[bluebellnutter]

I expect he'll win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this, to go with his Nobel Peace Prize.

[The Red Arrow]

Will he get the train to Stockholm?

[Boiler]

The drug's been approved for use in England.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50144742

[Tubby Isaacs]

So if you read that tweet of his, you'd think Good Old Boris did it personally?

[visage]

Maybe we could take the drug, dilute it a billion trillion times and then use it? WOuld be much cheaper, and would get the Jez seal of approval.

[KevS]

Sigh.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Don't worry, it all changes when "reporting restrictions" around a general election kick in. Because Labour always improves in polls when that happens.

[oboogie]

Don't worry, it all changes when "reporting restrictions" around a general election kick in.

Yes, the BBC will be forced to lift their D Notice.

[Arrowhead]

Don't worry, it all changes when "reporting restrictions" around a general election kick in.

Another thing which, in all likelihood, will be done away with if the Tories get their way.

"Finally, we can liberate our brave, free press from irksome rules and red tape!", or some such nonsense.

[Abernathy]

Great, isn't it ? Corbyn has spent the last 18 months demanding an early general election, and he probably would do so still, had not wiser counsels on political strategy (fuck knows where they came from) prevailed. Now he says he won't agree to an election unless a "No Deal" crash-out from the EU is ruled out for all eternity. It's not a bad excuse, but it's usefulness ranks alongside Salome's seventh veil increasingly as time goes by.

Tactically, denying Johnson his desire for an election (the Tories are now demanding an election because they know they'd probably rinse Labour for no other reason than that Corbyn is just unacceptable) is quite a good idea in terms of avoiding a fourth successive election defeat. But it's a really difficult idea for Labour. We can't have an immediate election with Corbyn because we would be horrifically rinsed. But our leader is still saying "come and have a go if you're hard enough"

Best to just get the election over with, bring a merciful end to the Corbyn nightmare, and get on with re-building the Labour Party and the country,.

[Boiler]

Best to just get the election over with, bring a merciful end to the Corbyn nightmare, and get on with re-building the Labour Party and the country,.

Not. A. Chance.

The only way Corbyn is going is when he ceases breathing. Rather like the old Soviet leaders.

Also, in the unlikely event of Corbyn stepping down you are still faced with the fact that the Tories will be in power, dismantling what's left of the UK to sell it to the highest bidder.

[youngian]

If the LDs hold the balance of power after a GE (a likely outcome) their price for Labour in power would be Corbyn stepping down. Which he isn’t going to do so we’ll be in the same quagmire.

[Tubby Isaacs]

To be fair, Labour will be right to tell Swinson to fuck off.

[Boiler]

To be fair, Labour will be right to tell Swinson to fuck off.

And so they bloody should. Much as JC is a liability to the PLP, the thought of Screeching Swinson acting as kingmaker really annoys me.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Labour refusing an election unless 16 and 17 year olds can vote isn't tenable at all. You can't just change the franchise via an amendment.I give that about a day.