British Politics Thread.

[Al Shut]

I'll have to admit, on first sight I can't tell them apart.

[Psychosplodge]

Ledsom has withdrawn

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[Mr Mystery]

Not especially surprised.

Wonder how many people have accidentally spoonered her surname?

[Psychosplodge]

oops.

*shrugs*

****s knows whats going to happen now. How long is the labour contest going to take?

[Mr Mystery]

Not long.

I'm fully expecting Angela Eagle to be annihilated in the polls.

[Psychosplodge]

Entirely possible if the people voting are conservatives/people that sound like the local momentum spokeswoman they keep having on the radio.
But that might lead to the same happening at the next election...
And what are the rest of the MPs going to do?

[Mr Mystery]

Well, the MP's can either.....

1. Get with the will of the party - there's an increasing call for a socialist alternative.
2. Realise they can't get with the will of the party, and therefore likely aren't the right people for the job, and stand down triggering a new nomination and a by-election., and to hell with their precious career.

[Psychosplodge]

You mean like Corbyn should have done years ago? Once they've got their feet under the table I don't see that happening do you?

The problem is a purely socialist alternative will struggle to provide a serious opposition to the tories and does none of us a favour like that.

[Kirsten]

Eagle is rightly facing a no confidence vote in her own constituency so this challenge wont last the week

[Mr Mystery]

Again, I disagree. There's a large amount of support for Corbyn - and that can't all be put down to 'people thinking he's a nice, principled chap'.

He's got a massive mandate from the Labour Party. Angela Eagle has said she'll 'heal the rift'. That'd be the rift you've utterly failed to engineer then, yeah?

People keep saying 'oh he doesn't appeal to Labour heartlands' etc....but haven't provided even a shred of evidence to support that. Membership is stupidly high. He's not lost a seat or Mayoral election yet as Leader.

The media have been determined to savage him, and it just hasn't worked. At all.

Serious opposition? He's stopped their schemes on 20 occasions so far. Go look them up. That is effective opposition. Whether you're in power or not, being able to prevent the worst excesses is the shadow cabinet doing what it's there for.