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To wonder why Lisa Nandy is missing from the conversation?

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acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 14:27

Lisa Nandy ran for leadership of Labour against Starmer (I voted for her). So how come Wes Streeting is being talked about and pushed forward, but Lisa isn't?

YABU - no one's heard of her
YANBU - this is weird and sucks, especially for a party who is yet to have a woman leader and has been bested by the EDI loving Conservatives on this repeatedly!

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Alexandra2001 · 13/05/2026 15:47

acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 15:41

Are you a Labour voter? If not, I can understand why you wouldn't want any of them. If you are, who from the party would you want as leader?

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I know you re not asking me but if KS goes, i would have Emily Thornberry as leader/PM.

She has a great back story, very smart, acerbic wit, female! and would tear interviewers and Badenoch to pieces.

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acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 15:45

AnnPerkins · 13/05/2026 14:37

Maybe she's not interested

She did an interview with a paper a few months back, where the interviewer was hinting she had aspirations at the leadership (before all this challenge stuff) so I thought she might be interested, but maybe she'd rather not mount a challenge against a sitting PM

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acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 15:42

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 13/05/2026 14:30

How about "none of the above" as she's getting on with her job?

Please just give all this crap a rest. Thread after thread after thread. Including some downright nasty, personal attacks that have been deleted. Quite rightly.

Ah I hadn't seen any other threads about Nandy so sorry if I've duplicated

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acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 15:41

GreatWhiteWail · 13/05/2026 14:29

She's an idiot who said that paedophile men who claim to be women should be allowed to choose a women's prison when they are convicted of their sex crimes.

So no, she is not a talent. She'd be terrible for women and children.

As would Burnham and Raynor, and too many others, but no need to add anymore fuckwits into the mix.

Are you a Labour voter? If not, I can understand why you wouldn't want any of them. If you are, who from the party would you want as leader?

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acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 15:40

Chiachomp · 13/05/2026 14:29

She’s one of the ‘of course women can have a penis’ sorts isn’t she? I’d never vote Labour again.

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If you used to be a Labour voter, who do you vote for now?

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MyAutumnCrow · 13/05/2026 14:53

Lisa's not the sharpest tool in the box. Not the bravest little soldier, either. She's probably keeping her head down, and - in her Secretary of State role - wondering if Birmingham Invictus is going tits up, what she should say about Eurovision, and how to turn her new computer on.

WhatAMarvelousTune · 13/05/2026 14:43

The other day she said (about Starmer) “He stuck to his plan and he turned the situation for the party around - now he wants to do the same for the country and I want him to succeed." So she’s certainly not one of the ones who has come out clearly against him.

Equally, she (and others) might be keeping quiet now, let Streeting look like the one to cause a chaotic leadership election, and then stand for leader herself when that happens.

Chiachomp · 13/05/2026 14:40

I mean there’s many other reasons why I doubt I’d vote Labour next time (despite an EXCELLENT local MP - sorry) but this would absolutely seal it. But so would Andy Burnham or Angela Raynor getting power so don’t listen to me!

Hoardasurass · 13/05/2026 14:38

Chiachomp · 13/05/2026 14:29

She’s one of the ‘of course women can have a penis’ sorts isn’t she? I’d never vote Labour again.

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Yep and actually said men who identify as women should be in women's prisons and had no problem with double rapist isla bryson/Adam Graham being put in an all women's jail.

@acheekyNandys Lisa nandy is the worst kind of aunt Lydia type out there and should be kept as far away from power as possible

AnnPerkins · 13/05/2026 14:37

Maybe she's not interested

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 13/05/2026 14:30

How about "none of the above" as she's getting on with her job?

Please just give all this crap a rest. Thread after thread after thread. Including some downright nasty, personal attacks that have been deleted. Quite rightly.

GreatWhiteWail · 13/05/2026 14:29

She's an idiot who said that paedophile men who claim to be women should be allowed to choose a women's prison when they are convicted of their sex crimes.

So no, she is not a talent. She'd be terrible for women and children.

As would Burnham and Raynor, and too many others, but no need to add anymore fuckwits into the mix.

Chiachomp · 13/05/2026 14:29

acheekyNandys · 13/05/2026 14:27

Lisa Nandy ran for leadership of Labour against Starmer (I voted for her). So how come Wes Streeting is being talked about and pushed forward, but Lisa isn't?

YABU - no one's heard of her
YANBU - this is weird and sucks, especially for a party who is yet to have a woman leader and has been bested by the EDI loving Conservatives on this repeatedly!

She’s one of the ‘of course women can have a penis’ sorts isn’t she? I’d never vote Labour again.