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The Westministenders / Media Baron Hunger Games continues. Who is trying to outmanoeuvre who?

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RedToothBrush · 07/07/2016 16:21

Don't worry we've all lost track.

In the Blue Corner
It started out with Cameron and Osborne trying to win the battle of the Tories, but they got stung in a UK wide vote. Some of us thought it was about the 'EU'. Instead it has turned out it was an internal Tory Bitch fight between some old Oxford and Eton mates, whilst for others a protest vote at being disenfranchised.
Gove and Johnson stabbed Cameron & Osborne in the back to run for Team Leave. Then they won when they didn't expect to. And there was no Plan. Uh Oh. Then it all started to go really wrong.
Cameron quit in disgust. Johnson went all President Churchill, before he also got stabbed by Gove (possibly with the assistance of the dark influence of Osborne).
We now have a Tory Smackdown with the shadowy influence of the Media Barons in the background.

#Team Gove has been doing their best with the knives. This is a mission to stab as many Tory MPs in the back as possible in order to become PM. Sponsored and supported by Murdoch

#Team Leadsom has been selling more unicorns and trying to pretend her CV and tax return are completely transparent. Think positive and the economy will be just fine. She is the homeopathy of politics. Sponsored and supported by Arron Banks, Leave.eu, UKIP and Britain First.

#Team May has been threatening to deport everyone if the EU don't play nice. Sponsored and supported by The Daily Mail's Dacre

In The Purple Corner
Tragically, it appears that not only do UKIP have a Plan A, they also have outwitted everyone by having Plan B. Yes that’s right TWO plans.
Farage has swanned off –sacked—for a life on CBB so they are looking for a new leader.
The potential candidates are all equally loathsome. They include Arron Banks himself, a suspended member of the party and several other people with an uncanny ability to put their foot in their mouths.
If this wasn't horrible enough, Team Leadsom is increasingly starting to look like a UKIP take over bid of the Conservative Party, which might be a neat way of avoiding a leadership battle of their own considering the quality of the candidates on offer.

In short, its a bit like a Bad Dystopian Movie that invokes Godwin, set in 2016 Westminster. Except its real.
In the Red Corner
Meanwhile the WMD has finally gone off in the Labour Camp, as Chilcot has been published. However the Chicken Coup rattles on regardless.

Corbyn is STILL clinging on, putting in a good claim for the Westminster 'Charlie off Casualty' Award. He has however had his Big Moment in the Commons. Which was a bit of a let down really. ...

The Unions have been trying to talk some sense into everyone. Meanwhile everyone else is has given up and are now just praying for a ruddy miracle to end this torture and give the country an opposition party.

Angela Eagle is still outside for the 5th day in a row, going "I will stand. Soon. If he doesn't quit" The BBC now qualify for a discount deal at the local Travel Lodge.

We FINALLY know who the fuck Owen Smith is! He's a Welsh MP and sounds like he's not completely away with the political fairies.

George Galloway appears to be trying to make a late bid to be included on the ballot paper for any leadership election.
Bliar's cried. We didn't. Chilcot took over 2 million words to tell us everything we already knew. As well as the fact that Mi6 like Nicholas Cage a lot.

The Cult of Momentum are still worshiping their Dear Leader by sending death threats to PR companies they suspect of disloyalty. Somehow they still manage not to get the title of the most vile pressure group in the UK.

And I suppose I should ask, when will a50 be triggered....? And by whom?

All these questions and more.
Tin foil hats now available upon request

Sense of humour compulsory. No experience necessary though

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TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 19:42

Oh Lord. The New Statesman have some terrifying examples of her 'diplomatic' style here

My favourites include: "“He [Obama] shouldn’t be sticking his oar into an issue that isn’t his concern,” Leadsom wrote after the US president warned that Britain would be "at the back of the queue" in trade negotiations if it left the EU."
And: “How can France be hosting the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings with Sarkozy and Obama (neither of them a twinkle in their father's eye in 1945) in attendance, and yet the Queen of Britain, Canada, and Australia (who was not only alive, but who also served in the war) was not invited until two weeks ago?”

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 19:44

Oh, and the NS reckons the most rabid Ukip-supporting Tory members gave up membership after the coalition because it was all a bit liberal, which is a tiny ray of hope, especially as they can't join back up now.

GingerIvy · 09/07/2016 19:46

I'll cling to that hope then.

derxa · 09/07/2016 19:47

the Queen of Britain Oh FFS

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 19:48

Yep, that's proper Prime Ministerial sounding discourse, don't ya think?!

bonnie1981 · 09/07/2016 20:33

My daughter keeps singing this song called 'pink fluffy unicorns' that's on youtube and every time I come back to this thread it comes into my head.

I have a tory membership vote so that's one vote loathsome won't be getting.

(I also have a unison membership and thus could vote in the labour leadership via unison which wont be for corbyn)

RedToothBrush · 09/07/2016 20:45

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil

When friends fall out: Len McCluskey says Tom Watson not meeting re Corbyn "act of sabotage fraught with peril for the future of the party"

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TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 21:05

Loathsome supporters (not official campaign afaik) are tweeting a fake apology from the Times here

The Times have not apologised and are quite reasonably standing by the story and Rachel Sylvester.

