PorFavor wrote:I sense an air of a different kind of defeat, and tetchiness here, today (I can't put my finger on why, though). I preferred the anger - although it undoubtedly takes more energy. Maybe I'm just projecting - the weather isn't helping.
I'm still angry, Por.
Now that TCBBAC has sorted out all his MPs into where he wants them, he's starting on the rest of the minions - putting more people from his coterie, who nobody voted for, into positions of responsibility in government. I daresay they've paid enough for their reward.
What we have is - an already failed Home Secretary who will never deliver on immigration and will enact a snoopers charter; another unqualified twerp at Justice, with a very clever qualified sidekick to further erode what's left of justice for the common man; a wet fart of a prat in charge of our defence, who has zero idea about our armed forces; a slimy snide dangerous snake at the FO who wants us out of the EU; and a demented spiteful ideologue still at DWP with ministers who despise the people they are there to support as ministers.
On the Labour leadership....we can't have Ed, we can't have Dan Jarvis.
If Labour wants all those working-class votes back from wherever they went, Tory, UKIP, whatever - Umunna is no use at all.
He's Blair all over again, and I don't trust him an inch, nor do I see him as effective in debate.
Hunt carries the class baggage, which the media will not allow him to ignore. It's a shame, but there we are.
Cooper is not only Mrs.Balls, she's a Blairite too - and I am not alone in not forgiving her for Atos. Not one word of regret from her.
Kendall always seems to start off OK, then descends into soundbite waffle and is a disappointment.
Burnham would be fine if only he would nail that fucking LIE about Mid-Staffs. In every other way, he's fine.
None of the serious lefties would be tolerated - not Lavery, not McDonnell - which is a reflection on the Party as a whole.
Angela Eagle. I'd vote for her. I'd vote for Keir Starmer too.
As it is, it doesn't look as though the candidates can match Ed. I still feel that had he not been torn to shreds by the Crosby-led media campaign against him, especially the Scotland stuff, there might have been a chance for him to answer the issues people who Labour lost to the other parties were concerned about. Thanks to that, Labour has lost a man who could have been a statesman.
If Labour end up with a leader from the current candidate list - apart from Burnham with some fire in his belly - they've lost me.