Esther McVeys defeat was one of the highlights of a poor night for me!

 

So we have the following as potentially standing for deputy leader according to Labour List

 

Tom Watson

Angela Eagle

Stella Creasy

Ben Bradshaw

Caroline Flint

 

Also Tory Business Secretary Savid Davjid has after only 5 days of a Tory government announced future legislation to make going on strike near on impossible - it's going to be a LONG 5 years BJ!

Simon Danczuk has said he'll probably stand in the Deputy election.

This is why I wanted Dan Jarvis.

 

He's too inexperienced, as is Liz Kendall, and Chuka too actually. Needs someone who has been an MP longer and has held some prominent shadow cabinet posts. Still think Cooper or Burnham will get it but they won't win in 2020 then Dan will step up.

Edited May 13, 201510 yr by Common Sense

LOL. Inexperienced in what - babbling on in wonkspeak?

Experience in blairite f*** ups?

LOL. Inexperienced in what - babbling on in wonkspeak?

 

On the basis of this Woman's Hour interview, Liz Kendall is one of the worst for wonkspeak -- she seems to constantly be going on about all this Jon Cruddas bollocks about "devolving power" which nobody in the real world will be able to understand (including the presenter of the interview).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r772v

 

That said, Andy Burnham's and Yvette Cooper's pitches are also pretty vacuous and seem completely unaware of the risk of Scottish-style disasters in England if Labour moves even further to the right.

Edited May 13, 201510 yr by Danny

A one minute part of one interview doesn't make her 'the worst'.

A one minute part of one interview doesn't make her 'the worst'.

 

Well, the average member of the public isn't going to be giving her much more than a minute's chance, and if the best she can come up with for that window is woolly and anodyne stuff about "giving people control" then it doesn't bode well.

 

Again, this is the issue with Labour not being "left-wing" -- it means they have literally nothing of substance to say, unless they go the full Tory.

Edited May 13, 201510 yr by Danny

And now exceeding her previous low with this carcrash interview on Newsnight.

 

"I believe in unleashing the potential of people" -- WHAT politician would EVER say the opposite??

Yeah. I'm not too impressed either. Burnham FTW.

New leader to be announced on 12th September. According to the Sun, Andy Burnham has the backing of "about a quarter of Labour MP's". Is that very good? I don't know about the election procedure. Don't the unions usually get the final choice?

No.

 

And as a rule, having the backing of a quarter of MPs wouldn't by itself make you the frontrunner in a field of, uh, 4. It's a one member one vote election system now anyway, so the support of MPs only really counts for the nominations stage (you need 35 MPs to nominate you to make it onto the ballot) and for whatever power endorsements count for (which isn't necessarily much - Dennis Skinner endorsed David Miliband last time, for example).

Okay thanks.

Just donated to Burnham's campaign, after hearing Yvette Cooper waffling on in Milibandese political speak on the radio and after Liz Kendall's Tory-esque pitch on Newsnight.

Yvette Cooper enters the race saying "time to look forward and not back to the days of Blair and Brown"

Well as it was a mere 5 years ago and we are still living the nightmare any Labour leader who sticks their head in the sand about their role in the economy is doomed to failure. Admitting failures and proposing solutions is the way forward.

 

Bunch of ostriches. If Labour are not to blame for the banking crisis and the economy then they really have no cause to slag off parties that weren't actually in power then. They are so dumb.

As a side issue, Norman Lamb and Tim Farrron have, as expected, declared their intention to stand for the Lib Dem leadership. I doubt any others will enter the contest. Farron is the likely winner. He, unlike Lamb, was never a minister and he voted against the tuition fee increase.

Norman Lamb has the prized Dappy endorsement.

Norman Lamb has the prized Dappy endorsement.

 

His leadership campaign ended rather quickly.

 

Time to reel-out this classic to highlight what a thoroughly abhorrent human being 'Dappy' is: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/...y-death-threats

Norman Lamb has the prized Dappy endorsement.

 

I'm not surprised. Neither of them hasn't been popular or relevant since 2010.