Interested to know what the Labour members on here make of the candidates for leadership, who's got the best chance of leading them back to some semblance of electability?
Note - theres nothing in my response about policies - to me its its more about character and that they are not factional like JC was.
Quote Note - theres nothing in my response about policies - to me its its more about character and that they are not factional like JC was.How does that fit with R Long-Bailey? Much the same, but with more subtlety, surely?
Perhaps worth thinking about who didn’t vote for Labour? Where it was personality rather than policy, I think Starmer is miles in front appealing to middle England and those who simply wanted to have confidence in the leadership.
BJ didn't seem to have an answer for whether killing foreign leaders in a sovereign country might have contravened international law, or whether he'd withdraw UK troops from Iraq if the Iraqi government asked him to.
Quote from: TobyD on January 08, 2020, 10:59:11 pmBJ didn't seem to have an answer for whether killing foreign leaders in a sovereign country might have contravened international law, or whether he'd withdraw UK troops from Iraq if the Iraqi government asked him to. I expect this is something we’ll have to get used to over the next 12 weeks. He’s rarely, if ever, engaged properly with any serious line of questioning and yesterday’s PMQs was no different. Hopefully this will change with a new opposition leader but I’m not holding my breath.
It's because he doesn't have a clue. Not like he has had a job as Foreign Secretary or anything in the past where he may have had experience of dealing with things like this..
Electoral Reform won't happen while those who decide on it benefit from it.
I don't expect there to be any shift in Labour policy on electoral reform because I think many of them have their heads in the sand regarding how bleak their electoral prospects are.
It might be ridiculous but it's probably genuine. The left of Labour seems blind to the problem... Hence, after some hard times, there is plenty of hope for the future of Labour, especially if it can rediscover some of the centre left attraction it had until a decade ago.
Burgon on the prospect of a 2019 election and Labour's 'success' in 2017:https://youtu.be/9MHNbwE2Sb0?t=90KB: The polls say you won't winRB : The polls said we wouldn't win last timeKB: You didn't