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Rebecca

yahyah wrote:and for the avoidance of doubt, no I am not referring to anyone on FTN.
But if anyone is in the mood to take offence, please use me as a punchbag if it helps.

Are you alright YahYah?
Only,you really don't seem your usual self recently.

Rebecca

yahyah wrote:If Smith is such a menace, why did Ed M judge him fit to appoint to the Shadow Health team ?

Maybe the person who can answer that is Ed?

Rebecca

Cllr James Denselow ‏@cllrjdenselow 2h2 hours ago 183,541 people joined Labour as registered supporters in just two days - nearly outnumbering the entire Tory & Lib Dem membership combined. Over £4 million pounds ! £4,588,525.00 to be exact. Love him or hate him,Jeremy Corbyn is a moneyspinner ...

Rebecca

ohsocynical wrote:Éoin ‏@LabourEoin 5m5 minutes ago

#Breaking: All existing Labour MPs are to go through a mandatory reselection process after 2018 Boundary Review. Grassroots members decide.

The NEC and PLP will probably have banned grassroot members by then.
On the grounds of excessive eye rolling or sthg.

Rebecca

PoliticsHome ‏@politicshome Jul 18 Tom Watson suggests Unite members could oust Len McCluskey over Jeremy Corbyn support http://bit.ly/29OJgej" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Tom needs to shut up. What on earth has got into them all? It is so not up to Tom Watson to try to ...

Rebecca · Re: Tuesday 19 July 2016 Dogs now happy.

Dogs now happy.

Rebecca

Despite what I said the other day about Owen Smith's back-story having put me off him, I've been quite impressed by him over the leadership issue and, unless he seriously cocks things up to cause me to feel otherwise, I shan't have much of a problem in voting for him. I shall continue to be vigilan...

Rebecca

Pish. Normandy? It's 34 degrees in our office at work. My brain is melting out of my lug holes. That is all. Baking hot here. Dogs are seriously sulking because I haven't taken them out for their evening walk.Now 15 mins late. Told them they would die in the car,do they care?Will they listen? In a ...

Rebecca

Pish. Normandy? It's 34 degrees in our office at work. My brain is melting out of my lug holes. That is all. Baking hot here. Dogs are seriously sulking because I haven't taken them out for their evening walk.Now 15 mins late. Told them they would die in the car,do they care?Will they listen? In a ...

Rebecca

citizenJA wrote:
Amid the gloom, Brexit provides an opportunity for Labour
Ed Miliband

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... d-miliband" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What,an opportunity to tear itself apart?

Rebecca

Well, the rain has gone at last. Still can't garden though, it is nearly 30 centigrade in the shade. Too hot. No rain here but very hot. Took the dogs out at 5.45,which was very lovely,after a disturbed night.For reasons best known to herself,my GSD decided she wanted to sleep in my bed at 3.00.She...

Rebecca

yahyah wrote:Crabb resigned, presumably to spend more time sex texting.

He didn't last long.

Rebecca

It is utterly unacceptable that people who can't be bothered to join Labour just turn up and vote for leader. It is similarly utterly unacceptable that Unite were offering cut price deals to subvert NEC rules. It reduces the whole thing to an arms race, as Militant/Momentum/amusingly the Communist ...

Rebecca

Did you see extankie's suggestion of friend/foe thing where you can choose which posts you can s I have tried that - but then you lose the thread a bit, plus replies often have the original post in them. But thank you, and extankie, for the reminder. Yay! I helped a bit....:) Have just tried this ,...

Rebecca

Gerald Kaufman. Not one of my favourites. Parliamentary expenses scandal Kaufman was involved in the 2009 expenses scandal, where a number of British MPs made excessive expense claims, misusing their permitted allowances and expense accounts. Kaufman was found to have claimed £115,109 in additional...

Rebecca

The pearl clutching in some quarters because McDonnell used a naughty word is even more risible than usual. (and does it come from some of the same people who cheered on Jess Phillips when she told Diane Abbott to "f*** off"? Yes, yes it does) Besides, on this J McD is absolutely correct ...

Rebecca

The pearl clutching in some quarters because McDonnell used a naughty word is even more risible than usual. (and does it come from some of the same people who cheered on Jess Phillips when she told Diane Abbott to "f*** off"? Yes, yes it does) Besides, on this J McD is absolutely correct ...

