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Surprised that Wickham is the one to leave, but hard to say no when Palace are willing to spend £9m on him. Could be a good deal for both sides.

75/100. Not bad. Brendan Rodgers. I feel disgusting.

I hadn't noticed, any places in particular?

It's easier to have party discipline with next to no MPs and a membership who will do anything just to feel relevant again. But yes, there might be a small revival in some areas. Probably LD-Tory ones.

I can't help but think she'd be a bit... bland? Not Sam Smith bland, obviously.

True, but if she carries on she could end up so far behind Burnham after Round 1 that she'll still be knocked out.

This is essentially my dilemma. I want most of the things that Corbyn says, but I think he himself will be too easily typecast as an unelectable throwback once the press get their claws into him. He also suffers from the same problem as many of my friends in the Labour left in that he's not clocked onto the fact that emotional arguments about the awful things this government has done clearly aren't enough to convince the electorate to get rid of them. Explaining why cutting tax credits/selling off council houses etc. make no economic sense is the only way we can successfully argue for the things we want. At the moment I think it's more likely that one of the "moderate" candidates will be able to offer that after being pushed left by Corbyn. So far Burnham has responded to that, but that should probably be expected given Cooper seems to pitching for Kendall's second preferences.

But that's where Cavani comes in.

He's not a false 9 at all! He's played on the wing for years. If Hernandez is staying, United don't need a pure striker at all. Neither do Arsenal. Cavani would be ideal for either because he can play out wide.

I don't think you can take anything from it in isolation. The two most established names are ahead, the insurgent is third and all four are separated by little over 10%. Not much of a story.

Ah, lovely and inconclusive. Altrincham and Sale West endorsed Cooper and Eagle tonight. The latter may have been partly down to the fact that she came to speak.

They need a versatile forward who can stand in for Rooney or play with him and Depay in a front 3. So that means Pedro, Cavani or Muller.

I still wouldn't rule out Gideon crashing the economy some time before 2020, in which case I'd rather we were actually in a position to take advantage.

Also, if you're of the opinion that not going against the bill makes us more electable (I'm not, I think it's inane) then it's a no brainer. No single bill the Tories pass is comparable to a potential Labour government.

It's the eternal debate at the top of the party as to whether disagreeing with the government will reinforce the image of Labour as scrounger apologists. The leadership is terrified of another five years topping the polls being undone at the last minute because the public still don't trust us on the economy. Of course the logical thing to do would be to explain why the reforms fail on economic terms, but the right of the party isn't interested in doing that and the left think economics is a dirty word. I despair.

I'm swaying the same way, so not too many arguments here.

For the watch. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jerem...d-10399272.html

It'll be interesting to see how Gove goes up against Keir Starmer, who will presumably be Shadow Justice (god that sounds cool) in a couple of months.

The 21k threshold makes far more sense than the old 16k did as it means a lot of graduates aren't immediately paying it back on a lot of (often unstable) graduate jobs. My issue with the post-2012 system is twofold: 1) The new threshold would be all well and good if it weren't for the fact that the total amount payable went through the roof 2) Very few students or prospective students were aware of any difference other than the headline figure that they'd pay three times more to go to university than their older siblings. You would expect the sheer burden of that figure to put off a lot of prospective students from going, and I'm incredibly suspicious of any stat that shows more people from lower income families are going to university than ever before.

Oh I'm sorry, did I just imagine the £27k (minimum) debt my friends will have when they leave? If you want free education this is a very funny way of going about it.

That is hilarious. I really hope we get Gervinho.

I think people will begin to give them a little more respect for that, but I'm not sure it will translate into votes anywhere other than their old SW heartlands where they came a solid second this time. It'll take another generation before they can recover fully, if at all.

Ha, better fairer version. You do make me laugh.

He seems himself as the Corbyn to Corbyn's Benn.

Do you really think Yvette will be defined in 2020 by the leadership campaign she runs now? The Tories were parroting on about "Red Ed" for five years and it didn't do them as much good as the SNP scare did in five weeks. Who would have predicted that? My issue with Kendall isn't that she's a centrist - it's that she's not a very good one. Short of convincing Boris to defect I would do literally anything for us to win in 2020 but I don't see how she can inspire confidence unless Osborne does it for her by tanking the economy with another recession. Both the "continuity" candidates have set their stall out in manner very different to Ed with a pitch which will help win over people we need to win (Burnham with his whole community schtick for the UKIP-floppers, Cooper with her talk about jobs for the future and garden cities for the Nuneaton crowd) and I'm not sure Kendall has the capacity to do that. Incidentally, the name-calling is really getting on my tits as well. It remains the rank irony of the worst bits of the Labour left that they're willing to ignore a lifetime of hard work on social equality because of a couple of misjudgements on economic issues. Then again, bits of the moderate wing are prone to doing the opposite.