Labour Leadership 2016

I thought it would be good to stop derailing the Brexit thread.

I quite like Mary Creagh, she was new in 2010, and as such doesn't carry too much baggage from the Blair era. Also, not privately educated, has experience working in Brussels. I also think a woman would be good in a parliament that is still dominated by old, male voices.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Creag­h

I also like Angela Eagle, partly for her brilliant performance against Cameron when she took PM questions. Though she does have baggage from the Brown administration, she might be a better unity candidate having also served under Corbyn without getting sacked.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Eag­le

The problem we have is that the Blair /Brown years are toxic, so anyone with any experience of government is tainted, but we need some experience in the Cabinet. Any ideas?

Anyone who can come up with a viable strategy for joining together the two halves of labour voters. Those who were super keen on remain and like living in multi cultural places like Hackney and those who were super keen on leave and want to turn Britain back to how it looked for working class people in the 60s before globalisation and international competition.

Seems like quite a heroic task.

Benn was a cunt. Still

Benn's a compelling speaker and has alot of respect and authority in the party, however he's a bit old, white and male, and I don't really like political dynasties. Definitely in the new cabinet, though.

If we;re going for teh famous dad vote, I'd go for Kinnock.

Benn is known only for warmongering, backstabbing and shitting all over the memory of his father. If he has a lot of respect and authority in the party, the suggestions that Labour should be wound up as a busted flush are right on the money.

Kinnock. How Many elections did he lose again? lols

I think there's a tory thread somewhere if you want to bash labour. any suggestions for the new leader?

Kinnock's younger, and less associated with the metropolitan middle class elite that has lost support in the north. But yeah, not high on my list.

So any criticism of your heroes is Labour-bashing and not permitted? Please explain the other rules for your thread, you utter fanny.

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"the suggestions that Labour should be wound up as a busted flush are right on the money."

It's just a bit defeatest. I'm trying to be optimistic that the party I have always supported can bounce back and win an election, an election that might happen before the new year.

I didnt say Benn was my hero, I said I didn't want him as leader even though he was respected in the party. And I'm not a fanny, although I think fannies are nice and take that as a compliment :)

Yeh, let's have the son of one of the least successful Labour leaders ever and who happens to be married to the ex-PM of Denmark. That should attract the Leave vote.

THey kind of need Ed Milliband, but with a bit of charisma and not odd-looking. Where could they find that, hmm? But I agree, the Blair association would be pretty toxic, especially with Chilcott coming up....

Stoner Tom

Dom Jolly's not let himself go.

From Twitter:
Tom Watson is the only person to leave Glastonbury to wade through a field of shit.

Kinnock Jr. did appear to be more engaged than Sajid Javid over the Tata Port Talbot / Chinese steel crisis.
But, not in favour of political dynasties.
(Local MP Nick Hurd, fellow Bullingdon member with CalledMeDave & De Pfeiffel,
son of Douglas, ice-cream haired Spitting Image Thatcher-era Tory,
is the fourth successive generation in his male line to be an MP.
And, we were led to believe that IDS was stamping down hard on inter-generational welfare dependency?)

My reaction to the referendum was to join the labour party. I'm 43 and have never previously been a member of the labour party. I was a member of the revolutionary communist party when I was 17; sadly we all grow up.

So I want to influence the labour party and hope they can be something more than a side show car crash in British politics. So far, I'm with Angela Eagle.

Keir Starmer, would normally be on any shortlist,
but,
as we* need a non-Metropolitan elite, non-expert, 'Man-of-the-People',
without any verifiable experience of representing or working for 'the People',
he is a non-starter.
(* MSM determined, 'must be wiling to self-reconcile with provincial racist).

That Jeremy Corbyn fella seems like a good shout.

For what? Geography teachers need not apply.