Corbyn & Cabinet in the Media

[ItWillNeverWork]

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Milliband The Elder is in the USA. Come on mate, name someone that is ready to take the helm. Be serious for a second.

 

[MarkyMarrk]

Milliband The Elder is in the USA. Come on mate, name someone that is ready to take the helm. Be serious for a second.

I just did.

 

[DotCommunist]

Not if he knew the situation. He knew that being in power was important to make a difference. But you carry on in your ignorance.

how can I now you've spoken the error of my thinking?
David Milliband lol

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I just did.

Yes, I posted at the same time as you. You'll have to explain who that is, sorry. Is he the ex-soldier?

 

[MarkyMarrk]

how can I now you've spoken the error of my thinking?
David Milliband lol

You're welcome

 

[MarkyMarrk]

Yes, I posted at the same time as you. You'll have to explain who that is, sorry. Is he the ex-soldier?

Yes, Jarvis is acceptable though too prone to changing his mind... picture is of Keir Starmer, who might not be ready if JC goes prior to the election.

 

[gosub]

Yes, I posted at the same time as you. You'll have to explain who that is, sorry. Is he the ex-soldier?

Keir Starmer (I like google picture search)

 

[MarkyMarrk]

I'd have Hilary Benn right up there.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Keir Starmer (I like google picture search)

So not the ex-solder then. A solicitor. Great!

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I'd have Hilary Benn right up there.

Kier Starmer's wikipedia page is very thin on the ground when it comes to political beliefs. What is he about? What does he stand for?

 

[J Ed]

He's dead now so he's OK with the Labour right, they don't mind socialists as long as they are dead and unable to threaten them, in fact if they are dead they can even be laudable because their legacy can be coopted for neoliberal politics at that point.

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[gosub]

So not the ex-solder then. A solicitor. Great!

BIG difference between a silk and a solicitor.

 

[killer b]

Great.

 

[gosub]

Kier Starmer's wikipedia page is very thin on the ground when it comes to political beliefs. What is he about? What does he stand for?

not a big fan of freedom of expression :'Twitter joke' case only went ahead at insistence of DPP

 

[agricola]

Of the realistic hopes for next leader, I'm hoping for this person:

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Well, at least it will be hilarious to see the maquis furiously deny that they ever went around criticizing the takeover of the party by a bunch of affluent and out of touch North London folk.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Kier Starmer's wikipedia page is very thin on the ground when it comes to political beliefs. What is he about? What does he stand for?

Politically he's pretty untested - only became an MP last year. Decent record as human rights lawyer before becoming the public prosecutor. Parachuted into a safe seat when Frank Dobson retired.

Here's his voting record so far. Not that bad. Voted against bombing Syria at least. Pro-fracking.

 

[Pickman's model]

Politically he's pretty untested - only became an MP last year. Decent record as human rights lawyer before becoming the public prosecutor. Parachuted into a safe seat when Frank Dobson retired.

Here's his voting record so far. Not that bad. Voted against bombing Syria at least. Pro-fracking.

i would like to think that people outside parliament are politically tested too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

So you've spend 50 pages moaning how bad Corbyn is the Labour party, and yet you can't name a single person who would do better?

Except for Clem, who's long-dead.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Milliband The Elder is in the USA. Come on mate, name someone that is ready to take the helm. Be serious for a second.

Miliband. D still sees himself as "the king over the water", although his petulance after Miliband. E won the leadership contest soured some of his devotees to his "charms".
One of the possible effects of the Corbyn turn is that given re-democratisation of constituency parties, Miliband. D may find it much harder to find a safe berth - or any sort of berth - within a system where candidates aren't centrally-imposed/"parachuted in" to CLPs.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd have Hilary Benn right up there.

yeh i thought you would, fits with the image you cultivate of being a political featherweight

 

[Pickman's model]

Miliband. D still sees himself as "the king over the water", although his petulance after Miliband. E won the leadership contest soured some of his devotees to his "charms".
One of the possible effects of the Corbyn turn is that given re-democratisation of constituency parties, Miliband. D may find it much harder to find a safe berth - or any sort of berth - within a system where candidates aren't centrally-imposed/"parachuted in" to CLPs.

can't see dm ending as an alkie in rome tho stranger things have happened

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yes, I posted at the same time as you. You'll have to explain who that is, sorry. Is he the ex-soldier?

No, he's the former DPP/head of the CPS. He's about as political as a dry hump - one of those people who is attracted to and by power.
Dan Jarvis - the ex-soldier - may have "leadership skills" (although I'd argue whether modern military leadership skills - i.e. managerialist bollocks superimposed onto a pragmatic military command structure - aren't really what you need to lead a party), but he's about as politically-experienced as Miliband, and hasn't yet got over his need to be liked. Possible future party leader 10-15 years down the line, but now?That'd be a poor wager.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Kier Starmer's wikipedia page is very thin on the ground when it comes to political beliefs. What is he about? What does he stand for?

He doesn't really have any beyond a wishy-washy alignment to a little light Blairism. He's just another neoliberal pretending not to be a neoliberal.

 

[ViolentPanda]

BIG difference between a silk and a solicitor.

About £100,000.

 

[MarkyMarrk]

Kier Starmer's wikipedia page is very thin on the ground when it comes to political beliefs. What is he about? What does he stand for?

Pragmatic, anti-Tory.
There's lots I don't agree with him on, but that's OK. He's broad-church Labour, and I'm in favour of that.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'd have Hilary Benn right up there.

Who wouldn't?

Oh, you meant up there as party leader. I thought you meant "...have Hilary Benn right up there" as in with a bayonet up his arse.

 

[ViolentPanda]

can't see dm ending as an alkie in rome tho stranger things have happened

No, I can't see it either.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see it, though.

 

[Pickman's model]

Who wouldn't?

Oh, you meant up there as party leader. I thought you meant "...have Hilary Benn right up there" as in with a bayonet up his arse.

yeh he'd rather a vacuous red tory was leader of the lp, a man with less political nous than any of his intake at westminster. says a lot about mm and none of it good.

 

[planetgeli]

Pragmatic, anti-Tory.
There's lots I don't agree with him on, but that's OK. He's broad-church Labour, and I'm in favour of that.

Being anti-something is not something you stand for.

And being anti-Tory? Shouldnt that be kinda a pre-requisite for being Labour leader? This impresses you?

Plus pragmatism is a euphemism for "I'll bend as far as you want me to, here, take my arse" So I can see how that impresses you.

 

[ViolentPanda]

yeh he'd rather a vacuous red tory was leader of the lp, a man with less political nous than any of his intake at westminster. says a lot about mm and none of it good.

The only thing Killary has over the others is back-bench experience.
Just glad that limp dick Will Straw got knocked back at the GE. Ten quid Draw would have been a shoo-in as leader among some of the star-fuckers in the Labour Party - the sort who think Starmer is a contender, or who fawn over "the British Obama".