So at the eleventh hour, JC walks out of Brexit talks

[Bollox2019]

All because of the presence of Chuka Umuna. Would you not think that, for once, he could put the national interest before his own petty party squabbles?

WHAT IS THE ACTUAL POINT OF THIS MAN IN OPPOSITION?

As for TM, she has been the ruin of the nation with her total intransigence.

Fools, the pair of them. Surely it’s time to get rid of both?

[dadshere]

Tavannach , Corbyn was not "offered the chance to show leadership " he was invited to a meeting on false pretences, a meeting which turned out to be a waste of time, as EVERY OTHER ATTENDEE reported. There was never any negotiation, it was just another delaying tactic by May. Corbyn wisely decided to have nothing to do with her crap. Proving once again he was right.

[jasjas1973]

Labour might be accused of enabling a Tory brexit but at the end of the day, May doesn't listen to her own cabinet, let alone a man she despises, who is the opposition.

Its just diversion tactics by tories who want to blame anyone but themselves and their party for this national humiliation - the root cause, an EU referendum with a binary choice and no idea how to implement a leave vote, is purely a Tory policy.

[Tavannach]

Oh look May has fucked up again, quick start another Corbyn bashing thread, that'll fool 'em!

If only that was the case. May fucked up. No surprise there.
Corbyn fucked up again. Whenever he's offered the chance to show leadership he prefers to beat his own drum. Yet the blindly loyal are still bleating on about his "integrity". Yawn.

[dadshere]

Oh look May has fucked up again, quick start another Corbyn bashing thread, that'll fool 'em!
Yawn.

[BloggersNet]

May had many chances to sit down and talk to the opposition. She's desperate.

[Thymeout]

Quote from McCluskey today accusing Umunna of having betrayed his party. Typical tribalism. Especially from someone who was a bag-boy for Hatton during the Militant threat. All this talk of traitors is dangerous. The Far Right extremist who assassinated Jo Cox during the Referendum campaign (on the day of the infamous poster of Syrian refugees) called her a traitor as he attacked her.

Makes Labour look so juvenile. The Tories handled their defections in a much more adult way. May had no problem sitting down with Soubry.

[birdsdestiny]

What you have to remember is that corbyn and his section of the left hate the centrists from Labour much more than they hate the Tories.

[SchadenfreudePersonified]

We are paying this self-indulgent tosspot to lead Her Majesty's Opposition.

We're also paying the self-indulgent tosspots who are destroying this country in their race to feather their own nests. There is an ld saw that says we get the politicians we deserve . . . I can't remember doing anything this bad.

[Thymeout]

Missing May did invite the Green(s). Caroline Lucas was there, even tho' she's the only Green MP and no longer the Leader. It was a meeting of the opposition. TIG is an independent group with 9 votes. In a hung Parliament, every vote counts.

At this point, Corbyn splitting hairs and standing on ceremony makes himself look ridiculous. John Crace in the Guardian said he chose to die on the wrong molehill.

[Tavannach]

Corbyn is just sticking to the procedure. Not dignifying cu with being significant because he isn't. Not inviting greens are they?

The Labour leader had been due to meet May to discuss the Brexit crisis alongside the SNP’s Ian Blackford, the Lib Dems’ Vince Cable, and the parliamentary leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Greens

Cable said: “Jeremy Corbyn’s kinder, gentler politics was found wanting as he stomped out of the meeting before it began rather than breathe the same air as Chuka Umunna.”

Reported in today's guardian.

Teresa May successfully used the old trick of divide and rule and like the petulant teenager he is at heart Corbyn goes for it. We are paying this self-indulgent tosspot to lead Her Majesty's Opposition.

[Tomtontom]

The meeting last night was a sham. It wasn't a discussion or a negotiation, everyone that did attend admitted it was TM restating her point and nothing more.

They should have all walked out.

[lolaflores]

Esme Cannon for TM , she played dotty little ladies. Google her and you'll k now exactly who I means. She usually rushed about twittering like sparrow on speed.

[Fatasfook]

Revoke is the only answer now. To leave with or without a deal is proving to be a disaster, any sensible country in the same situation would have revoked by now. Being in the EU isn’t really that bad ffs, compared to the absolute chaos and cost of Brexit.

[Milicentbystander72]

To be fair to Cameron - he stood for election on a promise of an in/out Referendum. He was voted in with a majority. His mistake was complacency that Remain would win and no planning for any alternative.

