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Next Labour leader?

Next leader

  • David Miliband

    Votes: 12 42.9%

  • Ed Miliband

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Harriet Harman

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jack Straw

    Votes: 1 3.6%

  • Jon Cruddas

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Alan Johnson

    Votes: 5 17.9%

  • Ed Balls

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Total voters
    28
It'll be Milliband, although I quite like Johnson but he has a bit of the "wideboy" look going on.
 
Ben Bradshaw.

I like him.

Johnson is ok, bit of a flip flopper though. Jon Cruddas looks a little too "old style" although that may appeal to some.

D Miliband.... Banana pictures. UK PM in discussions to avert WW3....and then there's a picture of him holding that banana, it's not going to happen.
 
Reginald said:
Ben Bradshaw.
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UK ready for a (openly) gay PM?

I've heard the new influx of Labour MPs are more left in nature. About 50% come from the unions. The 'rising star' Chuka Ummana is the head of Black Socialists and Compass.
 
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Reginald said:
Ben Bradshaw.

I like him.

Johnson is ok, bit of a flip flopper though. Jon Cruddas looks a little too "old style" although that may appeal to some.

D Miliband.... Banana pictures. UK PM in discussions to avert WW3....and then there's a picture of him holding that banana, it's not going to happen.
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He'll live it down.* D Milliband/Cruddas ticket to unite the party. The (sensible) left will settle for the influence of the Deputy Leader's position because they know that a left-wing leader probably makes them unelectable. Art of the Possible and all that ...

*Edited to add - I'm sure a few self-deprecating banana jokes will help if and when the subject is brought up. I would hope he's astute enough to prepare for that.
 
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I'm not all that confident Miliband is as Blairite as he is frequently made out to be. Sure, he was an aide to Blair, but so was Cruddas.

It's worth remembering that his father was the well-respected Marxist intellectual Ralph Miliband. His image amongst the Labour base may also be helped by the fact that he went to state school, in contrast to Clegg and Cameron.
 
This saddens me, really. I'm quite left-wing, but my parents made sacrifices to send me to an excellent grant-aided school in the 1960s on the advice of my primary school teacher. They only paid (modest) fees for two years, after which I was awarded a scholarship and a bursary. For this, I would be denied a high position in any political party of my choice?

Rolfe.
 
Gordon Brown.
They kept him while in power, why ditch him now?

Rolfe- I don't think it's your schooling that is apt to stop you climbing the ranks of the Labour Party.
 
Rolfe said:
This saddens me, really. I'm quite left-wing, but my parents made sacrifices to send me to an excellent grant-aided school in the 1960s on the advice of my primary school teacher. They only paid (modest) fees for two years, after which I was awarded a scholarship and a bursary. For this, I would be denied a high position in any political party of my choice?

Rolfe.
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No one has said you should be denied.

And yes tarring with the same brush is a shame. But we are looking at a possible leader for a political party, I'm not implying its a bar to office, but being state educated does not hurt when you are leader of the labour party.

To me it makes no difference, it seems to have a resonance with the public, at least it often gets mentioned.
 
Jack Straw. The demon headmaster will be making his move any day now.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Rolfe- I don't think it's your schooling that is apt to stop you climbing the ranks of the Labour Party.
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No. Membership of the SNP might be a bit of a problem though. And Labour not being my party of choice.

I just don't think it's fair to damn any candidate on the basis of which school their parents sent them to. Damning them on the basis that they're upper-class twits, frankly, be my guest. That way we'd never have seen Blair, hooray. However, it's perfectly possible to have attended a fee-paying school and still have socialist instincts.

Rolfe.
 
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