I see the Liberal Democrats triumphed in Barwell last night beating a Labour candidate and regaining control of the council. The Labour candidate pledging to work with Conservatives and UKIP against the LibDems may have helped.
I've said this before, but the LDs now have a massive opportunity to recover quite spectacularly - it's up to Farron to seize it.
The Lib Dems would be wise not to absorb lots of unhappy Labour party members. The aftershock of the SDP merger means there is a left wing (rather than liberal) element in the Lib Dems.
The Lib Dems USP is that they are liberal. Socialists are more centralising, authoritarian, interventionists than liberal, free market believers.
We need a party that is distinctive from Labour and Conservative in being liberal.
On topic - clothes are important as people do judge by clothing. However I note that no one seems to have commented on what sort of shoes Mr Corbyn prefers.
As every woman knows, shoes make the outfit.
As a traditionalist I go for Doc Martens for a Zombie apocalypse, though German Paratrooper boots are a valid second choice. Any thoughts?
My brother got married in his flip flops (he has very wide feet and is not a fan of shoes in general) - from discussions with female friends and colleagues, I rather gather that he was permitted to do this indicates his wife is indeed his soul mate.
I've never heard of female foot fetishists, so perhaps nice men feet do not exist. I guess people only like Hobbit feet on actual Hobbits
What do the Tories want to do about Corbyn? If he is so terrible for Labour wouldn't it be better that he stayed there? Tim Montgomerie thinks this is a chance to knock Labour of their morally superior perch. Perhaps, but that in itself is rather revealing.
10 years ago when Cameron first came along it was all about how the Tories cared too and had no less of a moral conscience than Labour did, they just disagreed on means. It would appear they've given up on that and Osborne seems entirely comfortable in his ruthlessly cynical skin. It must grate them though to have to deal with Labour's sanctimony when the reality in their minds is that Labour is just as much in the moral gutter as they are. They're just two sides of the same opportunist coin who've chosen different paths.
Montgomerie reckons politics could be about to get ugly. That has its downsides but parliamentary democracy is supposed to represent the broad views of the electorate. If the nation starts washing its dirty laundry in the House of Commons it might at least be rather more honest than the phoney civility of the 'right honourable member.'
The main problem with Sadiq IMO is not his supposed "racism", but that he's so lacking in charisma...
You don't need to put it in inverted commas. He wasn't to actively discriminate against people based on their skin colour. This isn't an offhand comment: he wants to actually legislate for an openly racist system.
My last slender hope that Cooper might scrape home is now extinguished.
Fingers crossed for Burnham then.
Meantime - chaos at Hungarian refugee camp. 'food being thrown in for them'. I can only suggest that anyone thinking of holidays to Turkey or Greece must want their brains testing.
I see the Liberal Democrats triumphed in Barwell last night beating a Labour candidate and regaining control of the council. The Labour candidate pledging to work with Conservatives and UKIP against the LibDems may have helped.
I've said this before, but the LDs now have a massive opportunity to recover quite spectacularly - it's up to Farron to seize it.
The Lib Dems would be wise not to absorb lots of unhappy Labour party members. The aftershock of the SDP merger means there is a left wing (rather than liberal) element in the Lib Dems.
The Lib Dems USP is that they are liberal. Socialists are more centralising, authoritarian, interventionists than liberal, free market believers.
We need a party that is distinctive from Labour and Conservative in being liberal.
You need a party that is electable and when it does squeeze into govt does not scream and run away frit from it and back into the arms of the labour party. You need a party that has some point to it. It has none.
I must be a terrible person. I'm fiercely patriotic and in a zombie apocalypse, I'd trip someone else's kids up, so that mine could escape!
On topic. Corbyn will only be a disaster for Labour if the Blairites and centre left decide to cause problems. Of course he's unelectable, but it must be possible for the PLP to grit their teeth and work with him, and tread water to get past 2020 and then elect someone more creditable. It will be difficult. The press will slaughter him, and PMQs will be tasty. I just hope the Southam Observer wing of the party can pick up the pieces after 2020, or before if it all implodes early.
Who knows what will happen, most people are really hacked off with politician's and it is not inconceivable that lots of the people will take the hump with the Tories as they go ever more right wing. As we have seen with others you can be rank rotten and still make PM, the public are fickle and people are unsettled.
Who would you define as being seen to be rank rotten and be elected PM by the public?
Blair and Cameron were not seen up front as rank rotten. Blair maybe now but in 1997 he was Teflon Tony.
Brown was always rank rotten but he never won an election either. Corbyn can't inherit the Premiership like Brown did.
All have proven to be poor and not everybody think Corbyn is poor at this point , who knows what will happen if Tories are clobbering people and he promises money for all.
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The Lib Dems would be wise not to absorb lots of unhappy Labour party members. The aftershock of the SDP merger means there is a left wing (rather than liberal) element in the Lib Dems.
The Lib Dems USP is that they are liberal. Socialists are more centralising, authoritarian, interventionists than liberal, free market believers.
We need a party that is distinctive from Labour and Conservative in being liberal.
this is no time for a woman.
My vote is now Zac's next year
Maybe time to punt on Zac?
Had a white van man said half the stuff that Sadiq has said then there'd be no quotation marks around the word.
Disgrace that someone overtly proposing ethnic quotas in the workplace will aspire to be London mayor on Labour's behalf.
NEW THREAD NEW THREAD NEW THREAD
10 years ago when Cameron first came along it was all about how the Tories cared too and had no less of a moral conscience than Labour did, they just disagreed on means. It would appear they've given up on that and Osborne seems entirely comfortable in his ruthlessly cynical skin. It must grate them though to have to deal with Labour's sanctimony when the reality in their minds is that Labour is just as much in the moral gutter as they are. They're just two sides of the same opportunist coin who've chosen different paths.
Montgomerie reckons politics could be about to get ugly. That has its downsides but parliamentary democracy is supposed to represent the broad views of the electorate. If the nation starts washing its dirty laundry in the House of Commons it might at least be rather more honest than the phoney civility of the 'right honourable member.'
If Jowell had won, I'd have voted for her in preference to Zac.
Meantime - chaos at Hungarian refugee camp. 'food being thrown in for them'.
I can only suggest that anyone thinking of holidays to Turkey or Greece must want their brains testing.
There was a debate on here about time travel backwards being impossible the other day. Clearly we are disproving it.