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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
Rolfe said:
Mmmm, maybe. I'll wait and see. Wasn't he suggested for something like the chairmanship of the EMU or the World Bank or am I completely misremembering?
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To be fair, this was a few years ago, after the death of Rod Hull.
 
Not sure the Labour Party would survive her leadership. Anyway, will be interesting to see if she gets the support of 33 MPs.

Perhaps she just feels the field is narrow and dislikes the lack of women. Fair it be.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Not sure the Labour Party would survive her leadership. Anyway, will be interesting to see if she gets the support of 33 MPs.

Perhaps she just feels the field is narrow and dislikes the lack of women. Fair it be.
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I don't think that it'll be a bad thing that the contest has someone other than a 30-40 something white male from Oxbridge standing....

more importantly i think it's good that the leadership election has at least one left-wing back bencher free to say what they think (with no chance of actually being chosen), who's not going to be trotting out the same platitudes as all the others.

I hope she gets enough labour votes to at least stand.
 
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Seems like the general mood of the party these days is now left, considering what all the candidates, including David M are talking about:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-to-exorcise-ghosts-of-blairism-1985691.html
David Miliband has made his first major attempt to break free from his Blairite image and broaden his appeal to party members by claiming Labour failed to take on the private sector during its 13 years in power.

The former Foreign Secretary, who remains the frontrunner in the contest to become Labour’s next leader, went further than ever before in attacking the role of banks and private investors in the financial crisis, as well as admitting to mistakes made in handling the economy. He warned the Government needed to intervene to curb “unaccountable market power and unacceptable market morals”.
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http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/07/10/why-jon-cruddas-is-backing-david-miliband/

Great speech.

• We need to reclaim and re-enact our commitments to community. Default statism turns citizens into consumers and makes government a giant problem solver, which only increases our technical managerialism. This meant that our response to the Big Society was not to engage with its weaknesses, its lack of a political economy, its refusal to allow the society to challenge the market as well as the state, and this undermined our socialism. A life fit for a human being is about more than money and benefits. It’s about, responsibility, love, loyalty, friendship, action and victory, values that used to be engraved upon the Labour heart but which we have carried too lightly of late … I take the Big Society seriously. But it is a piece of doublethink – a small society maintained by voluntarism and charity alone. I want a bigger society, based on reciprocity, not just kindness or charity, and I intend to make that a Labour issue
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Well that was fun.

Watched the result come in live. It had everything. Including a scenario that would make a BBC sitcom proud: the battle between two Millibands. Or a fifth of a Centiband if you prefer. Of course if you reject metric entirely, in the old money it would be a poor second to a Foot.

Also wasn't the reality TV show aspect brilliant with contestants being eliminated one by one. I was half expecting Diane Abbott to have to sing for survival against Andy Burnham. Then in the end it came down to everyone's second choice. What an epithet to carry. Ed Milliband: "Everyone's second choice"

There were tears in my eyes as he was warmly congratulated by Neil Kinnock, Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harman. You could just see the metaphorical baton being passed as Ed picked up the mantle of the UK's next former leader of the Labour Party.

Yes this was a proud moment that will be recorded forever in the footnotes of history.
 
Ocelot said:
Watched the result come in live. It had everything. Including a scenario that would make a BBC sitcom proud: the battle between two Millibands. Or a fifth of a Centiband if you prefer. Of course if you reject metric entirely, in the old money it would be a poor second to a Foot.
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Bravo :D
 
I picked Ed Milliband. I win! W00t! Although I'd love to have seen Ed Balls get up, is that a real name???
 
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