Rip the labour party

[CHIPBUTTYBLADE]

Corbyn has been voted onto the leader election ballot by the NEC 18/14 votes in favour.

He will win the leader election,this will result in the Labour Party splitting.

For Labour to win the next election it has to claw back votes in marginal seats which it lost to the Tories last time,Corbyn's labour lefties have no chance of doing that.

The Tories will be exstatic.

[FatherKnowsBest]

Its the whole Labour thing in a nutshell. Follow the protocol, regardless of how stupid the outcome. They've just completely forgotten that politics without power is pointless. Corbyn is a good guy but he's not a winner. Then you look at the other choices and realise he's far and away the best guy they have, Thats the really depressing bit.

As for having a leader that 80% of the MP's don't support, it reminds me of the Not the Nine o'Clock News sketch of the Union bosses ordering tea or coffee, where everyone orders tea, but then one of them says 4m votes for coffee.

[Katchouro]

Politics without power maybe is pointless but subverting the core values of the party to get that power is only going to lead to the shenanigans of Labour and the Tories this past three weeks. To paraphrase Peter Hitchens 'the Tories used to love their country and Labour used to love the working class, now both of them love neither', at a time when the Lib Dems have all but been decimated neo liberal politics is dominating Westminster even though the people who voted for it aren't neo Liberals.

If the ever hovering 'Lord' Mandelson got his way we'd end up with Tristram Hunt and more consensus politics because he polls well with middle England and looks good in a suit. Doesn't matter that he's not the brightest, neither were Dave or Tony but they brought home the bacon come election time.


All in all the future for Labour in the short term isn't looking too bright, they're paying the pound of flesh now for those hat trick of election wins under Blair. The party has to split, it's not robust enough to contain the ideological differences shared by it's parliamentary wing or the disconnect it currently has with it's grass root members.