Thursday 16 July 2015

Fightback

Tim Farron is Leader of the Lib Dems.

40 Labour MPs have tabled their own anti-Budget amendment, because the so-called Leadership couldn't be bothered.

The SNP has forced Cameron to pull back from putting things to the vote at all.

Jeremy Corbyn has now been nominated by more Constituency Labour Parties (who are sure as hell not Telegraph readers doing it for a laugh) than even Andy Burnham has.

This Government can look forward to some pretty serious opposition after all.

And that is before mentioning what is nominally its own side.

3 comments:

  1. We're salivating with anticipation of ripping him apart.
    This will be better than kicking Michael Foot's stick away. Now it really will be 1983 every day.

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    1. If you mean Corbyn, then I still don't see him winning, but he'd be an awful lot more popular than the next Leader of the Conservative Party, George Osborne, who is just a thoroughly unlikeable person.

      And the Farron win has necessitated a tack to the left. Kendall, in particular, is out of the race as of today.

      Look at the Miliband policies that Osborne is either implementing or pretending to implement. The pity is that he never demanded more.

      Even if Labour loses in 2020, it can expect between a third and half of its manifesto to be implemented, anyway. That seems to be what the Tories have decided that they are for. So that manifesto might as well go all out.

      Did your lifetime and Michael Foot's even overlap?

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    2. If you mean Corbyn, then I still don't see him winning, but he'd be an awful lot more popular than the next Leader of the Conservative Party, George Osborne, who is just a thoroughly unlikeable person.

      And the Farron win has necessitated a tack to the left. Kendall, in particular, is out of the race as of today.

      Look at the Miliband policies that Osborne is either implementing or pretending to implement. The pity is that he never demanded more.

      Even if Labour loses in 2020, it can expect between a third and half of its manifesto to be implemented, anyway. That seems to be what the Tories have decided that they are for. So that manifesto might as well go all out.

      Did your lifetime and Michael Foot's even overlap?

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