Corbyn did win, what's next?

Corbyn shows how all the stories of him being a terrorist sympathiser are just hot air (not):


In October 2015, Seumas Milne was appointed as the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications.


Milne; a communist and terrorist sympathiser! A Jezza Twofer!
 
Giz said:
[Seumas ] Milne; a communist and terrorist sympathiser! A Jezza Twofer!
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I for one would be interested in seeing some evidence in support of that view. p.s. did you mean "Twoofer", i.e. 9/11 CTist?
 
Rat said:
I imagine it's twofer as in "the price of one".
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Exactly, it's a two-for-one.

AFAIK, Milne accepts that 9/11 was the work of Al-Quaida. He just thinks that the USA had it coming.
 
In other news - Tories, Osborne especially, in the poop after Lords debate and vote on tax credits thisi evening.
 
GlennB said:
In other news - Tories, Osborne especially, in the poop after Lords debate and vote on tax credits thisi evening.
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Rebellion of the Peers and Bishops. In France the Third Estate (Commons) started the Revolution. In England it's the First (Church) and Second (Aristocracy). Odd, but typical of English political eccentricity I suppose.
 
Actually, if this scuppers Osborne as the next Tory leader and means Boris becomes favourite ... :eek:

Seriously, Boris or JC? Both are unelectable (we hear) so does it mean the SNP will start fielding candidates south of the border and sweep to power? ;)
 
Craig B said:
Rebellion of the Peers and Bishops. In France the Third Estate (Commons) started the Revolution. In England it's the First (Church) and Second (Aristocracy). Odd, but typical of English political eccentricity I suppose.
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Sorry, say that again. You think that having a short delay built into the implementation of a government bill is the start of a revolution? No, sorry......not A revolution............THE revolution?
 
MikeG said:
Sorry, say that again. You think that having a short delay built into the implementation of a government bill is the start of a revolution? No, sorry......not A revolution............THE revolution?
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When the Bishops and the Peers do it to the Tories, we may imagine that the Tumbrils are on their way.
 
MikeG said:
Nicky Morgan, or Theresa May.
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"..the police rank and file collective finger of blame for the inescapable fact that their morale has all but collapsed points only in one direction; namely towards Home Secretary Theresa May. It is no exaggeration to say that as Margaret Thatcher was to the miners and mining communities, Theresa May is to rank and file police officers and their families. "

I think not her. When the police detest a Tory it isn't a good sign.

Nicky Morgan, an MP for a whole 5 years? Doubt it. Didn't she "tweak" the law to allow an otherwise illegal grammar school in Kent?
 
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Meanwhile:

Most workers reaching retirement will be worse off under the new universal state pension, expected to be set at £155 a week, according to a highly critical analysis of secretary of state Iain Duncan Smith’s flagship policy ... according to Hymans Robertson, a major actuarial firm

When I said this government was "creaking at the seams" I meant it. Has there been a worse start to a term of office for a UK government? Offering the collective UK arse to the Chinese in the last few days was just hitting a new low, if that were even possible.

The Tories' best bet as next leader would be to get Hague out of retirement.
 
MikeG said:
Sorry, say that again. You think that having a short delay built into the implementation of a government bill is the start of a revolution? No, sorry......not A revolution............THE revolution?
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It may not be "The Revolution" quite yet, but it's much more significant than your overly dismissive comments suggest. Here's the BBC:

The House of Lords is trying to grab a new power from the House of Commons over financial matters. This is an unprecedented challenge to the authority of the House of Commons," a Conservative source told the BBC ...
David Cameron has apparently threatened to appoint dozens of new Conservative peers to ensure he gets his way in future.

His official spokesman has refused to rule out such a move, although the fact that he would need to recruit 150 or more suggests it is not too plausible. Tory backbencher and keen constitutional student Jacob Rees-Mogg says he would back a plan to flood the House with Tory peers, arguing that it would bring the Lords into "disrepute" with the public, triggering reforms.​
 
Craig B said:
It may not be "The Revolution" quite yet, but it's much more significant than your overly dismissive comments suggest. Here's the BBC:
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Quite funny that Cameron is threatening Lords for doing their job.

When is the next opinion poll due? That joke above about the SNP might not be too far wrong.
 
Aber said:
Except their job for the last 100 years has been NOT to vote against financial legislation.
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Except except except ...

This isn't "financial legislation" in the sense that a bill or amendment was passed in The Commons. It's being handled by a "statutory instrument" and was never part of the election manifesto. In fact Cameron specifically denied they'd do it.

If the Tories do these things through technical means they can hardly complain if others undermine them with technicalities.

Meanwhile even independent economics think-tanks are outraged at the lack of openness displayed by this government in analysing the impact of the cuts.
 
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