This Once Great Movement Of Ours

[EastAnglianLefty]

Ultimately, if you're briefing against Sue Gray and think this will work out for you then your receipt of a P45 is going to considerably improve the average intelligence of the workforce.

[EastAnglianLefty]

His reputation was also good enough for him to win 4 elections during his tenure as leader. It was after he departed the political scene that it plummeted.

[EastAnglianLefty]

I would be very surprised if Rayner didn't immediately consolidate enough institutional support to drive out most other major contenders.

[EastAnglianLefty]

I would be very surprised if Rayner didn't immediately consolidate enough institutional support to drive out most other major contenders.

Malenkov thought the same.

There is a possibility that the Politburo and the Shadow Cabinet may not be entirely equivalent bodies.

[EastAnglianLefty]

In any case, if you do want to make dumb analogies, Rayner is Zhukov rather than Malenkov.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Yes, that is a question. But to the extent that institutional support matters (and the 2015 leadership race does suggest that answer may be "Not very much") she's clearly best positioned, especially with regard to the affiliates.

[EastAnglianLefty]

My feeling is that if the next leadership election were tomorrow, she'd walk it. If the next leadership election is in 203x, then the winner will be whoever has been most effective as a departmental minister.

[EastAnglianLefty]

My highlight at any conference or event is when the Red Flag gets sung and the awkward back and forth as senior politicians have to remember what the latest line is on how you react to it.

How on earth did Labour end with a German Christmas song as the melody for their party hymn? I can't stop laughing, at the moment.

It was decided that the original melody for the song was too fast for the level of solemnity they wanted from it.

[EastAnglianLefty]

A large proportion of the people complaining in the comments of that tweet have the Palestinian, EU and/or trans flags in their name/bio. Nationalism and pride is completely normal until it’s a political party using the flag of its own country.

However, I would caution against using these in Scotland and Wales.

Oh, you'll be fine, as long as you don't live in very specific parts of the Greater Glasgow area. Elsewhere you'll just be quietly judged by neighbours for being overtly political - in the same way middle-aged folk who still live in houses plastered with saltires, YES stickers and rude posters about the Tories are seen as a bit kooky.

Kinda surprised you missed off the one devolved nation that loves flag-waving (of every hue) more than any other...

To be fair, there's not much likelihood of Labour literature going out in the BT postcode area anytime soon.