The Westministenders Hunger Games continues. Hunting for the Opposition.

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THE BREXIT FALLOUT OUT CONTINUES - THREAD EIGHT!

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Each of the parties seem to have a taken a very different style to their leadership contests.

The Tory party have been well documented as doing in the classic style of Hamlet. After the entire Conservative Party have spent two weeks stabbing each in the back and front, May steps forward to take the crown for herself.

But what about the others?

The UKIP leadership contest seems to be in comedy style of Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights. In a strange turn of events, that no one predicted and seem quite absurd, they seem to be changing their rules so their new leader must have been a member for 5 years. The punchline is this rules just about everyone out, apart from Neil Hamilton and Steven Woolfe. As BigChocFrenzy points out, we are expecting Arron Banks to hand out the brown envelopes. We are just waiting for the poorly thought out, and badly booked racist band to turn up and make everyone cringe in horror and distract everyone from UKIP's candidates and their manifestos in the process.

Meanwhile Labour Party decide to do what they thought was Star Wars Panto. After spending a week going “She’s Standing”, “Oh No She’s Not” Angela Eagle is declared the Empire Strikes Back candidate by Diane Abbot. Well if she’s the rebel leader, then who is Darth Vader and the Emperor?

Unfortunately, you’d be forgiven for thinking the performance is starting to look more and more like a re-enactment of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by the minute:

A battle of wills between two forces locked together in a room with ultimately different and opposing self-interests. This is only resolved when the new leader to the dynamic who sought to upset the institution, and give the others their freedom, is lobotomised and subsequently killed in an act of mercy. His murderer manages to escape the prison to the cheers of those still stuck inside.

The Greens of course are a foreign language film, no one has heard of and no one is really that interested in watching.

The Lib Dems are merely sat in the audience. With Tim Farron heckling.

But where is Gandalf?

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At least some sanity has returned and we now have some leaders. May can now get stuck into the job of handing the nightmare that is Brexit whilst making herself at home at Number 10. Rumours are circulating that it’s been left a bit of a pigsty.

We will follow May, on her new adventures to foreign lands to persuade Merkel and Juncker to hand over a mythical unicorn to the UK. Meanwhile will we continue our own hunt for the opposition, whilst we all consult our dictionaries for the meaning of the word ‘Brexit’ in bafflement in the wake of ‘Brexit means Brexit’.

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Sense of humour compulsory. No experience necessary though

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/eu_referendum_2016_/2682358-The-Westministenders-Media-Baron-Hunger-Games-continues-Is-it-about-to-all-implode?pg=1 Previous thread 7

Keir Starmer ‏@Keir_Starmer 1h1 hour ago
Whatever our differences, we should respect Labour NEC decision to put Corbyn on leadership ballot.

What about the Saving Labour group who have been signing people up to vote against JC? These rules mean they can't vote either.

Tweets from Labour MPs wrt JC:

• “Watching Marr to find out what Leader of Labour Party thinks as will not regularly address PLP meetings & doesn’t reply 2 letters from MPs”
Diana Johnson

• “Corbyn “reaching out” to Labour MPs is a categoric lie. Has hidden for 9 months.”
Jamie Reed

Then others complaining that Corbyn missed the PLP meeting because he was at the Cuban Government support group meeting
His priorities are consistently those of a minor protest leader
Also, they say when he is in the HoC, he stays locked in his Parliamentary office and won't answer phone calls or accept visits.

btw, too late now, but
Ray Collins, the previous Labour general secretary who drafted the current Labour Leadership Election rules, has stated
it was NOT his intent to create rules that allowed a sitting leader automatic placement on the ballot. 

So he made a hash of it. It seems a fairly obvious situation to consider.
Then the membership / supporter / voting rights issue now

This all shows a consistent pattern of incompetence in organising & administering the Labour Party.
How did Labour become so incompetent ?
That is another difference I notice between now and 1983.
I was always confident in 1983 that Labour would rise again; they looked basically sound, still with the solid foundations laid in earlier decades.
Now their problems look terminal.

Those of you supporting a Beige Party, please do consider joining the Lib Dems

Hi doin welcome back. Here's a summary: everything is still batshit.

I'm starting to think Labour actually needs to die

Probably quite insensitive of me, I'm not British and don't have the sentimental attachment to its history that many of you do. But it's looking like such an anachronistic, unwieldy pachyderm right now. And still strangely wedded to unions and nostalgia for the prosperous days of industry. Nothing wrong with that, but the days when it could form the core and identity of a major mainstream party are long gone. The left needs to reinvent itself.

SwedishEdith Thanks. Have just joined the Fabians. £3.50 a month.

Chala Whilst I agree I am soooo currently welded to them it will be very to leave. Parties take years and decades to fully form and we don't have the time

Just place marking

I am a labour party supporter via my union membership , I've been a union member for years but only registered as a supporter for the last leadership election; I'm not sure if I will be able to vote or not

doin : more detail - tory ruthless underrated and every time I see the word 'union' I am mentally correcting it to unicorn.

Watching Obama - imagine if Corbyn could speak like that?

Lotis Yes, you will. DH is a union member and he will be able to vote.

Obama is lush.

If labour could just spin out the leadership election a little bit more they could offer Batley to Obama. He's going to be unemployed from November and at least here he doesn't have to do gun control too.

Thanks TheNorth. Let's hope there's someone worth voting for!

Imagine if Corbyn actually spoke

unicorns I don't think they have to worry about stretching it out, it looks like there's at least 3 legal challenges being proposed. The problem seems to be if they'll finish, ever. I bet Obama would crack some heads together though.

I enjoyed this analogy I just read .....

They’re trying to prove that everyone has got the method of running a bath all wrong, so:

they get out the rule book about how to fill the tub
argue fiercely about the rules
dispute them, throw the odd punch or brick
try to oust the folk holding the rulebook
go to court over the decision
argue the court decision is wrong
disqualify several folk
then argue about the water temperature, quality of the soap bubbles and scratchiness of the loofah.

Meanwhile the tired folk wanting a nice bath schlep off to the Tory bathhouse where everything works a treat !

Showme I've already written off the next GE... so we have 8 years to start something new! Assuming there's anything left of Britain by then.

If we are importing immigrants to the House of Commons could we have Justine Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron as well, please. I do not know about their politics though ...

Doin I'm so sorry you missed the Leadsom dropping out morning.

I think it was the only truly happy/celebratory moment in the past 3 weeks

...Until we all realised we were cheering on Theresa May.

No we'll keep Enmanuel Macron in France if you don't mind TheNorth... we need all the help we can get

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What a fucking shower. And I say that as a party member and JC supporter diminishing by the second
On one of the Brexit threads one of the 'lalalala why does it matter' brigade she tried to live life with as little to do with politics as she could. At the time I thought what a muppet, but after the past few weeks I feel utterly jaded, angry and a hut with a generator looks really attractive.

Yy doin, if you missed it, find the clip of AE's big announcement, where she discovered all the big journos had run off to witness another tory mercy killing.

Also the pink logo.

Chala - am waiting for Keir to ride in and save us. But alas he too seems to only be thinking about his own political career

Come on...let's be lionesses and RROOOOAAAARRRRR!! We can influence from the bottom and shake this mofo country into the beige it really wants to be!