly it seems.

Pcorneater

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:51 pm

Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick
Corbyn on ballot by 18-14
4:49 PM - 12 Jul 2016

I'm lost - when do they actually vote? Oh - and that's too big a split for the party to hold together. IMO. Pcorneater

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:01 pm

Craig WoodhouseVerified account
‏@craigawoodhouse
Only members who joined before Feb will be allowed to vote in Labour leadership election.

Isn't that discrimination or something? Pcorneater

**lily** Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:30 pm

bb1 wrote:

Seriously, can you imagine that as Prime Minister? Time he retired to his allotment.

Especially for his weekly meetings with her Maj. Shocked

**bb1** Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:10 pm

**lily** Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:34 pm

He looks a ringer for the old man in Steptoe and Son there.

**Lamplighter** Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:10 am

Owen Smith to challenge Corbyn for Labour leadership
Former shadow work and pensions secretary set to join contest after NEC rules leader should automatically be on ballot

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/13/owen-smith-to-challenge-jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership

**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:15 am

Who?

**Lamplighter** Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:19 am

bb1 wrote:Who?

I have no idea and I am happy to remain ignorant. LL whistle

**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:51 am

Follow

Momentum Manchester
‏@MomentumMcr
How to vote for Corbyn if you're a new member

Anti-Corbyn coup fails - so far! - Page 8 CnMTxkfWIAAhVtQ

Meet the new Trots, same as the old Trots. wker

**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:57 am

https://wortharguingfor.com/2016/02/24/left-wing-people/

Left-Wing People – The (unofficial) Guide

Nowadays, working-class people are bored with socialism because it hasn’t made them rich and happy.

Nowadays left-wing people are middle-class people. Working class people are a big disappointment to left-wing people.

Left wing people now think that working class people are:
a) Simple and easily led
b) Un-enlightened and susceptible to short-term pleasures
c) Terribly sad and struggling, unable to cope on their own
d) All of the above

rofl

**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:41 am

Hope ‏@twistandresist 12h12 hours ago
How to get around the £25 supporters fee #LabourNEC #JeremyCorbyn #LabourLeadership #CorbynStays

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**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 11:48 am

Sky News NewsdeskVerified account
‏@SkyNewsBreak
Sky Sources: #Labour's ruling NEC has suspended all meetings of local Constituency Labour Parties for the duration of the leadership contest

Pcorneater

**bb1** Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:52 pm

Joe Jackson ‏@joejackson 3h3 hours ago
wow extraordinary @Channel4News intvw w tearful fearful #LabourNEC member re abuse received amid #LabourLeadership contest. Party = shambles

ruji surjan ‏@rujisurjan 3h3 hours ago
Shocking account of intimidation and threats on #LabourNEC members discussed on @Channel4News Whatever your views, this is not acceptable

Sarah Crook
‏@SarahRoseCrook
A member of the #LabourNEC is on C4 news looking deeply shaken & upset & wobbly. She's tiny & scared. THIS IS NOT AN OK WAY TO DO POLITICS.

It's the hard-Left way, always has been. Pcorneater

**bb1** Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:48 pm

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/angela-eagle-suffers-treacherous-lesbian-abuse-as-police-probe-death-threat-a3295601.html

Angela Eagle today said police are investigating a potential death threat against her and that she has suffered torrents of online abuse including being branded a “treacherous lesbian”.

The Labour leadership hopeful said staff in her office had unplugged phones to prevent a flood of abusive messages.

Just two days ago someone threw a brick through Ms Eagle’s office window. It also emerged today that another prominent Labour figure, Luciana Berger, has suffered vile threats.

Asked on BBC news if she had received death threats Ms Eagle said: “I’m told I have had death threats and the police are looking into it.”

Presenter Victoria Derbyshire then read out some of the abusive messages left on Ms Eagle’s Twitter page including one calling her a “treacherous lesbian” and another saying she is “about as charismatic as herpes”.

Asked whether she thought her window was smashed by Labour members angry at her challenge to Mr Corbyn, the Wallasey MP said: “I haven’t had bricks through the window of my office before and it was the day before the [Labour committee] meeting which decided whether Jeremy should be on the ballot or not.

“I don’t know, but I do know I have been getting huge amounts of bullying threats and nasty messages, let’s put it that way. Maybe the brick was a nasty message too.”

She said workers at the office had left phones unplugged for three weeks because of the level of abuse coming in.

Liverpool Wavertree MP Ms Berger contacted police after she received a message saying she would “get it like Jo Cox did”.

The Labour MP has reportedly received a number of emails that are understood to have included an image of a kitchen knife, as well as warnings telling her to “watch your back Jewish scum.”

Last month Labour MP Jo Cox, 41, was attacked outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

The mother of two died after she was shot and stabbed.

**Lamplighter** Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:35 pm

Labour leadership election: Major party donor mounts legal action against Jeremy Corbyn ruling
'This legal challenge is very unhelpful and destabilising to the Labour Party,' says Tom Watson

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-election-vote-jeremy-corbyn-nec-candidates-angela-eagle-owen-smith-a7136056.html

**bb1** Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:38 pm

Mr Foster, who once stood as the Labour Parliamentary candidate for Camborne, Redruth and Hayle in Cornwall, said: "I'm simply concerned that this is an important issue. It's about the rule of law.

"The advice given was certainly not given the expert consideration given by a high court judge.

"When you conduct a membership association and it has a set of rules, you cannot, in Britain, a democracy that stands or falls by application of law, bend the rules to suit a particular circumstance or particular position."

We're going to need more popcorn.....

**Lamplighter** Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:02 pm

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/heres-what-jeremy-corbyn-has-to-say-about-theresa-mays-new-tory-cabinet--byleeXzATHW
Kepp scrolling down the above post, the answer is .... LL rofl

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