RobertSnozers wrote:Willow904 wrote:SpinningHugo wrote:Unsurprisingly, I think Kendall is our best hope. Cooper very much a second choice.
Continuity Miliband (ie Burnham) won't get us anywhere.
You do realise your championing Kendell is only going to underline the negative impressions some of us already have of her, don't you?
'None of the above' is winning at the moment, but if Burnham is going to be Ed Miliband with a northern accent, that would be better than someone no one recognises wittering on about 'aspiration'.
We need someone who is able to articulate and fight for a very basic thing - for every job to pay a living wage, that puts a roof over your head and food on the table. Binmen and nursery nurses don't aspire to be doctors and lawyers, they aspire for a place of their own and a family to share it with. Unless people can live a normal life doing a normal job on normal wages, there's something fundamentally very wrong with our economic system.
You do know that Burnham has been wittering on about aspiration too, right?
Yes, in a way that at least doesn't p*** the mainstream of the party off.
What has Kendall had to say about the politics of identity, insecurity, alienation - what has she had to say about f***ing SCOTLAND??
(if she or her minders thinks obsessing about "public sector reform" is going to win votes back there or stop the bleeding to UKIP, then words truly fail)
Look, I'm aware that you know Kendall and like her - I have heard good things about her from others who have met her too. That is why I was genuinely willing to give her a chance when she announced she was standing - and initially, she showed some signs it might be worth it.
But I have to say she is showing a total tin ear to the party mainstream at the moment. The guff she spouted today (the clueless, parasitical lobby hacks loved it - utterly predictably) has at least one person of my acquaintance - as far from a loony leftie as you can get - musing about our own version of Syriza being formed if she is elected leader. She is going about things in totally the wrong way - it might be the way to get 35 MPs nominations, but nobody but terminal Progress groupies are going to support what she is currently spouting
Just compare her current stuff to what Stella Creasy has been saying. Also a "moderniser" (whatever that is) but one with empathy, nuance and intelligence.
I've said it before, but will again - she's somebody who *should* be standing for leader. As it is, she has my support for deputy to the proverbial 110%