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    Should get some words of wisdom on QT tomorrow as Jacob is on
    All comers, all grounds, all beaten!

    This perfect mix of poetry and destruction.

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    Been renamed Torytime,i have every faith it will be massively biased again, infact i expect it to be even more so tomorrow no doubt crowd full of loud mouthed brexiteers getting all the airtime,1.01...

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    Use of the term 'Vassal State.'

    Spread is 4-6. I'm buying.
    "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew.

    And that small head knew that Impaire Et Passe would win the Champion Hurdle."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frankel View Post
    Should get some words of wisdom on QT tomorrow as Jacob is on
    The most interesting words of wisdom he could give us, as he doesn't ride the Irish horses for Mounir and Suede, is whether Ruby rides Footpad in the Champion Chase or the Ryanair. Get more jockeys on and it would be the best Question Time ever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maruco View Post
    The most interesting words of wisdom he could give us, as he doesn't ride the Irish horses for Mounir and Suede, is whether Ruby rides Footpad in the Champion Chase or the Ryanair. Get more jockeys on and it would be the best Question Time ever!
    Jacob says Min goes Champion Chase if that helps
    All comers, all grounds, all beaten!

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    Been revealed last week the bbc edited out the snp replys to that horrible unionist plant,this editor fueller seems to be a supporter of the right as well,dearie me it just gets worse..

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    My sister in law was at last week's episode and apparently it was heavily edited all round.

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    So transparent,i said after very first episode bruce hosted something was going on,then today we get the leading question again chuchill hero or villiain really is so puerile although tonights programme was hardly going to be controversial with lisa nandy in a leave constituency,another east ride fior government,expect more of the same forever...

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    What an awful coward that chuka umunna is,resigning alongside another few self serving labour mps with smirks all over his face who won't stand in by elections what a waste of space those lot are,in all probability handing the torys another 5 years in power dearie me,pathetic.I wonder how big this movement will be,be forgotten about in 6 months time awful people.Good luck trying to get elected
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    Agreed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gigilo View Post
    What an awful coward that chuka umunna is,resigning alongside another few self serving labour mps with smirks all over his face who won't stand in by elections what a waste of space those lot are,in all probability handing the torys another 5 years in power dearie me,pathetic.I wonder how big this movement will be,be forgotten about in 6 months time awful people.Good luck trying to get elected
    Reading the above just about summarises why so many life-long Labour voters, like myself, despair of the current state of the party. Show any dissent to the leadership and you are just abused... words like "coward", "self-serving","smirks", "waste of space", and "pathetic."
    FWIW, I like many of Corbyn`s policies but as a leader and potential PM...no thanks. He, unfortunately, not the resigning MP`s, is the reason the Tories are likely to win any General Election. And they are, by a country mile, the worst government in living memory and, probably of all time. In normal times they would be polling on a par with The Monster Raving Loony Party. Yet they are ahead of Labour in the polls and favourites with the bookies. Why? Incidentally, I would be grateful if any responses would go easy on the abuse!

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    Not even a corbyn supporter he's useless,chuka ummuna had the chance to stand as party leader and bottled it really is pathetic he couldn't stop smirking today was loving it mainly for the fact he couldn't get the peoples vote through which i probably did more footwork than him.I'm not really interested in corbyn or mcdonnell they are irrelevant both 70 and won't be around much longer,policies are the main thing and getting in,these mainly blairites just put another spanner in the works instead of trying to do something constructive,absolutely pointless and won't even stand in by ekections either,just a joke..

    The alternative is don't vote labour in and keep the tories in with Johnson,Gove,Javid etc who will be even worse and aroubd for a lot longer leading the country no thanks i'd rather take corbyn for two years then someone else take over..
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    See this Angela smiths already having a complete nightmare referring to coloured people as being of a funny tinge you couldn't make this **** up,apologizing on socail media another bunch of misfits,see she also opposes any more greater regulation on fracking in national parks as well what a lovey person..definitely in the wro.ng party to start with.What a **** show.
    This could be the shortest party in history,no doubt a few sly tories have talked chuka into believing they would join up,doesn't he know you can never trust a tory..

    Am already on Tory majority at 9/4 you could be looking at 3s on by the end of the year..obvioisly don't want it to happen so at least make a few quid if it does the agenda now looks set thiugh through the media etc..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desperate Dan View Post
    I like many of Corbyn`s policies but as a leader and potential PM...no thanks.
    I know many Labour supporters who are the opposite though, Dan. Thirsty... after years of austerity, to see their party back in power.
    We've had salesman and spin doctors running the country for a long time now, Jeremy Corbyn is the antithesis to this.
    He was one of a select few who was against the worst foreign policy decision of all time, to invade Iraq in 2003.

    I wonder how many of our current parliamentarians can say that? They're a dying breed.

    What would Robin Cook think of all this were he still alive...? For our younger members, Robin Cook was the bloke who told Tony Blair not to invade Iraq, but instead got the sack for watching the 2000 guineas in The Foreign Office (probably while Tony Blair was out in Camp David meeting George W Bush), and died shortly afterwards.

    The Labour Party made its choice to go back to an old-left party when they put Jeremy Corbyn in, (thanks in part to how far Tony Blair was to the right), now it's time they seen it through.

    To hell with the dissenters I say.
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    Surely all​ Labour supporters want the party back in power. But the point is that the majority of the electorate see Corbyn`s leadership as a liability and I suspect the majority of Labour supporters, however loyal, feel the same.

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    Who knows what the majority really think though, Dan?

    What the majority think changes from one day to the next.
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    With Britain as it currently stands I can't see Corbyn ever getting sufficient popular vote to win an election. Not enough people in the country want to go back in time to the 1970's.

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    That's all fine and well, Sim.

    But again, I say, with Trump ,Brexit, etc, uncertainty reigns and anything is possible.

    The idea he personally can control every Labour supporters view on Isreal, like some sort of version of Chairman Mao is a bit far fetched isn't it?

    How many racists and islamophobes in the Tory Party don't utter their misgivings just because Theresa May or Tory Central Office tells them to stop?
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    The man is talking about wealth redistribution - something that hasn't been in the Labour manifesto since the 80's and for good reason.

    I support the SNP's brand of socialism up here as it is far more realistic - for instance I applauded the decision to only increase council tax for the top 4/5 bandings in order to create more money but not have the poorest shouldering the burden - my council tax was oone of those that was increased as a result - but that's what socialism should be about for me - those with more paying in a reasonable amount more.

    Corbyn wants the lot and he can **** right off.

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    I say. How many more will jump ship.
    All comers, all grounds, all beaten!

    This perfect mix of poetry and destruction.

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