Politics Labour’s next leader

[Wij]

It wouldn't make a difference anyway.

You should be happy really, because Labour don't really have a chance of contesting power for about a decade so surely that time is best served allowing Labour to destroy any left sentiment they have left.

Buh?

 

[Embattle]

View: https://twitter.com/GuardianHeather/status/1206599224214872065?s=20

 

[Wij]

View: https://twitter.com/GuardianHeather/status/1206599224214872065?s=20

Fucks sake.

 

[Yoni]

Aye I couldn’t have said it better @Wij

 

[Job]

Well it took the Guard 5 mins to go back to old school.

The new Labour leader has to be a woman, that'll do it.
Somehow...magically

 

[Embattle]

Well they've never had one while the Tories have had two but much more important probably two of the best are women.

 

[Embattle]

Lammy hints at bid to be Labour’s first BAME leader

 

[Job]

Oh yes please.

 

[Embattle]

We fought Militant in the 1980s. The far left’s hold is now much worse | Roy Hattersley

 

[Yoni]

Lammy hints at bid to be Labour’s first BAME leader

Nothing wrong with BAME but much wrong with Lammy. The next leader of the Labour party should be the best person for the job. Not a tick in the box albeit a woman, black aisan, ethinic minority that supports x or y sky fairy ffs....

 

[Job]

Blair2 is the only option.

 

[Scouse]

Blair2 is the only option.

Failure is the only option then.

 

[Gwadien]

Hence why the Labour Party are dead.

Hard to compete with oligarchism with a veneer of nationalism.

 

[Embattle]

Failure is the only option then.

Both ways look fairly bad for Labour at the moment.

 

[Job]

 

[Job]

So can we all finalky agree Sadiq is a self promoting waste of space.

Everything he promised four years ago has epically failed.

House building...fuck all
Crossrail...3 years and counting late.
Rail fares...epic fail
Make London safer....mega epic fail.

I'll give him making an attempt at air pollution.

 

[dysfunction]

So can we all finalky agree Sadiq is a self promoting waste of space.

Everything he promised four years ago has epically failed.

House building...fuck all
Crossrail...3 years and counting late.
Rail fares...epic fail
Make London safer....mega epic fail.

I'll give him making an attempt at air pollution.

No we cant. Only you feel this way.

 

[Scouse]

So can we all finalky agree Sadiq is a self promoting waste of space.

I can get behind that if you can do the same for BoJo and Trump too.

There's little difference between them other than skin colour - brown, white, orange.

 

[Job]

No..Trump has come through with most of his election promises...the wall has been blocked over and over again, but they have actually started it recently.
Black and Hispanic employment at record levels..economy still climbing, significantly lowered taxes....strangely succesful at keeping out of wars.. many trade deals reworked or in progress.

Oh and turned the left on itself.

 

[Gwadien]

So can we all finalky agree Sadiq is a self promoting waste of space.

Everything he promised four years ago has epically failed.

House building...fuck all
Crossrail...3 years and counting late.
Rail fares...epic fail
Make London safer....mega epic fail.

I'll give him making an attempt at air pollution.

Amazing how you know so much about a place you loathe.

Infact, I think you should be arrested for self hate.

 

[DaGaffer]

So can we all finalky agree Sadiq is a self promoting waste of space.

Everything he promised four years ago has epically failed.

House building...fuck all
Crossrail...3 years and counting late.
Rail fares...epic fail
Make London safer....mega epic fail.

I'll give him making an attempt at air pollution.

Crossrail is a success compared to similar projects around the world; the cost overrun is only 5%, compared to over 40% on average around the world (and it wouldn't even be 5% against the original cost estimate; the government cut the cost after the project started). Yes its a bit late, but that's absolutely unsurprising given it was digging through several thousand years of history; you're going to dig up the odd undocumented plague pit here and there.

As for fares, doesn't TFL have a fares freeze at the moment? Don't remember any other London mayor doing that.

The crime thing has been discussed here before; the London government is subsidising against massive and sustained police cuts by the Tories, without Khan injecting money in the police would have been cut in London by 30% over the last decade. He's kept it to "only" 21%.

House building... not just London is it?

 

[MYstIC G]

Who do YOU think would be best for the country? Not who do you think will get it.

Next Labour leader odds: who will replace Jeremy Corbyn?

@Job please don’t vote for Sadiq Khan. Too obvious tbh.

/edit: I’d do the same for the Lib Dems but the field is a bit too narrow to be bothered :/

Are any of them non self serving cunts? (Honest question, I don't know all of them and those I do know are self serving)

 

[Embattle]

Momentum backs Long-Bailey for Labour leader

 

[Job]

Oh dear.
And she started so well.

I mean as an actual leader...not head bubble.

 

[Wij]

Momentum backs Long-Bailey for Labour leader

I’m shocked. Totally sho...

oh wait. No I’m not.

 

[Embattle]

I like the fact she was the only one on the ballot, so looking at the numbers:

40,000 Members
7395 Participated
70.4% Supported RLB as leader.
52.1% Supported AR as deputy.

Surely that means even though just over a fifth of the members replied and she was the only nominee she still only got 70.4%, I mean normally when you use such a process in dictatorships you get 95%+

 

[Wij]

I like the fact she was the only one on the ballot, so looking at the numbers:

40,000 Members
7395 Participated
70.4% Supported RLB as leader.
52.1% Supported AR as deputy.

Surely that means even though just over a fifth of the members replied and she was the only nominee she still only got 70.4%, I mean normally when you use such a process in dictatorships you get 95%+

Yeh - I saw that ballot paper. I'm surprised they didn't change the 'No' option to say 'No I am a Tory class-traitor who will be first against the wall'.

 

[Scouse]

That's @Job-speak right there.

 

[Gwadien]

That's @Job-speak right there.

That's because Momentum are scarier to wealthy people than Britain First.

 

[Embattle]

That's because Momentum are scarier to wealthy people than Britain First.

More likely because for the majority of the country they represent a cancer inside Labour which will make them unelectable for decades to come.