Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Lengthy post on the leadership campaign....good read.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/the-corbyn-supremacy
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/the-corbyn-supremacy
Jeremy Corbyn
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Kellfire
Blackballed
Inside source saying Smith has won.
Kellfire
Blackballed
Now someone else on Facebook saying Corbyn has increased his majority.
I love a good ITK.
I love a good ITK.
chrisd
Major Champion
I just looked at the BBC News web page to see if the result was in yet. There's just a photo of the two candidates and beside Corbyn a poster saying "help choose Labours next Prime Minister" and it just occurred to me that if either of these two numpties are elected its highly likely the next Labour Prime Minister probably hasn't been born yet. :lol:
spongebob59
Journeyman Pro
62:38 to worzel gummidge
ColchesterFC
Journeyman Pro
The Guardian are reporting a Corbyn 62% of the vote.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
So, how long until a "New Labour" party arrives..?
jp5
Q-School Graduate
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Love it, just Love It 
Old Skier
Tour Winner
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
We have had that, next one must be Even Newer Labour.
Old Skier
Tour Winner
Could be, how do you know, most of the newest members have no interest in the labour part. Even so there is no point being the biggest of anything if you cannot use your size to provide an effective political force.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I am afraid I have to concur. As much as I might agree with many if not most of JCs policies (barring defence) and have the basic christian/ socialist values he espouses at my core of my own beliefs - he just cannot IMO get enough Kippers/LibDems and Tories to vote Labour and for JC as PM. I heard one JC supporter on radio today tell that she knew of Lib Dems and Tories moving to Labour because of JC - and that Labour under JC were on their way. She is totally deluded - as so many who support KJC seem to be also. I just can't see it - I just don't get it.
Great news if your a Tory, Labour are unelectable with Corbyn at the helm, so, I struggle to understand the big leftie following of him as he'll never get the job that can change things!
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
68% of vote.
Is that not just what they have done.
Corbyn is hoovering up all the disillusioned who have not voted for decades. No party fitted their agenda.
We have been living in a political vacuum for 20+ years. No real visible difference between Tory/Lab/Lib Dem.
One of the reasons the SNP gained so many supporters.
jp5
Q-School Graduate
JC has won more elections than the current PM has so don't buy this "unelectable" business.
Ultimately if the Labour MPs provide constituents with the best option he'll end up PM. We elect a party not a PM, as people were happy to point out when May took over!
UKIP will be spent by 2020 and I reckon JC has got as good a chance as anyone else in recouping their votes.
Ultimately if the Labour MPs provide constituents with the best option he'll end up PM. We elect a party not a PM, as people were happy to point out when May took over!
UKIP will be spent by 2020 and I reckon JC has got as good a chance as anyone else in recouping their votes.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Getting 300,000 votes from labour party members does not make Labour electable as a Government. In fact having GC as leader I think it will have the effect of pushing a large number of traditional Labour voters into other camps, whether those camps will be Tory, Lib Dem or UKIP who knows? Local MP candidates will have to offer policies that Corbynites demand and that will not be the policies that the majority of voters agree with.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Regardless of the number of Party members or the number of votes he got in the leadership election, he has to regain the support of the MPs who triggered the whole election process in the first place.
Nothing has changed on that front.
The bulk of the Labour MPs don't want him as their leader. Will they try again or just defect or set up a new party...?
Nothing has changed on that front.
The bulk of the Labour MPs don't want him as their leader. Will they try again or just defect or set up a new party...?
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
How can the Labour supporters be so deluded that JC will lead his party to govern this country. It is people like me that he has to convince and quite frankly If I thought I could have any connection to that political dinosaur I would sooner buy a timeshare in Syria. He is a pathetic excuse of a politician. If I had to praise him for anything it would be that " what you see is what you get" unfortunately what you get is Rammel.
