UK General Election 2015

[AndrewT]

If Corbyn gets in surely would be a good bet that he doesn't make it as leader to the next election? Some sort of no confidence vote would be invoked at some point?

They can give him 3 years and then if it looks like it isn't working, they can ditch him in summer 2018, giving his successor a year and a half run up to the next election.

This is where Cameron's fixed-term parliament act works against him - under the old system the Tories could call a snap election anytime Corbyn was lagging behind, making electing Corbyn as leader much more risky.

[TightEnd]

an interesting take into the background as to why this is happening

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9605572/labour-always-lurches-left-when-it-loses-but-this-time-is-worse/

[redsimon]

It used to be the rule that you couldn't vote as a Party member until you had been in for 12 months, to stop the packing of selection meetings for Councillors and MPs etc.

Why they changed it to this new system is beyond me.

Anyway, I've signed up, £3 paid and will see how it works out!

[doubleup]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11802172/Jeremy-Corbyn-would-cost-British-families-2400-a-year.html

I notice when the Telegraph publishes an article with a glaringly obvious error, they often disable comments.  eg "Jeremy Corbyn's policies would cost every British family £2,400 every year, the Conservatives warn."

[TightEnd]

i know this will go down badly with anyone wanting to vote corbyn (its the iraq war innit, got to rid themseleves fo the stigma of labour going to war) but this was a fascinating article from Blair

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/29/tony-blair-labour-leadership-jeremy-corbyn?CMP=share_btn_tw

[DaveShoelace]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Probably the best thing Blair has ever said, could not agree more

[AndrewT]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Probably the best thing Blair has ever said, could not agree more

Does that ***** really have such a little sense of self-awareness? The guy that went into a war in Iraq despite there being no evidence of WMDs because it felt like the right thing to do.

[Doobs]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Probably the best thing Blair has ever said, could not agree more

Does that ***** really have such a little sense of self-awareness? The guy that went into a war in Iraq despite there being no evidence of WMDs because it felt like the right thing to do.

So you don't disagree with what the ***** is saying then?

[mulhuzz]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Probably the best thing Blair has ever said, could not agree more

Does that ***** really have such a little sense of self-awareness? The guy that went into a war in Iraq despite there being no evidence of WMDs because it felt like the right thing to do.

So you don't disagree with what the ***** is saying then?

Regardless it doesn't make him not a hypocrite.

[david3103]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Sums up Bliar in one sentence.

FYP

[RED-DOG]

There is a politics of parallel reality going on, in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all.

Probably the best thing Blair has ever said, could not agree more

Does that ***** really have such a little sense of self-awareness? The guy that went into a war in Iraq despite there being no evidence of WMDs because it felt like the right thing to do.

So you don't disagree with what the ***** is saying then?

Regardless it doesn't make him not a hypocrite.

Sums up a double negative in a sentence.