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ED WON!

195 replies

pinkbasket · 25/09/2010 16:51

There you go.

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SandyThumb · 25/09/2010 21:41

I don't know... if the MPs/ party members feel aggrieved about the way the Unions acted to get Ed elected they may try to get rid of him in favour of their 'candidate'.
The fact that they are brothers make it soooooo ugly though. I bet if they weren't David would be 'looking into' the promotional activities of the GMB.

BeckySharper · 25/09/2010 21:25

I don't think David Milibrother will be able to stand again for leadership - surely it's all over for him now? He bottled it innumerable times, then when he stood, he lost. To stand again would just be ridiculous. Mind you, the Blair/Brown thing was ridiculous and it still happened.

taffetacat · 25/09/2010 20:50

rofl @ Miliwedgies

Chil1234 · 25/09/2010 20:47

Now that we've got three fresh-faced youngsters at the helm, do we think PMQs next week will be replaced by a conker fight? Wedgies for the loser?

taffetacat · 25/09/2010 20:24

Oh my boy came good.

He is the spit of my DS. Who is 6. Not that that's why I voted for him. I'm not that shallow. Grin Grin

< decants the red red wine >

gingercat12 · 25/09/2010 20:20

Thanks, vesela.

Obviously, I will support Ed now, but I have to agree with complimentary about wilderness etc.

SandyThumb · 25/09/2010 20:13

I think the cartoonists and impressionists will be rubbing their hands in glee though... I remember Rory Bremner bemoaning the 'blandness' of Cameron, David Miliband, Clegg etc, saying there 'wasn't enough about them to characterize'.

Meanwhile Ed has a face just crying out to be made a Spitting Image puppet (oh.. those rubbery lips and lispy way he talks!)

vesela · 25/09/2010 20:07

he's the candidate I would have got the drinks and nibbles out for and we'd have enjoyed a good argument and agreed on some stuff too. Ed I can't warm to.

vesela · 25/09/2010 20:02

gingercat, I feel for you being gutted. Tribalism aside, I wanted David to win (rendition and all, but I tend to see them as all together in that).

SandyThumb · 25/09/2010 19:52

Great news! (I'm a Tory ......)

He is sooo weak compared to David. And that GMB thing is appalling.

David should be secretly grateful.

Leftie Ed will likely keep Labour out for the next election, and then David will be able to step in to sort out the mess his little brother will have made Grin

Chil1234 · 25/09/2010 19:32

Journos will be scouring London eateries for the next few weeks hoping to find Milli-minor and Milli-major cooking up a 'you be leader for a few years and then pass it on to me, OK?' deal in the grand Labour tradition.. Wink

complimentary · 25/09/2010 19:18

I'm really glad red Ed, has won it means 'New labour' is no more.....and the Labour party will be in the political wilderness for the next 20 years hurrah...Grin Abbot should have won then they would have been in the wilderness for 40 years!Sad

BeckySharper · 25/09/2010 18:59

LOL, the older child always claims the younger one wins by cheating. And they have to spend their tender years letting the younger one win. Hilarious. I'm sure the photos on the envelopes will have made a big difference though - a photo's worth a thousand words, isn't it?

gingercat12 · 25/09/2010 18:49

Am gutted.

Ewe · 25/09/2010 18:29

No, as a member of a union, or of an affiliate organisation you get additional votes. Harman, for example, had four votes (although abstained iirc).

I am not sure how happy I am yet, will wait n see!

poppyknot · 25/09/2010 18:27

Heard the live declaration on the radio.
Just a series of numbers and the chance to try and add them up mentally before total was announced for each candidate.

Plus a rather baffingly piece about the deputy contest where apparently someone was supposed to leave their glasses on to indicate 'early' to a news provider that ALan Johnson had won. Apparently in the excitement they had forgotten about the glasses which they left on but Alan Johnson had not won. Weird............

Bucharest · 25/09/2010 18:25

Another party member happy here.

(and a bit surprised, I'm not used to people I vote for winning anything)

longfingernails · 25/09/2010 18:18

The turnout amongst the unions was abysmal too. I haven't done the maths but I suspect that the average union member's vote counted for a lot more than the average Labour member's vote, when weighted for turnout.

vesela · 25/09/2010 18:14

yes, but it isn't one member one vote, is it?

TDaDa · 25/09/2010 18:06

Please let's remember that union members vote AND that unions members are also people and have a right to have their vote count??!!

Still think that EM should would have done best not to win this time?

vesela · 25/09/2010 17:47

Someone just posted the affiliates voting figures on Political Betting - look at the GMB and Unite figures. Lib Dems on Twitter are having a field day.

jackstarbright · 25/09/2010 17:21

LFN - I expect you are right. But it may yet taint EM leadership.

TDaDa · 25/09/2010 17:14

hmmmm...the next labour leader will probably not be the next PM. Wonder if we are spoling a good pony by turning him into a race horse prematurely?

longfingernails · 25/09/2010 17:14

MarionCole I look forward to seeing Red Ed sitting alongside Bob Crowe on the M25.

longfingernails · 25/09/2010 17:14

jackstarbright

I don't think David Miliband will sue, sadly, as it seems quite obvious that the GMB broke the rules with their envelopes.