Rebecca

Last night Labour’s national executive committee decided that Jeremy Corbyn would be allowed to take part in the Labour leadership contest without having to get nominated by 51 MPs or MEPs, like his opponents. But it also decided that party members will not be able to vote in the contest as party m...

Rebecca

I have to admit to sitting on the fence regarding the civil war within Labour. I didn't vote for Corbyn but I had thought he was doing ok and he was evidently a person of integrity. On the other hand I can see why the PLP are so frustrated with him. A friend of my husband is on the periphery of the...

Rebecca

NEC members were locked in a debate lasting nearly six hours - amid threats of court action - after warring factions disputed the rules. Their decision leaves the entire say on who will lead Labour to around 400,000 party members. But another 100,000 who joined since the EU referendum - many of the...

Rebecca

NEC members were locked in a debate lasting nearly six hours - amid threats of court action - after warring factions disputed the rules. Their decision leaves the entire say on who will lead Labour to around 400,000 party members. But another 100,000 who joined since the EU referendum - many of the...

Rebecca

if interested in legality Out of interest are you actually a qualified lawyer? Read my blog and form a view. [Completely off topic, and you may hate this coming from me, but many congratulations on submitting.] Hugo,get a grip man and stop pimping your blog.You're really starting to sound needy.

Rebecca

Night mbc. Have you got some episodes of Person of Interest as distraction ? Night all. Curry making will take my mind off things. I'm watching a Christmas x files episode. I live in a strange household. In the summer,my daughter listens to christmas carols and watches christmas dvds to cool hersel...

Rebecca

Whatever your views on the leadership of the Labour Party (and I imagine that you all know mine) this is an unedifying, embarrassing and distressing mess. I may have my suspicions about the brick incident but that doesn't justify Angela Eagle and the BBC claiming, without any proof (or none that th...

Rebecca

I remember a previous post which was to the effect of 'try to think like me and Blair', suggesting that Tony Blair had to intervene in the Labour leadership election because he couldn't stay out. Result - a lot more votes for Corbyn. I really think a legal blog written by someone with no apparent l...

Rebecca

I completely understand how you feel, but if all the good guys walk away... Please try to hang on in there. There will still be good councillors and MPs to vote for depending where you are. Not with a party led by MPs prepared to betray everything the party is supposed to stand for. I will not legi...

Rebecca

I wish a new party would spring up with the same views and thoughts as Jeremy,I can't see me ever supporting labour again. I feel dead sick over all this. I completely understand how you feel, but if all the good guys walk away... Please try to hang on in there. There will still be good councillors...

Rebecca

You do realise, Hugo, that the reason why so many people voted for Corbyn was that it was because they believed the Labour Party was doomed if they didn't? Have you ever, ever, ever once thought like this in that weird little 'I am always right, you are always wrong' world of yours? Ever? Yes of co...

Rebecca

With respect, TE, you have no more idea of who threw that brick than I do. As you say, there is no evidence. Rebecca's figures show that there are just over 12 incidents of ASB daily in Wallasey. This could be just one of those. I wrote earlier about what happened to Ed, the negative briefings, the...

Rebecca

A lot of people out there are angry. That does tend, though it is awful to say it, to lead to an increase in violent acts. Last year,(may 2015 to june 2016) there were 3461 reported episodes of antisocial behaviour in Wallasy and 1030 criminal damage and arson. I can't get too fussed about a broken...

Rebecca

yahyah wrote:Larry is innocent. He's been framed.

Does Larry know that Cruella DeVil is moving in tomorrow?

Rebecca

Bricks through windows are common enough in the chav street where I live. Suppose it's all Corbyns' fault. One family haven't even bothered to either pick up the broken glass or patch up the hole.It happened in December. This street is sort of half and half.The nice half,that's me included,just roll...

Rebecca

ATL at the PLB: Here are more pictures of the removal van arriving at the back of Downing Street. You might think that this is mere diary column trivia, but the removal van arriving at Downing Street is, in many respects, the defining image of British democracy because it represents the transfer of...

Rebecca

The BBC are reporting that Angela Eagle had a brick thrown through her window last night. Hilary Benn said there was no evidence that the slim,grey haired man bearing an extraordinary resemblance to Jeremy Corbyn seen fleeing the scene had been the person lobbing the brick. But 172 members of the p...

