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There’s a fair bit of speculation doing the rounds about why ex-Lewisham E MP and former shadow health secretary, Heidi Allen has quit her seat for a job with Sadiq Khan at City Hall.
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I reckon Sadiq Khan as leader might just appeal to all Labour supporters.
Corbyn cannot be ousted unless the membership agree to it.
But who gets to choose the Labour mayoralty candidate? Surely the Corbynistas wouldn’t let Heidi go through?
He’s a preening ninny in the Trudeau/Ardern (but not Macron, who has substance) vein.
Labour’s support fell in almost half the 50 most marginal constituencies where all councillors were up for election last week, analysis by a party insider has found.
The study obtained by The Times shows that in 20 of the Westminster seats examined, support for Jeremy Corbyn’s party declined between 2014 and last week.
It increased in 23 Westminster seats.
He doesn’t need your tedious and ceaseless Scott & Paste from your Twitter feed, complete with sarcasm and digs, which is all you bring to this site.
London is ready to vote for a Muslim leader, but is the country?
As to Heidi - I guess being Deputy Mayor is a two year audition for the top job, otherwise she may lack some of the 'star quality' that saw Ken, Boris & Sadiq into the role...
Going from Mayor of London back to a MP would be a major downgrade when taken by itself.
There's a risk he looks too opportunist and careerist if he makes something like this too obvious.
Are we all putting the cart before the horse?
I can see why it’s in the EU’s interests to do so of course.
I still think the Tories might beat Labour to the first Muslim Leader/PM.
Honestly you wait ages for the son of a Muslim immigrant bus driver to become party leader then two come along at once.
But no. Just whine instead.
https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/994490885923622912
https://twitter.com/GregHands/status/994495086024122368
Reading exists to make Slough look good.
If support fell in almost half the most marginal constituencies then it follows that support increased in more than half the marginal constituencies, so overall, some positive progress and not bad news for Labour.
Now Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May will be hoping July 24 is less ominous for modern leaders, as their governments go to court over a Brexit “power grab”.
The Supreme Court has provisionally set down July 24 and 25 for the unprecedented legal clash, in which the UK government will effectively seek to kill off a Bill passed by Holyrood.
Although the timing coincides with Westminster going into summer recess, the event is expected to become a highly politicised part of the independence debate.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16216053.Supreme_Court_date_set_for_cross_border_Brexit_fight/
The first step would be him saying he's only doing one term. How he justifies that would lead to questions and motives. There's no vacancy for LOTO at the moment remember.
You are a waste of time. You simply want to provoke those you politically disagree with for your own entertainment.
Reading is wealthy. Why does it need to look so awful?
If you want to engage with the content, go ahead.
If you don't want to "waste time", jog on...
The Optics of that are interesting.
LotO might be more his level.
Was it Nasser? Or Moeen in a one-dayer?
Genuinely interested.
How many hours a day do you spend on here copying and pasting things that *other people* say that you agree with from Twitter in a deluded belief you are fighting the good fight?
Get a life.
Still, I expect if we look at what labour said about that at the time, it wouldn't be positive about doing that...
https://twitter.com/nickymorgan01/status/994505963783716864?s=21
I think it must be the latter as - regardless of the merits of the argument - calling those she disagree with tantruming toddlers or goading them is only going to accentuate divisions, not heal them.
HA is a Blairite.
SK is too Centrist
ET is next LL
Thats the ultimate fault of May, who seems to be kicking the can down the road.
We need a solution, and both sides need to compromise on this and come together one way or another.
This is big news.
Will it mean that Sadiq Khan is undergoing gender reassignment to become eligible for the top job in Labour?
When Theresa May has shown zero initiative in setting out her own position of course they have.
The EU spent ages saying to Britain "what do you want" while May spent ages saying "what will you offer" until eventually the EU set out its position. A confident PM let alone one with a healthy majority should have put out from the start a positive vision of what we were seeking and the EU could and would have worked with that. The EU's own actions show that.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/dup-faces-heavy-responsibility-for-brexit-position-taken-lightly-1.3489256
Switzerland isn't in the Customs Union
There's no need to be in one.
Not because she is/was a Remainer, though, but because she doesn’t do initiative or vision. Her personality and training in the Home Office is about security and control.
On the other hand, who could do a better job?
Please don’t say Boris, JRM, Davis, or Fox.
They had a positive and open vision of a liberal Britain.
Instead May with the fake zeal of the covert portrayed a vicious, nasty and insular anti-migration red line Britain and gave no positivity whatsoever. That's been a disaster.
Or more likely Boris only as the front-man to more serious people behind him (like Gove in the referendum).
He had the vision for Brexit. May did not. He should be leading our negotiations.
It is what Cameron did so well, the public facing bit, and leaving the detail, plans and thoughts to others (Ozzy, Gove etc) who lacked charisma and easy charm.
I still think Gove/Hunt would be my dream ticket. Trouble is they aren’t much more popular than Osborne.
Oh, wait...
Javid could do it, with Gove behind him.
Surely a simple rule like 'If you've been in the UK for over say 20 years, we will consider you to be British' isn't that difficult, and would have solved at a stroke the Windrush issue.
Why are businesses banging on and on about it?