Labour leadership

[SpookyFrank]

Yvette Cooper seems like the only one with anything about her at all.

 

[Belushi]

Yvette Cooper seems like the only one with anything about her at all.

She has a reputation for being rude & clueless among her civil servants

 

[Belushi]

Saying that I'd quite like to see Cooper leading Labour as Ed Balls will fucking hate being stuck at home with the kids while his wife leads the party

 

[treelover]

Coopers record as Employment Secretary doesn't bode well, she also felt that housing rights needed tilting a bit more to landlords

 

[Dan U]

Burnham is bookies favourite according to Sky News

they will have learnt nothing if they put the man who was Health Sec when Mid Staffs was kicking off in charge of the party.

 

[The Pale King]

Hilary Benn?

 

[JimW]

Hilary Benn?

Then you get the benefits of a woman's name even with a man leading.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hilary Benn?

as much a fantasist as the more famous mr benn

 

[Idris2002]

Hilary Benn?

Well, they've just had one leader who betrayed everything his dad stood for, why not another?

 

[brogdale]

Watson fancies Dep.

 

[Dogsauce]

She has a reputation for being rude & clueless among her civil servants

That sort of thing hasn't held many senior members of the vermin back. It's not a barrier.

 

[Belushi]

That sort of thing hasn't held many senior members of the vermin back. It's not a barrier.

Yeah, that's the opinion my mum (recently retired senior civil servant) has of most ministers tbf

 

[Wilf]

Watson fancies Dep.

Big fucking deal (not aimed at you obvs.). Why the fuck would he think that was even something people needed to know today? Silly self important bastard.

 

[agricola]

None of the Shadow Cabinet are capable of doing it, they are all fatally compromised politically and more than a few of them are just rubbish.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

It doesn't matter who becomes leader of Labour. They will now be about as relevant as Woolworths. Yvette Cooper is a hard line Tory who just joined Labour by mistake. I wouldn't want her in the job.

 

[binka]

john mann on bbc earlier talking up dan jarvis as the best candidate - apprently he's a real person not part of the westminster bubble and someone the tories fear

 

[butchersapron]

john mann on bbc earlier talking up dan jarvis as the best candidate - apprently he's a real person not part of the westminster bubble and someone the tories fear

Is your old man still involved - ask him what he thinks of Burnham if you have time please.

 

[Pickman's model]

None of the Shadow Cabinet are capable of doing it, they are all fatally compromised politically and more than a few of them are just rubbish.

they were generally put in the shadow cabinet to have them in the tent pissing out rather than outside pissing in.

 

[killer b]

Mine is - I'm going round later, will see what he thinks (mind you, he got everything wrong about yesterday. Not sure if we can hold that against him though... )

 

[butchersapron]

Mine is - I'm going round later, will see what he thinks (mind you, he got everything wrong about yesterday. Not sure if we can hold that against him though... )

Who didn't mate, who didn't.

 

[BandWagon]

David M might be tempted back from International Rescue to steal back his brother's broken crown.

That's a possibility.

 

[binka]

Is your old man still involved - ask him what he thinks of Burnham if you have time please.

yeah he's still involved but on suspension, sort or, they accused him of uncomradely conduct so he's causing a scene so they have to give him a hearing after the NEC told him to get fucked. I'll prob speak to him on sunday, im sure he will like him because he likes politicans who didnt go to public school

 

[butchersapron]

A miliband on any leadership ballot is going to get destroyed. No king across the water, the name alone is enough now.

 

[butchersapron]

yeah he's still involved but on suspension, sort or, they accused him of uncomradely conduct so he's causing a scene so they have to give him a hearing after the NEC told him to get fucked. I'll prob speak to him on sunday, im sure he will like him because he likes politicans who didnt go to public school

Cheers, ask him as well then if you do see him and feel like it, who he wants and who he thinks will win.

 

[BandWagon]

Get Tony Bliar back! What a masterstroke!

 

[killer b]

People are still talking about David Miliband? Why?

 

[DotCommunist]

If chukka manages to take the throne, you owe me a fiver.

 

[butchersapron]

People are still talking about David Miliband? Why?

I've been unable to work out why he was being talked about in the first place. Was there something i couldn't see that others could - or were there other behind the scene stuff that he was the end product of?

 

[LeMoose]

People are still talking about David Miliband? Why?

Probably because he's a charismatic public speaker who manages to not annoy people when he speaks.

 

[killer b]

I've been unable to work out why he was being talked about in the first place. Was there something i couldn't see that others could - or were there other behind the scene stuff that he was the end product of?

not sure, he was a worse charisma-free wonk than his brother.