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Ahead of Tuesday’s NEC judgement, Keiran Pedley argues that the Labour leadership system is broken and leaders that lose a no confidence motion in parliament should be required to seek nominations from MPs to stand again.
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Blue shirt, cream jacket, and black trousers.
FFS, smarten up you scuff, you're a candidate to be Prime Minister.
I think, in his heart, he always knew this was a doomed adventure.
@billykenber: Leadsom was a minister from April 2014, earning a salary of £98,740. So unclear why employment income is only £77k
SPOTY betting - today's the day to lay Andy Murray, remembering it's an Olympics year. Was going to say the same about Lewis Hamilton but he's as long as 50/1, which looks like value.
The Daily Mail comments' section surely represents big 'C' Conservatives as opposed to small 'c' Conservatives. I think taking anecdotal data seriously in this case is a bit more difficult given we are dealing with party members, as opposed to the whole country (which is a far more diverse cross section of opinion to sample). While pollsters have been particularly disappointing in the last year as far as the GE and the EURef is concerned, it shouldn't be forgotten that it was less than a year ago that pollsters (particularly YouGov) got the last leadership contest right.
Uh oh. Remain are going to lose.
The In team have been highly anxious about the attitude of the Labour leadership to the referendum. They now say that they are very encouraged that the party has started to get its act together since the local elections. Labour figures with experience of organising campaigns, such as the deputy leader Tom Watson, have become fully engaged. One non-Labour strategist working for the In campaign recently spoke to me about the Labour effort in a tone of pleasant surprise: “They know how to organise a ground campaign.”
Labour would be the "Divine WInd" of Bristish politics and as such pay a very heavy price.
Does this mean that if Leadsom is elected by Tory members, she could be deposed by a no confidence vote of the vast majority of Tory MPs who don't want her as PM? If so, yippee.
We know how to organise coups
https://twitter.com/davidcoburnukip/status/752185434080444416
I really have to trust the membership to vote for unity and the country which as of now can only come from Theresa May
The three developed countries have totally avoided this trap are: Canada, Australia, and Norway.
What did they do that was different? They were commodity exporters during a commodity bull market. No more, no less.
Taxable income is less than gross income.
Have to feel sorry for England, so many years of hurt. I think that's 39 years since an English woman and 29 years since an English man won a Wimbledon title.
And of course 80 years since an English man won the Gentleman's Singles.
Not doubt this will be announced or denied in the next few days
The best system would be the Tory system, but where the PLP/PCP commanded 50% of the votes in the final run off, as suggested on here recently by another poster.
https://twitter.com/jeremyforlabour/status/752154499041619968
REMAIN 48%
Suck it up, ho!
And then Labour voters complain their MPs are not representatives of them.!!!
Isn't your company moving to
VichyParis post-Brexit?We're not moving to Paris, we're merely planning for a lack of single market membership.
That said, Allez les Bleus.
Sort of don't care who wins.
Pin me into a corner for a decision? The sheer number of non-white French players warms me to them. It says something for a country which is so colour-blind. Same with many English teams. I am old enough to like the fact that players of all colours embrace as though colour was wholly unimportant.
LOL
Presumably MPs have no right to stand in their deselction sorry i mean reselection meetings either.
The current NEC elections will also give Corbyn a strong majority on that body too IMO.
Basically Corbyn not on ballot is a non starter
If Angela Eagle (or any other "moderate") thinks she can't even beat CORBYN in an election, how the hell is she going to have a chance against a far more formidable opponent in the Tories at the next General Election??
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Surely, using Keiran Pedley's logic about "who the Queen invites to form a government", that would rule Eagle out of the leadership election? After all, the Queen would not be able to invite someone who will not even be in the Commons at all after the next election.
Iraq being an obvious example.
I though Corbyn unusually well turned out this morning. At least his clothes fitted for once!
As could Corbyn if Labour find a way to get him off the ballot, presumably.
To the outside world such a merry-go-round of leadership would appear petty, but the candidate forced out will almost always attract more sympathy than those who try to pull off the stitch up.
https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/the-corbyn-coup/
It should be a statement of the obvious that, if you can't even inspire your own troops behind you, you've not got a hope in hell of inspiring the country. An election is an election, and a lot of the skillset required to win elections applies across the board, no matter how different the electorates are -- if Eagle apparently feels she doesn't have the skills to win this particular election on merit, then that says it all.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2015/09/11/some-fashion-advice-for-jeremy-corbyn/