Corbyn's shit and you can't take it!
It's over lads. Time to go home. Rob Marchant on Labour Uncut has spoken:
Yes. We cannot possibly wait for as long as say next May, and see whether there is any sort of uptick in Labour's fortunes in Scotland or in the local elections. Barely two months into Corbyn's leadership, it's accepted everywhere that he cannot win an election. Why, he's been denounced by everyone other than the Corbynistas, who will Corbsplain to you precisely why it is he will take 100% of the vote in 2020 and lead us all to the promised land of facial hair and teetotalism. He will wipe away every fear of austerity from our minds, and there will be no more Cameron, or Farage or Sturgeon or Kendall anymore, for the former things will have passed away.
Everything, you see, is either Corbyn or McDonnell's fault. No one can deny that Monday's u-turn on the fiscal charter reflected extremely badly on the leadership, suggesting that McDonnell had not so much as read the document itself. Yet, rather than vote with the new leadership once they had made the right decision, 21 MPs abstained for reasons of pure spite. If only, some ought to reflect, there had been a similar near riot akin to the one at Monday's meeting of the parliamentary Labour party after Harriet Harman's fuckwitted we cannot oppose the welfare bill epiphany, Corbyn might not be leader now.
Besides, I realise we all have ten second memories, but I do recall that Miliband's first choice as shadow chancellor was only half joking when he said the first thing he needed to do was get an economics for beginners primer. I'd rather have someone who admits his mistake, embarrassing as it was, than someone who doesn't have a clue.
Worth recalling also is what the Labour whips thought of Corbyn and McDonnell's own rebellions. Corbyn was a "lost cause", while McDonnell was a "shit". At the moment, Corbyn's opponents for opposition's sake are acting like the latter. It isn't a good look.
It is now taken as accepted everywhere in British politics, with the exception of some parts of the Labour Party’s rank and file, that Labour cannot win an election with Corbyn at the helm.
Yes. We cannot possibly wait for as long as say next May, and see whether there is any sort of uptick in Labour's fortunes in Scotland or in the local elections. Barely two months into Corbyn's leadership, it's accepted everywhere that he cannot win an election. Why, he's been denounced by everyone other than the Corbynistas, who will Corbsplain to you precisely why it is he will take 100% of the vote in 2020 and lead us all to the promised land of facial hair and teetotalism. He will wipe away every fear of austerity from our minds, and there will be no more Cameron, or Farage or Sturgeon or Kendall anymore, for the former things will have passed away.
Everything, you see, is either Corbyn or McDonnell's fault. No one can deny that Monday's u-turn on the fiscal charter reflected extremely badly on the leadership, suggesting that McDonnell had not so much as read the document itself. Yet, rather than vote with the new leadership once they had made the right decision, 21 MPs abstained for reasons of pure spite. If only, some ought to reflect, there had been a similar near riot akin to the one at Monday's meeting of the parliamentary Labour party after Harriet Harman's fuckwitted we cannot oppose the welfare bill epiphany, Corbyn might not be leader now.
Besides, I realise we all have ten second memories, but I do recall that Miliband's first choice as shadow chancellor was only half joking when he said the first thing he needed to do was get an economics for beginners primer. I'd rather have someone who admits his mistake, embarrassing as it was, than someone who doesn't have a clue.
Worth recalling also is what the Labour whips thought of Corbyn and McDonnell's own rebellions. Corbyn was a "lost cause", while McDonnell was a "shit". At the moment, Corbyn's opponents for opposition's sake are acting like the latter. It isn't a good look.
Labels: fiscal charter, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour, politics, stupidity
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Has Rob Marchant ever posted anything useful?
I'm sure he must have, but nothing springs to mind.
And he's been blogging a long time.
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