Rebecca

http://news.crocels.com/news/8412/owen-smith-labour-nhs-private-sector-involvement/ The member of Parliament for Pontypridd, Owen Smith, has been outed as a supporter of greater private involvement in the NHS, only hours before his wife Liz Smith asks for the support of the people of Llantrisant in...

Rebecca

YOu know it's that which really grinds my gears - being labelled a militant trot - Dad really was a militant supporting trot, I know exactly what a militant supporting trot is like, Im just a moderate social democrat thats suddenly labelled an extremist. That if nothing else demonstrates how out of...

Rebecca

JonnyT1234 wrote:
Rebecca wrote:
JonnyT1234 wrote: True. But is it wrong of me if the Thatcher impression I'd prefer to see is her 'weepy, leaving Downing Street with a few hundred knives in her back' one?
Give her time,she hasn't even moved in yet.
I'd rather not...

Imo she is the best of a poor bunch.Gove?Boris?Leadsom?

Rebecca

I would much rather watch Mrs May doing her Thatcher impersonation than Camerons' smug,sneering,born to rule fat face any day. True. But is it wrong of me if the Thatcher impression I'd prefer to see is her 'weepy, leaving Downing Street with a few hundred knives in her back' one? Give her time,she...

Rebecca

I would much rather watch Mrs May doing her Thatcher impersonation than Camerons' smug,sneering,born to rule fat face any day.

Rebecca

So where is this wonderful candidate Hugo ? The one we should all vote for, who will be competent and the voters will love ? Oh either Smith or Eagle is better than Corbyn by far. They won't win a general election, the damage to Labour from the last year is far too great by now to be reversed befor...

Rebecca

The end of the Labour Party is nigh,I suppose as others have said after electing a leader whose main conviction is that the PLP is the enemy of the working class I find that insulting. You lost me right there. Might I remind you that Corbyn did not declare war on the PLP. Yes,sorry Hindle,but that ...

Rebecca

ohsocynical wrote:Reuters UK ‏@ReutersUK 1h1 hour ago

BREAKING: UK government minister Penrose says lawyers believe invoking Article 50 would require royal approval.

Would it have been too much to ask for the Govt to sort this out BEFORE the referendum?
Should they not actually know this sort of stuff?

Rebecca

(((Red Labour))) ‏@Redlabour2016 21h21 hours ago Labour MP told me today that they regretted resignation,& like a number of their plp colleagues are wishing they had not followed bad advice If that's true they should be even more ashamed of themselves. How do they think they could form a bloody...

Rebecca

I get people's desire to respect the rules, but the rules are currently lumbering Labour with a poor leader and poor policy direction post-EU The minute we start suspending due process to get the result we want, we're no better than a banana republic. The 'rules' you're so dismissive of are otherwi...

Rebecca

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/09/andrea-leadsom-tea-party A controversial rightwing American lobbying group that denies climate change science and promotes gun ownership paid for the Tory prime ministerial hopeful Andrea Leadsom to fly to the United States to attend its conferences. ...

Rebecca

Willow This is becoming a bit of a broken record and my response will not change It is a bit ambiguous Most of the legal views you see on this say that Corbyn is on the ballot The rules have changed since Kinnock was challenged and so the precedence is dubious If we ignore the legal questions thoug...

Rebecca

Jo Maugham QC ‏@JolyonMaugham 31m31 minutes ago No fan, but I think Corbyn has the *right* to be on the ballot. And it's a mistake to try and keep him off it. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2015/11/could-labours-rule-book-be-used-keep-jeremy-corbyn-leadership-ballot" onclick=&q...

Rebecca

Somehow people appear to be missing the main point and PLP seem to have overlooked it. Membership - potential Labour voters who are unhappy with what's happening - don't have to vote for their rebel MPs at a GE. They can either not vote at all, spoil their ballot paper or vote for someone else. Tha...

Rebecca

And Ms Eagle tells us that Jeremy is losing support in the country,if he doesn't resign she will challenge him.
But she doesn't give a time frame,unlike Mr Jones.

Rebecca

Also,Graham Jones saying that they will get rid of Corbyn.
Even if it takes 5 to 10 years.!0 years sounds about right to me,seeing as Corbyn will be 77,and possible be tired of PLP shenanigans by then.

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