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Labour’s NEC is deciding whether Corbyn can be on the ballot in the coming leadership election without having to secure the nominations of 51 MPs and MEPs.
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So after losing the vote on the secret ballot better news for Jeremy Corbyn in that the case for automatic inclusion on ballot being heard
Gove took 5 minutes to knife Boris. He should subcontract his services to Labour.
My bet is on Dennis
Slight clarification -nec About to hear pro Corbyn legal advice rather than currently in process of hearing it
I'm not taking that bet....
@Martha_Gill
4 crates of sandwiches just went into lab hq #LabourNEC
Only the beer needed now and we really are back in the late 1970s.
http://bit.ly/17jFxxQ
Nice that he cares about the pensions of his old ma and da.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/how-to-brew-watneys-red-barrel.html
We had this with both Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband -- vox pops of people saying "I don't like the current leader, they should replace him".......before a new replacement comes in who is even worse.
Let's hear an actual alternative who would be BETTER than Corbyn (i.e. not Angela Eagle).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amZsdpLXcIo
Sooner if the NEC, abide by the rules as written.
Later if they force the courts to compel them to abide by the rules as written.
Corbyn's very big problems are his complete lack of charisma, implausibility as a PM, and various principles which the public don't agree with -- but the charisma vacuum of Angela Eagle following the doomed Remain campaign strategy would be even worse on all counts, with a huge party split from infuriated grassroots members thrown in additionally.
It makes me want a Corbyn Government though, as in reality it would mean nothing ever happening except biscuits and tea being consumed. Everyone could get on happily with their lives?
The replacement for Ed Miliband was worse because of the membership and the £3ers. Yvette Cooper would have most likely been better than Ed Miliband. But the membership did not want her.
With Gordon Brown, David Miliband would have probably been better than him (and Ed). But he bottled it, and by the time it came to the 2010 leadership election unions swung it for Ed. Labour's unions and members keep on making the wrong choices.
That is beyond embarrassing....
In my view, replacing Corbyn with Angela Eagle would once again be trading a bad leader in for an even worse and even more unelectable one.
Watneys promptly sued, and Camra amended its Red Barrel entry to "avoid at all costs."
Thus is such basic stuff it beggars belief we can be talking about it.
Isn't the biggest difference between us and Germany is when they have a change of government they don't have a huge change in policy every five years. We go from Tory to Labour then back again and have big top down reorganization in the public services like education and healthcare whereas the equivalent of the Tory and Labour party there are sometimes in coalition together so it is easier for business to plan especially for industrial businesses that need years of planning and investment before they can even think about making a profit. Very different from most service companies.
Labour has two duties. One is to hold the government to account. The second is to articulate a clear and attractive vision of Britain that may return it to power. It's not doing either. In political terms it's curled up into the foetal position and is simply waiting to die. Such a shame.
I feel sure that pretty well everyone else will, but I'll be very surprised if Corbyn manages to spit out even half a dozen kind words, it's simply not his style.
The thread header really ought to say THE LABOUR PARTY'S FUTURE, because that's what this is really all about.
Germany's perpetual coalitions probably helps compromise as it's an inherent aspect of governance there.
Seriously, how do any of this rabble think they can be credible leaders of opposition to an entire government when they can't even oppose their own party effectively? It's embarrassing.
Think Blair was Ian Paisley.
How about Ken Clarke - and might Dave then bring in the "bloody difficult woman" into his final remarks?
Unilaterally changing Labour rules isn't an option (quiet at the back, BJO!)
Mr. Jonathan, worse than the end of the Coalition? Yes. Worse than when he took over from Brown? No.
As I've said before, since your so stuck on Eagle, it doesn't have to be her. It can be anyone. Just NOT Corbyn (or McDonnell).
If anything, the comparison of Miliband and Cameron in the lead-up to 2015 shows just how little MPs' "loyalty to the leader" matters to the public -- Tory MPs had been MUCH more (vocally) critical of Cameron in the run-up to the election, than Lab MPs had been of Miliband, but the public didn't care.
https://twitter.com/Kipperwacker/status/752925691616854016
Team Corbyn furious – moderate lawyer attending NEC giving “point by point rebuttal” of their legal advice. No one doing opposite.
Mr. Freggles, if we're going Latin I prefer Morris Frontius Agrippa.
Mr. Jonathan, the deficit was over £100bn! [It's still too high now, of course, but the inheritance was atrocious].