Tuesday 7th January 2020

[refitman]

Morning all.

[PorFavor]

Good morfternoon.

Labour must ditch 'ideological purity', says Rosena Allin-Khan

Exclusive: shadow minister[Sport and MP for Tooting] launches deputy leadership bid with a unifying pitch
(Guardian)

Can't say as I've ever heard of her before now.

I do agree with this, though, when she says -

“There’s no regional distinction to hunger. Loss of hope lives across the UK. London is used to mean ‘metropolitan elite’ but we also have some of the highest levels of deprivation."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... allin-khan

[AnatolyKasparov]

Hard to see past Rayner for deputy really, and tbh I am not unhappy about that.

[PorFavor]

I hope Angela Rayner gets it.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Decent piece by RLB last night, in particular breaking the omerta about Labour's 2014 referendum campaign in Scotland (long overdue)

[PorFavor]

Decent piece by RLB last night, in particular breaking the omerta about Labour's 2014 referendum campaign in Scotland (long overdue)

I'm very slightly warming to her. She gives the impression that she's now been let off the leash.

I had no problem with most of Jeremy Corbyn's policies. But the delivery was dreadful. And I never warmed to him as a personality. I feel that if we ever met, we'd fall out fairly quickly.

[AnatolyKasparov]

My take on him was always slightly different - always came across as a really nice guy to me (which made the media demonization all the more woeful) but never really a *leader*, in the broadest sense of that word (ie not just the fairly glib Blair/Johnson "charisma" thing) Starmer, to take a contrasting example, does have that quality even if he isn't massively charismatic; I'm maybe reminded of John Smith as much as anybody.

[MsChin]

I think Corbyn is a really nice bloke but he definitely wasn't a leader and looking at his office, had no management skills because he never reined in his so-called advisors. I do think the merciless attacks from the media must have been an awful thing to bear and I admire him for his resilience in that. Frankly, whoever becomes leader, I still feel that the divisions in the party aren't going away anytime soon.

[PorFavor]

He was just teasing!

In an interview before Christmas Dan Jarvis refused to rule out standing for the Labour leadership. But he has finally ruled it out now. (Politics Live, Guardian)

[AnatolyKasparov]

Realised he had no chance of getting the backers, more like. Though the support from Jason "Scruton" Cowley was maybe his kiss of death?