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The live feed on the Guardian website has been playing some great songs including Stand Down Margaret, Glad to the Be Gay and Stand Up for Your Rights: you can wind back to hear it.
I assume the music is being broadcast in the hall.
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 14:13 - Nov 30 by DJR
The live feed on the Guardian website has been playing some great songs including Stand Down Margaret, Glad to the Be Gay and Stand Up for Your Rights: you can wind back to hear it.
I assume the music is being broadcast in the hall.
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:26 - Nov 30 by Whos_blue
I say this tongue in cheek but what I do find amusing about this fairly playful thread is that it's been set up the righties to bash the lefties but none of the lefties are supporting the YP debacle anyway, so it has fallen a bit flat!!! It's almost managed the impossible and united right and left!!!! It has made me think deeper though where disaffected righties go. Surely reform can't be the only destination for them. That's seriously sad if it is. But the tories are just sh1te. Badenoch's performance in the house this week in response to the budget where she mimicked and mocked Reeves was just pathetic. She cannot be taken seriously as a future PM, but neither can good ol' Nige. The same goes for the lefties of course. Where the f@ck do we go? Fun times.
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No need to worry, the righties still have Labour.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 14:13 - Nov 30 by DJR
The live feed on the Guardian website has been playing some great songs including Stand Down Margaret, Glad to the Be Gay and Stand Up for Your Rights: you can wind back to hear it.
I assume the music is being broadcast in the hall.
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 14:09 - Nov 30 by J2BLUE
Sadly there are plenty of people who think Reform are credible. I've made plenty of posts against Reform. Feel free to take a look back at your leisure.
I know you have and I haven't suggested otherwise. I said my comments were tongue in cheek and that the vibe of the thread was playful. Apologies if that has somehow been missed.
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness.
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It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 16:11 - Nov 30 with 392 views
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:06 - Nov 30 by DJR
I can't say I like any of the four proposed names for the Party, namely, Your Party, Our Party, For the Many, and Popular Alliance.
And I think Corbyn was right to think that a collective leadership involving no MPs (which they've opted for) is not a good way forward.
With the Greens occupying much the same space, I can't see much point for such a separate left wing party in the absence of PR.
It's also difficult to think of it having much organisation or making much impact outside the large cities, or perhaps even only in some constituencies in those cities.
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Interesting development. Such pacts are not permitted by Labour Party rules: I am not sure what line the Green's take.*
"Members of Your Party have taken a step towards an electoral alliance with the Greens after voting to adopt a “targeted” strategy of only standing in seats where the new leftwing movement founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has a good chance of winning.
While no such pact is currently in place, the decision not to have a strategy of trying to maximise the number of Your party candidates could play a role in some key battlegrounds in next year’s local elections where the vote to the left of Labour would otherwise have split.
They include Hackney, traditionally a Labour stronghold, but where Green councillor Zoë Garbett is hoping to build on momentum behind her party and succeed next year on her third attempt at winning the borough’s mayoral election."
*Having said that, at a council election where I lived, the Greens didn't put up a candidate and campaigned for us (Labour). We had to be very careful this fact didn't get back to HQ but I don't think that was the case with the Greens. Indeed, I once went to a meeting organised by Compass, where Caroline Lucas advocated that the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens should form electoral alliances.
One issue with electoral alliances is that it could prevent one voting for the party that one really wants to, which is why PR is the best answer.
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It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:57 - Dec 1 with 166 views
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:49 - Dec 1 by DJR
Interesting development. Such pacts are not permitted by Labour Party rules: I am not sure what line the Green's take.*
"Members of Your Party have taken a step towards an electoral alliance with the Greens after voting to adopt a “targeted” strategy of only standing in seats where the new leftwing movement founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has a good chance of winning.
While no such pact is currently in place, the decision not to have a strategy of trying to maximise the number of Your party candidates could play a role in some key battlegrounds in next year’s local elections where the vote to the left of Labour would otherwise have split.
They include Hackney, traditionally a Labour stronghold, but where Green councillor Zoë Garbett is hoping to build on momentum behind her party and succeed next year on her third attempt at winning the borough’s mayoral election."
*Having said that, at a council election where I lived, the Greens didn't put up a candidate and campaigned for us (Labour). We had to be very careful this fact didn't get back to HQ but I don't think that was the case with the Greens. Indeed, I once went to a meeting organised by Compass, where Caroline Lucas advocated that the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens should form electoral alliances.
One issue with electoral alliances is that it could prevent one voting for the party that one really wants to, which is why PR is the best answer.
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"Members of Your Party have taken a step towards an electoral alliance with the Greens after voting to adopt a “targeted” strategy of only standing in seats where the new leftwing movement founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has a good chance of winning.
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:57 - Dec 1 by J2BLUE
"Members of Your Party have taken a step towards an electoral alliance with the Greens after voting to adopt a “targeted” strategy of only standing in seats where the new leftwing movement founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has a good chance of winning.
I was building on the point I made about there being duplication in a non-PR system, and to be fair, the article is talking about local elections. It presumably will increase the chances of either party winning in urban areas where the Tories have no chance, given how badly Labour is doing in local elections.
And it might boost the chances of their existing MPs being re-elected if the Greens step aside but I am inclined to think that it is probably only Corbyn and Sultana who will stand much of a chance.
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It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 14:20 - Dec 1 with 147 views
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 14:15 - Dec 1 by DJR
I was building on the point I made about there being duplication in a non-PR system, and to be fair, the article is talking about local elections. It presumably will increase the chances of either party winning in urban areas where the Tories have no chance, given how badly Labour is doing in local elections.
And it might boost the chances of their existing MPs being re-elected if the Greens step aside but I am inclined to think that it is probably only Corbyn and Sultana who will stand much of a chance.
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I know. I genuinely appreciate your balanced unbiased input to these threads but that still amused me.
It's going as well as expected #YourParty on 13:54 - Nov 30 by Whos_blue
Indeed there is and no doubt more to come! It's Christmas come early! For balance I'll be looking for your threads pouring scorn on reform using the surfeit of material available about their various blunders and misdemeanours too!
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