Talk About An Own Goal!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34013497
By jove I think he's cracked it! Bit of a school boy error by Millipede methinks! Is there anyone left in the Labour party with an IQ capable of government?

[janbee]

You mean individually or combined?

[youngmafbog]

hehe

[New Judge]

Let's understand this.

A year or so ago the Labour Party amended its rules and made a vote in their leadership election available to anybody for the price of a cheese sandwich.

A large number of people took up that offer when a new leadership election was announced. Some senior members in the party (including some of the candidates in the election) are now aghast because it seems those who invested their three quid might swing the election in a way they do not fancy.

Seriously, you could not make it up.

[naomi24]

They don't seem to recognise that they're portraying an abysmally negative image - but what's new? They're so detached from the real world it's become par for the course.

[Canary42]

It's about time you Tory Supporters realised you're the ruling Party now (and have been effectively for years) and are no longer in Opposition.

So stop Labour-bashing and start exolling the virtues of your own party - like the record number (and growing) of soup kitchens etc.

[naomi24]

Constructive criticism, Canary. Shame for them they don't listen. They might garner rather more respect if they did

[Jackdaw33]

To my mind a government prepared to increase the number of soup kitchens is a caring and compassionate one, unlike the opposition who would prefer to abolish them and leave the disadvantaged to starve and freeze to death in the name of party ideology.

[New Judge]

"So stop Labour-bashing and start exolling the virtues of your own party..."

What, rather like the Labour Party did from 1997 to 2010, you mean?

[ichkeria]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Mancroft

This chap's been caught trying to vote
Shouldn't the Tories sack him?

[ludwig]

There's a rigorous vetting processing to join the Labour party, and quite rightly so. They ask you who you intend to vote for in the leadership election, and if the answer is Jeremy Corbyn, you're rejected.

Farcical.

[ichkeria]

You don't have to join the Labour Party to vote. That is the farce

[ludwig]

True ^. If you're going to have a system that says anyone can sign up to vote for the party leader, you can't then turn round and say '..er we didn't mean just anyone, we meant anyone we deem to be suitable - which rules out people who want to vote for Corbyn'.

It's a complete shambles.

[ichkeria]

The Labour Party still retains the right to turn away people they deem unsuitable. Thst does NOT mean supporters of Jeremy Corbyn per se, but people who plainly do not have the party's interests at heart. No matter who they support. But it's s pretty hopeless task as far as I can see.
Then you get people like Jeremy Hardy - complaining that they have been turned away unfairly. Hardy voted Green at the last election but now wants to 'come home' to Labour. Let him join the party then, rather than attempt to muscle in on the cheap. As I said before, no matter who wins, the whole process has been devalued by the system. And I cannot see, for that reason, the winner having much credibility with the party never mind the electorate

[ToraToraTora]

come on Canary, you wouldn't begrudge us a bit of Labour bashing. After all for the last 2 years you and your anti British friends have been telling us how your man was going to thrash Dave. farrier, even changed his name because he could not live with the loss, so I don't apologise for Labour bashing. Get ready for a lot more of it now I've paid my £3.

[Quizmonster]

The "£3.00 to vote" scheme was clearly absurd; however, as I understand it, part of the signing-up process involved stating that you "support the Labour party". Consequently, anyone who did sign up, despite being anti-Labour, is by definition a self-confessed liar.
Indeed, if I were ever for personal gain to 'add my signature' to a document I knew to be false, I would consider myself to be a perjurer. (Personal gain can mean political as well as financial advantage. Sadly, however, any sense of honour is largely a thing of the past.)

[-Talbot-]

Canary does have a point.

It appears that anti Labour posts are all the Con supporters have to shout about. Where are the 'what a fantastic job Dave is doing' threads?

[ToraToraTora]

I do support the Labour party, I support Jezza and I hope he will lead the party in long opposition. What Labour have done is basically introduce the US primary system with one important difference, they get £3 a pop.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps talbot but we endure constant anti Tory rhetoric, to quote Russell Casse from independence day, "pay back's a *** ain't it?"

[venator]

Pi$$ ups and breweries come to mind.