Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th November 2014

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:07 pm

@PF & TinyClanger

Tweets done

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:07 pm

PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

Night PF

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:07 pm

tweeting has begun...

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:08 pm

JustMom wrote:#webackEd

Certainly do!

I've sent my first two tweets and still don't really know what's going on but at least I joined in. I'll have to leave it to everyone else to get it trending, though. I'm off to find Stephen King on twitter....

Post by **refitman** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:22 pm

Willow904 wrote:
JustMom wrote:#webackEd
Certainly do!

I've sent my first two tweets and still don't really know what's going on but at least I joined in. I'll have to leave it to everyone else to get it trending, though. I'm off to find Stephen King on twitter....

I see you've found him.

Also, you are now being followed by FTN.

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:25 pm

Willow904 wrote:
Rebecca wrote:
PorFavor wrote:
I'm not a "Twitterer". Is there anything I can do (apart from join Twitter which a) I'd prefer not to do and b) the chances of my mastering the art of "Twittering" by the appointed time is next to zero, even if I did join).

Thankyou for voicing my own miserable failings re twitter.
I just tried joining Twitter. Easy enough. I read up on hastags too and it seemed to make sense. But what do I tweet? Do I just send it out into the ether? What on earth do people find to say? Any ideas gratefully welcome. I'd like to show some support for Ed but not sure how.

Just put something simple like - I support Ed #webackEd Press the blue Tweet button and off it goes. What I did was follow a few people first and watched how it worked. Then I did some reTweets if I agreed with what they said, and took it from there. I'm dimayray if you want to start off....

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:26 pm

its trending now at 5 - keep going

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:27 pm

refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
JustMom wrote:#webackEd
Certainly do!

I've sent my first two tweets and still don't really know what's going on but at least I joined in. I'll have to leave it to everyone else to get it trending, though. I'm off to find Stephen King on twitter....
I see you've found him.

Also, you are now being followed by FTN.

And followed by me as well.

If it helps, Stephen King's Twitter name is .....@StephenKing

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:28 pm

refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
JustMom wrote:#webackEd
Certainly do!

I've sent my first two tweets and still don't really know what's going on but at least I joined in. I'll have to leave it to everyone else to get it trending, though. I'm off to find Stephen King on twitter....
I see you've found him.

Also, you are now being followed by FTN.

Yes, I spotted I'd been rumbled. Thanks for following me, it's very sweet!

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:29 pm

This cheered me up immensely on a coldish, very wet and windy autumn evening.

Accentuate the positive, or: the beginning of the end - Barnet Tories in humiliating defeat over cuts
http://wwwbrokenbarnet.blogspot.co.uk/

Standing ovation for the victory over nursery cuts won by Labour Cllr Rebecca Challice (caption to great pic at top of blog)

A packed Town Hall, last night, for the Full Council Meeting, as was expected, with the proposed savage cuts to Barnet libraries and nursery provision on the agenda, followed by an 'Extraordinary' meeting held to debate Labour's motion of no confidence in the Tory leader, Richard Cornelius, in the aftermath of the highly critical Lloyd-Jones report into the failure of governance, and legal services...

So many residents turned up last night the council was obliged to open up an overspill room, which itself overflowed- hundreds of people, many of them parents at Moss Hall, one of the nurseries affected by the cuts. ...

People do seem to be getting angrier and angrier ... it's not just Scotland which has woken up and smelt the coffee.

Editing to add: Ernst - if you drop in - read this one. It will sing to you, I promise.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:32 pm

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote: Certainly do!

I've sent my first two tweets and still don't really know what's going on but at least I joined in. I'll have to leave it to everyone else to get it trending, though. I'm off to find Stephen King on twitter....
I see you've found him.

Also, you are now being followed by FTN.
And followed by me as well.

If it helps, Stephen King's Twitter name is .....@StephenKing

Thank you, too. Just have to find how to follow you back...there must be a short cut.

Post by **refitman** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:34 pm

Willow904 wrote:
TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
refitman wrote: I see you've found him.

Also, you are now being followed by FTN.
And followed by me as well.

If it helps, Stephen King's Twitter name is .....@StephenKing
Thank you, too. Just have to find how to follow you back...there must be a short cut.

If you click on the Followers button, from your profile page, there will be a Follow button next to each person.

Edit to add: I see you've found it.

