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citizenJA wrote:Goodnight, all.

Paul Krishnamurty ‏@spikeisland100 31m31 minutes ago
Even arch ed miliband critic @JohnRentoul is querying BBC neutrality over this plot rumour non-story.

seeingclearly wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:This leadership crisis seems to be based on somebody called Harrop, from the Fabian Society.

Thank you, Tubby. You don't know how illuminating that post is. But thanks again.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Paul Krishnamurty ‏@spikeisland100 31m31 minutes ago
Even arch ed miliband critic @JohnRentoul is querying BBC neutrality over this plot rumour non-story.

stefanstern ‏@stefanstern 43s43 seconds ago
New BBC housestyle: some = two?

AngryAsWell wrote:Labour Policies

@LabourPolicies

This account will only provide Official Labour Party Policies, as announced by the Labour Shadow Cabinet.

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Earlier, the jury was told that one journalist had used the phrase “senior police source” to dress up stories and aggrandise himself in the eyes of his bosses and readers. Jamie Pyatt, 51, told police he had never paid police officers and that the phrase “senior police source” was just a euphemism.

In a police interview made under caution and read to the court, Pyatt, the Sun’s Thames Valley reporter for 25 years, told officers: “Everybody uses it to make it look like they have got somebody on the inside track.

“We are trying to make ourselves look as if we are so inside the story so the reader thinks, ‘Oh he’s done well’. The phrase was to ‘dress it up’, to make [the story] look a lot stronger than what you have got.”

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Some bloke I engaged with on Twitter kept saying "Labour are on 29". I didn't think at the time, but he was bullshitting.

Wouldn't be surprised if Miliband'd poll rating went up as well next time.

AngryAsWell wrote:Andy Coulson Perjury Proceeding​s (Scotland) – An update

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refitman wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Some bloke I engaged with on Twitter kept saying "Labour are on 29". I didn't think at the time, but he was bullshitting.

Wouldn't be surprised if Miliband'd poll rating went up as well next time.

It's all they've [the media] have been banging on about this week. Norman Smith mentioned it specifically in the report played during PM this evening.

1 bloody poll!

letsskiptotheleft wrote:

refitman wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Some bloke I engaged with on Twitter kept saying "Labour are on 29". I didn't think at the time, but he was bullshitting.

Wouldn't be surprised if Miliband'd poll rating went up as well next time.

It's all they've [the media] have been banging on about this week. Norman Smith mentioned it specifically in the report played during PM this evening.

1 bloody poll!

No mention of the times, and there has been, of when the Tories have been on 29% I bet?

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 52m 52 minutes ago
My normally very helpful LAB inside source has gone quiet on me. Interesting

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 54m 54 minutes ago
Times says Cooper and Burnham have formed a non aggression pact should Miliband leave. So which would it be? My guess Yvette

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 52m 52 minutes ago
My normally very helpful LAB inside source has gone quiet on me. Interesting

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 54m 54 minutes ago
Times says Cooper and Burnham have formed a non aggression pact should Miliband leave. So which would it be? My guess Yvette

I hope his 'normally very helpful LAB inside source' has gone quiet because they've realised they need to help their party rather than pollsters ... And that it stays that way.

And if there were to be any substance or actuality to the Cooper leadership .... I would be an ex Labour member faster than I can put my shoes on.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Survation have Con on 27, UKIP on 24.

@ELLEUK Seeing as @Ed_Miliband supported your #feminist campaign, why not approach him for an exclusive interview ? @LucyMPowell

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Survation have Con on 27, UKIP on 24.

LadyCentauria wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Survation have Con on 27, UKIP on 24.

@Tubby: Where is that poll please?

Ed Miliband aides bid to disarm critics amid talk of Labour leadership crisis
Alarm over loss of votes in Scotland and polling concerns prompt pledge to allow frontbenchers to ‘speak more freely’
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... leadership

There has also been a long period of strategic soul searching inside the leader’s office, culminating in Miliband determining that he must stay closer to his beliefs and instincts...

Powell, who was appointed Labour election vice-chair, dismissed talk of plots against Miliband and expressed confidence that Labour could win the election.

She told the Guardian: “It is about changing times. In elections gone by we very much focused on everybody being on message. The new political world and the new political reality demands that people speak more freely with their own voice and articulate their own agendas. That is the perspective I want to bring to the job as well.”
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pk1 wrote:Oh FFS !

rebeccariots2 wrote:

pk1 wrote:Oh FFS !

Well the good news from this is that even the most sour bods on Newsnight, This Week, the news etc recognised that Ed isn't going anywhere - and all mentioned that this had to be compared with / put alongside the real hatred for Cameron amongst his backbenchers.

And that Ed has already made some moves to change things with the reshuffle to bolster the team generally and his own support system.

And - from the above tweets - from the article in the Guardian - and Dianne Abbott's performance on This Week (yes really) - it is clear that most of the Labour party machine are realising that if they allow themselves to go off into the same stupid bloody constant whingeing and sniping wars as witnessed in the run up to the last election - it's curtains. And they have started to pull themselves together.