The labour Leader thread...

Gogl · 12 Sep 2015 at 00:34

I hope Andy Burnham doesn't win, that way he can continue making Murdoch Mysteries.

LeeUK · 12 Sep 2015 at 00:42

GAC said:
you mean like how new labour is attacking anyone who isnt new labour

Not with militant thugs though...

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 04:12

Tom Watson doesn't seem too bad... hilariously though claims to be a feminist.

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 06:29

The end is nigh as all will be revealed this morning:

At 11am today Iain McNicol, Labour’s general secretary, will enter a waiting room reserved for the leadership and deputy leadership candidates and give advance notice of the results.

The two winners will then be shown to another closed room and left alone. They will have just half an hour to make a series of key decisions before the outcome is revealed to a waiting audience of MPs and journalists at a central London conference centre. Barring a major upset, it will be Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson in that room and it will be their first substantive conversation in months, if not years.

LeeUK · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:46

StriderX said:
Tom Watson doesn't seem too bad... hilariously though claims to be a feminist.

He was door knocking in my town here in the North East in July, helping a candidate in the local council by-election. Was amusing.

Mr Jack · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:49

StriderX said:
Tom Watson doesn't seem too bad... hilariously though claims to be a feminist.

Why hilariously?

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:53

Mr Jack said:
Why hilariously?

There is a gulf of difference between Equal rights activism and Feminism, the very word is aggravatingly non-equal.

Thus hilariously.

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:56

So do we think it's a first round knockout?

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:58

Cosimo said:
So do we think it's a first round knockout?

69% would be nice.

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 10:59

BBC Twitter:

Senior aide to Liz Kendall says Corbyn has won in the first round with over 60% of the vote.

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:02

Goodbye New Labour, nobody wanted you in the first place.

:mad:

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:05

Result expected at 11:25.

cheesyboy · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:08

StriderX said:
There is a gulf of difference between Equal rights activism and Feminism, the very word is aggravatingly non-equal.

Thus hilariously.

You probably need to re-educate yourself on what feminism actually means, given that it is literally the movement/ideology of equal rights for women.

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:15

Natalie Bennett misspelt "Britain"...

Skidder · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:19

I'm thoroughly enjoying this

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:21

Skidder said:
I'm thoroughly enjoying this

A bit like seeing off the Titanic on it's voyage?

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:22

Cosimo said:
A bit like seeing off the Titanic on it's voyage?

For who?

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:24

StriderX said:
For who?

The Labour Party aboard...

StriderX · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:26

Cosimo said:
The Labour Party aboard...

There are two sides to that coin though :|

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:26

1st round Deputy Leader vote has Tom Watson on 39%