BS: electing a new labour leader

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 08:23 AM

That should of course have been "left of the Tory party"

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 08:56 AM

I gathered that, Kevin. Anyone to the right of the current Tory party would probably be akin to Genghis Khan!

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 04:25 PM

Actually by "to the right" i meant in the party but on the right wing of it. English is funny language when it comes to stuff like that.

People always use Genghis Khan as an example of extreme rightwing. I'm not sure if that was particularly true. What distinguished him from the leaders of other nations of the time was his extreme ruthlessness. Wipe out a few sizeable cities entirely as an example of what happens if people don't surrender, and the idea is the others roll over, and it worked. Sort of Harry Truman style.

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 05:00 PM

I think Irritable Duncan Smith used his as a role model ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Sep 15 - 05:00 PM

...or even used hiM (GK) as a role model...

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 05:46 PM

Voting deadline was noon today. So the voting is done. Now for the bargaining. I see Chuka Umunna has started making overtures to Corbyn, and there are suggestions he would be Shadow Chancellor in a Corbyn Shadow Cabinet. You couldn't make it up.

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 05:56 PM

That would be OK in my book. All things are relative.

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 06:17 PM

Jeremy will have to start as he means to finish. His only hope is to split the party, if he accommodates these people they will finish him.

They are the enemy.....in Westminster and even in Mudcat
This is no time for compromises, the public have started to listen and they want to hear the true word, not the Blairite doggerel.

METANOIA is what we need.

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 06:30 PM

With our system of voting, so splitting means electoral suicide. If there's a split, it'll be by the right, once again. But I think it's a lot more likely there'll be mass overnight conversions, and Umunna is getting in first with that.

But Jeremy had better watch his back. Which he will.

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 06:39 PM

McG, according to SKy this evening, about 260,000 have voted to date. And the ballot did not close today. There's another week to go. (Noon, Thursday 10 Sept.)

Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Sep 15 - 06:52 PM

Oops - yes, I got my dates wrong. It's next Thursday noon that's the deadline for voting. So all to play for.