Corbyn The Absolute Boy [chat]

Bogart

Britain has spoken! And said we don't really like anything on the menu, can I have fish and chips instead? Yes, it's election time. Again. The exit poll last night surprised many.

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/872921611741036545

David Cameron's reign as most hubristic Prime Minister in history was a short one, as Theresa May's decision to call an early election backfired in spectacular fashion. Jezza had a decent night.



Not Prime Minister, but he's won himself a supersize jar of jam and all the well-deserved gloating he can manage.



The leftwing press is chortling away quite merrily. The rightwing press is angry and confused.

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/873053007356743680

In a late development Theresa May's constituency was invaded by X_TBaGZZ_UR_MoM_X just before she reached Ornstein and Smough. She fought him off, but had to go back to the bonfire to regain her spent estus flasks.

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/873011827302690816

Burnage

10/10, a strong and stable chat OP

Bogart

[chat] knows I have always been behind Corbyn 100%.

RMS Oceanic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVbC0jASJYA

Crimson King

is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

RMS Oceanic

Crimson King wrote: »

is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

*Introduces Bill of Attainder*

Give me a minute

Haphazard

Sometimes good things happen to people who wait... seems to be Labour's motto.

Bogart

Those two statements by Angela Eagle in the video preview are both entirely true. Corbyn ran a pretty good election campaign and a terrible Remain campaign.

knitdan

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

Crimson King wrote: »

is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

*Introduces Bill of Attainder*

Give me a minute

I think you mean Lord William of Attainder

The upper classes don't like it when you're informal

RMS Oceanic

knitdan wrote: »

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

Crimson King wrote: »

is lord buckethead's legal name "lord buckethead"

*Introduces Bill of Attainder*

Give me a minute

I think you mean Lord William of Attainder

The upper classes don't like it when you're informal

Here our Billy could you legislatively declare thon boy guilty a f

Echo

This man/woman/person/sentient entity has my vote.

https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/873014998179745794/

Mojo_Jojo

Echo wrote: »

This man/woman/person/sentient entity has my vote.

https://twitter.com/scottbix/status/873014998179745794/

Actually more sensible policies than either Labour of the Tories!

RMS Oceanic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ujxnKjxGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDKgxHGdUc

Which is better

Mojo_Jojo

The roads were empty this morning. The office is bleary eyed and outright hungover in some cases. Lots of working from home placeholders have popped up in calendars.

Echo

Swedish politics has been going down the drain since Tengil stopped running for elections.

Hi I'm Vee!

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

Echo

visiblehowl wrote: »

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

Honestly, that's kind of how I read the reactions to the Comey hearing yesterday.

Mojo_Jojo

visiblehowl wrote: »

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

Hi I'm Vee!

Mojo_Jojo wrote: »

visiblehowl wrote: »

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

I definitely get that second part. It's just funny to me that Corbyn is the one in all the memes and whatnot.

Then again, Echo makes a good point about Comey.

Bogart

visiblehowl wrote: »

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

I have no memory of anyone knocking Corbyn, least of all myself.

I think the glee is delight at the bloody nose the Tories have managed to give themselves, and being pleasantly surprised that Corbyn's comparatively well-run campaign seems to have engaged new voters and moved Labour forward, at least a little.

I haven't come around on him as a potential PM particularly, but his manifesto had a lot of very good stuff in it, as opposed to the Tory manifesto, which was entirely blank. He's proved a lot of sceptics wrong and shown that you can do well (but not quite win) even with his baggage.

RMS Oceanic

Mojo_Jojo wrote: »

visiblehowl wrote: »

I admittedly haven't followed much of UK politics since Brexit passed, but I could have sworn that everybody (like, around here) hated Corbyn for his botching of Remain and refusal to resign.

Are people celebrating him just because he's the face of knocking the Conservatives out of power, or are they celebrating the man himself?

He was utterly useless during the referendum and equally bad throughout his opposition. He stepped up his game quite a bit during the election run up, but it's still for the best that there's no Labour majority.

We're happy because May was certain she could grow her majority and then drive the country off a social and economic cliff and she failed catastrophically.

Can we stop them if they continue the David Davis angle of threatening to pull out if the EU don't show proper deference?

Elki

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/873096168170848261

Rest in peace.

Bogart

The Shadow Cabinet line that Labour is ready to govern is a bit optimistic. You confounded the critics, guys. But you're still fifty seats short of the party that didn't even win.

bloodyroarxx

Ice-T and the occasional gaming tweet

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/873060454582452225

Tav

I lost a load of money backing Jezza but it feels like a moral victory

Like when your accumulator fails because you backed Liverpool

Elki

Tav wrote: »

I lost a load of money backing Jezza but it feels like a moral victory

Like when your accumulator fails because you backed Liverpool

The sweeter victory.

bloodyroarxx

https://twitter.com/TokyoFashion/status/872450473176965120

Tav

https://twitter.com/thwphipps/status/872982965587935232

Tav

https://twitter.com/thegreenparty/status/873023912430325765

Tav

Twitter is immense today.

Elki

I'm watching an Egyptian drama with the ol' dude marries a second wife without telling his first wife about it and hijinks ensue plot.

Bogart

https://twitter.com/mattlyynch/status/873063371104436226

Fewer high profile Tory scalps than I'd like, but the ones we did get are pleasingly ironic.

Elki

President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

Harry Dresden

Elki wrote: »

President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

1) Jezza did better then expected, sure. 2) This only holds if Cobyn has the required discipline to run a country long term properly, when his misadventures running the Labour party have been a disaster. 3) Cobyn wasn't elected PM as far as I know.

This is a small victory, the war for Labour's soul is not over.

Elki

https://youtu.be/ELOZOcSsNCs

Bogart

I think the battle for Labour's soul has been won, for now, by Corbyn. He is unassailable as leader now, and has piled up more votes and seats than the last two Labour leaders. He hasn't won anything, but he's bought in new blood that actually votes and run a good campaign.

Honestly, though, I have no idea how things will pan out now. The Tories will govern with a wafer thin majority given to them by a bunch of swivel-eyed nutters from Norn Iron. A few by-elections here and there and we'll have another election. We might anyway, and the Tories might even turn up for this one.

evilbob

Got my project submitted ok and DiRT 4 is out. Good day.

Elki

https://youtu.be/3-kjLzAIYAY

Elki

Harry Dresden wrote: »

Elki wrote: »

President Barack Obama has suggested that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is "disintegrating" because it has lost touch with "fact and reality".

Mr Obama said that the Democrats are not at risk of "Corbynisation" and that even the party's more left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders are more moderate than Jeremy Corbyn.

In an interview with David Axelrod, who advised the former Labour leader Ed Miliband, Mr Obama was asked if he feared that the democrats could fall apart like Labour.

He replied: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality."

Mr Axelrod asked if Mr Obama was concerned about the "Corbynisation" of the Democratic party, after Labour "disintegrated in the face of their defeat".

Mr Obama said that even Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who finished runner-up to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, was “pretty centrist” compared to Mr Corbyn.

I say we're counting Thursday and Friday as one unending great day.

1) Jezza did better then expected, sure. 2) This only holds if Cobyn has the required discipline to run a country long term properly, when his misadventures running the Labour party have been a disaster. 3) Cobyn wasn't elected PM as far as I know.

This is a small victory, the war for Labour's soul is not over.

Take the L.

Mojo_Jojo

evilbob wrote: »

Got my project submitted ok and DiRT 4 is out. Good day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q

Happy January 20th!

Bogart

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/873115290912964610

Brutal.