tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532889137549821886.post6010683287506980419..comments2024-03-05T10:49:16.834+00:00Comments on Unattended Articles: Argh.slepkanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05830471126428428384noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532889137549821886.post-51304025666664537492016-07-21T22:25:35.956+01:002016-07-21T22:25:35.956+01:00Or the right hasn't evaporated at all. Here...Or the right hasn't evaporated at all. Here's Frankie Boyle being brilliant on that. https://www.facebook.com/FrankieBoyleFans/posts/1157594120948619slepkanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05830471126428428384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532889137549821886.post-57236052240841869412016-07-13T11:27:03.953+01:002016-07-13T11:27:03.953+01:00Ahoy hoy. I would love to think bricks through win...Ahoy hoy. I would love to think bricks through windows were a sign of losing, but this year WHO KNOWS? If "the competent voices" are scared though, where were they last year? What's more incompetent a strategy than "Vote for me because I'm electable"? And if they're scared, how competent can they be? We're not talking about any old managerial position, this is the leadership of a country comprising one hundredth of the population of the world. The burning question for me remains: why was Eagle so bad in this interview? Defending the PLP against Corbyn die-hards hasn't been easy or pleasant lately but I've done it, over and over again, pointing out how even Obi Wan and Gandalf had to top themselves for the story to continue, and defending MPs as elected representatives in touch with their constituents and keen to get things done but for reasons I don't entirely understand held back by yer man. But if this is what the PLP looks like unleashed, how much of that can be true? If the die-hards are right and the 81% really are just a gang who never gave a toss about democracy and refused to play along with Corbyn from the start because being unpopular in the press makes them embarrassed, I don't see what would look different. <br />And I don't know what "normal circumstances" are. Labour - in our lifetime anyway - has had difficulty playing along far more often than not. Didn't it cost them the coalition? Won't it cost them more? Blair seems the exception, Gordon Brown the normal. But "irreconcilabile" is just a question of personalities, isn't it? That's what I hate. None of this is inevitable. And yes, all talk of unity looks like eyewash right now.slepkanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05830471126428428384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532889137549821886.post-33237531318040928512016-07-13T08:44:31.742+01:002016-07-13T08:44:31.742+01:00*Polls.
*Polls.<br />Robert Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12347761587707437261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532889137549821886.post-19758682076144344302016-07-13T08:43:46.540+01:002016-07-13T08:43:46.540+01:00Well, I find it easy to believe some people throw ...Well, I find it easy to believe some people throw bricks through windows for unpopular people who are very popular with a few people. And all shades in-between.<br /><br />Yes, in a nutshell, to your post. This whole thing is a tragedy and I think Corbyn's unelectable, but the fact that the rest of the party can't summon up a single competent voice is insane. Who are these people?<br /><br />Is it that competent voices are scared? If they're legitimately Blairite (literally not a synonym for evil) maybe they think it's pointless? If they are somewhere in the middle, which Eagle seems to be, maybe the problem is that the Corbyns and Blairs aren't evil, but they are increasingly irreconcilable, and trying to reconcile them makes you seem vacillating? And maybe it's as simple as a fight for the party name and structure, and the rest should split off. I hate this, because while Labour is futzing around, the Tories are doing a massive amount of damage that the electorate, under normal circumstances, would vote them out for. THE TORIES HAVE SCREWED EVERYTHING UP AND THEY ARE 8 POINTS AHEAD IN THE POLES. Robert Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12347761587707437261noreply@blogger.com