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Jeremy Corbyn is the most popular leader of the past century among Labour members (partly because a quarter don’t seem to know who Clement Attlee is)
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He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.
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It's not only him, it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.
And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479097-clinton-weighs-in-on-sanders-nobody-likes-him-nobody-wants-to-work-with-him
Jess Phillips pulls out.
He might win outright on first preferences.
https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/jess-phillips-the-latest-victim-of-centrist-hack-syndrome-cd81c602264e
Fanatical Hillary supporters were voting for Joe Biden anyway, so it won't have any impact apart from free publicity for Sanders.
Jess Phillips hasn't just lost to the British electorate in the most crushing post-war defeat, Jeremy Corbyn has.
Jess Phillips has lost the leadership election because the voters she needs to appeal to, are the same voters who think Jeremy Corbyn is the best leader Labour has ever had.
The gulf in reality between regular voters who gave Jeremy Corbyn the worst Labour results ever, and party member who consider him the best ever, is one that Jess couldn't bridge.
Doesn't mean that Jess is the wrong person to be leader, quite the opposite, once someone like Jess does become leader the Tories might lose an election.
FPT
Yes, the French treat the French Canadians like the English would treat the Americans, were we still richer and more important than them.
He's a splitter who did fuck off and join the Tories.
Labour members need some history lessons.
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1219643093051412481
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1219607954518892545
More interested is pleasing themselves, they have forgotten the purpose of a political party.
She was the high risk high reward candidate.
https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1219457261216595970
You can appreciate why Jeremy Corbyn has a 71% favourable rating when you think about how he won three landslide election victories, was integral in enacting the minimum wage, negotiated the Good Friday Agreement, ran a government that pumped billions into the NHS, promoted gay rights, devolved power to Scotland & Wales etc.
And I suppose it's also obvious why Tony Blair has a 62% negative rating with his dreadful record of losing elections, the blind eye he turned to antisemitism, and the fact he basically spent his entire career on the fringes, never actually enacting a single one of his ideas or doing one iota of good for the working people he claimed to represent.
I think Jess would have been one of the more difficult candidates for the Conservatives to tackle though, but she'd be hobbled by battles within her own party.
He's just another in the long line of left wing sub-journalist blowhards.
I note Biden seems to be closing in on Sanders in NH.
Like a Shakespearean tragic figure, Blair in the end was hated by everyone.
Conservatives hate him because he was a social liberal and he beat them.
Labour hates him because of his economic conservatism.
Liberals hate him because of his belligerent foreign policy.
And of course everyone hates him because his legacy was catastrophic, the country is still in worse shape today than in 1997.
https://labourlist.org/2020/01/lisa-nandy-gets-huge-campaign-boost-with-backing-of-gmb/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1fNkj5i0LM
Nandy and Rayner
Now Nandy just needs 1 more affiliate. It can be a tiny tiny Socialist Society.
https://twitter.com/GMB_union/status/1219650972609339392
A better option than Starmer IMHO.
I guess it's inevitable that people will spin it as delusional Labour members who are bound to choose Long-Bailey, but anyone who genuinely believes that is, themselves, delusional.
If 71% of labour members wanted him to continue as leader, that would be a story worth discussing.
Look -
53,000 tweets, umpteen articles across several outlets, countless TV and radio slots, two serious and well regarded books - and not too much to be ashamed about in all of that.
He's an important voice for the Left in this country. He's articulate and effective. This is why he gets so much grief.
Of course this poll shows that she won't get past the membership but then such is the state of Lab right now.
There's nothing benign about him unless you agree with him. He's a dogmatic machine activist who would be utterly merciless to his opposition if it were Corbyn with a majority of 80 instead of Boris.
The ideological hatred of the car needs to be tackled head on, there are no environmental arguments against it going forwards that is an excuse as you say.
The countries most important infrastructure is not the rail network, it is the motorway network and it is pathetic that no proper traditional motorways are built anymore. The M6 Toll being a sorry excuse for a new motorway.
Our motorway infrastructure was mostly built in the 60s and 70s and if we want to be upgrading our infrastructure that would not be a bad place to start. I believe more miles are travelled on motorways than on our entire rail network put together yet it ranks nowhere as a priority; instead of chucking a hundred billion pounds on just one single rail route I bet a lot more could be done with a hundred billion pounds building and improving new roads.
Starmer is IMO certainly the most likely of the candidates to attract those who just voted blue back to the red team - he looks and acts like a PM-in-waiting, and is the only candidate who does.
The Corbynites aren’t goi g away though, and the next leader (whoever wins) is going to have one hell of a job uniting the party behind them. If one of the young ladies wins, they’d be well advised to talk about a nine-year project targeting the 2029 election, while expecting to make insufficient gains in 2024.
He also came out with this hilarious bilge, so at least he once made me laugh inadvertently:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/04/russell-brand-endorsed-labour-tories-should-be-worried
If convincing rather than putting off the rest of the country is what it takes to be considered effective then I would posit he is not that effective.
I feel she is quicker to think than Sir KS and knows how to land blows both above and below the belt. She has a sense of humour, gravitas (I think more so than Sir KS) and can do empathy. Usually she is good on the media and despite the obvious dig at her position as Her Ladyship people can relate to her.
She would be a good leader and has the potential to be a very good politican.
But now we have big unions as follows:
UNISON (1.4m members) - Starmer
UNITE (1.3m members) - TBA
GMB (600k members) - Nandy
USDAW (400k members) - Starmer
CWU (200k members) - TBA
So even if RLB gets UNITE and CWU she isn't going to have an advantage over Starmer in this area.
Which in turn means that as long as Starmer wins by reasonable amount amongst members it's unlikely votes of union members will overturn it.
Major union in breach of copyright case?
The group apparently sought 'to create a series of Portillo moments' (!) Well, Owen, you succeeded pretty spectacularly with that one, just not in the way you intended!
His books are well written but aren't particularly well regarded. They are what they are - populist polemics, preaching to the choir (as are a lot of books by journos on the right). I don't begrudge people with a good turn of phrase making a few bob, but let's not make him out to be some sort of intellectual titan.
We need HS2 AND road improvements. - and for freight they’re competing, so capacity for more rail freight means fewer lorries on the motorways.
I sometimes wonder what it would cost to nationalise the M6 Toll, but if it’s anything like the rest of the Brownian PFI projects it will be pretty much impossible.
It's going to be maaany decades before I feel like being remotely generous to him.
Where have such influential thought leaders brought your party?
BTW, this YouGov "analysis" is pisspoor. They clearly want to say that Labour members are astonishingly ignorant of the great Attlee and as to be expected of such morons love the ghastly Corbyn and so they just go ahead and say this even though the data shows nothing of the sort.
The DKs for Attlee are about the same as for Callaghan, Wilson, less than for Gaitskell, MacDonald, and not much greater than for Foot and Smith. And the DK does not mean "never heard of" - it means "do not know enough to give a rating". That is quite different. Attlee was 75 years ago.
Ed Miliband has just a 1 pt less favourable rating than Corbyn and a better net rating. Smith, Attlee and Wilson all have better nets than Corbyn. The one Corbyn really beats by miles is - quelle surprise - the Great Satan Tony Blair.
And yet -
"Jeremy Corbyn is the most popular leader of the past century among Labour members (partly because a quarter don’t seem to know who Clement Attlee is)."
Pathetic.
https://twitter.com/pinknews/status/1219649504502276097?s=21
I'll have to be careful or they will bring out the woke in me!