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:41 pm

Well,sent my first tweet.I think.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 6:56 pm

I briefly worked under (Clare) Lloyd-Jones. Monitoring Officer at a London council. Not universally popular but a no nonsense sort who seemed to know what she was talking about. She seems to have hammered Barnet Council.

There is no-one who understands local government law in depth at Barnet.

Barnet employs no lawyers.

There are staff in key roles in the Governance structure in Barnet who are inexperienced in governance matters.

There was no clear protocol for clearing council reports throughtaking external legal or other specialist advice.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:02 pm

It sounds like Barnet's Monitoring Officer (which is a seriously important and high paid job) isn't a lawyer.

Incredible.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:06 pm

Wow, guess where the shitstorm's come from?

Barnet’s legal service was outsourced through a shared service agreement with Harrow Council under the One Barnet mass-privatisation programme in April 2012 on the basis that it would save money and provide greater flexibility and capacity to manage the council’s legal work more efficiently. But the independent report suggests that Barnet does not have “access to pro-active professional and expert advice at all relevant times” and that “the clienting of the HBPL service has had no professional legal input looking at the quality of legal advice given for 18 months”. Last month’s performance data also shows the outsourced service is currently overspent by £138,000 or 7.7% of the overall budget.

So outsourced, with no lawyers kept on.
Don't you need at least a couple of them to spot the problems and tell you when to ring up the experts?
And indeed, as this says, to tell you whether the legal advice you're getting is up to scratch.

Where's Eric?

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:09 pm

EU Commission slaps down George Osborne over rebate claim
http://leftfootforward.org/2014/11/eu-c ... get-claim/

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:11 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:It sounds like Barnet's Monitoring Officer (which is a seriously important and high paid job) isn't a lawyer.

Incredible.

Well yes Tubby. But have you forgotten that Grayling doesn't believe we need someone with legal expertise in the position of Lord Chancellor ... Tories seem to have a pattern of this.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:14 pm

refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
TheGrimSqueaker wrote: And followed by me as well.

If it helps, Stephen King's Twitter name is .....@StephenKing
Thank you, too. Just have to find how to follow you back...there must be a short cut.
If you click on the Followers button, from your profile page, there will be a Follow button next to each person.

Edit to add: I see you've found it.

Yes. Getting the hang of it, I think. Makes more sense than Facebook, anyway (thank God!). I see the #webackEd managed to trend.
I've always felt winning the next election was going to be about momentum and timing. Today was a bad day for Cameron and Osborne re the EU bill. They've never looked more shallow and deceitful. Now would be a very good time for a Labour resurgence to gain some momentum, whilst the Tories are distracted over Rochester. I hope a bit of solidarity for Ed will help give Labour that push they need to get the ball rolling.

Post by **refitman** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:20 pm

Labour 2 ahead with Populus:

Adrian Hindle retweeted
Britain Elects ‏@britainelects Nov 7

National Opinion Poll (Populus):
LAB - 35% (-)
CON - 33% (-1)
UKIP - 14% (+1)
LDEM - 9% (-)
GRN - 4% (-)

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:29 pm

rebeccariots2 wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:It sounds like Barnet's Monitoring Officer (which is a seriously important and high paid job) isn't a lawyer.

Incredible.
Well yes Tubby. But have you forgotten that Grayling doesn't believe we need someone with legal expertise in the position of Lord Chancellor ... Tories seem to have a pattern of this.

That's a very good line.

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:31 pm

Willow904 wrote:
refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote: Thank you, too. Just have to find how to follow you back...there must be a short cut.
If you click on the Followers button, from your profile page, there will be a Follow button next to each person.

Edit to add: I see you've found it.
Yes. Getting the hang of it, I think. Makes more sense than Facebook, anyway (thank God!). I see the #webackEd managed to trend.
I've always felt winning the next election was going to be about momentum and timing. Today was a bad day for Cameron and Osborne re the EU bill. They've never looked more shallow and deceitful. Now would be a very good time for a Labour resurgence to gain some momentum, whilst the Tories are distracted over Rochester. I hope a bit of solidarity for Ed will help give Labour that push they need to get the ball rolling.

Well over 10000 tweets (not including retweets) apparently. Not bad. Woke a few people up; Owen Jones stuck his head above the parapet and made a (carefully neutral) comment about it, at least he had the manners to include the tag.

