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Next Labour leader?

Next leader

  • David Miliband

    Votes: 12 42.9%

  • Ed Miliband

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Harriet Harman

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jack Straw

    Votes: 1 3.6%

  • Jon Cruddas

    Votes: 2 7.1%

  • Alan Johnson

    Votes: 5 17.9%

  • Ed Balls

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Total voters
    28
I voted Alan Johnson above but can't believe I forgot about Mandy. It's been in my head since last autumn's Labour conference. I might loathe the guy, but what struck me at the time was just how leader-like he seemed to be even though I can't put my finger on what exactly it was that made me think so.
 
Rolfe said:
I just don't think it's fair to damn any candidate on the basis of which school their parents sent them to. Damning them on the basis that they're upper-class twits, frankly, be my guest. That way we'd never have seen Blair, hooray. However, it's perfectly possible to have attended a fee-paying school and still have socialist instincts.

Rolfe.
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Hang on. Why should you be damned if you are upper-class but not if you went to a fee-paying school? It seems like you're cherry picking.
 
Mphmmm. I've been refreshing the BBC page on a regular basis today, but you beat me to it!

Rolfe.
 
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funk de fino said:
Anyone but Balls.
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Anyone but Harman. An angry and not especially bright feminist on a one woman crusade against menfolk the country over....

how the ◊◊◊◊ she's managed to get to where she is, goodness only knows...
 
Brown down! Brown down!

it's the last throw of the dice for Labour - apparently Clegg and Brown can't stand each other - maybe they reckon this is the last chance of a deal....
 
commandlinegamer said:
Cue Tory histrionics in 3..2..1..
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I bet David Cameron thought he'd be enjoying the days after the election rather more than this :p

Current prices from William Hill:
David Miliband odds-on favourite - at 4/7
Alistair Darling at 8/1,
Alan Johnson at 10/1,
Ed Miliband at 11/1
Ed Balls at 12/1.

I'd have thought Alan Johnson would have seen better odds than 10/1, but there you go.
 
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richardm said:
I'd have thought Alan Johnson would have seen better odds than 10/1, but there you go.
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agreed - i think he'd be a decent choice. They say that political parties always go for the polar opposite of their previously deposed leaders...the affable man-of-the-people Johnson would seem a decent tonic to Broon. Milliband would do OK for labour - but he is a bit Blair-lite.
 
Oh I do wish I could have seen Murdoch's face when Brown made his statement, his press had been pining all their hopes on the Liberals not being able to do a deal with a (so-called) unpopular politician like Brown. (I said "so-called" because it appears that the Murdoch press did not understand that folk in the UK do not particularity want likeable leaders at the expense of perceived competency.)

Anyway it seems strange to have this poll - wouldn't it be easier to ask Mandelson who he is making the next leader? ;)
 
richardm said:
I bet David Cameron thought he'd be enjoying the days after the election rather more than this :p

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It's small minded of me but I admit I had a wry chortle at the thought of him having to tear up his "acceptance" speech and all the time he had wasted practising his bow.
 
Darat said:
Anyway it seems strange to have this poll - wouldn't it be easier to ask Mandelson who he is making the next leader? ;)
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Isn't it constitutionally possible for a Lord to become PM? The Prince of Darkness might be coming...... :boxedin:
 
Looks like we might have avoided Eton boy and his tax cuts for the rich by the skin of our teeth.
 
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