A new thread for discussing Corbyn's Labour now he's actually been elected leader... any takers?
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Yes, I'm backing 'Corb Blimey!' too.
The only certainty so far is that the scale of coverage has been unfathomable, and very polarised. Old media can't handle straight reporting these days, so has gone with daft stories like women missing from the first 50%+ female shadow cabinet (BBC TV news this morning) along with all the wackier attempts to find skeletons in wardrobes from the tabloids/Telegraph. Digital media has been pretty positive, coming as it tends to from 1) actual people, 2) people used to filtering good information from bad and 3) today at least, people who understand mental health issues recognising the value of that new post he's set up.
I am looking forward to them getting stuck in once Parliament resumes. The party's got a clear mandate to oppose austerity now, which also happens to be a populist approach to take. Even rich people are tired of it. I'd guess the tories also wouldn't be too upset at having an excuse to row back on their bad bets like the housing association right to buy thing, a policy no one thinks is sensible.
(Shall we stop linking to the Telegraph on this thread, like people often do for the Mail on others?)
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Also, I'll relink to that Dawn Foster piece here, since I think it's really good, and it made me rethink my concern about the "top jobs for the boys" stuff.
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Agree with TonTon that this isn't a Syriza situation, though there are some similarities in support surge. The Labour party is a complicated beast that is a very different thing to navigate through.
On that tangent, the National Policy Forum and Conference Arrangements Committee election results were a bit more of a mixed bag, though mostly nudging left. And boring as it is, this stuff matters
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
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Jimski wrote: (Dawn Fraser is some former Aussie swimming champion who recently had a racist outburst about Nick Kyrgios. Not sure why I pulled her name from my subconscious.)
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My mum, who is 81, suggested that she might rejoin. She left in 1994.
That Tory advert is great, reminded me how anti-militarism he is (or claims to be), which while welcome certainly sits uneasily with historic Labour.
I rather liked this piece on the sexist appointments non-story.
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