Labour turning down applications

Sorry op I've kind of derailed or changed direction of your post 🤦‍♀️

Interestingly the official my business has been contacted by is Labour and is all over social media about wanting power to shutdown businesses, who he believes isn't vital. Including warehouses which I'm sure could be vital in ways we haven't thought of, but equally could be badly run.

I fully support the need for robust health and safety particularly at this time but something feels wrong about this I know best attitude and do as I say or I'll get the police.

Having seen Corbyn using this current crisis as a point-scoring exercise, I can say whole heartedly - well. I won't, I'm trying not to be rude.

Dido good article, I was only saying to my Dsis earlier this virus has bought our the worst in some people, especially with regards to policing others.

we've had a local government official contact us to check we are operating legally because we've been reported, we have honestly done everything we can to protect staff but can't furlough without a reduction in demand and we make products for the funeral industry (not coffins). So we may have a spike in demand we don't know.

Now really isn't the time for mud slinging it's the time for working together, for me any one point scoring at the moment puts me right off.

It's also highlighted for me the bubble me & my middle class friends live in, all but a few of us have the ability to self isolate by working from home, I've been adding extra to our weekly shopping for months not sure why mostly to give us a just in case buffer but my single parent neighbor hasn't been able to do any of that because she doesn't have the spare income. And the other neighbors children have lost the only respite they had from their abusive drug addict parents, who clearly aren't helping them stay on top of their education as they are outside dawn- dusk.

They are willing to commit electoral suicide and are doubling down on stopping any debate over this, It's almost like electoral rigging of their own voting system, it's pretty sad.

www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/27/the-socialism-of-ghouls/

Excellent article by Brendan O'Neill on just how badly Corbyn and the Labour Party has lost any grip on reality.

And it's always a pleasure seeing how much of an idiot Ash Sarkar is.

mobile.twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1242741351139213317

It's truly terrifying to think there might be time when the likes of Sarkar and Alison Phipps might be able to influence government policy.

*Met not meet stupid autocorrect

I'm glad I'm not alone Cheri a few years ago I wouldn't have thought this way.
Actually what was interesting is the youngish Scottish labour MP i meet at an event was much more arrogant than the conservative one who was approachable and down to earth, I know that's not really an extensive range of MPs my survey of 2.
But it did get me thinking maybe some like the one I meet actually want to help people, although some undoubtedly want power (just as any other 'public service').

Love the user name, Cheri, I need to order his last book or maybe reread the whole series.

Sick I'm actually thinking the same. Which after a lifetime of voting on the left is pretty fucking bizarre.

How about giving another party a try.

Just Before Corona kicked off, I spoke with my conservative MP (for business purposes). I happened to mention how I had become more politically engaged and made it clear I'm GC he told me that they need more members like me and told me to join.

He was telling me that the new MPs who have been voted into typically labour seats are different and more centered rather than right leaning.

Once this settles down I'm going to become active in conservative and if I and a few did the same the harder side of the party could be nudged to the middle.

I'm more a liberal/ centre Left but also have some right leaning.

If I don't like what I see/ hear I'll go to a different party.

So they haven't learned from #ExpelMe AT ALL, and they actually ARE expelling people who think W=AHF.

It's like, when faced with over 25,000 likes/comments to #ExpelMe on Twitter after that ridiculous pledge, they just said "yep". Wow.

Labour are done. I say this as a Labour voter. The trouble is we need an opposition right now but are the Lib Dems any better, I mean Layla Moran? Nah. Caroline Lucas is usually good but the Greens can be iffy as fuck. That's just my opinion but I despair.

Reality*

We really could do with an edit button.

So basically the Labour party has officially turned into a private club for realty denying knob-heads.

To be fair I've known this for a long time but its nice to get absolute confirmation.

Is there a complete lack of comprehension amongst the apparatchik about how chilling the tone of these letters and the letters sent to Margaret Hodge, Trevor Phillips and others?

Oh dear

I'm sure they'll have a nice time being a little pressure group. And hopefully a new party will form that actually represents the general public.

Karen Ingala Smith also been turned down, according to this from James Kirkup (which KIS has retweeted so presumably endorses):

twitter.com/jameskirkup/status/1243494963264008192

At the moment it hardly matters. The whole country and all political parties need to work together to get us through the pandemic. It’s probably a boon that we have a large majority government and no credible opposition, as it means we can get on and bash through all the necessary legislation for financial support etc without wasting hours on debate and posturing.
Only when normality returns will it be important to have a good opposition. And I think Labour have blown their chances. Starmer will have to start from rock bottom to rebuild them. And he’ll need to cull an awful lot of extremist woke idiots first.

It's not only sad on a personal level. They're the opposition and their job is to hold the government to account. When they don't do it properly it's bad for us all.

I don’t think the Labour Party will ever recover. It’s very sad.

Labour have turned to shit like so many other things I used to care about.

As in America where many on the radical left have never acknowledged the important part they played in getting Trump elected.

I thought I'd heard that local CLPs were responsible for "vetting" new joiners/rejoiners.

If this is true, then it'll be some rotten apple at that level & you should appeal.

The Labour Party is doing more to encourage people to vote Tory than the Conservative Party.

The Labour Party has committed suicide. They are dead.

Surely another party must emerge now to fill the gaping hole for centre-left people who are not in favour of identity ideology.