Rayvin
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Quite possibly is. Still not sure it's actually him that's rebelling here unless ewerk has a source that isn't showing up on Google yet. That said, if the PLP think they're going to sail back in and retake the party here they've another thing coming I suspect. Labour is going to be hobbled either way, with or without Corbyn.
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The party whip is Nick Brown, isn't it? If so he'll be doing it for his constituency (of which I am part). EDIT - I imagine I'll be getting an email from him in due course to explain it... EDIT 2 - It's not him, it's two party whips. Not the chief whip. I was going to say it'd be a surprising turn of events as Brown has stuck with Corbyn solidly.
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I dunno, you can actually get decent value still I'm sure. Especially if they target the usual cloggers who are all blood and passion - they might yet pull themselves out of it. Counting against them is the fact that they're generally awful in the transfer market - but maybe Moyes has some ideas. I just don't think they'll have countenanced this thinking that they'll be making it more likely that they go down. They must have an end game to this that, to Moyes at least, makes them look more likely to stay up.
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Yeah but they have £14m to spend now. We'll see some panic buying ahead, I suspect.
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That's amusing but at the same time Allardyce is a bit of a pillock here. PVA was never a great player.
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Generic small time football blather thread 2015/16
Rayvin replied to The Fish's topic in Newcastle Forum
Wtf are they moaning about? They're doing well - granted they lost to Southampton but shit happens. Generally one of the better performing Liverpool teams in living memory. -
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They age under the stress I suspect, but I'm not convinced any of this is phasing Trump... he might simply not care.
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Here is Cenk's video about kicking it off. Genuinely think there might be something to this - it's exactly what is needed. Change from the left. Not the fucking right. I very much hope it succeeds and can be replicated.
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On the punching of the nazi, I have found more support for my view from the guy now setting up the Alt-Democrats. Pretty much word for word what I said:
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Sounds like at least a couple are considering it. Stupid decision from Corbyn anyway - it'll be an effort to appeal to the people who want Brexit and to fend off UKIP, but ultimately that message simply isn't getting through and looks like a feeble attempt to follow along with the Tories. As such, the only outcome will be the destabilisation of the party and the opportunity for the media to portray Labour as disunited and weak again. Which on this evidence, they are.
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We're working on it...
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One of the points of this is to purge the DP of donations from corporate sponsors though. Would the corporates accept that? I think this might be a more significant change than a matter of just keeping the corporate democrats honest...
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The left wing in the US seem to be trying to get it together in an attempt to hijack the Democratic party. The US version of Momentum, perhaps. One that might be able to succeed, you never know: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/progressives-launch-justice-democrats-to-counter-primary-corporate-legislators/?utm_term=.c02ef4dbb840
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Fucking hell. Nice of them to pay for his travel though.
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I noticed McCain has come out and said he'll vote against the introduction of torture. It might not get through Senate, that one.
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I suppose it does need reporting on. I hope you made the most of the free caviar and champagne that was no doubt on offer.
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I'm not the one who was at the Davos meeting last week.
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Well said. I do love your posts.
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Analysis has been done on this (and I've lamented it previously). If the public are offered policies, the Greens end up in power. At least in this country. The Tories are a distant third or fourth, I think. Well yes but with that comment I was broadly speaking about the people who vote against their own interests out of ignorance. I would still expect the socially conscious to vote against their own interests out of altruism.
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I've wondered in the past if there should be some manner of mandatory politics test prior to voting. You'd have to write down the policies of various parties and how they would affect you. Something that would force people to consider what they're voting for. Turnout would be like 5% but at least it'd be an informed 5%.
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Ah but when you start saying that (and I agree with you) then your faith in the whole establishment has to go. You're basically saying democracy doesn't work as it should do and isn't a good method of governance. Which is true, although I concede that it remains perhaps the least bad of all political options - with the exception of a well executed benevolent dictatorship. EDIT - as Meenz says
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I know what you mean but I can't think of a better word for it. As I say, economic disadvantage is the only thing around which I think leftist populism can build, and if Trump is about to start hoovering that one up, we're stuck with the right wing for the long haul. Presumably until we end up in another global armageddon scenario, or until the next economic collapse.
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So you're suggesting that people look at something, consider it to be unfair, but vote for it on the basis that they're mean spirited and innately intolerant? That may well be true but it just doesn't sound right to me. If it was, politicians wouldn't need all these narratives that we see trying to manipulate public opinion. Some people probably do vote like that - entirely emotionally. Hell maybe more than I give credit for do. But the swing voters presumably don't. They're looking for the narratives. And they seem to be the ones who act as kingmakers.