Who will be the new Labour leader?

[Ayahuasca]

Not that it matters much. For the next few years anyway. Still.

[rehab71]

Who cares?!

[dudleybloke]

Bob Dobolina.

[PoleDriver]

Knowing the labia party...

Either



Or

[Welshbeef]

Thing is to win ever again in Scotland they need to be much more left wing - than they presented themselves, however that simply doesn't appeal to English voters (it appears to for Wales but they simply have no way of repaying the borrowing so

[MarshPhantom]

Chuka, Caroline Flint or Hunt, not a bad shortlist.

[The Vambo]

Welshbeef said:

Thing is to win ever again in Scotland they need to be much more left wing

Lot of nonsense.

Labour have to be credible party with a clear precise message long before how many degrees left of centre matters to Scottish voters.

They didn't have much of a problem going straight from the (comparatively) right leaning John smith to the very right leaning Blair. They couldn't vote them in quick enough.

Ideology had bugger all to do with Labours catastrophe last night.

[Puggit]

The Vambo said:

Ideology had bugger all to do with Labours catastrophe last night.

What about the mouthy social media users - by and large on the left side of Labour. How much are they influencing Labour policy?

[Welshbeef]

The Vambo said:

Welshbeef said:

Thing is to win ever again in Scotland they need to be much more left wing

Lot of nonsense.

Labour have to be credible party with a clear precise message long before how many degrees left of centre matters to Scottish voters.

They didn't have much of a problem going straight from the (comparatively) right leaning John smith to the very right leaning Blair. They couldn't vote them in quick enough.

Ideology had bugger all to do with Labours catastrophe last night.

That's the key point - Blair took labour to centre ground from there onwards labour was on a downward flow as SNP filled the left wing gap.

[BoRED S2upid]

I'd love to vote but I'd need to know who they are. Who's this army guy I read about once? I will vote for him.

As for that Tristram hunt guy surely he's only in labour because he was bullied by conservatives at Oxford.

[mcelliott]

anonymous said:

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He was on question time about 4 months ago - useless doesn't even cover it.

[Cupramax]

MarshPhantom said:

Chuka, Caroline Flint or Hunt, not a bad shortlist if you never want to govern again.

You missed a bit Caroline Flint? Seriously?

[AJS-]

They're all useless but surely they will go for Chuka Unumma so they can have a British Obama, then cry racism if he doesn't get elected.

[mybrainhurts]

I wonder if we could get the unions to poach a true, hard, left wing worthy as leader?

Like Natalie Bennett.

[Beati Dogu]

BoRED S2upid said:

I'd love to vote but I'd need to know who they are. Who's this army guy I read about once? I will vote for him.

That's Dan Jarvis, a former para.

[The Vambo]

Welshbeef said:

The Vambo said:

Welshbeef said:

Thing is to win ever again in Scotland they need to be much more left wing

Lot of nonsense.

Labour have to be credible party with a clear precise message long before how many degrees left of centre matters to Scottish voters.

They didn't have much of a problem going straight from the (comparatively) right leaning John smith to the very right leaning Blair. They couldn't vote them in quick enough.

Ideology had bugger all to do with Labours catastrophe last night.

That's the key point - Blair took labour to centre ground from there onwards labour was on a downward flow as SNP filled the left wing gap.

What are you on about?

You seen desperate to ignore how much of an effect the perceived lack of capability and trustworthiness has on voters.

Labour could have gone with a communist manifesto and would still have had a disaster because the are a party of buffoons and everyone knows it.

[freakybacon]

Yvette Cooper? There's no reason why a woman can't lead the Labour Party is there?

[DaveR]

freakybacon said:

Yvette Cooper? There's no reason why a woman can't lead the Labour Party is there?

There are 18,776 people in Morley and Outwood with better judgement than her, never mind the rest of the country.

[Willy Nilly]

Please let it be Chukka

[turbobloke]

Willy Nilly said:

Please let it be Chukka

Presclot said:

Chumbawamba

Barely a murmur by way of comment followed. Had that been CMD or Farage, the BBC would have been in meltdown and several Guardian columnists would have suffered apoplexy.