The labour Leader thread...

[Ryan-3]

Those who are nearly SAS, "are SAS". Those who actually are SAS, aren't.

There's a few possibilities, but hopefully not Burnham. I just don't like him.

 

[PermaBanned]

http://labourlist.org/2015/05/if-th...g-match-well-learn-nothing-and-well-all-lose/

 

[Danthus]

Labour should not pick...

A. Champagne Socialist.
B. Anyone associated with Ed Balls and Labour economic strategy
C. Anyone with ties to Blair and the Iraq War.
D. Union Stooge
E. Privileged Toff

So that rules out Chuka Umunna, Yvette Cooper, David Miliband, Tom Watson and Tristram Hunt.

 

[McBain]

Really?

Yep.

That's who I 'think' will be in, I have no preference, i'm not a Labour voter.

 

[Tefal]

tbh it would probably be best if labor just died and a new party was formed.


they currently seem to exist purely to be "not the torys".

 

[Danthus]

This is quite an interesting watch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r23s0

 

[gettothechopper]

If you want new labour style then DM
Otherwise chuka is the right dude

 

[doofer]

Is Diane Abbot still an MP? She'd be great!

 

[scorza]

This is quite an interesting watch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r23s0

Liz Kendall is part of the problem - London/Home Counties middle-class girl parachuted into the safe Leicester East constituency because someone at LPHQ identified her as a future star. Labour needs to re-connect with people in the constituencies - London is like a foreign country now for most voters, England is where general elections are won, not London.

 

[dowie]

So he wasn't SAS. Glad we've cleared that up .

He seems to have had a good enough career to not have to pad it out with stupid lies like that.

maybe he was maybe he wasn't, certainly the OP has no grounds to assert that he was but I wouldn't also assume that because it isn't mentioned on wikipedia that he wasn't either

 

[Destination]

Why would a Tory supporter not want an unelectable opposition

Indeed, Hariett Harmon would do nicely now Balls is gone.
Tristram Would be shockingly good also. On the basis of his name alone he would drive labour supporters away, as they are that shallow

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Chukka would be great too, he never comes across well in interviews.

 

[Danthus]

Liz Kendall is part of the problem - London/Home Counties middle-class girl parachuted into the safe Leicester East constituency because someone at LPHQ identified her as a future star. Labour needs to re-connect with people in the constituencies - London is like a foreign country now for most voters, England is where general elections are won, not London.

What did she say that you disagree with?

 

[Skidder]

I would have been delighted if they had just stuck with Milliband forever.

 

[Caged]

I would have been delighted if they had just stuck with Milliband forever.

It's in everyone's interest to have a strong opposition.

 

[PermaBanned]

It's in everyone's interest to have a strong opposition.

Which is exactly what Miliband was.

 

[Trifid]

Which is exactly what Miliband was.

The nation disagreed.

 

[Nate75]

The nation disagreed.

I think it's plain to see he was quite damaging to Labour's cause

 

[Caged]

Which is exactly what Miliband was.

I don't agree. He seemed quite happy to get a bit obsessive over a cost of living crisis which evidently a large amount of the country didn't sympathise with. Posts on here make better rebuttals to Tory claims of economic competence than anything I heard coming out of PMQs.

 

[Jokester]

If it hadn't been for the unions, we would have ended up with David Miliband as leader and I suspect a completely different outcome.

 

[scorza]

What did she say that you disagree with?

What you say no longer matters in politics - the Conservative victory this week proved that. What matters is who says it, and what the press say about what you said.