IDS is on Peston tomorrow to promise more unicorns on Andrea's behalf. Apparently she'll get better.
Corbyn is scheduled to be on Andrew Marr and Sunday Politics has got Angela Eagle. Possibly. If she turns up.

I missed this tweet earlier:
Peter Mannion MP ‏@PeterMannionMP 9h9 hours ago

checks watch About time Andrea #Leadsom supporter Nadine Dorries weighed in with something dim-witted, crass and inflammatory, surely?

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 21:07

Dan Hodges (MoS) on McCluskey/Corbyn/Watson:
(((Dan Hodges))) ‏@DPJHodges 3h3 hours ago
Has there been a time in modern Labour history when a major trade union leader has been made to look so utterly impotent and irrelevant.

(((Dan Hodges))) ‏@DPJHodges 3h3 hours ago
One thing to remember. Corbyn/McCluskey strategy heavily dependent on bullying/scaring MPs into not mounting a leadership bid. It failed.

(((Dan Hodges))) ‏@DPJHodges 3h3 hours ago
Something to watch. Does Corbyn try to get the nominations to get on the ballot. Or does he say from the outset "Nah, I don't need them".

Looks like the media think this Eagle declaration is real. Or they are insanely bored with the whole thing and are trying to force someone to do something just so they can write a different story!

SwedishEdith · 09/07/2016 21:15

Got a feeling we all follow the same people on Twitter Grin

RedToothBrush · 09/07/2016 21:15

whatdoesborisowe.co.uk/
Holding Boris to Account for his NHS promise.

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RedToothBrush · 09/07/2016 21:22

Bye bye Labour Party.

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TendonQueen · 09/07/2016 21:34

Think Louise Mensch is on duty today in the cause of providing dim witted, crass and inflammatory support for Loathsome.

squoosh · 09/07/2016 21:35

Louise Mensch must find NYC living very boring indeed. She's constantly on Twitter tweeting up an outraged Conservative storm.

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 21:38

Louise Mensch just loves the sound of her own keyboard tones.

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:00

FT on Corbyn in Durham:

Sebastian Payne ‏@SebastianEPayne 4h4 hours ago
Seeing Corbyn today highlighted mixed feelings about his job. He clearly loves the platform to spread his ideas but dislikes the leading bit

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:04

FT had some YouGov polling suggesting Tory membership may prefer TM here

The Westministenders / Media Baron Hunger Games continues. Who is trying to outmanoeuvre who?
RedToothBrush · 09/07/2016 22:12

Louise Mensch is trying to set up a career in media. Therefore she is Katie Hopkins Lite.

She saves me the job of finding all the shit on twitter as she provides a single channel for most of it. She's very convenient as a 'swivel eyed' loon magnet.

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TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:21

Did we hear Arron Banks take on Loathsome's comments earlier? I may have missed it but anyway:

Arron Banks ‏@Arron_banks 22h 22 hours ago
Luckily all the Tory members I know , approve of motherhood & apple pie. ( outside of London anyway )

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:25

Sunday Times front page

The Westministenders / Media Baron Hunger Games continues. Who is trying to outmanoeuvre who?
TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:27

Mirror and Mail have both gone with non-leadership stories. Sunday Express has mum-related outrage but not much detail.

BigChocFrenzy · 09/07/2016 22:28

The Tories are stunningly nasty, incompetent, dangerously near fascism.
Labour should be annihilating them, instead of obsessing in their MADD (Mutually Assured Destruction & Distraction) civil war.

First, Blair is politically a stinking corpse. Move on.

Managerially and presentationally Corbyn is awful, and he lacks any leadership skill or quality.
Imagine JC vs Merkel. Imagine JC vs Sturgeon.
Who do you think wipes the floor with whom ?

He is a lone wolf maverick, which is fine for an Awkward Squad backbencher.
However, once you are on the front bench - a key stage missing from his resumee - you are in a team.
And once you are leader, you are responsible for everything. He is irresponsible and the PLP knew this from the start.

The EU referendum was his most important test of leadership and he completely flunked it.
He is incapable of representing Labour current and potential voters during the Brexit negotiations or of winning a General Election.

I'm exasperated at the senseless praise of a really poor politician as some kind of Labour hero or saviour, just because he's not Blair.
His dogmatic ideology & lack of leadership skills is going to destroy Labour for a generation - and leave the poor & vulnerable helpless for all that time.

He should bury his dogma and his ego, think of those his party should be representing & defending, then RESIGN AS LEADER.
A non-Blairite soft / centre left should replace him, start hammering the Tories in Parliament and preparing the party at large for the next GE, which might be well before 2020.

BigChocFrenzy · 09/07/2016 22:37

His replacement should of course NOT be AL.
Any of Starmer, Jarvis, Umunna, Burnham would be likeable, talented and electable as PM, streets ahead of either Nasty Party choice.
Working together they would look like a Dream Team compared to the Tory House of Horrors.

TheBathroomSink · 09/07/2016 22:39

Even more worrying, imagine JC vs Putin.

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