Who will be the next Labour leader?

[butchersapron]

Can now nominate through trade unions and affiliated societies and not need any MPs signatures at all. Apparently any two trade unions would beat the 5% needed to achieve this.

There in now no reason for there ever to not be a left candidate on there now then. That's one of the internal victories that they won.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Here’s something obvious: Labour were unpopular under Brown, unpopular under Miliband and actually saw their vote rise in 2017 under Corbyn, who presented some policies that were — gasp — popular. Here’s something else obvious: Labour’s biggest problem right now is trying to hold together the Brexit-voting base in the north of the country with their remain-voting support in the south, which is an issue not remotely of Corbyn’s making.

In light of today's vote this is a good point for labour. What would've been labour's winning Brexit position have been? I've not heard that answered in which case it was Corbyn and the ineffective campaign that must be the seeds of their defeat.

I've no idea who the next leader will be right now. Today it seems a pretty poisoned chalice. Freedland digs the knife in.

Maybe Sadiq Khan will be eventually.

 

[The39thStep]

In light of today's vote this is a good point for labour. What would've been labour's winning Brexit position have been? I've not heard that answered in which case it was Corbyn and the ineffective campaign that must be the seeds of their defeat.

I've no idea who the next leader will be right now. Today it seems a pretty poisoned chalice. Freedland digs the knife in.

Maybe Sadiq Khan will be eventually.

I think the knife crime issue in London would sabotage any suggestion of Khan tbh

 

[treelover]

She looks pretty cool as well.

 

[treelover]

 

[kebabking]

treelover - what, and who, the fuck are you withering about?

Jonny Vegas seems to have let himself go a bit...

 

[Humberto]

I believe it's Lisa Nandy. Possible leadership candidate.

 

[Ming]

Can we have the corpse of John Smith? His death changed the path of history IMO.

 

[butchersapron]

I think a little lol here.

 

[treelover]

Go on BA, tell us why Lisa wouldn't be the right person.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I'm so befuddled these days I can barely tell if this is real or not

 

[butchersapron]

Go on BA, tell us why Lisa wouldn't be the right person.

What?

I laughed at the idea of the heroised john smith and what he represented , not lisa nandy. I've never heard of her.

 

[butchersapron]

Or this one above.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Nandy would be a step back from current leadership - coordinated the owen smith challenge and voting record not bad but bit shit on tax stuff - against raising personal allowance, against increasing corporation tax, against stronger measures on tax avoidance. Flip flopped a bit on EU but does seem to get it. Soft left type, bit of a darling of labour left pre corbyn.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm in.

 

[Ax^]

Wrong thread...

 

[kebabking]

Or this one above.

He is spectacular. He is the momentum version of Chris Grayling - just with more hair product and without the forensic grasp of detail that Grayling displays.

If you enjoy laughing at stupid people, he's a comedy gold mine.

 

[Spandex]

He is spectacular. He is the momentum version of Chris Grayling - just with more hair product and without the forensic grasp of detail that Grayling displays.

If you enjoy laughing at stupid people, he's a comedy gold mine.

In an election night full of low points for Labour, Burgon's performance on the BBC coverage was as bad as the exit poll anouncent.

I like this quote from that twatter thread:

He says things in a way that people can really look at and it makes them think and they think things like ‘what was it he said’ and then they wonder what it was. Which is is why he makes people think.

 

[ska invita]

She did actually care. Not very often you trust an MP. But there you go. .

 

[Big Bertha]

Yvette Cooper or Jess Philips

 

[Pickman's model]

Yvette Cooper or Jess Philips

 

[Kaka Tim]

Angela raynor would be my bet. Left enough for the membership, is witty and down to earth on tv, great backstory. Jess Phillips without the backstabbing and quite so blatant self promotion.
Young, a women, not too closely associated with corbyn. I dont trust her politically but i think she may well get it and harder to deomnise then corbs.

 

[marshall]

Clive Lewis? Local MP, seems sound No point going with the same-old names in the frame imo.

 

[butchersapron]

I haven't seen a single old name in the frame tbh. He would be the closest to one i've heard mentioned.

 

[tommers]

Hahaha

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Lisa Nandy.

Although I’d prefer it if they just announced they were giving up the politics game, setting up a Patreon account and were going to merge with the SWP

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Hopefully Starmer but nothing I want is ever going to happen.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

And their choice is a mould-breaking private school oxbridge one.

I’m confused. Who are you talking about? Not Starmer, as he went to a state school.

 

[butchersapron]

I’m confused. Who are you talking about? Not Starmer, as he went to a state school.

A semi-state school that just happened to become a private school. A private school in all but name, like many. And he was there when it became a private school - unless he left at age 13. So it was semi-state when he first went and fully private well before he left for oxbridge.

 

[Lorca]

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