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In reply to the discussion: Labour leapt into Brexit's fires - and now the party is burning [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,233 posts)24. Her deputy, Alex Rowley, would be in improvement in all sorts of ways.
But maybe not significantly so, and he seems to be playing a long game of biding his time.
Yes, you're absolutely right, strength in depth isn't a feature of Scottish Labour nowadays. Pray they don't end up with our (God help us) MSP, Jaqui Bailey! She's been an eminence grise behind a number of failed leaders over the years (Wendy Alexander, remember her? - I thought not), in the pocket of the Faslane/Coulport trade unions, and an utter stranger to the truth.
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It's not all about Corbyn at this point. It's barely even about Labour any more.
Denzil_DC
Mar 2017
#3
No one the PLP would accept would lead-all they care about is putting a "moderate" in.
Ken Burch
Mar 2017
#6
The "moderates" could stop all of that if they just stopped scheming against the current leader.
Ken Burch
Mar 2017
#12
I don't want to talk about Corbyn or anti-Corbyn either....but the anti-people "Labour" MPs
Ken Burch
Mar 2017
#14
"The best approach was to fight to save multicultural Britain in a post-Brexit world."
Denzil_DC
Mar 2017
#30
In the here and now, there was never any chance that ANY Tory MPs would defy May on Article 50.
Ken Burch
Mar 2017
#32
I've had to knock this myth down before. Sorry, your first argument is just nonsense.
Denzil_DC
Mar 2017
#29