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Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:32 pm Dave Nellist's still alive?

Next you'll be telling me Alan Towers is back on Midlands Today.

And Tony Gubba will be doing the sport later.

Is Dave proposing to nationalise the commanding heights of Erdington's economy? Perhaps Dave Nellist could ask Dave Nellist

I have no idea who this guy is, but I find the fact that he looks like a slightly failed clone of Corbyn a bit disturbing…

There are major auto redundancies at GKN in Erdington. Will Dave promise to nationalize and put them to work on Trabants?

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:43 pm I have no idea who this guy is, but I find the fact that he looks like a slightly failed clone of Corbyn a bit disturbing…

Nellist was a Militant Tendency entrist who became MP for Coventry. He was noteworthy for being a very good parliamentary performer unlike the current crop of hard left nit-twits.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:43 pm I have no idea who this guy is, but I find the fact that he looks like a slightly failed clone of Corbyn a bit disturbing…

Popular constituency MP in his time- see his very creditable performance here. Unfortunately his time was 30 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_ ... _the_1990s

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:32 pm Dave Nellist's still alive?

He's younger than me...

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:47 pm There are major auto redundancies at GKN in Erdington. Will Dave promise to nationalize and put them to work on Trabants?

Stealing Rachel Reeves's patriotic thunder

This is all very odd.

This is the piece that's upset her. It's not Woodward and Bernstein, but it's not the work of an obvious maniac either. The allegation is that she's letting the constituency down because she's in Wrexham all the time. It ought to be easy enough to refute, or perhaps better still ignore. I can't see what on earth this has to do with Kent Police, Speaker's Office, Labour Whips or the Labour Party as a whole.

She talks about harassment, but doesn't say what was. She says though it isn't connected to her stance on trans rights. So basically some local bores who don't like her. Don't lots of MPs have that? She says she can't sue for libel, but she wouldn't have to- she has parliamentary privilege. She could have stuck it to those people without sticking it to Sir Keir as well,

https://whitstableviews.com/2022/01/30/ ... abour-m-p/

I had a quick look at Whitstable Views and they seem to be run by Kent based Corbynites and they have a grudge against Rosie Duffield in particular and this is a particular doozy I found in which the author defends David Icke oh and claims that anti-semitism within Labour were fake news.

https://whitstableviews.com/2021/01/28/ ... -cj-stone/

One recent example of this was its use by conspiracy theorist David Icke in his 1994 book, Robot’s Rebellion. I interviewed him at the time. If you read the interview, you’ll see I was generally sympathetic. I think this is because he’d been through a very public humiliation at the hands of Terry Wogan and I felt sorry for him. I liked him. In fact, if you watch the Wogan interview you’ll see that Icke is trying his hardest to say nice things. His is a message of love, not hate. It’s only later that he starts regurgitating material which some people have identified as hate speech.

He’s wearing a turquoise tracksuit in the interview, the higher vibrational colour of wisdom and love, he says, and he decries black as the colour of hate. We all laughed at him for that, but if you watch him on his second Wogan interview, 15 years later, you’ll see he’s dressed in black now, and that no one is laughing at him any more. It could be said that we got the Icke we deserved. Maybe if we had listened with more sympathy and tolerance to his earlier message, he wouldn’t have felt so compelled to inflict his darker fantasies upon us.

Yeah, there's some drivel on there, but obscure bloggers shouldn't really be too hard for a local MP to see off. Sir Keir's had to listen to the Prime Minister saying he let Jimmy Saville off.

The offending post about Duffield is either true or it isn't. If she's putting in the work, she'll be fine.

I can think of someone Red Wall voters think is a worst choice for PM

Former North West Durham MP Laura Pidcock offers advice to Sir Keir Starmer on how to win back the 'Red Wall'

Asked to respond to Sir Keir consistently polling well among voters this year, Ms Pidcock said: "Well, the prime minister couldn't be worse, could he. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/no ... p-22977509

Why does she think nationalisation will lead to lower prices? The problem is wholesale prices.

You can make taxpayers subsidise the state energy company. But equally you can send every household an energy voucher, funded by taxation.

Congratulations on a job well done to the greatest asset the Labour Party has had in years - Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 11:33 am Why does she think nationalisation will lead to lower prices? The problem is wholesale prices.

You can make taxpayers subsidise the state energy company. But equally you can send every household an energy voucher, funded by taxation.

Yeah I’m not sure why the answer to more green energy was nationalise the energy companies.

You could draft an argument showing what you could do but they didn’t when Reeves announced the billions Labour would spend they just threw it back as a slogan.

I remember when some of the far left contributed to the greater good of the party but then again many like myself who were further left than Blair have done our best to move away from this current lot.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:13 pm Congratulations on a job well done to the greatest asset the Labour Party has had in years - Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson

I think Sunak is helping the economic one as Labour were still behind on that a week or so back.

Boris Johnson will be the third PM that Boris Johnson has ousted.

Young Labour has been a Jezzite thorn in the side of the sensible party for some time - as the various iterations of the Young Socialists have been since at least the 1960s when I was one.

Nowadays they have access to Twitter of course, so can show themselves to be arseholes to a larger public. Blaming 'NATO aggression' for the invasion of Ukraine has been a Tweet Too Far and the grownups have taken away access to Twitter.

https://labourlist.org/2022/02/young-la ... bour-aims/

The article is well worth a read, especially if you weren't aware of this fuss, but I loved this comment (I think it's from David Lammy)

A Labour source told LabourList: “This is a small factional group that have taken over an official channel to spend their entire time tweeting bollocks. Their Twitter has been taken off them until they sort themselves out.”

Spot on.

Does sound a bit Lammy, doesn't it?

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