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:52 pm

phew - #webackEd now in top spot apart from a paid for add!!! how great is that, its over 15k tweets!

rebeccariots2 · Post by **rebeccariots2** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 7:55 pm

Mark Ferguson @Markfergusonuk · 7m 7 minutes ago
Bit late to #WeBackEd. It’s clear despite his flaws and Labour’s problems that there is affection and support for him from Labour people

Mark Ferguson @Markfergusonuk · 10m 10 minutes ago
There’s 6 months to a general election - and Ed Miliband is still the right person to lead Labour into that battle with the Tories #webackEd

Could FTN tweet him back with something like - yes there bloody is - and an awful lot of it - we want something different!

Post by **letsskiptotheleft** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 8:17 pm

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I reckon the old saying that you can judge a person (persons) by the company they keep applies here. There's a particularly offensive view, or hilarious, I'm still undecided, that sperm when ejaculated inside a woman is never wasted, it penetrates our tissue and the attitudes of the lucky chap is passed onto us.. Still the Kippers had a million quid aligning themselves to such charmers.

Tizme1 · Post by **Tizme1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 8:44 pm

AngryAsWell wrote:Twitter storm tonight at 6pm if anyone around then
Couple of good Ed photographs are planned to be used -(I'll see if I can find them)
for love of foxes ‏@AgainstHunting · 11s11 seconds ago
To all of U who R sick of tory lies & propaganda against Ed Miliband, please Rt RT RT Tweetstorm tonight Hashtag #webackEd Starts 6pm 2nite

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Thanks for posting about this AAW. As you know, I'm a Green but I've been furious about the nonsense regarding Ed over the last few days. I don't use twitter often but on the basis of don't get mad, get even, I've joined in tonight. And what do you know, I've gained two new followers and had quite a few retweets - including by Polly Toynbee. Does that mean out of politeness I'll have to start reading her column again?

AngryAsWell · Post by **AngryAsWell** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 8:50 pm

Tizme1 wrote:
AngryAsWell wrote:Twitter storm tonight at 6pm if anyone around then
Couple of good Ed photographs are planned to be used -(I'll see if I can find them)
for love of foxes ‏@AgainstHunting · 11s11 seconds ago
To all of U who R sick of tory lies & propaganda against Ed Miliband, please Rt RT RT Tweetstorm tonight Hashtag #webackEd Starts 6pm 2nite

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Thanks for posting about this AAW. As you know, I'm a Green but I've been furious about the nonsense regarding Ed over the last few days. I don't use twitter often but on the basis of don't get mad, get even, I've joined in tonight. And what do you know, I've gained two new followers and had quite a few retweets - including by Polly Toynbee. Does that mean out of politeness I'll have to start reading her column again?

Its been fun and its still at number 1

and no, you can just skim the headline

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 8:56 pm

Oh hello, I've returned.

I managed to snatch victory from the jaws of disaster this morning when the sun finally came out and the place I wanted to go to was open...albeit very wet which is why I ended up changing not only my walking shoes but socks and trousers before hotfooting it by coach to the airport.

StephenDolan · Post by **StephenDolan** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:08 pm

JFC!

Ed Miliband in new crisis as senior Labour MPs back a leadership change

http://gu.com/p/436ex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I mean, really?

" On Saturday, Johnson appeared to suggest he was not willing to step in, in the event of Miliband stepping down. He told the Times: “For the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics.”

However, one leader of the rebellion said he believed that this was not a categorical rejection, and that Labour MPs would be looking for any hope of a change of heart. "

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:17 pm

I've just started watching The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and already laughed more than in the past month....

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:26 pm

StephenDolan wrote:JFC!

Ed Miliband in new crisis as senior Labour MPs back a leadership change

http://gu.com/p/436ex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I mean, really?

" On Saturday, Johnson appeared to suggest he was not willing to step in, in the event of Miliband stepping down. He told the Times: “For the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics.”

However, one leader of the rebellion said he believed that this was not a categorical rejection, and that Labour MPs would be looking for any hope of a change of heart. "

It is getting bring now, isn't it. "Senior Labour MPs" but not a single name ...again; Alan Johnson forced to deny he has any leadership ambitions ....again. That rag has lost any credibility.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:29 pm

Can't the "rebellion leader" quoted there be identified? If not by the press, then *someone* out there must know who it is??

Name, shame, deselect.

