#1719

It’s going to be this, isn’t it? Like all the Brexit days that were pencilled in last year, there’ll be a last minute realisation that we’ve not done our homework and ask for a bit longer. Gotta do something to keep Farage and co coining it in.

Get ready for that May 2021 election…

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#1720

Pls no more

#1721

Was funny to read an old article (2012?) where she laughs about her Marxist dad saying she’s too right wing but I was just feeling like :grimacing:

#1722

definitely not gonna be an election in 2021

if we did go full on hard brexit chaos, the tories will think it’s fine cos they’d have 4 more years to fix it

we’re so so fucked

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#1723

Tom fucking Watson

I guess Labour have to keep playing this game cos the Tories will keep stuffing people in there regardless, but this entire travesty really needs to just be done away with.

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#1724

It’s alright the Jess Phillips Labour Party, by Jess Phillips will walk it.

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#1725

TBH it’s probably the only situation in which she might have a chance, a short enough run up to avoid having made big enough gaffes to lose loads of votes with enough of an aggressive nature to make them seem a good option.

That said, I think if there was an election 2021 any of the current candidates would have a good chance based on that sort of thinking.

#1726

Karie fucking Murphy. Don’t begrudge the factional element of it but she fucked up more times than she succeeded, and so seriously.

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#1727

Just fucking fuck off

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#1728

“ideologically driven Brexiter”

None of his opponents has ever thought that. Ever. He is famous for the exact opposite, picking a side late in the game, fence sitting until he could see the one most likely to benefit him personally.

The contempt with which these hacks treat their readers is staggering. Either that or he’s such an incompetent and un-insightful journalist that it’s the paper that likes to feed us shit.

And to think this is supposedly the main left paper in the country. We need and deserve a few press but the current lot should be permanently barred from writing anything other than their own name.

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#1729

I swear, every Sunday I look at the Guardian and I am like, “hey, why is this so much worse today?”, and then I remember that it is Sunday and it is actually the Observer.

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#1730

From Politico’s Sunday Crunch

" 3. LORDS OF THE NORTH. Cleverly also confirmed the government is “looking into” moving the House of the Lords out of London, possibly to York. “What we are looking at is a whole range of options about making sure that every part of the U.K. feels properly connected from politics,” he told Ridge.

Northern love. York — sometimes referred to as “the capital of the north” — is reportedly Johnson’s preferred option [according to the Sunday Times] but Birmingham is also in the running. The move is part of the prime minister’s plan to consolidate the Conservative electoral gains in what were once Labour heartlands."

Might I suggest… Barnsley?

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#1732

The idea of moving the House of Lords ‘to reconnect with the people’.

It’s the House of LORDS for fuck sake. What has that ever had to do with the people? Being separate and above the people is literally its purpose. Move it into the sea.

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#1733

Pretty decent round-up of the leadership situation imo. Goes back to the anything-for-a-quiet-life thing really

I don’t share her optimism for RLB pulling it out of the fire, though. It will be Starmer and he will lock anyone Corbyn-adjacent out of his cabinet, as he’s already indicating.

#1734
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#1736

For political insight on the 2019 election, the Liberal Democrats are hardly the best source.

#1737

FTFY

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#1738

Davey really needs to be swept out as the last remaining part of the Clegg era with any real sway in their parliamentary party. The fact that he still wants to campaign on “we tried our hardest in the coalition” and now he’s going with “the problem with our 2019 campaign was Labour” is mind blowing.

#1739

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