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The results are in and the winner is David. Many congratulations on your victory.
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Corbyn shouldn't have the ability to transfer his duty to someone else.
She was favourite once, you know. Wonder how that felt.
Probably doesn't fancy it himself.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2015/jan/19/are-prime-ministers-questions-past-sell-by-date-as-nick-clegg-argues
His new job description says that he should be in the HoC at midday on Wednesday, and be ready to ask six questions to the PM - who will of course also turn up unless he has a good reason not to be there. The LotO takes a £70k salary and a GCS car for the job, if he doesn't want to do it he should refuse the bonus and the car.
Just a thought - by giving him a car and protection, the police will know pretty much every meeting he has from now on. Could be interesting.
You are duly nominated as a disciple to the reigning TOTY .... namely me ....
I hope Mr Speaker stamps on this silly idea. It does a disservice to Parliament to cock about with it because Corbyn is too frit to fight himself.
I can envision him having a hobby of throwing rule books in the fireplace, he would be terrible to have at boardgames though.
A leader who says "I don't really think i'd be very good at that, and will delegate to others" will just generate enormous contempt, not something Corbyn in his weak position can remotely afford.
Update - shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna unlikely to serve in #Labour's shadow cabinet
To see the LotO suspended by the Speaker for not turning up to PMQs because he can't be arsed to hold the Government to account would be a "brave" strategy, as Sir Humphrey might have said.
And there'll be the constant refrain of "frit".
If elected PM, would Corbyn turn up weekly, or when he felt like it?
However as all of PB is aware my only Jacobite love child is malcolmg whose recent presence at finishing school shows signs of money well spent.
I wish you much joy of Jezza ....
There again that was a long time ago and I suppose the number of politicians who have their ego expanded, and the number of coppers enjoying not doing police work and earning humungous overtime payments, has probably expanded since.
He doesn't put in considerable work promoting the primacy of Parliament and forcing Govt ministers to the floor of the House to answer questions at every opportunity only to have the Leader of the Opposition decide that it really doesn't matter that much.
I think I can recall him saying something it being a piece of knockabout farce (or something like that) rather than serious politics, but I think most of us would agree that it can often be that.
Mr @Speedy seems to think that Corbyn can unilaterally decide that the rules of Parliament need not apply to him even though he's the LotO with the salary and perks that accompany that Office.
I think in the spirit of comradeship he should delegate the conference leaders speech to the janitor too. That's another stressy curveball to dodge.
Let's face it...Jez didn't want to be leader, and look where his lack of ambition got him. Let's not jump his back too much if he tries to do things a little differently.
Tyson- Number 23- Get in there myson
What’s that phrase about not hanging a dog on that evidence?
@Gregstweet: Just spoken to Jeremy Corbyn. He's confirmed he intends to have other Labour MPs take his role at some sessions of PMQs
Congratulations!
I've not flopped. I'm just a bit of a realist. Jez is 66, he didn't want this job. Would you want to do PMQ's every week at that age, especially if it was the last thing you ever could have imagined doing? The most strenuous thing I would hope to be doing at that age is pruning the roses- and even that might prove to be too much.
I think Jez is a breath of fresh air. Pitching out of PMQ's only confirms my view. He's pulled out of Marr tomorrow. Good on him. Let him enjoy a Sunday morning having a lie in like the rest of us.
Go Jezz- he's a role model for pensioners and for people who cannot really be arsed to achieve their potential.
@Anna_Soubry: @Gregstweet and no doubt will find a stand in at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
“He’s now in a really strong position to lead the Parliamentary Labour Party,” she said. “It will now be very difficult for dissenters to get a foothold against the leader. No one has ever before won in the first round of voting.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4561c498-5948-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html#axzz3lXT8MN4p
A frighteningly stupid comment. He won by a slightly larger margin than Tony Blair in a much weaker field - 57% to 59%. I seem to recall however that John Smith won around 86% of the vote in 1992 - admittedly, only against Bryan Gould. Since this is only the second actual election held under this voting system and there were three strong candidates last time, it is hardly surprising that it 'no one has ever before won (sic) in the first round of voting'. So while the margin of victory is impressive, it is hardly unprecedented and it certainly does not overcome his other grave weaknesses as a party leader, although she is probably correct it will be difficult to bring him down in the short term.
