Labour Party Conference

But what about voting according to one’s belief and principles as Corbyn did so many times? I certaintly do not want a party where all the MP’s are nodding dogs.

Gill ??

Maw yes, I posted some photos somewhere on GN earlier this week about his weight loss. Good man.

If the Tory party brought in that ruling I would join in an attempt to have my complacent, idle MP in his safe seat deselected. As you were. ?

And Labour MP’s have to be completely loyal to Corbyn !
So no voting with your principles or your out.

Come deselections if the Hit List thread can’t be found I will post it again.

Labour conference: deselecting MPs to be made easier BBC news

Labour's annual conference has voted to make it easier for local party members to deselect sitting MPs.
Until now, Labour MPs only faced a reselection contest if 50% of a constituency's local branches and affiliated unions voted for it in a so-called "trigger ballot".
^Delegates in Liverpool voted for that threshold to be reduced to 33%.
The deselection campaign is seen by some Labour MPs as an attempt to "purge" critics of^ Jeremy Corbyn.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/12/tom-watson-lost-seven-stone-reversed-type-2-diabetes-interview

Gill

Yes, Watson has lost so much weight, I wonder if it was intended, or he isn’t well?

I saw a tv interview with Tom Watson speaking from the Labour Party conference and I didn't 'recognise him- he has lost seven stones!

With respect could we discuss the Labour conference please, the Tory conference is next week , thanks

Incorrect re payments to attend conferences, I paid my own exspenses .

Brexit should be top of the agenda this week not at the bottom.

As for knives out in the Tory party, a labour MP is having police protection due to death threats.

Grandad. Rabb was just on TV and revealed they there were no new proposals at present to solve the NI issue. That aside I don't see any point in replacing TM unless the policy is completely different. I don't really see that happening in the conference but as you say a week is a long time, TM is taking the hard line for now, are they going to vote for a softer line?.

GASP Lemongrove I agree with you!! . Brexit should be the most important item on all the parties' conference agenda, there is nothing more important or pressing.

Diana54 Quote[snip>>>>TM is secure at present<<<snip]

Diana54, as Harold Wilson famously stated: "a week can be a long time in politics". After all the so-called rallying around TM after the Saltzberg debacle, we already see the knives coming out again in the Tory party this morning.

Subtle and diplomatic at the moment but the factions are once again setting out their stalls for the party conference in a weeks time.

Very rude and completely inaccurate Diane54

Honestly paddyann your comments get more and more bizarre! If your irrational language is truly a sample of Scottish thinking, then the sooner you fall into the arms of the EU (good luck long term with that!) the better for all of us. I am though slightly puzzled, as my definition of the word independent means exactly that, no outside interference or influence, not being under any rules and regulations from an outside organization? Can't quite see how taking instructions from Brussels fits the image of 'independence'!

The only persons to get paid to attend party the Labour party conference are those directly employed by the Labour party or MPs being that all duties are part of their salary.

All others attending have their expenses only paid by their trade union branch, constituency or local Labour party branch.

Throughout the Labour movement major conferences are lay member led events and that is why the delegates at this conference will decide the party policy on having whether to have second referendum or not

And that is the way it should be.

Unfair? Not true , there are MP’s who care deeply , I know some and to say their concerns are their pay is definitely an untruth

Wouldn't expect anything else from a true Scot they don't like the sasenachs much, but in reality they hate each other even more than they hate the English.

Most unfair comment paddyann! Many MPs are hard working and committed to their job. Just because you don't like Westminster is no reason to rubbish these people. It's a hellish job these days.

Wasting their time having a conference ,they'll go back to Westminster and back everything the Tories do!!Even if they abstain to do it.Why bother turning up at all,of course they want paid .None of these parasites has the country at heart just their selfish selfs.

It's not up to them a majority in parliament will rule, there are certainly enough dissenters in all parties to ensure that

But will there a second referendum? Tories say no, Corbyn says no

Seems like ‘bugger Brexit, give me keys of No.10’

Well put Anniebach, but that is not what the Tories want, at present they call the tune. Regardless of Brexit the Tories want to stay in power they will do anything to ensure that.

TM is secure at present, when the final proposal comes to parliament it will be presented as " the best the EU will agree to", parliament will then make a decision, maybe after a second referendum and the Tories will abide by that decision, and stay in power.

That's Corbyns problem he has to win a vote of no confidence, only by persuading the Unionists to change sides is he likely to do that. Strange bed fellows, yes, but NI vested interests count first.

Poisoned chalice! Who'd want them.