Cob Removes Another Obstacle To Moving The Party To The Hard Left.....

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43172388
It's the sensible Labour supporters I feel for, they can possibly want their party to be completely unelectable.

[Deskdiary]

It is truly worrying.

COB the Hammas friend, mad McDonnell the IRA lover who is left of Trotsky and Abbott who is as thick is pig excrement.

I am genuinely shocked how anybody can think these clowns are viable alternative.

[gulliver1]

Pig excrement? do you mean diarya?

[Baldric]

Is it possible you ^^^ meant Diarrhoea?

[gulliver1]

No , I mean Diarya, do try and keep up1

[cassa333]

I got it gulliver lol

[New Judge]

"...they can possibly want their party to be completely unelectable."

I keep saying, 3Ts, that this is a dangerous attitude to adopt. To most sensible people, the prospect of a Labour government under the current regime is unthinkable. However, there are large numbers of people in the UK for whom any alternative to a Tory government is their preference. At the last General Election the Labour share of the vote increased considerably. By then the flavour of the Labour government on offer was well established. Yet huge numbers of people voted for them. As I also keep saying, the number of people who know what a proper Labour government means for the country. There hasn't been one for almost forty years so only those over sixty will have a grasp of what it would be like. Couple this with the fact that the present Tory administration seems to be doing all it can to disenchant its traditional supporters and we dismiss the prospect of a Jezza led government at our peril.

[New Judge]

^^^
"As I also keep saying, the number of people who know what a proper Labour government means for the country is decreasing considerably."

(Oh for an edit facility)

[Gromit]

Seven years is a fairly good innings as party secretary.

McNicol’s cards were numbered when he denied tens of thousands of new members a vote in Corbyn’s second leader win. An undemocratic act, unprecedented, and against the spirit of welcoming new members into the party.
As it was, Corbyn won by a mile again but the party secretary had more or less written his own resignation letter then.

[johnny.5]

it would not take much for a totally new political party
lets call them the Democratic Party of the U.K.
with popular policies like

1. semi-brexit from the Eu
2. Quazi - nationalization of all public transport
3. proper investment in the NHS
4. four different countries with one shared goal
5. cap bonus payments to "fat cat bosses"

[gulliver1]

19.41 While D/D is on the subject of pig excrement ,{ The Tory version. }
I see that Mr Corbyn, has received an apology and a pay out from Con Man mp,
Ben Bradley after tweeting false information about Communist Spys etc,
Typical Tory [dirty] Trick. Gosh the Tories are really running scared.

[naomi24]

// It's the sensible Labour supporters I feel for, they can[‘t] possibly want their party to be completely unelectable.//

Are there any sensible Labour supporters left? I see little opposition to the influence of the current leadership.

[Gromit]

Labour supporters are probably fed up of the party losing elections. Brown in 2010 had policies very similar to Cameron’s Conservatives, and lost. Not much changed policy wise under Miliband, and Labour lost again in 2015.
So the Party had to change. Though Labour didn’t win in 2017, there was a big improvement at the polls.
If Labour lose the next one, they will again reposition themselves.

[Gromit]

naomi24

The next test of how Labour performs at the polls will be the Local Elections in a few weeks time.
I notice the Conservatives have already warned that they expect to do badly.

// The upcoming local elections will be “really difficult” for the Conservatives, the party’s chairman has admitted.

Brandon Lewis said retaining seats in London will be particularly “challenging” after polls suggested the Tories are on course to lose at least three flagship councils in the capital in May. //

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/local-elections-2018-conservatives-really-difficult-brandon-lewis-tories-london-theresa-may-barnet-a8223951.html

[youngmafbog]

//Brandon Lewis said retaining seats in London will be particularly “challenging” //

Well there is a surprise.

The Country is a whole lot bigger than London.

I hope labour do well, after some time in power you would expect reaction at local elections where people are more willing to vent their fury and it just might jolt the Tories into action.

Anyone from outer space could be forgiven for thinking Labour had won the last election but the truth is they were a long way off. The best they could have hoped for would be a cobbled coalition - and we all know how they end!