[Update] Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour Leadership

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by denphone

Its no good preaching to others if they can't preach to themselves.

Neither nerd nor the two-faced are fit to represent the working class. It may take 10 years to find a leader for Labour who is true to the values he/she is to represent.

There's no-one currently available.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Kursk

Neither nerd nor the two-faced are fit to represent the working class. It may take 10 years to find a leader for Labour who is true to the values he/she is to represent.

There's no-one currently available.

Most of those in the poll are too solidly connected with the years of failure and / or unions to be representative of the working people of this country IMO.

It'll need new blood that doesn't come from the public school elite that have never done a days hard work in their lives but from the school of hard knocks and are self made successes.

No obvious candidates spring to mind.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Most of those in the poll are too solidly connected with the years of failure and / or unions to be representative of the working people of this country IMO.

It'll need new blood that doesn't come from the public school elite that have never done a days hard work in their lives but from the school of hard knocks and are self made successes.

No obvious candidates spring to mind.

Dennis Skinner Cameron would ? His pants over the despatch box

[Osem]

Stephen Kinnock will do:

Kinnock comes from a real political dynasty – along with his famous father, his sister Rachel works for Ed Miliband, and his mother Glenys was a Labour MEP.

Kinnock is also married to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, but says that his marriage will not distract him from his duties at Westminster.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10238265.html

I sure he's really in touch with the working man...

We'll see. I think Liz Kendell is probably the best bet so far. Centrist and not associated with the previous cabinets.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Damien

We'll see. I think Liz Kendell is probably the best bet so far. Centrist and not associated with the previous cabinets.

That'll be the Liz Kendell who is a former special adviser to Harman (gawd)...she's studied history at Cambridge and no doubt fancies herself as God's gift to the NHS now that she's learned a bit about it. Can't see how she's any more qualified than the rest of the crummy crop.

Nope, the Labour Party need someone vocational with passion and principles and a broader grasp of the concept of the party ethos along the lines of:

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

It'll need new blood that doesn't come from the public school elite that have never done a days hard work in their lives but from the school of hard knocks and are self made successes.

Anyone got a magic wand?

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

No obvious candidates spring to mind.

I keep saying......Rusel Brand

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I keep saying......Rusel Brand

Looks more like a swivel-eyed loony.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Looks more like a swivel-eyed loony.

He's not the political messiah then? The long hair, beard and piercings are purely co-incidental...

[Osem]

Well Alan Sugar's not particularly interested anymore. He's 'fired' Labour:

http://labourlist.org/2015/05/lord-s...-labour-party/

Chuka is on

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32706038

jetrosexual

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...urs-Obama.html

gorgeous?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ka-Umunna.html

[Kursk]

A privately educated graduate whose work experience is that of a solicitor in a city law firm and who has no first hand experience of the problems of raising a family in modern day Britain. As a leader of the working class, he has failure written all over him.

He may be able to save his soul by visiting that capitalist Russell Brand to get the support of the twittering classes or whatever other social media tripe he plays with. Depends how low he's prepared to crawl.

'Man of the people' my arse .

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Kursk

'Man of the people' my arse .

Funny you should say that: Labour lost the working-class vote a long time ago

[richard s]

I predict David Milliband will be the new Labour leader in three years time.

[denphone]

Yes despite his interview yesterday my hunch is he will return as he has a clause in his contract to leave his charity work.