Yet, doubtless, Ms Haigh will be called upon to fill some breach or other in the gaping ranks of the Labour hierarchy. Corbyn's answer to Lucy Powell?
Leadership style. Of course, it’ll throw Cameron, who won’t know who is going to be questioning him. PR bully will have to think on his feet.
As you say the primary role of PMQs is to allow the Members access to the PM directly, often to raise something local to their constituents and/or something of which the PM may not be aware that the Member thinks would be useful for him to know.
It is important for Parliament as a whole that this session continues, the Speaker will undoubtedly point at the empty bench where the LotO should be and call half a dozen more backbenchers (half of whom would be from the government side).
" I've [Corbyn] been in touch with the speaker's office to ask about this."
Nothing about what the Speaker has to say in reply...
Oddly, 'equality' is the last thing that many of his friends want. Therefore it would be interesting to hear his definition of 'equality': it might be rather unusual.
Magic.
Also, in regards to people saying Strugeon plays politics of course she does! But when Conservative Chancellor George Osborne does it, he is an amazing political genius and the politician of our times. Yet when Sturgeon does it, she's bad/mad/terrible?
On Liz Kendall, it's not just about having Blairite ideology, it's also about having the communication skills, charm, and charisma of Blair 1994 - 2002. Kendall has none of these things. And as someone said Blairism is a discredited ideology - a lot of the cynicism among the public in regard to politicians goes back to the Blair era and its spin culture. A lot of Blair's own politics - especially in regard to immigration - would be out of favour now.
Labour's biggest issue is the sheer mediocrity within the party.
https://amp.twimg.com/v/2b7a6dbe-8de7-4dba-af8e-3eaf1c528812
Labour has not just relinquished any prospect of being a party of government. It has just relinquished any prospect of being a party of opposition. Earlier in the week David Cameron called his ministers together for their political cabinet. It opened with some concerned analysis about the potential political consequences of a Corbyn victory. One minister pointed to the size of Labour’s potential activist base. Another noted how the enthusiasm for Corbyn amongst Labour supporters reminded him of the first stirrings of the SNP surge in Scotland. Then there was a pause. And then everyone started laughing. It was, they all agreed, a result beyond their wildest dreams.
This is what the Labour Party has become. Literally, a laughing stock.
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But that’s not what Labour Party members wanted. They wanted to see their party go out in a final blaze of uncompromising glory.
And so it has. Something may still emerge from the ashes. But the Labour Party as we know it – and as some people once loved it – died today. Each and every one of us will be touched by its passing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11859233/The-day-the-Labour-Party-died.html
So we'd be left with the farcical situation of the opposing teams agreeing who matches up- a kind of pre questions Top Trumps where no party could top the other. I'm trying to think what would happen if Jez sent in Angela Eagle....it would show how little the Tories thought of the person they'd try to match up with her.
The only new aspect is a chap getting elected Labour leader then deciding he can't be bothered with part of the job.
[Must say, I was under the impression that either the PM or the Leader of the Opposition could nominate anyone to give the answers/ask the six questions].
Dave's been doing PMQs for ten years, he's pretty good at it.
Both IDS and Corbyn failed to win a majority of MPs, however IDS won 60% of Tory members votes, Corbyn 59% of Labour members and supporters votes
@CFKArgentina: El Gobierno de la Argentina extiende sus felicitaciones al nuevo líder del partido Laborista de UK, Jeremy Corbyn http://www.cfkargentina.com/nuevo-lider-laborista-jeremy-corbyn/ …
You're viewing it from a technical perspective as an anorak inside the westminster bubble, not taking a step back and thinking (if I may say).
Cristina Kirchner @CFKArgentina 7m7 minutes ago
Argentina congratulates @jeremycorbyn on his Labour leadership victory
Cristina Kirchner @CFKArgentina 7m7 minutes ago
Jeremy Corbyn is a great friend of Latin America and shares, in solidarity, our demands for equality and political sovereignty.
PMQs is all about making highly partisan points and getting good media coverage whilst denigrating your opponents (and not fecking things up)
"The day the Labour Party died
Labour members didn't want to keep the flame alive and fight. They wanted to see their party go out in a final blaze of uncompromising glory"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11859233/The-day-the-Labour-Party-died.html