DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 As you can see, I was #distraught at the news East Renfrewshire didn't want a Liberal Democrat as their MP. DISTRAUGHT. Sure you are not still at school? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 As you can see, I was #distraught at the news East Renfrewshire didn't want a Liberal Democrat as their MP. DISTRAUGHT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Typical patronising Glasgow Uni guff from the Jordanhill minter. With a snobbish attitude like that, you are not fit to support the Jags. ^^^ clown college dropout inferiority complex 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Oor Kezia still spectacularly not "getting it" at the Progress conference yesterday. Dearie me: ProgressOnline â€@ProgressOnline What looks complex is actually excruciatingly simple - Labour is being punished for saving the union | @kezdugdale #pac16 ProgressOnline â€@ProgressOnline The SNP know that if they want to get independence then they have to destroy the Labour party | @kezdugdale #pac16 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Oor Kezia still spectacularly not "getting it" at the Progress conference yesterday. Dearie me: ProgressOnline â€@ProgressOnline What looks complex is actually excruciatingly simple - Labour is being punished for saving the union | @kezdugdale #pac16 ProgressOnline â€@ProgressOnline The SNP know that if they want to get independence then they have to destroy the Labour party | @kezdugdale #pac16 How dare the SNP exist and how dare people vote for them and not her grubby little band of shysters! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Ladbrokes make Patrick Harvie 3rd favourite to be the next leader of the Green party.... slightly awkward given he's not a member 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 I genuinely had no idea that Progress was an SNP front. What a marvellously Machiavellian scheme that's turned out to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 ^^^ clown college dropout inferiority complex Not a drop out - engineering and business degrees. You are so far up your own smelly arse I can smell the shite off your breath from here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 You are so far up your own smelly arse I can smell the shite off your breath from here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotSquid Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Didn't Neil McCann steal that crown during the Aberdeen-Celtic game? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Not a drop out - engineering and business degrees. You are so far up your own smelly arse I can smell the shite off your breath from here. Perhaps you could engineer yourself some chat? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Perhaps you could engineer yourself some chat? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Andy Burnham to contest Labour's candidacy for Mayor of Greater Manchester, and will leave the Commons if he is successful: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/18/andy-burnham-to-stand-for-mayor-of-greater-manchester 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Andy Burnham to contest Labour's candidacy for Mayor of Greater Manchester, and will leave the Commons if he is successful: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/18/andy-burnham-to-stand-for-mayor-of-greater-manchester He's playing the long game for leadership of the party. The Boris approach if you like. He knows a Westminster coup will be messy and if he's a part of it his reputation will suffer (did heseltine not have the same problem when the milk snatcher was ousted?). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 He's playing the long game for leadership of the party. The Boris approach if you like. He knows a Westminster coup will be messy and if he's a part of it his reputation will suffer (did heseltine not have the same problem when the milk snatcher was ousted?). I very much doubt that, to be honest. He's stood twice now, and has been comprehensively beaten on both occasions. Any coup with Burnham as the candidate to succeed Corbyn would be undermined by the result of the previous contest, so I doubt he would have any major role to play. If he was still interested in the leadership, or believed he had a serious chance of obtaining it should Corbyn fall, he would be best to continue serving in the Shadow Cabinet - and remaining as an MP. Then, if the opportunity arose, he could present himself as a compromise candidate to all factions. Maybe that was his first strategy, but now he's realised that there's little chance of Corbyn resigning or being forced out in the near future. I suspect he's given up. It's the choice, for Burnham, between having power in Manchester or having no power in London. Also, as far as I understand, his family live in Leigh. That might have something to do with his decision after being based, at least during the week, away from them for quite a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I very much doubt that, to be honest. He's stood twice now, and has been comprehensively beaten on both occasions. Any coup with Burnham as the candidate to succeed Corbyn would be undermined by the result of the previous contest, so I doubt he would have any major role to play. If he was still interested in the leadership, or believed he had a serious chance of obtaining it should Corbyn fall, he would be best to continue serving in the Shadow Cabinet - and remaining as an MP. Then, if the opportunity arose, he could present himself as a compromise candidate to all factions. Maybe that was his first strategy, but now he's realised that there's little chance of Corbyn resigning or being forced out in the near future. I suspect he's given up. It's the choice, for Burnham, between having power in Manchester or having no power in London. Also, as far as I understand, his family live in Leigh. That might have something to do with his decision after being based, at least during the week, away from them for quite a while. I'll be amazed if Burnham doesn't go for leader again. He's a very young man and is generally seen as left of centre but not too far left for the arseholes on the right. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 I can see the some on the right wing of the PLP, which is the majority, doing an SDP before the end of this Parliament. More so if there are deselections. It may not be a bad thing though it will hand an election victory to a badly fucked up Tory Party. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I can see the some on the right wing of the PLP, which is the majority, doing an SDP before the end of this Parliament. More so if there are deselections. It may not be a bad thing though it will hand an election victory to a badly fucked up Tory Party. It won't happen for two reasons. Firstly the Labour Right have utter contempt for the Lib Dems, and especially for Farron. Secondly, there is no financial backer sitting in the wings to find such a venture. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 It won't happen for two reasons. Firstly the Labour Right have utter contempt for the Lib Dems, and especially for Farron. Secondly, there is no financial backer sitting in the wings to find such a venture. Both of these. Plus the basic logic of the 'right' is that they want to be electable. Splitting the party would be considerably worse than the current set-up. I think it's underestimated how loyal a lot on the modernising wing are to the party as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 It won't happen for two reasons. Firstly the Labour Right have utter contempt for the Lib Dems, and especially for Farron. Secondly, there is no financial backer sitting in the wings to find such a venture. I'm not suggesting joining the Lib Dems, I'm talking a new breakaway party. Financial backing may or may not be of major relevance. Try as they might they will not be able to ditch Corbyn before the next GE. Something has to give. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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