Reply to: Labour in melt down - Again

[jamesbrown]

That's still an advantage over Labour.

The Labour party is a herd of cats.

Aye. At least they're a functioning party, and it's mostly clear what they're up to, like it or not.

[SueEllen]

Only when asked at a specific point in time. Clegg doesn't agree with himself, say, before and after a referendum, likewise for Farron.

That's still an advantage over Labour.

The Labour party is a herd of cats.

[jamesbrown]

They do have the advantage that unlike Labour they would agree with each other.

Only when asked at a specific point in time. Clegg doesn't agree with himself, say, before and after a referendum, likewise for Farron.

[SueEllen]

All 8 of them? They could hold their shadow cabinet meetings in a phone box

They do have the advantage that unlike Labour they would agree with each other.

[Mordac]

You mean the LibDems were lying in their recent PPB, they're not the opposition?

All 8 of them? They could hold their shadow cabinet meetings in a phone box

[saptastic]

The joke with the Article 50 is that when he was a back bencher he was the MP who consistently voted against the party whips, and now he expects other MPs to obey him.

That is the bizarre part. I think he voted against his party more times than any other labour MP as a backbencher so how can he have credibility for a three link whip. Hypocrite.

[xoggoth]

If you want better government, vote for the Monster Raving Loony party.

[NotAllThere]

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If the Tories all got the plague and died then the official opposition is suppose to take over running the country until we can have a general election.

You think that's Komrade Korbyn's plan?

[AtW]

[vetran]

The LibDem, SNP, UKIP, Greens etc are all "the opposition" but they are not "the official opposition".

If the Tories all got the plague and died then the official opposition is suppose to take over running the country until we can have a general election.

lord help us. eekeekeek

[SueEllen]

You mean the LibDems were lying in their recent PPB, they're not the opposition?

The LibDem, SNP, UKIP, Greens etc are all "the opposition" but they are not "the official opposition".

If the Tories all got the plague and died then the official opposition is suppose to take over running the country until we can have a general election.

[NigelJK]

You mean the LibDems were lying in their recent PPB, they're not the opposition?

[SueEllen]

I don't think he does, actually, but he needs to impose it anyway and hope that Labour leavers notice. They won't.
That said, they might've noticed the universally bad press from a free vote (i.e. HM's Official Opposition with no view on the most pressing issue of our time).

Well HM Official Opposition don't have a joint view on the most pressing issue of our time.

I actually hope they lose the by-elections that have been called so Korbyn is forced to go.

[jamesbrown]

The joke with the Article 50 is that when he was a back bencher he was the MP who consistently voted against the party whips, and now he expects other MPs to obey him.

I don't think he does, actually, but he needs to impose it anyway and hope that Labour leavers notice. They won't. That said, they might've noticed the universally bad press from a free vote (i.e. HM's Official Opposition with no view on the most pressing issue of our time).

[shaunbhoy]

catapulted from the distant past (the 1970s) into the modern age, and perpetually flummoxed and baffled by new fangled things like telephones, and traffic, and the EU! He even looks the part