Kezia Dugdale Got Just 5,217 Votes 1642

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The Labour Party is being remarkably coy about releasing the actual result of its Scottish accounting unit leadership election, giving only a percentage. The entirely complacent unionist media is complicit in what amounts to a deception. The stunning truth is that in a one person, one vote election among the entire membership of the Labour Party in Scotland plus trades union supporters, Dugdale won with 5,217 votes (out of a claimed electorate of 21,000, many of whom do not exist or could not be arsed to choose between two right wing numpties).

UPDATE: A second Labour figure just rang me to assure me my information – which was from a good source – is wrong. She would not give the actual figure and only said it was “higher”. I offered to take down the post and publish an accurate figure if she would give it, but this was declined.

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  • BrianFujisan

    Mary one of the good points is…. You cany be Slandered,,,,,Jon wake the fk upup You are an Empath too I Know the Empaths Aroon here… .Humanitarians Are much the same… :0

  • Mary

    This was news to me.

    REVEALED: The very cosy friendship between Iraq inquiry chief and Tony Blair – who knighted him after private meeting in London club
    Sir John Chilcot met Tony Blair in 1997 when he was leader of Opposition
    Had clandestine encounter five months before Blair became prime minister
    They worked closely together on the Northern Ireland peace process
    Chilcot was then knighted by a grateful Blair into the Order of the Bath

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3198799/The-cosy-friendship-inquiry-chief-Tony-Blair.html

    but it’s no surprise.

    Felicity Arbuthnot picked up Andrew Pierce’s article.

    Iraq Inquiry: Five Year, £10 Million Whitewash of Blair Regime?
    August 17th, 2015
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/08/iraq-inquiry-five-year-10-million-whitewash-of-blair-regime/

  • Mary

    Cheers Brian.

    Ba’al Until the troll stops the continual dropping of my name into his slime, I will carry on protesting.

  • Mary

    ‘Gutenberg’ on Medialens has been recording the anti-Corbyn propaganda being put out on terrestrial TV and elsewhere and making You Tubes. He is performing a great service by producing this record.

    The item on last night’s Channel 4 News was particularly disgusting. Cathy Newman has also participated in some anti-Muslim pieces in the past.

    ‘Tonight’s C4 News coverage of Corbyn (includes the hit-piece by Newman on his “anti-Semitic allies)’
    http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1439849893.html

    Channel 4 News is produced by ITN. See how the system works. Incestuous.
    ‘ITN is owned by ITV plc (40%), Daily Mail and General Trust (20%), Thomson Reuters (20%) and UBM plc (20%).’ Wikipedia

    The papers review on Sky News (Freeview Ch 132) last night contained more of the same knocking copy.

    ‘Latest Sky News Press Preview, with the usual anti-Corbyn smears: plus blaming Ed Miliband for creating the democratic conditions that have allowed a non Diet-Tory leadership candidate to reach such prominence and receive massive support from the general public.

    New Statesman web editor, Caroline Crampton puts in a disappointing appearance for someone who is supposed to be part of a progressive orientated publication but then we’ve already established that the N.S. is a faux liberal rag in the Guardian’s proudest tradition.’
    http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1439858403.html

    I agree with the comment on Crampton. Unimpressive. The New Statesman is a shadow of its former self. Now wholly owned by Mike Danson.

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/14/new-statesman-ownership-mike-danson-geoffrey-robinson

    ‘Michael Danson is Chairman of Progressive Digital Media Group. He founded Datamonitor, an online information company in 1989. In 2000, Datamonitor completed its flotation on the London Stock Exchange and was sold to Informa for £502 million in 2007. Previously Mike was with Strategic Planning Associates where he was a consultant in their technology practice. Mike received an MA degree from Oxford University.’
    http://www.progressivedigitalmedia.com/board.html

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Ba’al Until the troll stops the continual dropping of my name into his slime, I will carry on protesting.

    Which should safely ensure that he continues dropping his droppings. You’re much more bothered by him than he is by you. No offence. Just sayin’.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Further to the Hamas/Blair/Israel story above:

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.671642

    Israel officially denied Monday night that it is conducting direct or indirect negotiations with Hamas on a long-term cease-fire agreement.

    “There are no meetings with Hamas,” the prime minister’s bureau said in a statement, adding: “There are no direct contacts, no contacts through other countries and no contacts through intermediaries.”

    Thought so.

  • Jon

    MJ, I laughed when I saw an article on Twitter that David Miliband was going to support the candidate most to the Right. It sounded weirdly like a Private Eye report:

    A senior bear last night admitted that members of their species are prone to using wooded areas for the purposes of defecation. In other news, the highest ranking Pontiff in Rome…

  • Mary

    The sub heading on the Ha’aretz link given above reads:

    ‘At a distance, however, several initiatives are underway to check the feasibility of a ceasefire – the most important being that of former U.K. premier Tony Blair.’

    ???

  • John Goss

    The Newsweek report blaming the freedom fighters of Donetsk (which it derogatorily calls ‘rebels’) in favour of RD’s beloved fascist AZOV battalion stationed in Mariupol is almost certainly misinformation. First of all the village hit Sartana is 16 kilometres from Mariupol and about the same from Shirokino. Nobody is attacking Mariupol and this is most likely a mistake by AZOV forces, or a false flag to perpetuate the civil war and try to take more ground.

    Resident Dissident wrote a week or so after Minsk 2 was imposed that whoever was holding Shirokina at the time of the ceasefire had legitimate entitlement – thinking it was the Nazis. Unfortunately he was wrong (again). It was held by the separatists. Since then the AZOV forces have continually bombarded Shirokino. Nobody lives there any more and as a gesture of good will the separatists moved out to prevent further destruction of the village and try to stabilise the area.

    “Earlier this week Ukrainian volunteer battalions were pulled out of the front-line village of Shirokino and replaced with marines as part of an agreement to “demilitarise” the area east of Mariupol, which has seen some of the most intense fighting since February.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11776922/Ukraine-may-grant-autonomy-to-pro-Russian-separatists-in-a-bid-for-peace.html

    The source for the civilian deaths being the result of separatist frie comes from Kiev’s own government military website (МВД Украины) which has repeatedly put out false information and made hardly any information about the downing of MH17 available.

    http://lenta.ru/news/2015/08/17/gorvlovka/

    It is a bit like all the claims that were made about civilians in Donetsk firing on themselves. The people in the self-declared republics just want to live normal lives. They were doing so until a US-backed coup, supported by people like Resident Dissident, turned Ukraine into a bloodbath. No wonder he is so fond of Tony Blair. No wonder he approves so much of Guantanamo Bay, a torture prison for innocents. Only a day or two back he was trying to make out that Castro’s prisons at the same time, housing known and convicted criminals were worse than the Gulag at Guantanamo Bay. This has the usual bias but comes from a report in 2004 when Cuba allowed inspections of its prisons from selected western reporters.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-castros-prisons/

  • Ba'al Zevul

    The sub heading on the Ha’aretz link given above reads…etc…

    I was lucky enough to find the non-paywall article; my link wasn’t. The quoted part is accurate. Blair has certainly been talking to Hamas, and to Egypt. There seems to have been some Turkish involvement. And Blair is very far from being the only mediating party. Israel denies that it has any part in the proposed arrangement. The subheading may be the outcome of a a Blair press release, I don’t know. Ask them. Or just for once follow the issue in detail.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita e' bella)

    Zeus-Zevul

    Isn’t it time for some more publicity for your “Habbbreak” wheeze?

    After all, you know it works for you! 🙂

  • Ba'al Zevul

    A possible explanation for all of the above is that talks were held to establish Hamas’s position, and to see how far Egypt would cooperate with that. Certainly with Israel’s knowledge, and involving Blair as Israel’s stooge, with the full but deniable knowledge of Israel. Blair was probably motivated by a desire to retrieve his pulverised ‘reputation’- this is the very first instance of his talking to Hamas and notionally putting into practice the approach which he claims solved Ulster.

    Having established that Hamas still had the insolence to insist on Israel backing off a bit, Israel then denied any involvement whatever, and we’re back to square one. Bonus for Israel – the wedge between Fatah and Hamas driven back in. Just more smoke and mirrors from Israel, I’m afraid.

  • BrianFujisan

    Another piece from haaretz.com.

    ” Netanyahu’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who pushed hard for passage of the bill, has called hunger strikes by Palestinian security prisoners jailed for months without charge or trial “a new type of suicide terrorist attack through which they will threaten the State of Israel”.

    Only under a system as warped as apartheid, does a government need to label and treat non-violence as terrorism.”

    https://medium.com/@thepalestineproject/it-s-time-to-admit-it-israeli-policy-is-what-it-is-apartheid-e6d19bde2f58

  • YouKnowMyName

    @RD 06:12Z (early shift?)

    “selective reporting”

    Try this BBC selective reporting on the Sakashvilli ‘Russian invasion’ analysis from an Irish journo,
    http://journalitico.com/2015/08/11/recommended-reading-for-the-bbc/

    Quote

    To recap:

    no armed attack by Russia to provoke the Georgian operation
    no large-scale presence of Russian troops, despite Georgian claims
    no evidence any such Russian attack was imminent

    So why is the BBC, seven years on, publishing articles that tell an entirely different story?

    This kind of omission, which is often unnoticeable to most, is how news organisations perpetuate myths under the guise of noble truth-telling.

    A Newsweek article this week criticized Moscow’s “cunningly contrived” propaganda over Ukraine.

    Russian propagandists, the author wrote, “offer a selection of facts and put them in a framework that naturally leads the audience to the desired conclusions”.

    That sounds awfully familiar to me.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Funny how no-one else is allowed to be a victim, isn’t it, Brian?

    So, they hauled away the three Jewish firebombers and put them in ‘administrative detention’ – the euphemism for indefinite detention without charge, access or representation.

    Howls of outrage.

    http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46890/administrative-detention-and-the-assault-on-civil-liberties-opinion/

    It is one thing to selectively apply administrative orders against terrorists, but quite another to do so against citizens of the state.

    Even if they are by any definition terrorists?

    Meyer was accused of being connected with “recent terror attacks as part of a Jewish terror group”.

    http://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/statistics

  • BrianFujisan

    Dugdale slammed Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday, claiming that he lacked the credentials to become Prime Minister and would leave Labour “carping from the sidelines”. It followed reports that eight members of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet, including Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie, had said they would not serve under Corbyn.

    The SNP have asked Labour frontbenchers to explain why they were happy to work alongside the Tories during the referendum campaign, but could not contemplate working with someone from their own party who had been chosen by the membership.

    SNP MSP Linda Fabiani said: “People in Scotland will be puzzled as to why Labour front-benchers who were happy to work hand-in-glove with the Tories during the referendum campaign are now saying they would refuse to work with one of their own MPs – even if he had been democratically chosen as leader by the Labour rank-and-file.

    “The fact that they seem more comfortable with the politics of the Tories than those of Mr Corbyn totally sums up the gulf between those at the top of the Labour hierarchy and ordinary working people.”

    “Rather than focussing on fighting the Tories, Labour are content to fight amongst themselves while meekly acquiescing to the Tory’s cuts agenda at Westminster.”….

    “Given the economic situation we face where hundreds of thousands of people are underpaid and aren’t paying tax because they don’t earn enough to do so … The real question for Chris Leslie is why did you support £375bn for the banks when actually very much less would create jobs in every constituency throughout the UK, which is precisely what Jeremy Corbyn is offering by adopting this programme.”

    http://www.thenational.scot/politics/kezia-dugdale-under-fire-from-snp-after-jibes-about-jeremy-corbyn.5956

  • Miss Castello

    Mary @9:41 am; “Labour MPs are now preparing to go underground”

    The air should suit them very well.

  • John Goss

    YKMN at 10.40 am. Made me laugh. The BBC gets worse (if that’s possible). It has an agenda. As if any reporter with an ounce of decency can give credibility to the embezzler Saakashvilli (other than the Ukrainian fascists who have given him asylum and made him mayor of Odessa) and who would be in prison if he was still in Georgia. And now we know the CIA was behind the wars in which South Ossetia was eventually annexed on popular demand it all adds up.

    The author of this piece was taken in during the 2003 conflict in Georgia. A sheep no more.

    http://www.infowars.com/flashback-cia-aided-georgias-rose-revolution/

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Charismatic David Miliband today writes in the Grauniad, from his safe haven in a US aid ‘n’influence agency, that unless Labour elects Kendall as its leader, Britain will become a one-party Tory state.

    Obviously a complex thinker, then. Or a homeopath? An infinitely-diluted dose of socialism, such that one molecule of it cannot be found in the solution, will restore a pluralistic democracy not based on the trickle-up effect?

    He adds that the growth-giving goodness of globalisation must be tempered with the correction of inequality. See (again):

    http://jubileedebt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-new-debt-trap_07.15.pdf

    for an account of why growth depends on the perpetuation of inequality.

  • MJ

    “eight members of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet, including Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie, had said they would not serve under Corbyn”

    If invited, they should have added.

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