General Election 2019

I like Thornberry. She’s calm and articulate etc but I don’t think she’s electable after the Sun front page. Sadly it cements the narrative they’ll use against her and there’s nothing she can do about that.

Famously, life expectancy varies by over ten years between adjacent streets in Islington. Also in Camden.

EDIT: At least it did about ten years ago when I worked for those respective NHS trusts. Might have changed since.

Should have been hung drawn and quartered imho.

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I mean. Stop me when you get a bit bored of looking at how shit bits of the UK are.

Would have thought Thornberry’s pro remain stance would be a serious issue?

That’s completely true actually. But what was the tweet about if it wasn’t meant to be mocking ?

A photo of a patriotic person's house?

That tweet was a huge error unfortunately and is the reason I think she can't be leader.

this is insane. look at the standards to which we (the liberal left) hold our potential leaders vs. what BloJob gets away with

it's a completely skewed playing field

No one said it isn't insane!

agreed but it is the field on which labour MPs have to play

It would be interesting to know how many former Islington councillors, council leaders are now MPs. Many see the North London dominance of the Labour Party as part of the problem. I am particularly pleased by the election of Feryal Clark for Enfield North although Hackney will suffer from losing the most effective council cabinet member in living memory.

Ok , not sure I buy that but benefit of the doubt so fair enough.

Why resign from the shadow cabinet if the tweet was completely innocuous?

These are the questions that are bound to come up. Maybe it’s better to own it and apologise, I don’t know.

Famously, life expectancy varies by over ten years between adjacent streets in Islington.

Both Boris Johnson and Tony Blair used to live within spitting distance of the most deprived estate in Islington.

Nah let's have no Londoners involved
Then portray boris and the Tories as the London elite.
I'm going Phillips/Rayner.

Thoughts on the Long-Bailey Leader/Rayner Deputy ticket?

Never heard Long-Bailey say a thing, but suppose that'll change when the leadership bid comes in.

Liking Rayner.

I have no idea. Could have been under pressure to resign for other reasons. Could also have been a nasty intention behind the tweet. I don't know.

That said, I know Rochester pretty well and see more St George's there than anywhere else in my experience. I'm not sure it has to be a negative to draw attention to that.

I just think it is wrong to assume the worst in this case. But clearly I'm in a minority.

I'm not sure about the company Emily Thornberry keeps. Wasn't her election agent once fired from a job as a top corporate lawyer for telling scousers to 'crawl back to their horrible merseyside homes'? Doesn't suggest a mindset that will reconnect with voters outside London.

Rayner is a joke. She was woeful on that debate, embarrassed herself and her party. Made the Tory look like the only candidate of intellect.

Would love it personally but I don't think the PLP would get behind the continuity team and they would also get destroyed by the press.

Bull shit, I thought she was great.

My thoughts too. I'm sure they'd go into it knowing full well what expect though (one would hope!)

She was absolutely woeful. A characteristic too common with Labour MPs of late.