Tizme1 · Post by **Tizme1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:32 pm

AngryAsWell wrote:
Tizme1 wrote:
AngryAsWell wrote:Twitter storm tonight at 6pm if anyone around then
Couple of good Ed photographs are planned to be used -(I'll see if I can find them)
for love of foxes ‏@AgainstHunting · 11s11 seconds ago
To all of U who R sick of tory lies & propaganda against Ed Miliband, please Rt RT RT Tweetstorm tonight Hashtag #webackEd Starts 6pm 2nite

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Thanks for posting about this AAW. As you know, I'm a Green but I've been furious about the nonsense regarding Ed over the last few days. I don't use twitter often but on the basis of don't get mad, get even, I've joined in tonight. And what do you know, I've gained two new followers and had quite a few retweets - including by Polly Toynbee. Does that mean out of politeness I'll have to start reading her column again?
Its been fun and its still at number 1 and no, you can just skim the headline

Whew thanks. I find her writing style a bit too, hmm, not sure what the word is - OTT? And the btl comments just despicable. And yes, it has been fun.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:41 pm

StephenDolan wrote:JFC!

Ed Miliband in new crisis as senior Labour MPs back a leadership change

http://gu.com/p/436ex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I mean, really?

" On Saturday, Johnson appeared to suggest he was not willing to step in, in the event of Miliband stepping down. He told the Times: “For the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics.”

However, one leader of the rebellion said he believed that this was not a categorical rejection, and that Labour MPs would be looking for any hope of a change of heart. "

Jesus Christ.

Tubby Isaacs · Post by **Tubby Isaacs** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:42 pm

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 31m31 minutes ago
Even though the focus is on Ed some poor numbers for CON from Opinium for the Observer
Lab 32 (-1)
Con 29 (-4)
UKIP 19 (+1)
LD 9 (+3)

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:47 pm

Johnson said that any challenge to Miliband’s leadership would ruin Labour’s chance of winning next May, and he told any MPs who might be considering this to “get a grip”.

Johnson also said “For the avoidance of any doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics, I support Ed Miliband, I’m a candidate at the next general election, so I’ve got an interest in it and I think it’s eminently winnable. Even if I was completely despondent — as I’m not — the law of political gravity is that you do not spend two or three months of a precious six-month period up to the general election having an internal fight about who the leader should be.”

http://labourlist.org/2014/11/johnson-c ... -miliband/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:50 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:
StephenDolan wrote:JFC!

Ed Miliband in new crisis as senior Labour MPs back a leadership change

http://gu.com/p/436ex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I mean, really?

" On Saturday, Johnson appeared to suggest he was not willing to step in, in the event of Miliband stepping down. He told the Times: “For the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics.”

However, one leader of the rebellion said he believed that this was not a categorical rejection, and that Labour MPs would be looking for any hope of a change of heart. "
Jesus Christ.

This is delusional bollocks, who is feeding them this shit and why do they believe it?

The idea that AJ would be acceptable to the members is laughable, the idea that the parliamentary party can impose a candidate is equally laughable. But more than anything else the concept that AJ would make a PM or leader of the country is pathetic.

He has no charisma, he was the worst shadow chancellor in history. This isn't like the Tories and IDS this is a competitive election, why on earth would ambitious MPs place AJ on a pedestal as PM.

The Guardian has stopped allowing comments on these pieces, presumably because they don't want to see the huge flood of piss taking that would follow.

Can we tweet the twat who wrote it and ask him if he has been drinking?

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:52 pm

Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB · 18m18 minutes ago
Front page of the LAB-leaning Observer doesn't look good for Ed.

That strange whistling noise you can hear is not a firework, or a Cyberman ascending into the skies (damn that was good); no, it is the sound of the last fragment of Mike Smithson's credibility expiring in embarrassment. "Labour leaning Observer".

ohsocynical · Post by **ohsocynical** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:55 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Can't the "rebellion leader" quoted there be identified? If not by the press, then *someone* out there must know who it is??

Name, shame, deselect.

That's what I think too.

On Twitter it was said the Chief whip had been asking for signatures to a resignation letter. Can't remember the name they said.
Also Danzuks [sp?] name is being bandied around because he's not put his name to any support for Ed.

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:58 pm

ohsocynical wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Can't the "rebellion leader" quoted there be identified? If not by the press, then *someone* out there must know who it is??

Name, shame, deselect.
That's what I think too.

On Twitter it was said the Chief whip had been asking for signatures to a resignation letter. Can't remember the name they said.
Also Danzuks [sp?] name is being bandied around because he's not put his name to any support for Ed.

