Hilary Benn Sacked From The Shadow Cabinet - wider political debate

[tsubaki]

Hahaha....news thump ........


Jeremy Corbyn has added his voice to the chorus demanding he step down as Labour leader today, before immediately rejecting it again.

Expressing the concerns of his party, Corbyn said he lacked the leadership skills and gravitas to win an election, but insisted his views were wrong and he remains the right candidate.

Corbyn was one of the few remaining sitting MPs of his own or any other party not to have called for his resignation, and he is understood to have added his voice in a spirit of inclusivity.

Acknowledging the problems with his own performance as leader, Corbyn went on to insist that he had a duty to ensure all the members of the Conservative party who paid £3 to appoint him get their money’s worth.

no comments on Pob stabbing Boris in the back, then?

 

[neil999]

no comments on Pob stabbing Boris in the back, then?

leave me outta this please

 

[peteblue]

no comments on Pob stabbing Boris in the back, then?

news thump ...

After months of saying ‘I want that one’ while pointing at 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson has admitted he doesn’t even want to be prime minister.

Johnson told the assembled reporters at a press conference this morning that he never wanted to be prime minister in the first place, and so we should all just ‘jolly well shut up about it’.

However, we have uncovered a recording of the secret behind-closed-doors meeting between Boris Johnson and his closest advisers, a transcript follows:

“Boris, you do realise that becoming prime minister in a period of unprecedented uncertainty, both politically and economically is going to make your tenure incredibly hard?”

“Yeah I know.”

“And you do realise that in all likelihood the negative impact on the economy that Brexit will have, and the difficult decisions you’ll have to take as a result, are likely to leave you with a tarnished reputation?”

“Yeah I know.”

“And you know that Michael Gove has now split the Leave support amongst your parliamentary colleagues ensuring that if you both run it’s unlikely either of you will make the final two?”

“Yeah I know.”

“And you realise that althought you are a likeable buffoon to many voters, the idea of you leading the country fills them with dread?”

“Yeah I know.”

“Ok then, go and announce your plan to run for prime minister.”

“Don’t want to.”

 

[tsubaki]

meanwhile, in London:

"This morning, at the launch of the Chakrabarti Inquiry into antisemitism, I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'. It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people, which were ironically highlighted as such in Ms Chakrabarti's report, while the leader of my own party stood by and did absolutely nothing."

"People like this have no place in our party or our movement and must be opposed. Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy’s ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews. I have written to the General Secretary of the Labour Party and the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party to formally complain about this morning’s events."

"No-one from the Leader’s office has contacted me since the event, which is itself a catastrophic failure of leadership. I call on Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately and make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and antisemitism in our party and in the country."

video of what actually happened is here

edit: and the bloke himself speaks

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Just a look at (kiddy-fiddler denying, former minister of Torture & Cultism....Sorry, I meant Culture & Tourism) Margaret Hodge's voting record....

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10281/margaret_hodge/barking/votes

Voted a mixture of for and against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas

Consistently voted for allowing terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their life

Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas

Consistently voted against an investigation into the Iraq war

Voted a mixture of for and against a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU

Voted a mixture of for and against more restrictive regulation of trade union activity

Voted a mixture of for and against measures to reduce tax avoidance

Generally voted for university tuition fees

Almost always voted for introducing ID cards

Generally voted for requiring the mass retention of information about communications

Consistently voted against capping civil service redundancy payments

Margaret Hodge generally voted for university tuition fees, while most Labour MPs generally voted against.

Consistently voted for the Iraq war

Generally voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system

Generally voted for more EU integration

Has assets of £1m+ held offshore too, apparently...

Confidence??

 

[peteblue]

meanwhile, in London:



video of what actually happened is here

edit: and the bloke himself speaks

Corbyn has a new pair of shoes......

 

[dandydan]

Just a look at (kiddy-fiddler denying, former minister of Torture & Cultism....Sorry, I meant Culture & Tourism) Margaret Hodge's voting record....

