Labour leader.

[Boac]

Well, he cannot be worse!

[Capetonian]

A lot of the electorate tend to not look beyond the man, and if he is plausible, presentable, and suave, as Starmer is, he could be up for election if Boris does any worse. God help us. At least the burger man has gone, not sure about the Abbopotamus thing.

[4mastacker]

Becky Wrong Dailey got 27.6% of the vote. As a true Corbynista, she claims that she had won the election but people hadn't voted correctly.

As for the new leader, we will have to wait and see. I suppose a multi-millionaire, knighted member of the legal profession is the ideal person to lead a political party that supposedly represents the working class.

[G-CPTN]

Wasn't he the best of the bunch?

[Capetonian]

He was arguably the least bad, depending on perspective. From my perspective, the ghastly fat ugly black Abbopotamus thing would have been the been the best.

Imagine the TV interviewers pulling her to shreds in pre-election interviews and destroying her credibility, not that she had much.

[om15]

Labour don't deserve any success, they have contributed nothing towards society, Corbyn just took the piss with his behaviour and putting Jumbo Thornbury and Miss Diane on the front bench deserves complete obscurity for the party for decades to come.
I have no time for Starmer, he was a remainer, is a remainer, and wants us to rejoin the EU, he was part of that group of politicians and establishment figures that tried to overthrow the referendum, I predict that he will enjoy the same electoral success as Gyppo Corbyn.

[G-CPTN]

Five challenges facing new Labour leader.

[4mastacker]

Angela "Left school with more kids than GCSEs" Rayner elected as deputy leader after three rounds. It was so very nearly that talking disaster Burgon.....if only, if only.

[4mastacker]

Starmer's recalled the Millipede as Shadow Minister for something or other. Wonder if he's learnt how to eat a bacon sarny?

[ian16th]

Starmer has a tough job, just look at who he has to select from.

[barkingmad]

Their friends in the BBC are doing their level best to publicise a few former Labour has-beens on the broadcasts recently.

Gordon “prudence but light-touch banking regulation” Broon has been brought out to air too many times for my acoustic comfort.

The airing has obviously worked for Millepede, but I wish during his absence he’d had suitable work done by a speech therapist to get rid of that awful gurgling speech mode. Every time I hear him I’m reminded of that rude joke about the kids’ TV series “Bill & Ben Flowerpot Men”.

Sunday’s BBC radio interview with Starmer portrayed him as a reasonable spud from a genuine working-class background made good, so we wait to see how he manages his party which must contain some wild cards not yet weeded out.

[barkingmad]

Is it possible that following the disastrous handling of the Covid-1984 pan(dem)ic by the Johnson administration it might transpire that Labour will reappear with a fighting chance of wiping out the current 80-seat majority?



Though why it took 6 months of navel fluff-picking by the Labour party apparatchiks to publicly acknowledge what most electors could have told them on the 20th December 2019 is a mystery.
If that’s the speed and depth of a major policy rethink by Labour then perhaps BoJo & Co might just scrape through the next election farce?

[AtomKraft]

I wonder what that panels next jaw-dropping conclusion will be?

"Cats have legs".
Pope "A Catholic".
Bears found to be **** in woods.....

Etc, etc ad infinitum.
Cont p.94.

[AtomKraft]

I wish "Luvvie"...sorry "Labour" would simply F Off.

It had its roots in a good idea.
It got power and did some good.
It forgot what it was doing and where it came from.
It twisted like a whore as it tried to revert to what it was.
But failed.
Now, like a whore, it's ****.

Life will go on.

[barkingmad]

But we do badly need an effective opposition to all incumbent guvvments as the current situation is very unhealthy for the UK and indeed any country which believes itself to be democratic.
Alas looking around at the alternatives on offer in Blighty means it appears to be a dog show in which the only contestant and therefore outright winner is a very bedraggled looking stray which can’t help itself from shagging the dining table leg, or anything else which doesn’t move out of the way fast enough or other contenders are otherwise so ‘woke’ as to be a hazard viz the LibDems.

[barkingmad]

Speaking as an immigrant into England (there, that’s the identity politics box ticked!) but also as a male white Caucasian (race box ticked!) and currently seriously disillusioned with the main HoC parties (voting preferences box ticked!), I’ve been observing via MSM (?!) the battle between Andy Burnham and the Downing Street cabal.

It suddenly occurred to me that AB might be surveying the ground and weighing up his chances of a successful challenge to Charmer Starmer as a future Labour leader and maybe even PM, as we get closer to the next UK GE.

He’s certainly laying down a good impression of fighting for the North of England against those nasty Westmonster folk who have only been ‘loaned’ their votes in the territory beyond the ‘Red Wall’.

No, I have not been on the Gs&Ts yet nor have I even sniffed the bottle to guess the botanicals etc!

But has anyone here got similar thoughts which we can confess to the priest at the next encounter? Or is everyone so hacked off with the plague crap that the will to live has been mislaid and not yet been successfully recovered?

[Boac]

Yes.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Yes.

A very gnomic response!

[barkingmad]

Yes.

1/2. Next please! And which is which?

[Wodrick]

My management thinks he (AB) would make a good leader and swing her vote.
She will be not eligible to vote next time.