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JackRiddler

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35. Should have spotted that, sorry.

Reply to OnDoutside (Reply #33)

Sun Sep 25, 2016, 04:11 PM

Sep 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miliband

Head of Policy for Blair even before 1997.

This is what the Labour membership just rejected.

Same old, same old.

It's also what voters rejected when they refused the brother. And many of them, when they voted for Brexit.

In elections under Corbyn, meanwhile, Labour has improved on its vote totals.

So the only reason one can imagine preferring either Miliband would be an ideological devotion to the neoliberal disasters wrought by Blair.

Or also a kind of star worship, I suppose. I'm sure Bono is all for it.

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UK Labour leadership: Corbyn awaits election result [View all] T_i_B Sep 2016 OP

The disaster scenario is a snap election Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #1

That system is so damn complicated. joshcryer Sep 2016 #2

Snap election yes, but for different reasons T_i_B Sep 2016 #3

I see what you did there. TeacherB87 Sep 2016 #7

Nobody in the Conservative Party is looking over their shoulder for Jeremy Corbyn Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #20

No matter what the outcome of the election is... JackRiddler Sep 2016 #26

I doubt that very much Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #28

Actual election results and JackRiddler Sep 2016 #31

You keep telling yourself that Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #36

Ditto. You do that. JackRiddler Sep 2016 #37

Corbyn will win, that's almost a certainty. MowCowWhoHow III Sep 2016 #4

Labour isn't going to split. They will stay together and deal with the next election, StevieM Sep 2016 #9

You can still topple a parliamentary government with a non-confidence vote Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #21

I can't see May losing a no confidence vote. That would mean Conservative MPs voting to topple her. StevieM Sep 2016 #23

Yes, that is how it works. Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #24

May is unlikely to hold a snap election because she will LOSE. JackRiddler Sep 2016 #27

Right, the British have been voting Conservative for lack of an ineffectual communist alternative Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #29

Corbyn reelected officially 61.8% MowCowWhoHow III Sep 2016 #5

Labour shake-up successfully completes purge of voters from the party T_i_B Sep 2016 #6

Way to go! Perhaps... Helen Borg Sep 2016 #8

I hope this is sarcasm Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2016 #22

+ 1000 OnDoutside Sep 2016 #34

Newsthump Blue Idaho Sep 2016 #10

The moderates are the ones deserting the party! T_i_B Sep 2016 #12

Data?... Helen Borg Sep 2016 #13

Ah, the "idealogical purity uber alles" argument T_i_B Sep 2016 #14

Last time I checked, the vast majority of UK voters Helen Borg Sep 2016 #15

The only winds in UK politics are hot air. T_i_B Sep 2016 #16

As somebody who IS a London rail commuter Helen Borg Sep 2016 #17

The people commuting into that there London from Essex... T_i_B Sep 2016 #18

Not much point in idle yakking, really... Helen Borg Sep 2016 #19

Congratulations Mr. Corbyn LiberalLovinLug Sep 2016 #11

Constant success = "His dreadful performance" JackRiddler Sep 2016 #25

Labour could do with the return of David Milliband. OnDoutside Sep 2016 #30

Because he did so well in elections! JackRiddler Sep 2016 #32

Erm....that was David's BROTHER, Ed Miliband. OnDoutside Sep 2016 #33

Should have spotted that, sorry. JackRiddler Sep 2016 #35