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The former Gordon Brown aide, Damian McBride has added his thoughts about Labour’s leadership situation in an article in the Times. An extract appears above.
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On how well Jeremy Corbyn is doing as Labour Party leader:
Well: 26% (-2)
Badly: 60% (-)
NET: -34
(via YouGov / 05 - 06 Jan)
Chgs. from Dec.
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/eh6evpntgm/YG-Archive-160106- Cabinet.pdf
Rob Hutton
Hey, Buzzfeed! I think I've found a prehistoric guide to memes! https://t.co/JBpTAYxyEB
@RobDotHutton I think I might use "are Geordie's on holiday there?" as the relevance test for everything I write now.
@RobDotHutton @jimwaterson "murders, sieges, crazed gunmen or pond deaths"
CON 37 (+2)
LAB 44 (=)
LIB 4 (-4)
UKIP 11 (+3)
GRN 2 (-3)
4th-6th Jan
N=1,156
https://t.co/YTFY2Uo3Yu
@janemerrick23: Heads they win, tails we lose https://t.co/AccPsth8G3
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2016-01/07/jeremy-corbyn-labour-resignations
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/685053321292439552
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_mayoral_election,_2012
In perhaps she most shocking admission, she spoke of how she allowed youngsters she knew through the charity to stay in her flat.
http://order-order.com/2016/01/07/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy-kids-company-psychologist-gave-therapy-whilst-pilled-up/
Were there any actual professionals working at Kid Company? Trips to Ibiza, stay overs at adults houses who have good supplies of drugs. No wonder Kids Company was popular.
File under: "things that make you go Hmmmmmmm....."
...so Ken Livingstone should shut up and be sacked immediately. https://t.co/wvmSO3m0zw
Labour press office says membership of Nato is not part of defence review being carried out by @ken4london
If that's the case, banging on about affirmative action will be key.
Wanna compete fairly for a London job? No you Khant.
Thinking about the senior ministers who party leaders appoint to their cabinets or shadow cabinets, do you think they should... (Con/Lab/LibD/UKIP)
Try to have people with lots of different views
from different parts of their political party: 62/59/66/60
Try to have people who agree with the party
leader's views on the important issues of the day: 17/17/16/17
Interestingly the lowest gap (but it is still huge) is in London: 55/22
Also, he argues in his piece that the PLP must accept a left platform but insist that Corbyn can't be the leader to front it. I can see how that coule keep Labour viable (not necessarily electable). Obviously the key question is who would be the leader.
History not their strength, me thinks
Is there a y in the day?
LDem 21% plus 6% on previous vote ( 2014 )
UKIP 3% minus 5% on previous vote ( 2014 )
I do not see Benn fitting in.
Jeremy Corbyn is massively out of step with the public on the issues that caused three resignations from his front bench, an exclusive poll reveals today.
By two to one, Britons think he should sever his links with the Left-wing Stop the War pressure group, found pollsters BMG Research.
Just 14 per cent think terrorist attacks like the Paris shootings can be blamed on Western military action in the Middle East, which Stop the War has claimed.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-fears-as-68-of-voters-want-corbyn-to-cut-links-with-antiwar-group-a3150811.html
They have won and continue to solidify their position.
Actually I wouldn't mind if only they could come up with someone else to do the TV and radio.
Over 60's view of Corbyn, 19% doing well, 74% doing badly.
That's an electoral suicide vest.
@realDonaldTrump: Man shot inside Paris police station. Just announced that terror threat is at highest level. Germany is a total mess-big crime. GET SMART!
The membership want a leftward lurch. The PLP cannot obstruct that.
But... the leader has to be someone at least competent, ie not Corbyn. (So who?)
I think what he envisages is the nomination of such a candidate by almost the whole PLP. It wouldn't be an attempt to drag the party back rightwards, just do the left thing competently.
I think it's very interesting.
He's also talking about the same autumn timetable as Henry G Manson yesterday.
!) When the Majority of £3'ers will come around for renewal
2) When we're likely to get membership numbers from Labour, perhaps indicating moderate supporters dropping like flies.
Much appreciated.
I would have given him the thumps up for ousting Benn and the other 10 in one stroke, however he did not, so at presently I think he's not very good at it.
Been too kind to Labour's enemies has turned me off a bit from Corbyn, so I'm not surprised to see his numbers drop, you can compromise on policy but not with the people of the anti-Labour factions.
Corbyn's turning out not to be a good butcher at a time when most of his supporters (aka the majority of Labour) are angry with the conduct of his enemies and demand a good purge of them.
...unites the party in horror at just how incompetent they turned out to be
You can't reason with unreasonable people full of hatred, you have to get rid of them before they do more damage, the longer it takes them to understand this the messier it will get.
By some measure you are the wisest fool ever to be seen in pb-dom.
Any speech talking about the global economy being in trouble is de facto code that things are going awry.
That reminds me, talking of that exit poll, did Ashdon ever eat his hat?
To work up into a ferment or agitation; to excite, stir up.
or
To exacerbate; to foment, inflame.
Giving examples from the 1600s and 1700s onwards.
That reminds me, talking of that exit poll, did Ashdon ever eat his hat?
He ate a chocolate hat that the BBC (or Sky? I forget) made for him. Alistair Campbell had a chocolate kilt at the same time.