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10281/margaret_hodge/barking/votes

Voted a mixture of for and against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas

Consistently voted for allowing terminally ill people to be given assistance to end their life

Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas

Consistently voted against an investigation into the Iraq war

Voted a mixture of for and against a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU

Voted a mixture of for and against more restrictive regulation of trade union activity

Voted a mixture of for and against measures to reduce tax avoidance

Generally voted for university tuition fees

Almost always voted for introducing ID cards

Generally voted for requiring the mass retention of information about communications

Consistently voted against capping civil service redundancy payments

Margaret Hodge generally voted for university tuition fees, while most Labour MPs generally voted against.

Consistently voted for the Iraq war

Generally voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system

Generally voted for more EU integration

Has assets of £1m+ held offshore too, apparently...

Confidence??

Now why would anyone be against an inquiry to investigate the reasons for dragging this country into a war?

 

[tsubaki]

Corbyn has a new pair of shoes......

This is for a news event that actually happened, not one that you made up.

 

[Tubey]

meanwhile, in London:



video of what actually happened is here

edit: and the bloke himself speaks

Wow.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Now why would anyone be against an inquiry to investigate the reasons for dragging this country into a war?

Oh, you mean like John Mann - who not only voted in favour of the war, against any scrutiny of bliar's involvement in it, in favour of the unhindered, unregulated casino banking that brought about this neverending austerity; but also abstained on osborne's welfare cuts?

The working joe doesn't need these types of pro-corporate neo-liberals.

 

[tsubaki]

Jonathan Powell (former senior staff for Blair) speaks:

The Labour party is now in the process of choosing a new leader who represents the pro-Europe mainstream of the party; a leader who can win a probable election in the autumn, which Corbyn patently cannot. There will be warnings that a pro-European stance would risk losing working-class voters to Ukip. But we will lose them anyway, unless we run on an anti-Europe manifesto, and there are compensations such as making progress in Scotland in a way an anti-European could not.

The new leader needs to run in the general election on an explicit promise to negotiate with our partners to salvage our position in Europe, rather than to leave it. In our system, as in most others, a general election trumps a referendum. If the new Labour leader wins, he or she will have a mandate from the British people to negotiate a new, positive position for the country inside the EU and put that to a second referendum.

We still have time to save ourselves from the national catastrophe brought on us by David Cameron’s ill-judged decision to hold a mid-term referendum on Europe. There is a way out, but it requires political leaders with courage to make it possible.

So that is the North lost then, and Scotland. It is almost as if they want to bring about a situation where no-one votes for them.

 

[magicjuan]

Wow.

Wow what?

What Corbyn said was fine, what the loon said wasn't
What exactly was Corbyn to do?

 

[magicjuan]

Jonathan Powell (former senior staff for Blair) speaks:



So that is the North lost then, and Scotland. It is almost as if they want to bring about a situation where no-one votes for them.

I wish they would just split and find their own nest.
The interviews I've seen today they're all backing off from a fight, saying it's Corbyn and McDonell to decide by just quitting.

Self indulgent idiots.

 

[peteblue]

I wish they would just split and find their own nest.
The interviews I've seen today they're all backing off from a fight, saying it's Corbyn and McDonell to decide by just quitting.

Self indulgent idiots.

Rob Marris resigned as shadow finance minister during a finance bill committee meeting, according to fellow MPs.

Ruth Cadbury, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, tweeted: “At Finance Bill Committee Rob Marris has just stood up and resigned as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Secretary.”

In a parting shot Mr Marris, MP for Wolverhampton, called for Mr Corbyn to resign.

Mr Marris said: “I am resigning as shadow finance secretary forthwith and I will not be in front of this committee unless there is a change in the leadership in the Labour party.”

 

[Tubey]

Wow what?

What Corbyn said was fine, what the loon said wasn't
What exactly was Corbyn to do?

Erm, be a leader and step in mate?