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New centrist party?

Started by biggytitbo, February 18, 2019, 08:52:12 AM

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biggytitbo

Announcement at 10. Could be a new party, could just be a handful of them standing as independents.

Lets hope its all true and Chukka and co finally make good on their threats and fuck off, freeing the labour party from their deathly stench of failure and redundancy.

Dr Trouser

And a potential by-election in Newport West - an interesting side show to the Broadway hit that is Brexit!

biggytitbo



Chukka and MIke Gapes though, what an exciting and inspirational lineup that would be.

Paul Calf

Ummuna is a bit of a hero to the FBPE, anti-Brexit lot. This could lose Labour thousands of votes: certainly enough to deny a majority. That'd definitely ensure a Tory election victory.

You're living in a fucking dream world if you think this is a good thing for anyone.

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It would be funny if it was a fancy dress party.

biggytitbo

Is this the same one that was going to be fronted by Rachel Riley? Riley, JK Rowling, Alan Sugar, bit of Gapes for glamour, no doubt with Mandleson and Alistair Campbell pulling the strings - could be a new dawn for progressive politics in the UK and definitely not a bunch of clapped out millionaires, whinging celebrities and failed Blairites having a tantrum about their own political irrelevance.

biggytitbo

Quote from: Paul Calf on February 18, 2019, 09:08:32 AM
Ummuna is a bit of a hero to the FBPE, anti-Brexit lot. This could lose Labour thousands of votes: certainly enough to deny a majority. That'd definitely ensure a Tory election victory.

You're living in a fucking dream world if you think this is a good thing for anyone.


Not sure how it could possibly be worse than them actively trying to lose an election from within the Labour party?

EOLAN

Quote from: biggytitbo on February 18, 2019, 09:09:33 AM
Is this the same one that was going to be fronted by Rachel Riley? Riley, JK Rowling, Alan Sugar, bit of Gapes for glamour, no doubt with Mandleson and Alistair Campbell pulling the strings - could be a new dawn for progressive politics in the UK and definitely not a bunch of clapped out millionaires, whinging celebrities and failed Blairites having a tantrum about their own political irrelevance.

Don't think Campbell would go for this. For all his faults; I think he is absolutely obsessed with getting that other lot out of power; so a new party to split the vote down the centre/left wouldn't be very compatible with that aim.

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[TORIES start to pull themselves apart over Brexit]

UMMUNA:  *whistle*  Hey!  Over here!!


ajsmith2

I just realised recently that the Harry Potter book series ran from 1997 to 2007: exactly parallel to Blair's reign as PM.

Fambo Number Mive

Why didn't they want to join the Lib Dems, given we already have a centrist party?

biggytitbo

The Lib Dems are shite, and tribalism I guess. Makes sense for them just to merge and form a new party though under a different brand name.

biggytitbo

QuoteSky News is at the event, preparing for it to start

For now all we can tell you is there are seven chairs and one stool on a stage.

Snow White?

Norton Canes

Quotethere are seven chairs and one stool on a stage

[insert punchline here]

olliebean

QuoteThose leaving Lab will pledge not to stand for re-election in their current constituency & will instead target marginals.

So essentially the aim is to split the Labour vote in marginals, thus ensuring a Tory victory. Nice of them to be so up-front about it.

im barry bethel

Quote from: biggytitbo on February 18, 2019, 08:52:12 AM
Announcement at 10. Could be a new party, could just be a handful of them standing as independents.

Didn't Nige register a new party recently?

ToneLa

Centrists, eh? So is this new party goodies or baddies or what?

I bet they're baddies. I just bet. It already seems like it's baddies. I bet it even tastes of baddies

Quote

The SDP2. There to actively prevent socialism and any of the significant changes desperately required in this dismal fucking country.

They'll get loads of media backing no doubt.

Crisps?

80s nostalgia is all the rage.

biggytitbo

Sounds like they didn't even bother to tell Corbyn before hand either -

QuoteCorbyn not aware before this morning - Labour source

Another small detail in the build up to the announcement: Jeremy Corbyn wasn't told about today's event, a Labour source tells Sky News.

Yes, the press will love them and they'll be the darling of the celebs and the twitter crowd. I doubt the voters will like them very much, but it could be enough to ensure Labour doesn't win the next election which is probably the main aim.

ToneLa

John Bishop, in the future, on TV, holding their mug, calling these Great Days

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Quote from: Quote on February 18, 2019, 09:50:50 AM
SDP2

Not really a fan of these Disney Star Wars characters to be honest.

thugler

What an utterly pointless endeavor.

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Quote from: thugler on February 18, 2019, 09:55:27 AM
What an utterly pointless endeavor.

Not pointless.  They want to break what is good.  And they may well manage.

Blumf

Quote from: biggytitbo on February 18, 2019, 09:04:29 AM


'Consultancy firms in Washington'? Because US politics has been such a raging success these last few years?

biggytitbo

If there is some kind of split it won't be like the SDP's, that were fronted by political heavyweights and household names. Most of these disaffected Blairites, nobody has ever heard of them, so they'd be reliant on having some prong like JK Rowling to have any exposure. Hopefully it will just fizzle away into obscurity where it belongs.

ToneLa

Quote from: biggytitbo on February 18, 2019, 09:58:03 AM
If there is some kind of split it won't be like the SDP's, that were fronted by political heavyweights and household names. Most of these disaffected Blairites, nobody has ever heard of them, so they'd be reliant on having some prong like JK Rowling to have any exposure. Hopefully it will just fizzle away into obscurity where it belongs.

I'm concerned not by surface similarities but by strategic repercussions such as consolidation of Conservative rule

They're running late as well. Tut

Fabian Thomsett


Cuellar

Good to see the BBC taking this seriously - on BBC News channel now: cat stuck up a tree.

Fabian Thomsett

I think they've bottled it.

Unless the cat up the tree is leading the new party.