Corbynomics: A Dystopia

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Labour leadership: quarter of new supporters could be barred from voting

Jeremy Corbyn’s allies say party’s oversight process could lead to contest being skewed

More than a quarter of people who have signed up as registered Labour supporters in the run-up to the party’s leadership election could be barred from taking part, something some supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are worried could skew the vote.
Under revised rules for the contest between Corbyn and Owen Smith, introduced by Labour’s national executive committee last month, full members cannot vote unless they joined in January or before.
However, the party allowed newly registered supporters, a lesser category of affiliation, to sign up and vote for a £25 fee; 183,000 did so.
According to the Huffington Post, 40,000 of these have been excluded for reasons such as supporting a rival party, not being on the electoral register or problems with the payment. Another 10,000 cases are to go before the NEC’s oversight panel to decide whether they can vote. Allies of Corbyn say they have been told similar figures, and are concerned that the process could lead to some of his backers being weeded out.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/02/labour-leadership-jeremy-corbyn-quarter-supporters-barred-voting

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The Penny (Finally) Drops

Owen Jones Issues ‘Wake-Up Call’ To Jeremy Corbyn Fans After Reaction To Blog On Despair At Labour Party

“If Labour loses an election badly - as it is currently on course to do - then a) Jeremy Corbyn will resign (as John McDonnell has already said), b) the left will be blamed and associated with calamitous defeat all over again and c) the party will shift dramatically to the right,” Jones wrote on Tuesday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/owen-jones-blog-jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-facebook_uk_57a09033e4b07cb01dd08bd0

westernpromise

Shifting to the right is the only way to win. The UK has never elected and will never elect a loony left government.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

TrickyTree83 wrote: »

They don't care.

Their way or the highway. They couldn't possibly be getting it wrong.

I think that's why the likes of Toasty are so angry - they know they are getting it wrong but they are going to do it anyway......

and Toasty 12,000 people in a city of half a million isn't very many....especially as we would vote for a pig in lipstick if it had a Labour rosette on it....

gadgetmind

You know that schism that the left have been saying won't happen?

"Anti-Corbyn MPs planning split 'will sue Labour so they can use its name'"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-split-sue-court-challenge-name-leadership-election-moderates-blairites-a7163716.html

westernpromise

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

I think that's why the likes of Toasty are so angry - they know they are getting it wrong but they are going to do it anyway......

and Toasty 12,000 people in a city of half a million isn't very many....especially as we would vote for a pig in lipstick if it had a Labour rosette on it....

We can be sure that none of those 12,000 took time off work. The Corbyn-supporting classes think work is for mugs.

Thrugelmir

westernpromise wrote: »

We can be sure that none of those 12,000 took time off work.

They'll all be full time Union Reps......... Ours does no real work as far as we can ascertain. Why the taxpayer has to fund such people is beyond me.

gadgetmind

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Why the taxpayer has to fund such people is beyond me.

They do? Surely every penny should come from union types?

westernpromise

gadgetmind wrote: »

They do? Surely every penny should come from union types?

No, they get a sub from the taxpayer - a disgrace which should end.

BobQ

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Who wouldn't take industrial action to protect their own rights?

Surpriningly quite a few. The fact you ask suggests you have never been involved in industrial action.

Socialism includes social responsibility, which means protecting other people's rights.

Agreed but you do this by having the power to change laws not by jumping up and down and shouting.

I am wholly unmoved by the whining of 170 career politicians in the PLP concerning the plight of themselves, I am quite encouraged by Corbin's commitment to social responsibility.

If it were 170 career politicians worrid about their own future I would agree. But most of them have professional qualifications and experience that will see them walk into jobs after the next election if they lose. The people you claim to represent do not have this luxury.

Many of these 170 have strong social consciences and chose politics to improve the lot of ordinary people. What's more is they have actually got elected and in doing so won the confidence of voters on the left and in the centre.

Off to the Brighton rally tomorrow. I'm sure no one else will go because he's so unpopular and all. Unless any of the 12,000 people who were at Liverpool today decide they want an encore.

Ah so you just go to rallies rather than do useful work.:)

But the point is these rallies do not get people elected to power.

You might be able to read about it on social media because there is not a snowball's chance in hell the mainstream press will report it.

What is so newsworthy about such a gathering? OK Corbyn has a million supporters and some turn up at rallies in which he preaches to the converted. But how does that win over floating voters or those on the centre-right of the party?