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You've got to have a chuckle at this about the 'Ed Stone', surely? :)

 

 

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The stone’s demolition, in the event of a Labour loss, had been agreed at the time it was commissioned. After the election, the party drew up two plans for its disposal: one was simply to smash the stone up and throw the rubble onto a scrap heap. The second was to break it up and sell chunks, like the Berlin Wall, to party members as a fundraising effort.

 

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Jeremy Corbyn has thrown his hat into the ring. I'd love it if he won. Shame he won't though.

He won't win but Corbyn should ensure there's plenty of Labour blood on the floor by September. He's another one who believes his party lost because they weren't left wing enough!

The real kiss of death is the support of his candidacy by Owen Jones, that prize plum who thought Ed Miliband was well advised to court the support of Russell Brand...

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Jeremy Corbyn has thrown his hat into the ring. I'd love it if he won. Shame he won't though.

He won't win but Corbyn should ensure there's plenty of Labour blood on the floor by September. He's another one who believes his party lost because they weren't left wing enough!

The real kiss of death is the support of his candidacy by Owen Jones, that prize plum who thought Ed Miliband was well advised to court the support of Russell Brand...

 

 

I doubt talking to Brand actually harmed Miliband. It may not have helped much, but that's not the same as harming. It was the sort of campaign fluff that's generally long since forgotten when people get into the polling booth. 

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Hard to believe I'm typing these words, but.... The UNITE union is officially supporting Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leadership, with Burnham as second preference.

I don't know whether to snigger, laugh, ROFL or ROFLMAO. Possibly a progression through all of those steps.

Game on!

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...Jeremy Corbyn...

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...Voting records suggest he has rebelled against Labour 533 times since the party came to power under Tony Blair in 1997....

A better record than most Tories, I'd imagine. :)

 

Edit: I think it's supposed to be 53.

Actually, no it isn't. Wow. Good work, Jez. :thumb:

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...Jeremy Corbyn...

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...Voting records suggest he has rebelled against Labour 533 times since the party came to power under Tony Blair in 1997....

A better record than most Tories, I'd imagine. :)

With that record he might just be one - although with his thoughts on common ownership of the means of production then maybe not....

There is more chance of the Commission for Racial Equality being turned into the Harriet Harman School for Lapdancers than there is of this bloke winning the contest. You have to wonder what UNITE are playing at?

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Jeremy Corbyn has thrown his hat into the ring. I'd love it if he won. Shame he won't though.

He won't win but Corbyn should ensure there's plenty of Labour blood on the floor by September. He's another one who believes his party lost because they weren't left wing enough!

The real kiss of death is the support of his candidacy by Owen Jones, that prize plum who thought Ed Miliband was well advised to court the support of Russell Brand...

I doubt talking to Brand actually harmed Miliband. It may not have helped much, but that's not the same as harming. It was the sort of campaign fluff that's generally long since forgotten when people get into the polling booth.

It certainly harmed Brand though :D

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I suspect the Labour party must be close to another SDP style schism.

 

There are a good many torylites in the Labour party that wouldn't be able to stomach any sort of socialist tainting of their brand. Equally, I personally can't imagine voting Labour ever again whilst it's run as a moderate arm of the tory party. Which means I'm more inclined towards Corbyn (without actually having studied what he's about). But Corbyn won't be winning them an election in 5 years time, I doubt he'd even manage to keep the party together with his crazy dangerous ideas on equality and fairness.

 

They appear to me to be utterly lost at sea, knowing they shouldn't really swim after the tory yacht but having lost sight of their labour lifeboat.

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Corbyn became an MP in 1983 and says the same things now that he said then: planned economy, wholesale nationalisation etc.

Consistent, but consistently wrong.

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Corbyn became an MP in 1983 and says the same things now that he said then: planned economy, wholesale nationalisation etc.

Consistent, but consistently wrong.

being consistently wrong didn't seem to do Thatcher any harm.

 

Hmm, Corbyn wins and Labour get dragged back to the centre left, Be interesting to have a large left of centre party and one that believes in a balanced economic approach again, rather than the swivel eyed right wing neoliberal bullshit ecomonic dogma. After all we've been without one for a couple of decades.

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Corbyn became an MP in 1983 and says the same things now that he said then: planned economy, wholesale nationalisation etc.

Consistent, but consistently wrong.

being consistently wrong didn't seem to do Thatcher any harm.

Hmm, Corbyn wins and Labour get dragged back to the centre left.... After all we've been without one for a couple of decades.

First thing, Corbyn is a Marxist and closer to Syriza than the centre left, second the reason the UK has been without a large really left wing party for ages is because they were unelectable.

All electing Corbyn achieves is perpetual Tory Government in Westminster. I suppose it comes down to this: do those on the left want an ideologically pure option at the ballot box, or do they want a reasonably left wing government? I don't think they can have both.

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