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[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, Neil said:

But was then happy to have a shadow cabinet role, and he was dissed by the corbyn clique for daring to resign. 

What good would resigning have done? He would have just sat on backbenches and not been able to do anything and wouldn't have been able to take over as leader. Corbyn wasn't going anywhere...

[Neil]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

What good would resigning have done? He would have just sat on backbenches and not been able to do anything and wouldn't have been able to take over as leader. Corbyn wasn't going anywhere...

same as it forced johnson from office resigning from the shadow cabinet was about trying to force corbyn from office.

[Neil]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

theres going to be plenty of people in big trouble with their over-extended - huge mortgages. followed by a house price crash. if you cant risk that happening, sell-up now.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Neil said:

same as it forced johnson from office resigning from the shadow cabinet was about trying to force corbyn from office.

They tried that and it didn’t work. So after the 2017 GE I guess they thought it best to at least try to show unity. 

[steviewevie]

17 minutes ago, Neil said:

same as it forced johnson from office resigning from the shadow cabinet was about trying to force corbyn from office.

Yeah but system in labour and with membership would have been a lot harder to force him out. 

[Neil]

20 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Yeah but system in labour and with membership would have been a lot harder to force him out. 

too true, the members doubled down on their utter stupidity,

differently: the tories elect a new idiot.

[Guest]

This is a good thread. 

[Neil]

7 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

This is a good thread. 

the govt can give more assistance than that thread IS CREDITING, CULD DO THE WHOLE FURLOUGH THING AGAIN.

[Neil]

i just heard that therE's a China research group of MP's, lets hopE they're better at research than their ERG colleagues

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Neil said:

the govt can give more assistance than that thread IS CREDITING, CULD DO THE WHOLE FURLOUGH THING AGAIN.

The point is that person doesn’t think they will and neither candidate have suggested they will give much more support.

[Neil]

20 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

The point is that person doesn’t think they will and neither candidate have suggested they will give much more support.

DIFFICULT ONE, everyone loves free stuff, but it has to be paid for somwhen/somehow.

[Neil]

some sad news, no one can measure the impact this geezer had.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/03/bristol-bus-boycott-campaigner-roy-hackett-dies-at-93

[squirrelarmy]

3 minutes ago, Neil said:

DIFFICULT ONE, everyone loves free stuff, but it has to be paid for somwhen/somehow.

As usual the Tories will be leaving the mess to be cleaned up when they’re not in charge. 

[Guest]

 

[Neil]

so, the same day biden gives intel, etc, loads of money to build a chip building plant in the usa, pelosi visits taiwan, and screws up their chip business.

[Guest]

 

[Neil]

10 hours ago, steviewevie said:

oh, must be her good looks then.

Someone thinks so she got her start in the tory party via an affair with a tory mp. Clearly public knowledge, as its some info I got from radio4

Edited August 3, 2022 by Neil

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

Liz Truss' decision to back Bojo to the end has paid off.

[steviewevie]

 

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

Classic Owen Jones, he can’t resist a bit of unnecessary Starmer bashing. 

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Classic Owen Jones, he can’t resist a bit of unnecessary Starmer bashing. 

 if he's talking about nationalising energy he can hardly not mention Starmer's uturn on his pledges during his campaign...