He still hasn’t won an election, but Izzard replaces Shawcroft on the NEC and finally makes it to an official Labour Party position…
Another failed campaign for Eddie Izzard as the leftists win Labour’s NEC election. The Corbynista candidates won by miles…
A huge step in the Lansman-isation of Labour…
The Labour party should be “more forthright” on Iran @eddieizzard speaking to @JPonpolitics on @bbc5live this morning pic.twitter.com/8V8hrKBFbZ
— BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) January 7, 2018
Missed this yesterday. Alas suspect this may be another unsuccessful Izzard cause…
Jon Lansman and the Momentum slate for Labour’s NEC election will be thrilled to hear their competition comes in the form of serial loser Eddie Izzard. ‘Experienced’ candidate Izzard is notorious for his electoral kiss-of-death. His campaign record in full…
- Join the Euro;
- Elect Ken Livingstone;
- Win 2010 General Election for Gordon Brown;
- Vote Yes in the AV referendum;
- Win 2015 General Election for Ed Miliband;
- Elect Andy Burnham as Labour leader;
- Remain in the EU.
You could say Lansman’s got the momentum in this race…
The Labour moderates, formerly known as Blairites, are crying into their mocha lattes this morning that Eddie Izzard not only lost out (as usual) on getting a place on the NEC, he also cost them up to three seats and any chance of a majority.
The two charts above show the clean sweep of the top six places by the the hard-left (reds). If Izzard’s votes were redistributed to the moderates (pinkos), which is mathematically possible if not probable, they would have won three more seats and regained control of the NEC. “It was Izzard wot lost it for the moderates. Had that ego-maniac not run, we’d have had 71,000 more votes up for grabs that could have gone to moderates. He’s basically given an NEC seat to the Corbynistas. When it comes to politics, Eddie is a very good comedian” laments a Blairite die-hard. By Guido’s calculations if just over half of Izzard’s votes had gone to moderates, Ellie Reeves, Bex Bailey and Johanna Baxter would be holding the line against the Corbynistas on the NEC…
The Owen Smith-supporting Labour First faction emailed supporters optimistically that
Contrary to some of the online and media reaction, this does not give full control of the NEC to Corbyn. There is a net change of just one seat as the PLP section saw a seat go from left to right. When the new NEC takes office after Annual Conference, the solid vote for the Hard Left will be 16 if they all turn up, with 17 others. Thus NEC meetings will continue to be finely balanced and hinge on the personal decisions of the more independent-minded members like Ann Black, and the stance taken by the GMB and Unison. We will win some votes and lose others just like we did in the pre-leadership election meeting.
Though they go on to say pointedly
If we can avoid a split moderate vote in future contests (Eddie Izzard ran as an independent when we would have been happy to support him if he had asked us) that will help!
It woz Izzard wot lost it…
Eddie Izzard has lost his bid for a seat on Labour NEC’s, falling 12,000 votes short of victory. There were six places up for grabs, he came eighth in the running, behind all the Corbynista candidates. That Izzard campaign record in full:
- join the euro
- elect Ken Livingstone
- elect Gordon Brown
- vote Yes in the AV referedum
- elect Ed Miliband
- elect Andy Burnham as Labour leader
- Remain in the EU
- run for Labour’s NEC
The lipstick kiss of death strikes again…
That Eddie Izzard campaign record in full:
- join the euro
- elect Ken Livingstone
- elect Gordon Brown
- vote Yes in the AV referedum
- elect Ed Miliband
- elect Andy Burnham as Labour leader
- Remain in the EU
The lip-sticked kiss of death strikes again…
Last week’s competition winner is “Axolotls For Britain” (@haraldfairhair), with “and I said to the Judge “Look love – I’m a very private person!” Can he email andrew.barrett@messagespace.co.uk for his copy of “Donald Trump: The Rhetoric“..
Please try to rise above the usual rubbish that some of you lot think is wit.
On Sunday the Labour Party told Channel 4 News that they “never spent any mone y putting volunteers up in hotels during tours” in the general election. Channel 4 reported that “so far no evidence has emerged to contradict them”. Until now…
On April 20 2015, Eddie Izzard travelled to Leeds North West to campaign on behalf of Labour candidate Alex Sobel. As you can see above, Izzard had pictures taken with the candidate, in front of posters bearing the candidate’s name. There can be no doubt this was local campaigning…
Yet the invoice above shows Labour’s national campaign paid for Izzard’s hotel in Leeds on April 20. This is a flagrant breach of the rules – Izzard was an activist who campaigned for a local candidate, so his hotel bill should have been declared as part of the candidate’s local spend. It also shows Labour’s claim that they never put activists up in hotels to be untrue. Just because Izzard is a celebrity doesn’t mean he isn’t an activist, the rules still apply…
Labour are only accepting “cisgender” applications for their party conference in Liverpool in September. Attendees are being forced to revert to their anatomical birth-gender, warning “gender must match your passport”. While the party claims “this does not discriminate” against non-gender normative delegates, it means non-binaries won’t be able to self-identify with their “true” gender expression. What will Eddie Izzard do?
Not content with giving the lipstick kiss of death to the euro, Ken, Gordon, Yes to AV, Miliband and Burnham, Eddie Izzard is running for Labour’s NEC. They’re a bunch of comedians…
The Staggers reports Eddie will be the moderate candidate fighting the far-left Momentum slate:
The entry of Izzard into the race will come as a blow to the Grassroots Alliance, the left slate backed by Momentum… [Izzard] describes himself as a “radical moderate. I do radical things with a moderate message”.
Like the Iran-Iraq war, it’s a pity they can’t both lose.
Having already doomed the campaigns to:
- join the euro
- elect Ken Livingstone
- elect Gordon Brown
- vote Yes in the AV referedum
- elect Ed Miliband
- elect Andy Burnham as Labour leader
… Eddie Izzard has been wheeled out by the Remain campaign tonight, just as Leave go ahead with ICM. The lipstick kiss of death returns…
Labour’s favourite transvestite Eddie Izzard has continued his run of cursing campaigns with star-crossed endorsement. Having already doomed the campaigns to:
- join the euro
- elect Ken Livingstone
- Gordon Brown
- vote Yes side in the AV referedum
- elect Ed Miliband
… Who was Eddie backing for Labour leader?
A curse worthy of Jonah himself. The lipstick kiss of death…
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Eddie Izzard is a backer of hopeless causes ranging from joining the euro, voting for Ken Livingstone, Gordon Brown, the Yes side in the alternative vote referendum and now of course Ed Miliband. Guido was therefore highly perturbed when Izzard managed to be, for once, on the winning side in the Scottish independence referendum thus devaluing his use as a negative predictive tool. Fear not, all is once again right.
After urging his Twitter followers to vote for the Democrats they had a bad night and the Republicans took control of the Senate…
