Who will be the new Labour leader?

[Halb]

If the question was; who would be best for the country, I've vote for Dan Jarvis. But the question is, 'who will', I voted for Chukka. I have a feeling people will look on him as the British Obama.

[davepoth]

Don said:

Yvette Cooper has now thrown her hat into the ring for the Labour leadership.

Brilliant. What a lacklustre pool Labour have got to select a leader from. I couldn't be happier.

Definitely. Somehow I can't see her saying that Labour's previous economic policy was wrong...

[Halb]

fblm said:

Interesting. Do they ever call mobiles? Personally I have never had a landline and I don't think I know anyone under 40 who doesn't live in the sticks who does. Secondly they can spend all the money they like doing it but if a certain segment does not engage with cold callers then it's not a random sample. I suspect of course they know this and adjust their raw data using past differences between expected and actual. Getting a random sample representative the target population is far harder than it sounds.

You connect to the net via your mobile?

[hornetrider]

Just watching this week. Apparently the leadership contest will drag on until the autumn!!! What the actual...?

[Justayellowbadge]

hornetrider said:

Just watching this week. Apparently the leadership contest will drag on until the autumn!!! What the actual...?

Labour stated earlier this week it would be September. Guess they've time on their hands.

[Kermit power]

The way things seem to be going over at UKIP, I wonder what odds you'd get on Farage trying to throw his hat in the ring for the Labour leadership?

His laughable three days in the political wilderness have already proven beyond all shadow of doubt that he's not different to any of the rest of them in terms of being in it purely for the power, so I wouldn't put it past him trying to hijack another party!

[Alex]

Halb said:

If the question was; who would be best for the country, I've vote for Dan Jarvis. But the question is, 'who will', I voted for Chukka. I have a feeling people will look on him as the British Obama.

Is it cos he is black?

Because I don't see any other similarity.

[Miguel Alvarez]

Alex said:

Halb said:

If the question was; who would be best for the country, I've vote for Dan Jarvis. But the question is, 'who will', I voted for Chukka. I have a feeling people will look on him as the British Obama.

Is it cos he is black?

Because I don't see any other similarity.

That's exactly what it is.

[cirian75]

Point is moot now

Umunna has withdrawn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32748106

[Zod]

cirian75 said:

Point is moot now

Umunna has withdrawn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32748106

Standing for Mayor?

[johnnywb]

cirian75 said:

Point is moot now

Umunna has withdrawn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32748106

Seems very odd to declare and then withdraw within a week!

[Zod]

So far, I think Chuka (now out) and Liz Kendall are the only ones not to deny that the last Labour government overspent. It's hilarious that they cannot hear the message from the voters that most people believe that they did overspend. Now is the time to accept that and move on. I'm delighted that they cannot.

[otolith]

Zod said:

Standing for Mayor?

Perhaps someone has some dirt on him?

[WestyCarl]

Zod said:

cirian75 said:

Point is moot now

Umunna has withdrawn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32748106

Standing for Mayor?

or a newspaper about to print pics of him at a gay dwarf orgy

[Justayellowbadge]

It's a poison chalice.

Short of another global meltdown, tearing themselves apart over the eu or them forming a youth wing that has to wear actual brown shirts, the Tories should win 2020.

It's the leadership contest after that that will get you somewhere.

The next leader is the next Ed.

[Timmy40]

Zod said:

So far, I think Chuka (now out) and Liz Kendall are the only ones not to deny that the last Labour government overspent. It's hilarious that they cannot hear the message from the voters that most people believe that they did overspend. Now is the time to accept that and move on. I'm delighted that they cannot.

This is the thing, until they admit that they overspent last time the public will not trust them with the purse strings again.

[cirian75]

"the scrutiny and attention a leadership contest would bring"

translation, someone has dirt on him and he is pretty much admitting it publicly

[ralphrj]

cirian75 said:

"the scrutiny and attention a leadership contest would bring"

translation, someone has dirt on him and he is pretty much admitting it publicly

There always were lots of rumours about him and the rapper, Tinie Tempah.

[Zod]

I suspect that must be right. It's not that he is gay. He is not. He used to work here and he keeps in touch. He has a track record that is very not gay.

[Timmy40]

Zod said:

I suspect that must be right. It's not that he is gay. He is not. He used to work here and he keeps in touch. He has a track record that is very not gay.

Hookers and coke?