Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Some might say, that anyone who joins the Labour party using one of these £3 membership facilities, so as to be able to vote for 'hard leftist' Jeremy Corbyn and thereby try to make the Labour party unelectable, is morally participating in political election corruption (but at the lowest legal level).

There again, some others might not (say that).

But where are all the Labour Party heavyweights? We are not hearin much from them. The only ones I can recollect speaking in public and have seen speaking on TV are Blair and Brown, the ex-PMs. The latter didn't want to mention Corbyn by name. Absolutely nothing from the Milibands and other pre-GE 'has beens'.

David Milliband has come out against Corbyn and in favour of Cooper.

Doc,

What about anyone who joins the Labour party using more than one of these £3 membership facilities?

All this is down to Ed Miliband changing the leadership election rules. At least the Conservatives only put the shortlisted candidates to the party faithful after the MPs choose people who they would accept as leader. Corbyn cannot survive without the support of his MPs.

It is win win for the Conservatives. If there is a coup then Labour will tear themselves apart. If Corbyn stays leader then there will be a lunatic in charge of the opposition with the MPs defying the whip and unelectable policies.

never ever gloat as the theory and the actuality as in many areas of life never quite pans out as expected

Corbyn doesn't seem to be helping Labour

Latest Comres poll

CON 40%, LAB 29%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 4%,

The upcoming battle between the left and right of Labour is another episode of their internal struggle. Kinnock tried to kill off the Militant Tendency and Blair scrapped Clause IV. The final battle has yet to come. It won't even be resolved this time. It will take another generation before Labour decides if it continues to live in the past or move on to be a modern party.

Parties do change their nature over time. It is difficult to imagine that Lincoln was leader of the Republican party. The Democrats and Republicans held more or less opposite views to their current ones.

Q. Guess who is growing a beard?

Ans: Since they are provenly popular, it's Ed 'Corbyn' Miliband.

What a quite lovely funeral and commemoration for Cilla Black or 'Liverpool's Cinderella', as she was affectionately referred to by Jimmy Tarbuck.

Of particular note:

Famous close friends in attendance, too numerous to mention.

Absolutely stupendous singing of 'The Faithful One' and kind words said by Cliff Richard.

A brilliant personal euology from Paul O'Grady - who was invited by the bishop after telling it, to say 'Three Hail Mary's'. :-)

RIP. Cilla Black

Russell Brand has endorsed Corbyn. That is the kiss of death.

Jezzaggedon is a coming together of The Great Unwashed.

i fail to understand why these migrants are not sent back to their point of entry, even if not whence they came

SWEDEN AND SYRIAN REFUGEES
very interesting section on breakfast tv just now
sweden accepts all who get to/through their borders, which is very laudable of course and the national moral halo is shining beyond belief
however, there are now are now areas which are exclusively syrian where swedish is neither spoken nor understood; further, they cannot find jobs and children cannot find school places
just as importantly, racial tensions are now rising with the far right party swiftly gaining ground

another case of the reality not matching expectations, with more worrying aspects in its train

It is interesting that the EU estimates the black economy to increase the UK's GDP and its contribution to the EU budget but doesnt care to estimate the many thousands of economic migrants managing to reach here on the back of a lorry, or through passport exchanges, when complaining about the UK not wishing to accept an additional quota from Europe.

Corbyn quote at a Green event

He wanted “houses with gardens for everyone,” and added that “anyone who wants to be a beekeeper should be a beekeeper.”

Even if you live in a flat ?

There are quite a few Bees living in flats!

8-)