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Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed.
Jeremy Corbyn	95	18.63%
Dennis Skinner	53	10.39%
Angus Robertson	20	3.92%
Tim Farron	9	1.76%
Paul Ukips	7	1.37%
Robot Lenin	105	20.59%
Tony Blair	28	5.49%
Pissflaps	193	37.84%
Total:	510 votes

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Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Grumpy schoolteacher Corbyn can be pretty entertaining.

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/842033442434998272

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 17:29

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 17:40

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Don't forget owning his own cognac locker in a millionaire's club.

An eelskin-lined millionaire's club.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 22:45

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Baron Corbyn posted:

This is far from the worst poll we've seen since May took over. What warrants the "holy gently caress"? UKIP collapsing within reach of the Greens?

That does seem somewhat newsworthy. They managed 12% in 2015, after all. It's kind of impressive how fast the Tories have been absorbing them.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 13:27

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Pochoclo posted:

Resurrect Cromwell IMO but this time make sure he's atheist

Wouldn't you just end up with Richard Dawkins with a knack for seventeenth-century military tactics?

And since everyone's asking 'why aren't Labour speaking out about this?', here's McDonnell's column in the Mirror about the Budget and all the surrounding Tory bullshit.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 16:26

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

LemonDrizzle posted:

You don't have to attack the policy to attack the government; it would be pretty easy to go after the government for being too weak to stand up to even the nuttiest of their own backbenchers (and use that as an excuse to open up the Things The Monday Clubbers Actually Believe And Want folder...).

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 16:40

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Oh, hey, a nice, feelgood news article from the Commons. :3:

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 22:21

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Guavanaut posted:

This is the year 2020. The place is the Hebrides Terrace Seamount - the top of an underwater mountain, a complex beneath the sea. Eighteen thousand, eight hundred and twenty four men, women and children live here, each of them a unionist pioneer. For this is our last frontier - a hostile environment which may hold the key to tomorrow. Each day, these social democrats meet new challenges as they build their city beneath the sea... This is Scotlab 2020.

Someone's been reading a little too much of the climate change thread.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 02:13

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Speaking of Labour, if any goons feel their terrible political ideas need a national platform, the National Policy Forum consultation for this year is up and running.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 22:33

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

forkboy84 posted:

Capitalism is probably to blame, if you peel back all the layers.

You don't even have to peel back that many.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 19:09

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

These days, that's probably just a PREVENT honeypot.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 02:01

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Quoting myself on how apocalyptic a snap GE would be for Labour:

Darth Walrus posted:

Labour is in a peculiar situation right now. It's rich as hell, and also broke as hell. See, it comes down to the division between national and local. The central party is in a better situation than it's been in in years, which means that it's a net benefit rather than a net drain for the local parties. The problem is that there's a lot of local parties, and local membership fees plus central party stipends only make up a small part of their finances. The rest is from fundraising campaigns, which are the fastest way to regenerate your funds after a period of heavy expenditure. Local parties have been through a period of extremely heavy expenditure. The general election, first leadership campaign, local government election campaign, and EU referendum campaign completely exhausted their coffers - for instance, it was a considerable surprise that the Labour candidate for Avon and Somerset PCC managed as close a second place as he did, because thanks to the campaigns for the referendum and the other local government posts, he ran with literally zero campaign budget. The plan was to go back into some heavy-duty fundraising once the dust settled from Brexit, and start reaching out to the new arrivals from the leadership election, getting them used to the attending meetings and learning the inner workings of the party.

Then the morons in the PLP launched their coup and - this is the important bit - shut down all CLP activity for the next three months, paralysing them as their chances to secure money and members trickled away into the ether. It was a tremendous blow, and one they're still trying to recover from. It also means that if a snap election happens, Labour will be at an enormous financial and organisational disadvantage - you need tens of thousands of pounds to run a serious general election campaign in your constituency, and our CLP's budget is barely over a thousand, and it's still only just starting to spin up its member induction campaign.

Source: a chat with the CLP treasurer at our last local meeting. Seriously, truly attending some. The local officers have had it up to here with the PLP's poo poo.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 13:23

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Fangz posted:

So what's Corbyn's position on care for the elderly? How come he's lost so many older voters?

He wants to nationalise underperforming private care homes. Give care for the elderly a more solid floor.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 02:25

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

and i must meme posted:

Why is May so popular?

I just don't get it

This qualitative study may help.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 12:04

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jose posted:

why are you banned from the black people subforum?

No idea. Maybe I cluelessly said some bad poo poo, maybe they're randomly throwing in posters as part of the 'sundown town' experience they're simulating as part of the current forum game.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 14:07

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

jBrereton posted:

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/844103178501214209

I feel like the nuance of this will be appreciated by the voters of this country.

You mean the same thing that every other major political figure, including Theresa May, has been saying?

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 15:31

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Pochoclo posted:

Move all Tories, Blue Labour MPs, the PM, the ministers, and all royalty to the bottom of the Mariana Trench IMO

gently caress wait that's the plot to Bioshock I guess

Wouldn't that just end with them pouring out of the ocean in a gibbering, mutated horde and stealing all our missile subs?

After Yewtree, I'm not optimistic enough to expect the 'mass child rescue' ending.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 00:13

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Pesmerga posted:

It's the game where you fuse new demons by guillotining them, have a talking cat, and has an awesome jazz soundtrack

And then gently caress your teacher.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 16:25

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

jabby posted:

One thing I've noticed is that after this terrorist attack the 'keep calm and carry on, we are British, stiff upper lip old chaps' narrative has been particularly strong. Stronger in my opinion than the 'gently caress ISIS, close the borders, bomb them back to the stone age' jingoism that is the other typical response.

I'm not really sure how I feel about it. On the one hand a peaceful response is clearly better than a war-like one, but on the other it doesn't leave us any closer to a debate about the causes of terrorism and why people might end up hating this country (and it's government) enough they're willing to kill/die over it. Almost like some of the Jo Cox murder 'a thing happened, please do not think too deeply about why' has seeped in. Like we've moved on from whipping up fear and now it's time to engender a sense of complacency to make terrorist attacks the new normal.

Anyone else think there's been a bit of a shift in tone, or is it just me?

Part of the problem is the nature of the attack. It's basically impossible to physically prevent the entire population of Great Britain from driving into crowds and stabbing people. There's no meaningful crackdown that can stop this sort of thing - the issue is entirely cultural, a social problem that compels people to spread terror and death, and we're not even all that sure what, exactly, that problem is - Thomas Mair was a powerful counterargument against the 'it's them inferior Musselmen' angle, thanks to committing a crime too major to be totally downplayed and forgotten, and too obviously political to be totally decontextualised. The public's been getting increasingly tired of invasive and questionably-useful antiterrorism measures, and this seems like it might have pushed a bunch of folks over the edge.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 08:04

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Jedit posted:

I can't recall if it was here or El Reg that I saw someone say Amber Rudd just outlawed long division.

Mind explaining this one to a layman?

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 01:46

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 17:40

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Lol.

https://twitter.com/leohickman/status/846634268973518848

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 10:31

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