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Next Labour Leader
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alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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The political inexperience that you and others constantly highlighted about UKIP ??
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
- 6,588
Whoever it is they need a new face that is not associated with the previous administration. The tories made the mistake of going with Hague and Howard (with the faceless IDS in between) and everyone who disliked the Major government remembered them and they couldn't shake the baggage. Milliband and Balls have suffered from the same perceptions. They would be wise to let Harman temp for a little while whilst they stage manage the likely candidates to come in with a blaze of publicity and a new vigour, just like Blair and Brown did after John Smith's death. Whoever it is also needs to have proper PR as a cornerstone of their offer. The public can see that it is now a necessity and it would be a useful way of distinguishing themselves from the Blairites who failed to deliver it for selfish reasons. It is also vital for the continuation of the union that all those of all political hues who did not support the SNP in Scotland (half the country) are given some representation in a UK parliament.
Personally I like Stella Creasy, but this is only because she likes the Wedding Present and made Toby Young look stupid on Newsnight.
Personally I like Stella Creasy, but this is only because she likes the Wedding Present and made Toby Young look stupid on Newsnight.
Stumpy Tim
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I voted for this guy
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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BrianWade4
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It'll be Chuka Umuna, the MP for Streatham, IMHO
Lives in my road. Ticks a lot of boxes- young, black, ambitious, did a good job as Shadow Business Secretary
Might be seen as too close to the Milliband, liberal left by some voters
Lives in my road. Ticks a lot of boxes- young, black, ambitious, did a good job as Shadow Business Secretary
Might be seen as too close to the Milliband, liberal left by some voters
Stumpy Tim
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I always thought he was more New Labour than Milliband Labour?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,244
Caroline Lucas would be magnificent. Oh.
No one who has been to public school, has sent their kids to public school, or hasn't spent at least ten years in the real world that the rest of us inhabit. In fact they should all be expelled from the Labour Party. Bring back Michael Foot. (I know he's dead but he can't do any worse).
After Ed Miliband I think Labour should skip a generation and elect someone who thinks it is 1985.
Is that the M Foot who was educated at a fee paying private school http://www.leightonpark.com/441/about-the-school/old-leightonians
Behind Enemy Lines
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It has to be someone who has some fresh ideas and who can open up the party and reach out. Someone who has wide appeal and can win. Think therefore has to be someone from 2010 in-take so the party can move on from the perceived, often wrongly, failures of the past. So that rules out Cooper and Burnham. Chukka? Perhaps but Labour could do with someone who has a different back story instead of too often route of PPE, law, SPAD etc. I don't know much about him but Jarvis looks like he has some of those things.
alfredmizen
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- Mar 11, 2015
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We've had Milliband and Balls
How about Shaun the sheep
How about Shaun the sheep
Yeah, I was wondering if someone would pick up on that!
(As I was typing it it dawned on me that he went to a private school). Ok, someone more left-wing than Foot then.
1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,185
The worst possible candidate. Even more unelectable than Ed.
Comes across as very arrogant and will do nothing to win back the lost Labour voters in the North as he's another one who represents the London political class.
You also can't discount the underlying racism that still exists in this country. Any black candidate needs to be the very best, not people who grate like him or worse still, Diane Abbott.
I really hope the party take time to get the right leader in this time, because unfortunately in a sad world of personality politics it's absolutely crucial to get this decision spot on.
I don't recall ever commenting on this particular point but it clearly didn't hinder their vote.