The Referendum may have been 'advisory' but surely that was until Parliament all voted to trigger A50 (and all stand on a Brexit promise in the last election). Then it became law (unless Parliament vote to change the law and revoke).

Everyone chickened our of the job of Brexit PM. TM (a remainer) was left holding the bomb and has tried to please/appease everyone and listened to no-one. It was always going to be a disaster.

I really don't see how a General Election will help anything right now.

Re People's Vote, are people really sure Remain would win? Why would this be more binding than the first one? If leave win again then what would that achieve? We still would be at the same place.

Don't get me started on JC. I despise him so much I can barely start to explain.

My personal want - some massively strong political character rocks up, commits career suicide but basically calls to Revoke. Stop the madness. Revoke and take the political fallout.

There is no-one. This will never happen.

[TheDrsDocMartens]

My six year old calls them ‘the shouty government in London’and says ‘they should all sit and listen to each other’.
I think his teacher should be speaker!

[Myusernameismud]

TM knew exactly what she was doing when she invited that self serving twat Chukka to the meeting, and sadly JC fell into her thinly veiled trap. She knew that any unfavourable JC media coverage would be beneficial for her. But I stand by his actions, for so many reasons. TIG have made it very clear they're not a political party, so they have no place at a party leaders meeting. Chukka isn't even their leader, at least not on paper, although it's clear TIG is his vanity project. His devisive, narcissistic little stunt will irrevocably damage the labour party, and when election time comes, will split the vote so that Labour, under whichever leader, will have no chance of winning. They should all stand down as MPs. They were voted in to carry out the Labour manifesto, and it's a huge breach of trust to go back on that now.

I lost my faith in JC a while back, for other, very different reasons. But I'm with him on this.

[ChardonnaysPrettySister]

We need an opposition for democracy to work.

Instead we have a parliamentary toddler-off.

[Missingstreetlife]

Jc is leader of opposition. Tm was due to have talks with him. Cu is nobody, he had his chance to be elected and bottled it. Why should he have a say? Then the media, who supported farage (also represented none) and got us in this mess with the help of call me dave.
Corbyn is just sticking to the procedure. Not dignifying cu with being significant because he isn't. Not inviting greens are they?

[Chlo1674]

JC acts like a petulant child. I’m not happy with most of the MPs at the moment but do not want a GE because I think Labour isn’t a viable alternative to what we have already. They have become infiltrated by extremists and it scares me that they might end up in power again because of this mess. MPs need to put their petty squabbles aside and work together to sort out this mess. This is a national crisis like we haven’t seen since the world wars and none of them seem to know what they are doing. Total shambles and we will all end up paying the price.

[Walkingdeadfangirl]

It doesn't matter who was PM, no one could do any better because its a hung parliament. Just childish to blame JC or TM because this is exactly what the UK voted for in the last general election.

[Thymeout]

Why do people keep saying that Corbyn isn't PM so he can't do anything? Why do you think we have a Leader of the Opposition and pay him a 6 figure salary?

He's meant to Oppose, to hold the government to account, to put forward alternative policies. Without an Opposition, we have a dictatorship.

Apart from PMQs, he was absent from the chamber all day today, even when Starmer was putting forward his emergency Opposition motion.
Kirsty Wark said on Newsnight that it was the third programme this week that they'd asked for a member of the Labour front bench to take part and been turned down. He actually asked for a meeting with May in PMQs. 6 hours' later he gets one and flounces because TIG were there, represented by Chuka (and Anna Soubry). There will come a time when he needs those 9 votes.

He himself said it was a national crisis. He's meant to be behaving like a PM in waiting. Some chance.

[1forAll74]

I am quite looking forward, to the new series of Britain's Got Talent soon, as we might find a new leader of the government, and all the audience can be a new set of polititians, to replace the shambolic ones there now.. And David Walliams can replace that Bercow squirrel numpty.

[Backseatonthebus]

Ooh yes a Lib-Green coalition would be good, Sarf

Really? Do you ever read the Feminism topics? Lets all vote Lib-Dem/Green and eradicate women as a sex.

They are as big a shower of shite as May and Corbyn.

[Redshoeblueshoe]

We absolutely need a decent opposition

[Tavannach]

I don't think that the Brexit catastrophe is Corbyn's fault

We need a decent opposition though. And the complete failure to oppose can be laid at Corbyn’s feet.

This, a hundred times. He's a disgrace.