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Thread #160410   Message #3832342
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
13-Jan-17 - 11:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Labour party discussion
Subject: RE: BS: Labour party discussion
Daily Mirror yesterday,

"Labour faces a "big defeat" under Jeremy Corbyn, a former party general secretary warned tonight.
Mr Corbyn's two landslide leadership victories were "completely different" from winning a general election, Lord David Triesman said.

He told The House magazine: "I think the position for the party is genuinely very grim and I don't see any real point in trying to hide from the reality.
"Winning a majority in the party, as Jeremy did, is not anything like winning a majority in the country."

"He also hit out at the appointment of human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti to the Lords soon after her much-criticised report into alleged racism in Labour ranks.
"I think that many people, if they were offered a peerage in those circumstances, if there was something behind it or not, would have said not at this moment'," he said.
"I think I would have said perceptions can be very damaging to a politician, it doesn't matter if they're grounded in reality or not.
She could have relied on the fact that given her work and her reputation she would have arrived in the House of Lords eventually." "
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/labour-course-bad-defeat-under-9612011