doulikefish Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Looks like there is a split coming 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Timely bump for this from Stephen Bush: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2019/02/why-you-really-shouldn-t-get-too-excited-about-any-single-poll. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 47 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Looks like there is a split coming Announcement at 10am this morning? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, doulikefish said: Looks like there is a split coming The Labour Party needs to deselect all the dissenters. Just rip the plaster off. Otherwise they will drip feed this shit for their own narrow ends. I probably agree with some/many of their stated views on Brexit but they are totally disingenuous people. They do not want a Labour Government led by Corbyn and will do everything they can to undermine it. Edited February 18, 2019 by Granny Danger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Who gets custody of the northern branch ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Will be proud to support the breakaway party if - and only if - these two legends take the leadership. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 My front runners for branch office defectors - Jackie Baillie, Kezia Dugdale and Anas Sarwar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 In my lifetime the following parties have broken away from the main two parties Social Democrat Party (subsequently merged with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats, although a small SDP is still going and has a single councillor I think) Militant Labour Party (infiltrated and were then expelled), subsequently became the Socialist Party Socialist Labour Party (Arhtur Scargill's 'Stalin Was Right' crew) Pro-Euro Conservative Party (this was an actual thing I promise you. Some people thought it might be successful, it was very much not successful). I predict that if the splitters try to form a new party it will mirror the success of the above parties. I don't blame them for doing it but the way British politics is structured makes any new parties very unlikely to succeed. I'm not sure that there's any particular demand for a liberal centrist party of the sorts they would support anyway. The real gap in British politics is for a "Fund Our NHS, Hang the Paedos Party" and whoever comes up with this will be do very well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamieson87 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 To call themselves "The Independence Party" apparently. lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 I can't overstate how amazing it will be to see Chuka etc's faces as they stand on election night having won 57 votes.They're going to have a lot of money to spend, and that usually works. Most breakaways are ideological - but a blairist centrist party would be well-backed and void of any soul. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 They will end up co-opted by the Lib Dems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Umunna obviously giving up the ghost on any future ambitions of leading the Labour party (eventually they might sign back on with the party, but they'll never be forgiven). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Who's going to lead them?I've seen two of them give the same speech, but I've no idea who they are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Just now, pandarilla said: Who's going to lead them? I've seen two of them give the same speech, but I've no idea who they are. Wasn't Chris Leslie briefly the shadow chancellor? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 So Chicken Umuna was too scared to try to become Labour Leader, but quite happy to split the party and hand power to the Tories for the next decade, like the last Gang of Twats, the SDP? What a p***k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Ahahahahahaha they’ve only gone and done it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Wasn't Chris Leslie briefly the shadow chancellor?Was he?Surely to f**k not.Another nobody up now. Lots of sad stories, tbh I thought they'd have much better pr. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londonwell Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Why can't we all just get along? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, renton said: Wasn't Chris Leslie briefly the shadow chancellor? Yes, he was shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the time of the 2015 election, and was "promoted" when Ed Balls lost his seat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Bully Wee Villa said: So Chicken Umuna was too scared to try to become Labour Leader, but quite happy to split the party and hand power to the Tories for the next decade, like the last Gang of Twats, the SDP? What a p***k. Alwauys figured his "family" excuse for pulling out last time was 'massive financial discrepancies that aren't well hidden enough'... That he's gone and done this has me thinking actually it was 'accidentally killed a prostitute' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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