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I’ve cancelled my LP direct debit this morning. I can’t in all conscience sit with that set of utter cunts. Some half decent people involved no doubt but the tribalism is nauseating. As a new member I wasn’t even allowed to attend meetings of the local party when they were discussing who to support for leader. This was made quite clear in FOUR emails. They can all fuck off. 

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4 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

I’ve cancelled my LP direct debit this morning. I can’t in all conscience sit with that set of utter cunts. Some half decent people involved no doubt but the tribalism is nauseating. As a new member I wasn’t even allowed to attend meetings of the local party when they were discussing who to support for leader. This was made quite clear in FOUR emails. They can all fuck off. 

I’d say it’s worth hanging in there to see how things progress under Starmer.

And cancelling your DD doesn’t remove you from the list of members for a long time. You’ll need to contact them to do that, otherwise you remain on the books.

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13 minutes ago, ewerk said:

I’d say it’s worth hanging in there to see how things progress under Starmer.

And cancelling your DD doesn’t remove you from the list of members for a long time. You’ll need to contact them to do that, otherwise you remain on the books.


 No. He’s a decent man but the membership largely fuckin hate him and the likes of Unite & Momentum will attempt to do to him what some staffers did to Corbyn. It’s not worth the bother of another half decade of blood letting just to see the tories returned yet again 

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 No. He’s a decent man but the membership largely fuckin hate him and the likes of Unite & Momentum will attempt to do to him what some staffers did to Corbyn. It’s not worth the bother of another half decade of blood letting just to see the tories returned yet again 

 

100% this is where I am.

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19 hours ago, Rayvin said:

 

I don't think it's necessarily about it being squeaky clean so much as having so many Corbyn hating factionalists making shit up and fucking over the process that the eventual report was basically worthless. That's my take from it anyway.

Another take on the report: 

 

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Ok so based on that it would seem that the clarified position is that the report is worthless because rather than confront any of the underlying issues, all it does is blame anti-Corbyn factions. I had wrongly believed that the report had been written impartially somehow, but if we are instead saying that the pro-Corbynites wrote it to attack the anti-Corbynites then firstly I'm not actually surprised based on what I've seen of them in my own discussions, and secondly they're just wasting everyone's time and refusing to take this seriously.

 

They're not in power now so I had hoped the party would be able to draw a line under it but his final tweet says that Labour has been institutionally antisemitic even before Corbyn, which doesn't give me any hope that much will change.

 

I'm close to thinking the party should disband. This feuding is going to drag on and on, and will only fuck us over next time as well.

 

The Corbynite zealots are as blind as the Brexiteers. Utterly hopeless. They're not even principled, just another group obsessed with winning the argument..

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Having said that, if some of the things the pro-Corbynites have claimed are true then honestly both sides are about as bad as each other. They've been fucking feuding while the Tories have been destroying the country. This stuff about Emilie Oldknow asking Tom Watson to delay the expulsion of Livingstone to embarass Corbyn.. fucking why?

 

Fuck it, I'm resigning membership too. Complete waste of space of a party. Worthless.

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I decided to wait until the leadership election and tbh I've just not really through about it in recent weeks - I had basically committed to it so this additional claim is meaningless I guess, but if I hadn't already decided to this would have broken me all over again. 


I'm now convinced that Corbyn was willfully ignoring this chaos for factional reasons. I'm also convinced that we never stood a chance while this was going on. I've just seen a transcript of senior party officials lamenting that we won Kensington in 2017. What's the point anymore man. It's two political parties trying to pretend they're just one.

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I’m not sure what packing your membership in is going to achieve tbh. 

 

It's going to achieve nothing whatsoever. I just can't do it anymore though.

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I decided to wait until the leadership election and tbh I've just not really through about it in recent weeks - I had basically committed to it so this additional claim is meaningless I guess, but if I hadn't already decided to this would have broken me all over again. 


You claimed you were leaving in September 2018. Unless you were playing a really long game?

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You claimed you were leaving in September 2018. Unless you were playing a really long game?

 

I did leave the party in January 2019 as a protest over Brexit - I sent a long, pointless email that no one ever replied to, explaining my reasons. Then I rejoined when they came up with a Brexit plan that made sense to me.

 

Happy? :lol: 

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I’m not sure what packing your membership in is going to achieve tbh. 

 

About as much as staying in iyam. Both pointless gestures till this all plays out, if it ever does. I was hoping Starmer might be the 21st century John Smith but I think judging by  the stage that both the PLP & the membership are at he's only Neil Kinnock :cuppa:

 

 

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An Ulsterman preaching caution & cool headedness in Politics. I didn't think Spring 2020 could have any more surprising news but I was wrong...

 

Best way I can sum this up is that I feel like I've been here before, and for that reason am out 👍

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