Corbyn's days (very) numbered?

[jimbob]

https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/747496441795481600

I'm now near-certain that Corbyn voted Leave. Hear papers have more tomorrow.

 

[dudalb]

Too bad Cersai Lannister is not Labor.....

 

[angrysoba]

Current odds from Ladbrokes on some likely challengers to Corbyn:

Dan Jarvis 5/1
Tom Watson 5/1
John McDonnell 6/1 (said he will only stand in the event that Corbyn doesn't)
Lisa Nandy 10/1
Chuka Umunna 12/1
Angela Eagle 14/1
Owen Smith 20/1
Heidi Alexander 25/1
Yvette Cooper 33/1

None of the above look any more electable as Prime Minister than Corbyn to me. Three of them I've never heard of.

At this point, Dennis Skinner looks like a good candidate.

 

[Agatha]

I could get behind Dan Jarvis or Chuka Umunna. The rest of them - meh.

 

[angrysoba]

I could get behind Dan Jarvis or Chuka Umunna. The rest of them - meh.

Whatever the reason Chhuka pulled the plug on his last leadership campaign within hours of starting it could presumably be a factor that counts him out.

 

[dudalb]

I could get behind Dan Jarvis or Chuka Umunna. The rest of them - meh.

Chuka Umunna is getting some coverage in the US as a possible Labor Leader,usually with the term "The British Obama" attached.

 

[CapelDodger]

At this point, Dennis Skinner looks like a good candidate.

I'm up for that.

 

[CapelDodger]

Current odds from Ladbrokes on some likely challengers to Corbyn:

Dan Jarvis 5/1
Tom Watson 5/1
John McDonnell 6/1 (said he will only stand in the event that Corbyn doesn't)
Lisa Nandy 10/1
Chuka Umunna 12/1
Angela Eagle 14/1
Owen Smith 20/1
Heidi Alexander 25/1
Yvette Cooper 33/1

None of the above look any more electable as Prime Minister than Corbyn to me. Three of them I've never heard of.

It could be one of them then.

 

[angrysoba]

Chuka Umunna is getting some coverage in the US as a possible Labor Leader,usually with the term "The British Obama" attached.

Dare I ask why he is being referred to as the British Obama? The U.K. already has universal healthcare so he is unlikely to introduce anything akin to Obama's signature legislation. Any Umunnacare would be considered a regressive step in the UK.

 

[JihadJane]

Corbyn's straddling the fence on Brexit is coming back to haunt him. Part of a leader's job is to lead,and Corbyn failed miserably on Brexit.

Rubbish. This pathetic Blairite coup has been in the pipeline since April.

 

[CapelDodger]

A colleague at lunch today said that Corbyn has spent the last 40-years in rooms with people who agree with him and hasn't learned how to get on with those who disagree.

There is that apect, definitely. He and his ilk are not Parliamentary insiders, they are party people (so to speak) for that part of the party which keeps the old flames burning. They hold the whole Parliamentary rigmarole in contempt, really, which is why Corbyn won't play the PMQ game the modern way. It's why his speech earlier wasn't about the leadership, it was about issues, the ones agreed on by those roomfuls of people. Ones which, oddly enough, many of us would probably agree on.

This, in a Parliamentary system, doesn't work, obviously.

 

[CapelDodger]

Dare I ask why he is being referred to as the British Obama? The U.K. already has universal healthcare so he is unlikely to introduce anything akin to Obama's signature legislation. Any Umunnacare would be considered a regressive step in the UK.

You need to think up the shallower end than that. Father an African, mother white.

 

[sphenisc]

It's at times like these I mourn the loss of Spitting Image most of all.

I am so stealing this.

 

[dudalb]

Dare I ask why he is being referred to as the British Obama? The U.K. already has universal healthcare so he is unlikely to introduce anything akin to Obama's signature legislation. Any Umunnacare would be considered a regressive step in the UK.

Because he might be the first Britian of African descent to rise to a position of high political power in the U.K.

 

[ceptimus]

He's more articulate than all the others. But he's more Blairite than most. Might not be supported by the members or the unions - maybe that's why he pulled out of the last contest.

 

[dudalb]

I did not relies there was so much resentment against the Polish community in the U.K. Maybe it's the old "No Popery Here" spirit again.....

 

[Giz]

I did not relies there was so much resentment against the Polish community in the U.K. Maybe it's the old "No Popery Here" spirit again.....

I honestly don't think it has anything to do with catholicism. They are just the largest perceived minority* competing with working class Brits for jobs.


* i.e. recent EU immigrant

 

[angrysoba]

I did not relies there was so much resentment against the Polish community in the U.K. Maybe it's the old "No Popery Here" spirit again.....

No. It's "yer tekkn our jobs!"

 

[angrysoba]

Because he might be the first Britian of African descent to rise to a position of high political power in the U.K.

Oh, because he's black.

 

[Giz]

Oh, because he's black.

Sadly reductionist isn't it?