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Berni
11-19-2015, 09:55 AM
review based on no expertise beyond the fact that he opposes Trident, causing yet more policy confusion and open infighting. The current chair of the defence review and shadow defence secretary was not consulted about this.

Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones then complained publicly about this, at which point Ken Livingstone decided it would be funny to counter with a slur about the man's publicly-acknowledged clinical depression.

Livingstone then refuses to apologise for this in interviews, only doing so later via twitter. He then follows this up by saying he only did so because he was told to by Corbyn and then basically distances himself from his own 'apology', bizarrely calling Kevan Jones 'Jeremy' several times in the process.

And still nobody knows what Labour's policy on Trident actually is.

:hehe: :clap: I am honestly struggling to find words to describe Labour at the moment, but 'omnishambles' and 'clusterf**k' are certainly right up there.

stoner
11-19-2015, 09:59 AM
still not asked my question to the pm whether boris was at the other end of the pig and did they high five when changing ends.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:02 AM
back end, since the sphincters have all been removed, meaning a lack of traction. Also, if it had been cooked, it would be rather dry.

How the devil are you, old chum? Still in Essex?

Rich
11-19-2015, 10:03 AM
destructive it would be for the party. Surely they have to get rid of him now?

Labour are not going to be electable for decades :cloud9:

Monty91
11-19-2015, 10:04 AM
Andrew Neil: “Given Labour’s response to the issue of national security and Syria, do you have confidence in Jeremy Corbyn?”

John Mann: “I have total confidence in Hilary Benn.”

Andrew Neil: “So you have confidence in your foreign affairs
spokesman Hilary Benn, but not in your leader Jeremy Corbyn?”

John Mann: “Jeremy has confidence in Hilary as well.”

Andrew Neil: “But you can’t bring yourself to say you have confidence in Jeremy Corbyn.”

John Mann: “I have huge confidence in Jeremy allowing Hilary to lead on Syria.”

:clap:

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:04 AM
In the front, naturally. I'm not claiming vagina dentata for the suckling pig.

Billy Goat Sverige
11-19-2015, 10:05 AM

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:07 AM
NTTAWWI, of course.

stoner
11-19-2015, 10:07 AM
i'm all good, IT network down at work so taken day off and killing time before doing a spot of shopping and perchance visiting the pub. wd the pub.

still in chelmsford. it's not bad, crawling with spurs and ukip though. hows things?

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:08 AM
man up. The strategy is clearly to keep Corbyn in office for as long as possible, while every day he strips Labour of thousands more voters :clap:

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:09 AM
I mean I've got my fingers crossed and everything, but it seems too much to hope that he'll last much longer.

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:09 AM
And One In The Tree?

Red N White Army
11-19-2015, 10:10 AM

Pat Vegas
11-19-2015, 10:11 AM
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQICwu5RB5sVJr5vCfDzkOfQFIxmLHS8 KgI9GokykHOtwwSKFrcGQ

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:11 AM
Place called Ware. Distressingly close to Harlow, but the right side of the border.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:12 AM

stoner
11-19-2015, 10:13 AM
you could buy inflatable sheep from a vending machine in the toilet. i managed to throw it into the goal. top 5 proudest moment of my life.

stoner
11-19-2015, 10:16 AM
will be relegated if we go up.

it's not as much fun as it used to be. banter level very poor.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:16 AM
but ambiguous platitudes and not say anything that sounded like equivocation, but he just couldn't manage it, could he?

It's like he's got lefty Tourette's or something.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:18 AM
years. I think it may have perished by now.

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:19 AM
The same relentless self-loathing. The same air of glib detachment. The same sanctimony.

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:20 AM
I expect he still remembers us, tbh.

Billy Goat Sverige
11-19-2015, 10:20 AM
Quote:



The very serious events in Paris right now could hamper the climate summit in December when more than 100 heads of government are scheduled to participate





That was about 1 hour after the attacks :hehe:

She's from the Green Party, obviously.

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:21 AM

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:23 AM

Sir Charlie of Nicholas
11-19-2015, 10:25 AM

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:25 AM

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:27 AM
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03436/corbyn_3436332b.jpg

Monty91
11-19-2015, 10:29 AM
unrealistic that he could summon enough support to make him a electable?

Rich
11-19-2015, 10:32 AM
to power. It'd be an utter humiliation for the British people.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:34 AM
London leftists at heart and will thus fall for anything a bit P.I.N.K.

Thankfully, the rest of the country is not like this.

Ashberto
11-19-2015, 10:41 AM
My considered and balanced views only appear left-wing to those to the right of the proverbial Ghengis Khan.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:44 AM
political commissar under Stalin. On many issues, I find myself in agreement with you. However, you seem to have a blind spot when it comes to Mr Corbyn.

Ashberto
11-19-2015, 10:47 AM
because I find the gleeful, braying dogpiles unseemly, and in some cases because he genuinely has a point worth making. Liberty is not something to be disposed of lightly, and sometimes we need to be reminded of this even when the prevailing wind is howling for a police state.

Berni
11-19-2015, 10:55 AM
Islamist terror is utterly undermined by his openly Islamist sympathies. That is the real issue here, not whether liberty should be sacrificed for security.

Luis Anaconda
11-19-2015, 11:28 AM
Seen the test squad?

Rich
11-19-2015, 12:47 PM
up top first and then move to Compton if that doesn't work?

Compton and Cook are hardly the most exciting opening pair to grace the test match arena.

Luis Anaconda
11-19-2015, 12:54 PM
Get the basher between the two solid batsmen mightn't be a bad move. Balance can only be going as cover surely

Rich
11-19-2015, 01:07 PM
pretty lively tracks.

Luis Anaconda
11-19-2015, 01:11 PM
Bit pissed off Jordan has sneaked in there above Plunkett. Would love to see Footit get a chance though