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Deskdiary | 07:45 Thu 16th Jan 2020 | News
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Looks like Momentum are flexing their muscles.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/15/momentum-back-rebecca-long-bailey-poll-labour-leadership

If this Corbyn clone were to win, is it safe to assume Labour may as well give-up any pretence that they've got any hope at all of winning the next GE?

This is a woman who said Corbyn's leadership was "10 out of 10", who said of Labour's absurd manifesto pledges “[I didn't] just agree with the policies, I’ve spent the last four years writing them”, and has already been caught out telling lies vis her growing-up watching her father worry about redundancy from Salford Docks - even though she was only 2 when the docks closed.
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//^Perhaps he can join the cast of 'Allo 'Allo when he's out of work. He'd fit in well. //

Corbyn and McDonnell would be good as the two airmen.
Corbyn is "an eero of ze reesistonce"! PMSL!
The biggest relief for me in all this is that McDonnell will never get his mitts on the Treasury. But for the EU referendum and its result & the turmoil since then he might well have done.
Momentum are simply the old, virtually defunct British Communist Party. How such a small insignificant group was able to hi-jack the leadership of the Labour party completely baffles me.
Can anyone explain it please?
Khandro //small insignificant group//
Since January 2017, all Momentum members must also be or become members of the Labour Party. The organisation had 40,000 members in 2019.
Has anyone ever looked at The Morning Star? t hat's what they all read, it's mind-boggling.

Re. the C. Party;
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-18351323

I'll give her a chance if elected, but if there is no action to root out that nasty plague that dwells within Labour before the end of this year, I'm done with them. I don't want to be associated with THAT party.
Just to answer a couple of questions on here.Rebecca Long-Bailey succeeded Hazel Blears(remember her?) as M.P. for Salford and Eccles in 2015.She was chosen,apparently,from a female only short list.
//Has anyone ever looked at The Morning Star? That's what they all read, it's mind-boggling//

Yes, and they all wear camouflage jackets, berets, Doc Martins and shout "power to the people" while making a one fisted salute.

Thank heavens the Tories dont have a nasty bigoted rag that supports them too.
Sorry Ken didn't see your earlier post.
Wrong Daily will be a boon for the Tories.

However this is just a poll so we shall have to wait and see.
Mozz; Not berets, Lenin peaked caps. Jeremy had to finally hide his, it was too much of a give-away, but I'll bet it's in a cupboard somewhere waiting for the day of reckoning.
If you can face it, here's something from the Morning Star of yesterday;

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/class-struggle-not-obsession-over-next-leader-will-build-socialism
It's Corbyn's language that makes me laugh more than anything. Him, the leader of 'the resistance'. Who does he think he is? Che Guevara? Pathetic.
more che goneforever
^
Wasn't Che Guevara just 2IC?
More like Wolfie Smith.
I agree with this bit -

'Workers don’t trust parties that lie to them — which appeared to be all parliamentary-based parties as Labour moved increasingly into the Remain camp.'

The Tories 'borrowed' my vote for the first time ever in 2017 and Labour will have to radically change from being the Remainer Party of the Metropolitan Middle Class before I'll vote for them again.
There is one overwhelming issue that has prevented Labour from winning an election in recent times, and it shows no sign of changing any time soon -

They are disconnected from reality.

Jeremy Corbyn and friends are idealists, they work on theory and a desire for a 'return' to a socialist utopia that not only has never existed, hence the difficulty in returning to it, but cannot be created because the UK's, and the world's economies, are simply not formulated to run on their utterly impractical lines.

They honestly believed that you can re-nationalise entire swathes of UK companies, and offer 'free broadband' for a fixed out-of-the-air fee.

They also believed that Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong career political agitator, could become a leader of a party, and represent an electable alternative.

Now that the electorate, who are not stupid, have roundly laughed at all this nonsense, Corbyn and acolytes sincerely believe that they are simply misunderstood, they have not made their case properly, and that if they carry on, the electorate will 'get it' next time.

Labour will continue its Islington talking shops where they gather to tell each other how Marxist they are, and how 'their day will come'.

Meanwhile, in the real world, hopefully Mr Johnson is savvy enough to understand that chance he has been given, and will act to back up the faith of the people in his vision and plans.

Labour will continue their run of completely un-electable leaders, by choosing a Corbynite, and they will not see power for the next thirty years at least.
khandro 12:55, I love their optimism, U can read 5 more articles this month! Then they want dosh! From the morning star, the rag of communism, ooh the irony!

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