Momentum did a poll and RLB came top so they'll back her. Momentum's said to have a lot of influence with members, social media etc.and what they want they usually get.

Momentum did a poll and RLB came top so they'll back her. Momentum's said to have a lot of influence with members, social media etc.and what they want they usually get.

 

I'm sure Boris will be the first to congratulate her if she wins... :heehee:

 

How can she stomach being friends with arch Tory landed gèntry aristocrats, especially Reese Smogg?

 

Because not everyone believes that same things you do? :mellow:

Keir Starmer is first candidate to reach the final ballot of the membership.

Seeing rumours that Jess Phillips is going to drop out of the leadership race. She hasn’t had a good campaign, so wouldn’t surprise me.

Seeing rumours that Jess Phillips is going to drop out of the leadership race. She hasn’t had a good campaign, so wouldn’t surprise me.

 

 

Apparently the announcement will be around 3pm.

Seeing rumours that Jess Phillips is going to drop out of the leadership race. She hasn’t had a good campaign, so wouldn’t surprise me.

 

 

Me neither. Probably hasn't got the support to reach the membership vote.

Seeing her do a speech last night, she seemed so positive and optimistic. It'll feel weird to see her drop out less than 24hrs later. :lol:

 

She got heckled a lot by someone in the audience about women's rights.

Emily Thornberry was on Sky News earlier and was repeatedly asked whether she'd vote for Starmer or RLB if they were the last two. She refused to say, repeating over and over again that she was in it to win it, claiming she has the most front-bench experience.

Confirmed: Jess has pulled out.

Jess Phillips was making a perfectly valid point in her article but it was also somewhat moot. She is right that it is hard to summarise, for example, an economic policy in 40 seconds. However, that is the way politics works whether we like it or not. One of Labour's strengths in the 1997 election was their much derided pledge card which summarised their key policies in a few words. The Tory slogan last month may have been vacuous but it worked. In the same way the Lib Dems did well inn the European elections with a three-word slogan even if one of them was "bollocks" and another one was an obscenity.

In the same way the Lib Dems did well inn the European elections with a three-word slogan even if one of them was "bollocks" and another one was an obscenity.

 

Very droll.

Lisa “let the met police beat up Scottish grannies to stop independence” Nandy to be the next political equivalent of a flaming trash barge floating down the Thames to drop out please and thank you most kindly

Unite have said they're backing Rebecca Long- Bailey.

From The Independant.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit...t-a9300891.html

 

 

Rebecca Long-Bailey broke Labour leadership contest rules but was quietly cleared by Jeremy Corbyn’s allies who promptly rewrote them, The Independent can reveal.

 

The episode has triggered widespread anger among supporters of rival campaigns, who have accused the leader’s team of manipulating the race to rescue their favoured candidate.

 

Ms Long-Bailey was investigated after breaching a ban on promoting campaigns to members using party data – an offence some Labour MPs viewed as potentially serious enough for her to be thrown out of the contest altogether.

 

 

Instead, party officials – including leading figures in the Unite union, which backs the shadow business secretary – decided it was “reasonable” for candidates to contact their own local members.

 

“It’s clear the Labour Party is making it up as it goes along and deliberately engineering the rules in favour of a certain candidate,” alleged Wes Streeting, a supporter of Jess Phillips until she dropped out.

 

 

 

A second MP said: “This shows how they manipulate the system, they are doing everything they possibly can to help their candidate. They are in favour of party democracy, as long they control the rules.”

 

The controversy follows Labour laying down a strict rule barring any MP, or their supporters, from using party membership lists to advertise their campaign to succeed Mr Corbyn.

 

However, when Ms Long-Bailey – who is backed by the outgoing leader’s team as the “continuity Corbyn” choice – entered the race, she emailed all members in her Salford constituency party (CLP) to ask for their backing.

 

“I hope you can support me in the leadership contest and please feel free to get in touch with me or the office if you want to pop in for a chat,” the shadow business secretary wrote.

Edited January 26, 20205 yr by Crazy Chris

Funny I wasn’t aware she was aware she had constituents. I was one, only time we heard from her was elections

Labour is stuck in the last century. Its adversaries have seized the future

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...cca-long-bailey

Funny I wasn’t aware she was aware she had constituents. I was one, only time we heard from her was elections

 

 

Did you need her help? If not why would you need to see her? I bet she holds regular surgeries as they all do.

Did you need her help? If not why would you need to see her? I bet she holds regular surgeries as they all do.

It’s not about me needing to see her but about her visibility to constituents. My folks always get update leaflets from the NE Fife Lib Dems about things they’ve done in the community and such like. 3 years I lived in Manchester and not a peep apart from a “elect Rebecca Long Bailey” flyer at election time.

Labour is stuck in the last century. Its adversaries have seized the future

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...cca-long-bailey

 

 

Agree with that. Their defeat was worse than any of them will still admit and am not sure any of the leader candidates can pull it round quickly. Certainly not in time for the next election.