Supposedly deputy chief whip Alan Campbell was trying to get signatures, I suspect Rosie winterton has had a gentle word with him since then.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ed ... F6RqfmsWSq" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 9:59 pm

Good old leftie Guardian/Observer eh ?

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:06 pm

TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Can we tweet the twat who wrote it and ask him if he has been drinking?

Daniel Boffey who wrote something that was proven to be a complete lie last weekend *wracks brain trying but failing to remember what it was but remembers very clearly that he didn't respond to my tweet notifying him nor did he amend his article*

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:09 pm

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB · 18m18 minutes ago
Front page of the LAB-leaning Observer doesn't look good for Ed.
That strange whistling noise you can hear is not a firework, or a Cyberman ascending into the skies (damn that was good); no, it is the sound of the last fragment of Mike Smithson's credibility expiring in embarrassment. "Labour leaning Observer".

Tweet Smithson.

The story reads like it was made up down the pub. Johnson as leader? Risible.

howsillyofme1 · Post by **howsillyofme1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:10 pm

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:
ohsocynical wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Can't the "rebellion leader" quoted there be identified? If not by the press, then *someone* out there must know who it is??

Name, shame, deselect.
That's what I think too.

On Twitter it was said the Chief whip had been asking for signatures to a resignation letter. Can't remember the name they said.
Also Danzuks [sp?] name is being bandied around because he's not put his name to any support for Ed.
Supposedly deputy chief whip Alan Campbell was trying to get signatures, I suspect Rosie winterton has had a gentle word with him since then.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-ed ... F6RqfmsWSq" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hi all

Never think of reading the Morning Star but that article seems to make sense, more than anything in the Graun......the mentality of Westminster must be interesting - I remember from my student union days there were always cliques and plots. Even now at work 'office politics' and rumors are rife.

It is, therefore, surprising that a so-called 'quality' paper would not see this for what it is!

All 3 party leaders have problems (Miliband not the most) but we also know that a coup needs a lot of support and planning to work - especially in a bureaucratic party like Labour.....

Rusbridger really is shit!

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:10 pm

Windy:

TechnicalEphemera · Post by **TechnicalEphemera** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:12 pm

pk1 wrote:Windy:

Yes they have been pushing that line. But who exactly are the large Jewish donors funding the Labour Party?

diGriz · Post by **diGriz** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:12 pm

So Cameron and Osborne got away with the carefully worded 'only paying half' lie to the electorate then? What a great age of press we live in.

TheGrimSqueaker · Post by **TheGrimSqueaker** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:20 pm

TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:
StephenDolan wrote:JFC!

Ed Miliband in new crisis as senior Labour MPs back a leadership change

http://gu.com/p/436ex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I mean, really?

" On Saturday, Johnson appeared to suggest he was not willing to step in, in the event of Miliband stepping down. He told the Times: “For the avoidance of doubt, I have no intention of going back to frontline politics.”

However, one leader of the rebellion said he believed that this was not a categorical rejection, and that Labour MPs would be looking for any hope of a change of heart. "
Jesus Christ.
This is delusional bollocks, who is feeding them this shit and why do they believe it?

The idea that AJ would be acceptable to the members is laughable, the idea that the parliamentary party can impose a candidate is equally laughable. But more than anything else the concept that AJ would make a PM or leader of the country is pathetic.

He has no charisma, he was the worst shadow chancellor in history. This isn't like the Tories and IDS this is a competitive election, why on earth would ambitious MPs place AJ on a pedestal as PM.

The Guardian has stopped allowing comments on these pieces, presumably because they don't want to see the huge flood of piss taking that would follow.

Can we tweet the twat who wrote it and ask him if he has been drinking?

Boffey is an out & out Blairite, and proud of that fact. Happy that Johnson has come out so quickly to shoot the story down.

Not surprised that comments aren't being allowed (at least not until tomorrow, when they can guarantee the astroturfing faithful will arrive en masse); interestingly the New Statesman have now deleted all comments under the Cowley article that started this bandwagon rolling.

It really scares me that people are so ready to swallow these lies. The Mail have run with a "Tristram Hunt not backing Ed" story (despite the fact that he has, and very publicly, this week) and Twitter is full of people taking it as gospel.

pk1 · Post by **pk1** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:22 pm

Round up

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 08 Nov, 2014 10:22 pm

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH