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.
House of Lords
All crooked politicians want to be Lords. The system won’t work if your crooked deeds are not rewarded with a bit of ermine and tights. Tory principle no. 1 is that unless you totally excessively soak the rich, they won’t get in their Bentleys at 05.30 every morning and drive up to town to make jobs for people. Why ever should they?
Brian Fujisan
Let me assure that if Kylie had offered free concert tickets in Scotland they would have been snapped up even quicker – even leaving aside national stereotypes.
Same way the HasbaraBeach Bum feigns faux Zionist nonchalance about Jeremy Corbyn, so Craig is feigning faux SNP nonchalance about him.
In fact you’ll probably find that some Oxbridge educated Tory intern somewhere in Whitehall has suggested letting Corbyn off his muzzle and lead purely to divide the Scots whether to take the high road or the low road to socialism.
Divide and rule. Isn’t that what they teach them?
Suhayl
I was intending to ask you for n opinion on Carter/cancer and cancer in general but you have anticipated me.
Thank you for your very informative post.
I cannot resist the temptation to “wonder” in turn whether Lysias’ “wondering” was an innocent enquiry expressed indirectly or whether it was a bit of his usual mischief about matters nuclear in so far as they concern the United States and its military in particular.
After all, if he had a specific question, he could have phrased his comment as a question (as I was going to). If he was genuinely just wondering to himself then I in turn wonder why he should think fit to tell us about it on this blog.
Anyway, thanks again for your post.
HellAviv
threehold = threshold
A famous zionist shrinkian slip. When you buy a house on mortgage, you will pay the zio-bankers three times your house value on top of the cost price in interest.
It may of course be that the holder of several higher degrees feels it beneath him to ask specific questions of us ordinary folk 🙂
“In fact you’ll probably find that some Oxbridge educated Tory intern somewhere in Whitehall has suggested letting Corbyn off his muzzle and lead purely to divide the Scots whether to take the high road or the low road to socialism.”
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Absolutely correct, Giyane – it’s all a conspiracy (yet again!)
Chump.
“When you buy a house on mortgage, you will pay the zio-bankers three times your house value on top of the cost price in interest.”
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I always thought tht on a 20 year mortgage you would finally pay back, in total, about double the actual purchase price.
The only “three times” perhaps relates to your Chump rating, Giyane.
Suhayl
You’ll already be taking the troll’s thankyou with a large pinch of Dead sea salt without me pointing out that Israel is 2 hours earlier that BST and he’s thanking you for relieving him from the combined boredom of a CM blog Sunday morning and apartheid Israel.
When are you coming home to pluralist England, HasbaraBeachBum?
I do not have a mortgage BoredBum. It’s haram.
Champ?
Unlike the Chevrolet – unsafe at any speed – the Champ is a robust old 4 x 4 machine. What’s it like living in the fantasy land of racist Israel, HasbaraBeachBum?
Thanks for your informed opinion and information Suhayl, could you tell us whether laboratories still use lactose to multiply and cultivate cancer cells for experiments.
should we drink less milk and get our calcium from elsewhere?
@ Brian Fujisan, that link shows how toxic new Labour has become and I would like to thank JC here and now for expressing what some 61% of the population wants, a more safer world.
The idea that Britain would be attacked if it had no nuclear deterrent is laughable, there are no reactions without actions and the only thing to show the world how useless these weapons are to humanity, is to unilaterally dismiss nuclear weapons, all of them.
Build a couple of molten salt reactors and turn their destructive power into energy.
So sad to see new Labours candidates make a mockery out of the election, just because they are not front runners, what a miserable bunch. If they don’t accept the public mood behind JC’s popularity, why are they still in it?
That JC has so much support is down to them, their inabilities to express themselves in clear terms, waffling on about prosperity and how they would follow Tory policies step by step, including the NHS privatisation plans.
Look at all this self congratulation from Tory land, after 100 days of u-turns, welfare kills and pocketing of state assets into 206 Lords and ladies who’s interest lies with privatising the NHS. with 180 of them being Tories.
Chloe meeting her supporters….
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/opinion_divides_on_tories_first_100_days_1_4195195
“I do not have a mortgage BoredBum. It’s haram.”
But you can have ijara with the lease payments being a multiple of the property cost – in terms of cash flows there is very little difference.
It took one week flat to flush out all the Tories in the Labour party and today another one of them chimed in, wheeled out of lucrative retirement and forced to say something, or else some uncomfortable news might be spun to operation yewtree, rightly or wrongly, just spinning it would cause him enough problems.
Why would Gordon Brown wait until ballot papers are filled out, why speak out so late? I don’t believe he is speaking up on his own account, he’s been wheeled out under duress, imho.
Of course in terms of total cashflows you will find that the Islamic banks and those offering Islamic products often do rather better than their non Islamic counterparts – but that is one scandal that Guano may wish to keep quiet.
“Why would Gordon Brown wait until ballot papers are filled out, why speak out so late? I don’t believe he is speaking up on his own account, he’s been wheeled out under duress, imho.”
I suspect the ballot papers will not start arriving until tomorrow, so I doubt none have been filled in yet.
I wonder if Nevermind realises how stupid he looks accusing anyone in the Labour Party who does not support Corbyn of being a Tory? Are only two political philosophies possible in this world – his own and the rest?
So Cameron still wants to appoint more troughers to the House of Lords, does he really?
The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said just 10 members of the upper chamber were responsible for claiming £236,000 of the expenditure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/16/house-of-lords-expenses-no-voting_n_7993740.html?1439714518&utm_hp_ref=uk
Huffington post did not mention them by name, but it is irrelevant as their vested interest determines their votes at all times, with the only mechanism for regulation being threats to expose their personal peccadilloes, hallo Lord sewell.
I’m sure its not beyond our collective to find out who’s been sitting at home, busy filling out claim forms, maybe with some advice from Lord Hanningfield should they need it.
Haven’t you got your ballot paper yet, RD weasel?
If Kezia’s 5,217 was 72.1% of the vote, then SLAB membership is a maximum of 7,235 without allowing for double-voting Notably, they did not (as last time) give the voting percentages to three decimal places. From that it was possible to infer a membership of about 10,000, again not allowing for double-voting.
Membership of 6,000 at most is a reasonable guess. It could be less than 5,000. Kezia shouldn’t have too much trouble finishing them off.
No – I think you will find that Mr Goss is the weasel (aka WSL or Mr Thornett’s happy bunch of infiltrators).
“Voters would more likely back Labour in an election under leadership front runner Jeremy Corbyn than any of his rivals, a new poll reveals.
The findings cast doubt on suggestions that Socialist stalwart Corbyn would send Labour into “annihilation” if elected, as predicted earlier this week by ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/14/jeremy-corbyn-would-win-more-votes-at-general-election-poll-finds_n_7989800.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics
This latest poll merely confirms that the public mood and opinion has clearly changed since the election. Tory u-turns have angered OAPs, who now have to pay for care by selling their houses and their opinion is changing.
It confirms that Blair is just out on a personal damage control exercise talking trash as usual, his Angst and foreboding rubbish very much reflected here.
Thanks to JC, the Tories in the Labour party, the apologists for Osborne and IDF’s suicide inducing welfare cuts, who shadow anything and everything that comes from the Conservatives, hallo Harriet Harmann, they all need to be PIE’d.
Nevermind
16/08/2015 10:48am
Many thanks for this.
Do we take it that Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, Chuka Umunna, and the rest, will now shut the fuck up?
What do you think?
Kind regards,
John
Surely Corbyn is Labour’s best chance of regaining credibility, in Scotland certainly.
And yet, Blair: “The party is walking eyes shut, arms outstretched, over the cliff’s edge to the jagged rocks below. This is not a moment to refrain from disturbing the serenity of the walk on the basis it causes ‘disunity’. It is a moment for a rugby tackle if that were possible.”
Sounds rather sinister. Something like this in mind, Tony? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXXDft_yTA
I’m not so sure JSD, if they have any nous, they are as quiet about JC as they are about their torture records.
But you have to weigh this up against their inbuilt automaton, which straightens their jelly spines up, grimaces a tawdry smile and opens their mouth whenever a camera appears in front of them, so we might be subjected to more of the same.
Do you believe these top money wasters should still be listened to, getting the air of a flat lining hysteric media?
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/aug/13/egyptian-officials-could-face-london-arrest-massacres-lawyers
Bearing in mind a petition that ‘ somebody previously ‘ had been enquiring about , I wonder whether a neighbour in the region is also in urgent consultations with the UK Government about their travel plans in September ?
Thank heavens for video-conferencing ,eh ?
Nevermind
16/08/2015 11:30am
Well, the good news is that the electorate is clearly not listening to them. You’re right – it seems that the wider they open their mouths, the more approval Corbyn collects.
Of course, they could do something else, if they honestly care about the Labour Party as they profess to. They could get behind Jeremy Corbyn. If he’s popular with the Labour Party and popular with the electorate, they could get behind him and do their very best to ensure that the Labour Party under Corbyn does not lose the momentum and popularity that it apparently has at the moment. They could show solidarity for the sake of the party, and bury the philosophical and ideological differences they apparently have with other members of the party for the sake of its electability, as the Left has been told to do for the last thirty years or so.
Any chance of that, I wonder.
Kind regards,
John
Do you remember Bryan Gould, another decent Labour leader we never had like John McDonnell? They lost out to the neoliberal NuLiebourites.
There is a nice conversation on Medialens about an article by Bryan Gould.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1439682430.html
A Corbyn leadership
14th August 2015
http://londonprogressivejournal.com/article/view/2265/a-corbyn-leadership
John Monro, one of the commenters, is a NZ GP. This is his biog on Medialens.
My name is John Monro. I am a GP, living in Wellington, New Zealand, and in my sixtieth year. I have four daughters, and I would like to see us bequeathe to them, and everyone else’s daughters and sons, a world worth living in. I have a strong ethical committment to a sustainable future, and I believe that such a future, far from being an expensive option is an economic necessity. I have a web site, http://homepage.mac.com/j.monro which you are welcome to browse.
“They could get behind Jeremy Corbyn. If he’s popular with the Labour Party and popular with the electorate, they could get behind him and do their very best to ensure that the Labour Party under Corbyn does not lose the momentum and popularity that it apparently has at the moment. They could show solidarity for the sake of the party, and bury the philosophical and ideological differences they apparently have with other members of the party for the sake of its electability, as the Left has been told to do for the last thirty years or so.”
On the other hand they could behave just like Jeremy Corbyn has done since he came into Parliament?
Resident Dissident
16/08/2015 11:45am
What did he do during the 2010 leadership election that was as objectionable as what the neo-cons have done during this one?
Kind regards,
John