Who will be the new Labour leader?

Who will be the new Labour leader?

Poll: Who will be the new Labour leader?

Total Members Polled: 378

David Miliband: 7%
Dan Jarvis: 8%
Chuka Umunna: 22%
Andy Burnham: 21%
Harriet Harman: 7%
Jim Murphy: 2%
An other: 33%
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Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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turbobloke said:
Totally understood, it was an opportunity to mention that Lucas has not and will not have any responsibility for energy, which is quite reassuring even in the typing of it!
Would be/could be as worried by the similar likelihood of the sun going supernova if you had to type that ?



Edited by Stickyfinger on Monday 14th September 12:03

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

242 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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tim0409 said:
There is a rumour on twitter that Caroline Lucas may be offered a position in the shadow cabinet with responsibility for energy. Now that would be interesting....
Even they couldn't be that stupid?

Mark Benson

7,515 posts

269 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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turbobloke said:
tim0409 said:
There is a rumour on twitter that Caroline Lucas may be offered a position in the shadow cabinet with responsibility for energy. Now that would be interesting....
If so and fortunately for everyone else she'd actually have no responsibility at all for energy, but those that have it are little better.

But yes, interesting! He needs more non-London women apparently.
No wonder he's looking outside the party. I can't imagine the pool of hard-left, IRA-sympathising, female, non-London Labour MPs is particularly deep.

turbobloke

103,961 posts

260 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Stickyfinger said:
turbobloke said:
Totally understood, it was an opportunity to mention that Lucas has not and will not have any responsibility for energy, which is quite reassuring even in the typing of it!
You would be/could be as worried by the similar likelihood of the sun going supernova if you had to type that ?
No, the Sun will never go supernova (its mass is too low as you will appreciate) but Lucas is a politician and could conceivably end up, no matter how remote the chances, with responsibility for energy.

The physics of the Sun is what it is, Lucas is what she is, and both elicit different responses as totally different entities. The Sun will be an adequate primary energy supplier for the foreseeable future as a main sequence star, whereas Lucas could provide inadequate energy supplies to home and businesses in terms of gas and electrical energy, as a deluded green-red politician who believes in nonscience.

That's that cleared up smile

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Justayellowbadge said:
Even they couldn't be that stupid?
Diane Abbot got a job and he thinks that type of person can be trusted with billions of £'s of your money/others lives.............that I think answers your question.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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turbobloke said:
No, the Sun will never go supernova (its mass is too low as you will appreciate) but Lucas is a politician and could conceivably end up, no matter how remote the chances, with responsibility for energy.

The physics of the Sun is what it is, Lucas is what she is, and both elicit different responses as totally different entities. The Sun will be an adequate primary energy supplier for the foreseeable future as a main sequence star, whereas Lucas could provide inadequate energy supplies to home and businesses in terms of gas and electrical energy, as a deluded green-red politician who believes in nonscience.

That's that cleared up smile
LOL

turbobloke said:
The Sun will be an adequate primary energy supplier for the foreseeable future
Best nationalise it then

turbobloke

103,961 posts

260 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Stickyfinger said:
turbobloke said:
No, the Sun will never go supernova (its mass is too low as you will appreciate) but Lucas is a politician and could conceivably end up, no matter how remote the chances, with responsibility for energy.

The physics of the Sun is what it is, Lucas is what she is, and both elicit different responses as totally different entities. The Sun will be an adequate primary energy supplier for the foreseeable future as a main sequence star, whereas Lucas could provide inadequate energy supplies to homes and businesses in terms of gas and electrical energy, as a deluded green-red politician who believes in nonscience.

That's that cleared up smile
LOL

turbobloke said:
The Sun will be an adequate primary energy supplier for the foreseeable future
Best nationalise it then
Shhhh you never know who's reading PH threads.

Has anyone tested the PH hamsters for the presence of Corbynite?

dandarez

13,286 posts

283 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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jsf said:
dandarez said:
Chrise, that spelling! eek

I know kids once went down the mines, but not at that point in time.
eek Think I need to get some kip. biggrin But who is Chrise????
'Chrise' is slang down here for Christ's Sake. tongue out

How bist yow this morn, enough sleep? biggrin


Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Just listed a lot of things that Corbyn is for and has said on the Politics Show...
some far out stuff in there...one or two things I like...but a lot of crazy there as well...

tim0409

4,420 posts

159 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Justayellowbadge said:
tim0409 said:
There is a rumour on twitter that Caroline Lucas may be offered a position in the shadow cabinet with responsibility for energy. Now that would be interesting....
Even they couldn't be that stupid?
Whilst it's probably not true, the fact that people are taking it seriously shows how far Labour has come in the last 48 hours.

JagLover

42,418 posts

235 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Alex said:
With Corbyn's views on such topics as the IRA, the Army and the Falklands, he's going to lose former Labour voters to UKIP.
And his shadow chancellor thinks the IRA were heros.

That might have played well with a few London councils in the old loony left days but they wont like that in the working men's clubs.

Alex

9,975 posts

284 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Reminds me of an old Bernard Manning gag:

"I'd like you all to give a round of applause for this young man who fought in the Falklands."
(Loud cheering and clapping)
"He's from Argentina..."

tim0409

4,420 posts

159 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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0000

13,812 posts

191 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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hehe

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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tim0409 said:
Inspired....rofl

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

244 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Alex said:
Reminds me of an old Bernard Manning gag:

"I'd like you all to give a round of applause for this young man who fought in the Falklands."
(Loud cheering and clapping)
"He's from Argentina..."
I think I'd still applaud, those poor fkers were no less sold down the river than our guys.

Stickyfinger

8,429 posts

105 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Einion Yrth said:
no less sold down the river than our guys.
What ?

Vaud

50,513 posts

155 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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I agree.

They were soldiers, sent to fight. They were ill equipped, sent on a political mission and died on a cold island.

Why? For a vanity mission by their leader, not because of some imminent threat to Argentina.

(way off thread topic)

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

244 months

Monday 14th September 2015
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Vaud said:
I agree.

They were soldiers, sent to fight. They were ill equipped, sent on a political mission and died on a cold island.

Why? For a vanity mission by their leader, not because of some imminent threat to Argentina.

(way off thread topic)
This, I'm surprised the previous poster had to ask.

Zod

35,295 posts

258 months

Tuesday 15th September 2015
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Einion Yrth said:
Vaud said:
I agree.

They were soldiers, sent to fight. They were ill equipped, sent on a political mission and died on a cold island.

Why? For a vanity mission by their leader, not because of some imminent threat to Argentina.

(way off thread topic)
This, I'm surprised the previous poster had to ask.
You know, I think he just might have been asking why you said that our soldiers had been sold down the river. I think most of the relatives of the dead and most of the survivors would disagree with that statement.