Just joined the labour party so I can vote in their leadership elections (which are now very likely to take place).
I think this might become very important soon.
The tories may well implode and we need another party with a credible leader, and at the moment this isn't Labour under Corbyn.
If a tory protest vote flees to UKIP due to lack of a credible Labour party....then we are finished.
Worth thinking of doing the same? £4/ month you can always cancel! It doesn't make you a socialist if you don't want to be (I'm not really but don't tell them)
So your saying I should run for leader?
Which one?
lol
you're just sayin what all the papers are sayin innit
Which one?
Dunno. Hoping one might emerge. Hoping.
I joined the Lib Dems yesterday on the grounds of their In-EU platform and they're the second largest party in my constituency. But I would also urge the Labour party to appoint a credible pro-EU leader ASAP. This issue goes beyond party politics.
If a tory protest vote flees to UKIP due to lack of a credible Labour party....
They were talking about a poll on the Marr show - 29% of labour voters won't be voting labour again.
You'd be better off voting for a new Ukip leader.
This issue goes beyond party politics.
exactly. considering joining Tories also, I can't see Boris not being forced to be leader (even though he doesn't want it!).
The lib dems need to get their shit sorted, or should I say we need the lib dems to get their shit sorted in case labour don't sack corbyn.
Did you see the pro Corbyn rally tonight was attended by mostiy Socialist Worker members - not even the Labour party
OP Labour are under threat from UKIP more than the Tories, just saying
BTW well done for signing up and getting involved, you are quite right Labour cannot win under Corbyn
Labour should probably be paying people to join right now, if you pay £4.00 that will probably secure you a position on the shadow cabinet.
If they have another leadership vote and Corbyn again wins with a landslide, surely that has to put to bed any idea that he's unelectable? The "coup" seems outrageously cynically-timed, poor show.
Worth thinking of doing the same? £4/ month you can always cancel!
Surely better to register as a supporter. A one off £3 and get a vote in the lesdership election.
Bargain!
http://www.labour.org.uk/w/labour-party-supporters
So what clown are you planning to vote for?
If they have another leadership vote and Corbyn again wins with a landslide, surely that has to put to bed any idea that he's unelectable?
Not if you mean by unelectable that the Labour party with Corbyn as leader won't win a UK election.
If they have another leadership vote and Corbyn again wins with a landslide, surely that has to put to bed any idea that he's unelectable?
It'll guarantee him and the other 5 mps left in old labour will get at least 100,000 votes.
Will the rest of labour join the liberals or form You can't believe it's not new labour?
Just who is the Labour Party for?
Has he got the 20 MPs he needs to get on the ballot?
You are joking surely? Labour is winning the 'eating itself' race by a country mile at the moment.
PFJ or JPF?
If they have another leadership vote and Corbyn again wins with a landslide, surely that has to put to bed any idea that he's unelectable? The "coup" seems outrageously cynically-timed, poor show.
yes but the landslide will be composed of die hard traditional labour voters. Not the millions of centre voters needed to win a general election.
Then who else do you pick?
As much as I like the honesty of Corbyn, and I agree with a lot of what he says, I just can't imagine him running the country.
Just e-mailed the Lib Dem who was our candidate for MP at the last election to talk about joining. Met him on the stump and he seemed like a suprisingy good egg.
Never thought I'd see the day but unless the electorate, now fully awakened and aware of just what's happened finds a way to fight the formal invocation of article 50 we're going to be paying for this for generations.
Just e-mailed the Lib Dem
Just don't mention Nick Clegg. Things would escalate quickly.
£25 quid gets you in the conservatives, there is a 3 month wait before you can vote for a leader, but the latest likely date for the leadership contest is October and you'd have more influence on Brexit! I know people who are doing this.
Wait for New Liberals to form, a magnificent amalgam of all the more moderate MPs from across the parties, even perhaps a few palatable tories. Familiar faces for local electorate and a new hope at national level. They'd storm to victory!
They could call it something catchy like the Party of Social Democracy.
Well there's not much point in them filming an episode of "have I got news for you" in the near future, british politics has become far more satirical then hislop and Merton could ever hope to achieve!
Joining the labour party is a pretty pointless thing to do. If Scotland leaves the Union, perpetual Tory government for the UK. If Scotland doesn't leave the UK, the SNP will have the whip hand as a strong Pro-EU voice for Scotland and perpetual Tory geovernment.
Joining the labour party is a pretty pointless thing to do.
Not necessarily, you might get a shadow cabinet post out of it. 😉
Just don't mention Nick Clegg. Things would escalate quickly.
dunno, he seemed pretty on the money two days before brexit...
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/will-wake-vote-leave/
Not the millions of centre voters needed to win a general election.
Was it centre voters who won the referendum? Or UKIP-style extremists?
I joined to vote for Corbyn.
Just don't mention Nick Clegg. Things would escalate quickly.
He did predict the exact consequences of a "Leave" result two days before the referendum. He's not that thick.
What will all the people who voted Corbyn do if the Labour party kicks out the leader they voted for? I'd probably vote Lib Dem or Green.
Corbyn needs to stick to his guns.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
PFJ or JPF?
PFJ obviously, JPF are ****ing splitters! 😀
I'm going to become a £3 supporter and hope that Andy Burnham stands so I can vote for him. JC might have 'grassroots support' but that's nowhere near enough to win an election and the PLP are well aware of that. He's been an absolute wet blanket, I like the man's political views but his leadership is non-existent.