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Who is the acceptable, electable potential Labour leader then?
I'm pretty sure it's not Angela Eagle, who is on the wrong side of a lot of the issues traditional Labour voters care about. And I don't think Owen Smith has time to give himself a profile.
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I wish I knew! I'd say it's definitely not Angela Eagle - I don't think it can be anyone who voted for the Iraq war. Sure they were mislead but they're all tainted.
I don't know a lot about Owen Smith but Labour people I respect seem to rate him, at least a lot more than Eagle. I need to read up on him more. I know @greenhell called him Mr Pfizer but apparently it was his briefings that lead Miliband to the conclusion that the Astra Zenecer merger shouldn't happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10817853/Revealed-Ed-Milibands-Pfizer-insider-in-the-shadow-Cabinet.htmlThe profile thing is the problem with all the good Labour MPs I know of - they don't really have the experience or the profile to be leader. But the party has to find a way to let them move up.
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Here's some evidence:
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/politics/opinion-polls/news/77197/labour-would-lose-snap-general-election-new-poll-suggests
If Labour can't poll ahead now - after all the mess the Tories have created recently, people still think they're a better option than Labour - they're fucked.
I'm not the political establishment or the right wing media and neither as far as I know is @andyp but we think he's unelectable. Plenty of other people I've spoken to do too and they're not the political establishment or the right wing media either.
As at Will Melling says anyone could get elected as Labour in Islington. Being elected PM is a totally different thing.