Labour Leadership Competition.

[Doon frae Troon]

Having had a Tory thread, in the interest of balance we should have a Labour one.

The Eagle thinks she should win as she is a working class woman from the North.
Tell you what love, the north of the UK starts around Carlisle not Liverpool.

 

[hors limite]

Eagle and Smith, what a pair of lightweights. Having said that, who else springs to mind? Johnson, Benn, Umunna, Burnham? Labour isn't exactly flush with talent.
As an aside, the Brexit voters in the North might have been be fed up with all the " professional politicians" of London/Home Counties origin who have been parachuted into safe Labour seats. I don't think that a Doncaster voter would feel much empathy with Milliband or believe that he was capable of representing their deeper concerns. That might not be enough to vote him out but enough to give him a kicking in the referendum.

 

[NWJocko]

Having had a Tory thread, in the interest of balance we should have a Labour one.

The Eagle thinks she should win as she is a working class woman from the North.
Tell you what love, the north of the UK starts around Carlisle not Liverpool.

You really are getting embarrassing with the whole Scottish chip on your shoulder routine now Doon.

Give it a rest eh :thup:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

You really are getting embarrassing with the whole Scottish chip on your shoulder routine now Doon.

Give it a rest eh :thup:

I don't take advice from Southerners.:lol:

 

[NWJocko]

I don't take advice from Southerners.:lol:

I would hope not given you live your life in accordance with the Ten Commandments laid down by The Church of Wings :thup:

On topic, Labour are an absolute shambles.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

It would be an interesting scenario if Owen became leader and Labour won an election.
As a Welsh/British prime minister he would be excluded from debating and voting on a lot of Westminster legislation.

 

[MegaSteve]

Right now 'the membership' are still holding the aces... Here's hoping the politicos crash and burn and get the message and depart elsewhere... Still a lot of work to be done to get the party back heading in the right direction... Can't have utterances along the lines of "perhaps we should start listening to the people".... Pin your ears back and listen up brother... It's what the people want that counts not how your political career might look in history...

 

[sev112]

As a "politics watcher" as opposed to someone who sticks with a party and never changes, I find it intersting that people the country over moan that politicians are not looking after the people, are all in for themselves, etc

And then Corbyn comes along, generates one of the most popular votes in history, and and all the Labour Party MPs who can't win an election when they had it easy last time round decide they would much rather have more of the same, more Tories in disguise.

Corbyn's function isn't that he he will be PM, but that he has a massive following in the masses, and that will force the sitting government to be more sensitive to the needs of the masses.

 

[Crazyface]

As a "politics watcher" as opposed to someone who sticks with a party and never changes, I find it intersting that people the country over moan that politicians are not looking after the people, are all in for themselves, etc

And then Corbyn comes along, generates one of the most popular votes in history, and and all the Labour Party MPs who can't win an election when they had it easy last time round decide they would much rather have more of the same, more Tories in disguise.

Corbyn's function isn't that he he will be PM, but that he has a massive following in the masses, and that will force the sitting government to be more sensitive to the needs of the masses.

I think that vote we had the other week should do this.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It would be an interesting scenario if Owen became leader and Labour won an election.
As a Welsh/British prime minister he would be excluded from debating and voting on a lot of Westminster legislation.

Rather rules him out surely - as it rules out David Mundell from becoming UK PM - that's one nation UK for us...

 

[Hacker Khan]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...n-fk-right-off-confirms-labour-20160718110970

Usual rude words warning.

 

[SocketRocket]

As a "politics watcher" as opposed to someone who sticks with a party and never changes, I find it intersting that people the country over moan that politicians are not looking after the people, are all in for themselves, etc

And then Corbyn comes along, generates one of the most popular votes in history, and and all the Labour Party MPs who can't win an election when they had it easy last time round decide they would much rather have more of the same, more Tories in disguise.

Corbyn's function isn't that he he will be PM, but that he has a massive following in the masses, and that will force the sitting government to be more sensitive to the needs of the masses.

Really! Who are these masses that support him ?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Really! Who are these masses that support him ?

Well they have doubled their membership since the 2015 election. Not too shabby by any means.

Do you think any other UK party are capable of that ?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Rather rules him out surely - as it rules out David Mundell from becoming UK PM - that's one nation UK for us...

Viceroy Fluffy is to busy eating his beard to be PM.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-tory-cabinet-minister-david-8296004

 

[SocketRocket]

Well they have doubled their membership since the 2015 election. Not too shabby by any means.

Do you think any other UK party are capable of that ?

Wrong reply. Who are these masses that support him?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Wrong reply. Who are these masses that support him?

Nobody knows the answer to that, not even you until an election.
The signs are there though.

How about answering my question now [ :lol: fat chance]

 

[Blue in Munich]

As a "politics watcher" as opposed to someone who sticks with a party and never changes, I find it intersting that people the country over moan that politicians are not looking after the people, are all in for themselves, etc

And then Corbyn comes along, generates one of the most popular votes in history, and and all the Labour Party MPs who can't win an election when they had it easy last time round decide they would much rather have more of the same, more Tories in disguise.

Corbyn's function isn't that he he will be PM, but that he has a massive following in the masses, and that will force the sitting government to be more sensitive to the needs of the masses.

I think that vote we had the other week should do this.

You'd hope so but they seem to have remarkably short memories……...

 

[SocketRocket]

Nobody knows the answer to that, not even you until an election.
The signs are there though.

How about answering my question now [ :lol: fat chance]

Party political memberships are traditionally a small amount of the electorate, Labour have counted on the Union block vote to elect the unelectable into the leadership. Coming back to the statement that he has 'Massive support among the masses' is IMO delusional. He has no chance of taking Labour into Government and is the Conservatives best friend.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I doubt that the numbers that support Corbyn (whatever they are) would provide him with any leverage whatsoever to influence Tory Government thinking.

 

[MegaSteve]

Really! Who are these masses that support him ?

Ordinary folk that are sick to the back teeth of being used as scapegoats every time government makes a Horlicks of it all...