Jeremy Corbyn for PM!!

[Venturi Swirl]

I really think leaders should be elected on the basis that they'd be good in the job, it shouldn't matter in the slightest what colour skin they have or what is or isn't between their legs.

I am strongly opposed to all this pandering to the politically correct nonsense.

That being said, I think history shows that the best world leaders are undoubtedly white & male, just look at Trump, Hitler & Stalin.

I agree with your first point, however my point is that the party of political correctnessand positive action is also the party lagging behing behind in the leader diversity stakes.
As for your second point, well that’s just childish troll talk of course.

[faithlilly]

I agree with your first point, however my point is that the party of political correctnessand positive action is also the party lagging behing behind in the leader diversity stakes.
As for your second point, well that’s just childish troll talk of course.

Fantastic news about RLB then....even if you were the first to put the boot in.

[Erngath]

Great news ! RLB is now overtaking KS in the leadership polls so Labour may be about to have their first leader ever....and it looks as if she’ll be carrying the socialist baton forward....so goodnew all round 

Won't make a whisper of difference for the next four years plus.
So forgive my  indifference to whoever is elected to be the next leader of the Labour party.

I wish her well.
Perhaps if she had been the leader of the party instead of Jeremy Labour would have not been so thoroughly beaten at the election.

[Venturi Swirl]

Fantastic news about RLB then....even if you were the first to put the boot in.

What’s fantastic about it?  Please explain.

[faithlilly]

Won't make a whisper of difference for the next four years plus.
So forgive my  indifference to whoever is elected to be the next leader of the Labour party.

I wish her well.
Perhaps if she had been the leader of the party instead of Jeremy Labour would have not been so thoroughly beaten at the election.

I really don’t think it would have mattered....the Conservatives would still have played dirty, Leave voters would still have felt betrayed and the media would still have given anything left of centre a good kicking.

[faithlilly]

What’s fantastic about it?  Please explain.

Well with you being so worried about Labour never having had a female leader I thought you’d be overjoyed that RLB was now the front runner.

[Venturi Swirl]

Well with you being so worried about Labour never having had a female leader I thought you’d be overjoyed that RLB was now the front runner.

Worried??  No, not worried.   . TBH, RLB semsems to be the preferred candidate of those who hope Labour don’t win the next election either, so if anyone should be worried it’s people who are looking forward to a Labour Government in their lifetimes, IMO.

[faithlilly]

Worried??  No, not worried.   . TBH, RLB semsems to be the preferred candidate of those who hope Labour don’t win the next election either, so if anyone should be worried it’s people who are looking forward to a Labour Government in their lifetimes, IMO.

So it wasn’t Corbyn to blame for Labour’s defeat. That’s refreshingly honest of you.

[Venturi Swirl]

So it wasn’t Corbyn to blame for Labour’s defeat. That’s refreshingly honest of you.

I’m really not sure how you extrapolated that from what I wrote.  Corbyn and Corbynism was to blame for Labour’s defeat and I fear his little protégée will follow in Jeremy’s failed footsteps.  One of my employees, a lifelong Labour voter joined the party for the first time in his life late Tuesday afternoon specifically so he could vote against her.  Let’s hope many others did too, otherwise we may as well resign ourselves to a one party state for the foreseeable future IMO.

[Venturi Swirl]

Caroline Flint (who I think would have made a great Labour leader) is interviewed in today’s Times.  Here’s an excerpt:

“She’s fond of Corbyn personally, recalling with amusement how excited he got visiting a Doncaster green gas farm that turned silage into energy. “But it’s very hard on the doorstep when people are saying to you, ‘It’s not about you, Caroline. I want you as MP, but I don’t want that man being prime minister. And if I vote for you, I’m helping him.’ ”

Flint says Jess Phillips’ suggestion that she will fight to rejoin the EU is ‘ridiculous’
Corbyn’s perceived lack of patriotism played badly with South Yorkshire’s many families with army or RAF connections. Also, she says, Labour’s manifesto, “which offered free dental, free transport, free tuition fees, free broadband, free everything”, was ludicrous. “People here are savvy; they’re used to managing money. They know you can’t have all your Sundays at once. They felt they were being treated like idiots. And a lot of them felt they’d been already called idiots for voting Leave.”

[faithlilly]

I’m really not sure how you extrapolated that from what I wrote.  Corbyn and Corbynism was to blame for Labour’s defeat and I fear his little protégée will follow in Jeremy’s failed footsteps.  One of my employees, a lifelong Labour voter joined the party for the first time in his life late Tuesday afternoon specifically so he could vote against her.  Let’s hope many others did too, otherwise we may as well resign ourselves to a one party state for the foreseeable future IMO.

Corbynism ? Don’t you mean socialism ?

You have posted again and again that Corbyn and his past were to blame for Labour’s loss...well Corbyn’s gone and yet you’re still banging the same old drum that Labour’s doomed. It’s all getting rather same old, same old.

As to friends joining taking actions due to the political situation, I know of at least 4 friends who, terrified of what five more years of a zealous right wing Tory government could do to this country, are thinking of emigrating.

[Venturi Swirl]

Corbynism ? Don’t you mean socialism ?

You have posted again and again that Corbyn and his past were to blame for Labour’s loss...well Corbyn’s gone and yet you’re still banging the same old drum that Labour’s doomed. It’s all getting rather same old, same old.

As to friends joining taking actions due to the political situation, I know of at least 4 friends who, terrified of what five more years of a zealous right wing Tory government could do to this country, are thinking of emigrating.

you brought Corbyn back into it by falsely representing my views about his culpability in the election.  I’m quite happy never to mention his name again.  Are you?

[faithlilly]

Caroline Flint (who I think would have made a great Labour leader) is interviewed in today’s Times.  Here’s an excerpt:

“She’s fond of Corbyn personally, recalling with amusement how excited he got visiting a Doncaster green gas farm that turned silage into energy. “But it’s very hard on the doorstep when people are saying to you, ‘It’s not about you, Caroline. I want you as MP, but I don’t want that man being prime minister. And if I vote for you, I’m helping him.’ ”

Flint says Jess Phillips’ suggestion that she will fight to rejoin the EU is ‘ridiculous’
Corbyn’s perceived lack of patriotism played badly with South Yorkshire’s many families with army or RAF connections. Also, she says, Labour’s manifesto, “which offered free dental, free transport, free tuition fees, free broadband, free everything”, was ludicrous. “People here are savvy; they’re used to managing money. They know you can’t have all your Sundays at once. They felt they were being treated like idiots. And a lot of them felt they’d been already called idiots for voting Leave.”

Said the woman who has just lost her job as an MP. Of course they did Caroline...course they did ( BTW she didn’t like Gordon Brown either ) Indeed it must have smarted to have been rejected by the membership in favour of Corbyn in the 2015 leadership election.

Corbyn’s ‘perceived’ lack of patriotism...hmmmm.

[faithlilly]

you brought Corbyn back into it by falsely representing my views about his culpability in the election.  I’m quite happy never to mention his name again.  Are you?

I falsely represented nothing and it’s time you owned your postings.

[faithlilly]

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/statement/response-to-board-of-deputies-10-pledges-document/