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The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_Pete » Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:07 am

The winner will be announced just before midday. Corbyn is the hot favourite to win. What will that mean for the Labour parties future?

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Haji el Maveric » Sat Sep 24, 2016 7:22 am

It means that the Labour party will have a real socialist as its leader rather than some Blairite neo-Tory.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by BUSHEAD » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:19 am

Means Jenny Chapman has backed the wrong horse.
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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Haji el Maveric » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:35 am

Jenny Chapman always backs the wrong horse because she is chairwoman of Progress, the Blairite faction.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Haji el Maveric » Sat Sep 24, 2016 11:00 am

Crushing defeat for Smith.
Labour leadership 2016, result:
J. Corbyn: 61.8% (313,209)
O. Smith: 38.2% (193,229)

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by QuakerPete » Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:35 pm

I await the 3 consecutive terms of office for Corbyn with bated breath


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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Haji el Maveric » Sat Sep 24, 2016 1:47 pm

I couldn't give a s*** if he loses. I want a Labour party I can support, not some spineless bunch of Blairite shysters. I've been excluded from voting for 30 years so now I'm back with a vengeance.
Anyone with any sense knows that the establishment will continue to undermine him. The Tory press, the right wing BBC, but there are people out there who already see through the lies of these scumbags.
Labour will soon have a million members and I'm glad it's back fighting for the working class, not rolling over to support capitalism and the free market, and fighting for the NHS to remain in the public sector not sold off to some rich city investors.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_H » Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:27 pm

They've chosen an unelectable man with principles relating to the original Labour standing as opposed to an unelectable Blairite clone.

Labour won't come anywhere near governing for a good while, but at least they can now say they offer a genuine alternative (even if I'd never vote for it).
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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by QuakerPete » Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:33 pm

Haji el Maveric wrote:I couldn't give a s*** if he loses. I want a Labour party I can support, not some spineless bunch of Blairite shysters. I've been excluded from voting for 30 years so now I'm back with a vengeance.
Anyone with any sense knows that the establishment will continue to undermine him. The Tory press, the right wing BBC, but there are people out there who already see through the lies of these scumbags.
Labour will soon have a million members and I'm glad it's back fighting for the working class, not rolling over to support capitalism and the free market, and fighting for the NHS to remain in the public sector not sold off to some rich city investors.
All you need to do now then is convince another 11.5m voters in order to convert those principles into power


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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_Pete » Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:15 pm

I bet the tories can't believe their luck, as they face opposition that is virtually unelectable.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Haji el Maveric » Sat Sep 24, 2016 10:31 pm

The Tories are a shower of shite, a psychopathic bunch of charlatans and carpet baggers, who are using the most despicable form of gerrymandering to rig the next election:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ymandering

I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, I pour gasoline on them instead.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_Pete » Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:53 am

Whether you agree or disagree with the Tories is immaterial, Labour won't provide effective opposition that the electorate can get behind.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by lo36789 » Tue Sep 27, 2016 7:13 am

Darlo_Pete wrote:Whether you agree or disagree with the Tories is immaterial
eh?

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_Pete » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:40 pm

lo36789 wrote:
Darlo_Pete wrote:Whether you agree or disagree with the Tories is immaterial
eh?
Whatever your views on the Tories are, it doesn't make any difference to how things will turn out.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Henley » Tue Sep 27, 2016 8:47 pm

Haji el Maveric wrote:The Tories are a shower of shite, a psychopathic bunch of charlatans and carpet baggers, who are using the most despicable form of gerrymandering to rig the next election:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ymandering

I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire, I pour gasoline on them instead.
As a Tory Party member, this is good to know.

This must be the gentler, more caring politics that Corbyn advocates.

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Re: The Labour Leadership election thread.

Post by Darlo_Pete » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:32 am

There's one thing for sure, that they'll be a wide difference in policies between the 2 main parties, come the next general election.

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