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Started by Maxi, November 03, 2019, 00:07:24 AM

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baldy

Oh, I stand corrected.  Then there is every chance Labour members can vote for a non-Momentum candidate.

I'm unsure why lots of professional commentators keep saying that Momentum controls the party then.
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Shizzy

Quote from: baldy on January 14, 2020, 14:28:40 PM


I'm unsure why lots of professional commentators keep saying that Momentum controls the party then.

Because they use bully boy tactics to intimidate the membership and MP's they don't like.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/18/revealed-how-increasingly-powerful-momentum-is-transforming-labour
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Michael

Quote from: Shizzy link=topic=5044.msg56566#msg56566 date=1579013994

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/18/revealed-how-increasingly-powerful-momentum-is-transforming-labour
/quote]This article is nearly two years old and has been disproved. Momentum is owned by a Labour Party member and is not the force that it first was. It still has support and its members work very hard in elections but in effect it is a lobby group.

Shizzy

All far-right and far-left parties need thugs to enforce their beliefs, and to intimidate those that won't toe the party line. Hitler had the brown shirts and Labour has Momentum.
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Michael

Quote from: Shizzy on January 15, 2020, 15:49:56 PM
All far-right and far-left parties need thugs to enforce their beliefs, and to intimidate those that won't toe the party line. Hitler had the brown shirts and Labour has Momentum.
To quote Mark Twain "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"

Shizzy

Don't' be too hard on yourself Michael, you're not an idiot, delusional but not an idiot.
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baldy

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Mark Carney says Boris Johnson's general election win has prompted a 'rebound in business confidence' in Britain and admits Brexit could boost the UK economy

Mail Online:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8004129/Mark-Carney-says-Boris-Johnsons-election-win-helped-UK-economy-rebound.html
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