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Lefties 9: This will succeed through its success

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taffetacat · 14/05/2010 20:21

Is everyone on Twitter now?

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:13

God- isn't Andy B vain!

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:13

Jon CRudas will NOT get us back into for office altho' I like him in some ways

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taffetacat · 14/05/2010 23:12

I'm thinking Andy Burnham looks a bit like Ruth Kelly round the eyes

see here

what the older guy ex postie at Dorneywood?

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Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 23:11

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:10

PMSL at Jon Cruddas. We will not win by moving left.

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 23:09

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:07

sophable- completely agree; Burnham should join a boy band

Quattrocento · 14/05/2010 23:07

Riiiight

So the alternatives that the Labour Party currently have on offer are:

(a) some guy who was complicit in torturing people and waging unnecessary wars
(b) the younger brother of (a) who may not be quite so bad
(c) A Stoke Newington luvvie who rips off the taxpayer with a smile (covers both Balls and Cooper).

Now I'm not a Labour Party member, but you're really going to have to do better than that. Aren't you? Otherwise we're going to have a decade of Tory party rule. Minimum.

That mouthy bloke on HIGNFY. Isn't he a better option?

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 23:05

my sense of burnham is a massive case of style over substance...

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:03

Not Andy Burnham, please. Just a good looking Blairite

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 14/05/2010 23:03

I read miner as mnetter the first time :-/

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 23:02

crick manages to look scruffy even in suit! i love him.

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 23:01

Newsnightwatchers; Isn't Mary Ann S, is beautifully intelligent

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 23:01

spot the difference...actually i think it's fair enough that i mixed them up...they were obv separated at birth!

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:59

yvette fielding

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:59

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Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:58

ruth kelly

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taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:57

Newsnight brilliant - guy from Observer saying parliament has been "toffed up"

reminds me of Whizzer and Chips

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Quattrocento · 14/05/2010 22:56

That's complete bollocks, Prolesworth, if you don't mind my saying (glass of wine too many due to accident involving a gift of a winebox, of all things).

See, when we start thinking that all politicians are corrupt, we go down the Berlusconi highway of expecting no better. But in reality, it's absolutely unacceptable.

Look, this woman claims to represent a Yorkshire constituency. She doesn't live there, she never has lived there, she's no emotional connection to ex-miners and the level of deprivation that exists in her constituency. But she's prepared cynically to designate her Yorkshire 'home' as her real home just to make a quick buck.

One of the real tragedies of the election is that they weren't firmly kicked out by the electorate.

Ewe · 14/05/2010 22:54

God knows, I can't see how it can work but it apparently does in other countries that have coalition governments.

Tearing shreds out of each other whilst working together doesn't seem like a good strategy to me but who knows, maybe they will merge into the Liberal Conservative party?

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:51

by the way, how are the LibDems gunna campaign at the next election against the Tories. Labour will be rubbing hands together.

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taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:50

ah, great. Yvette Cooper shares name with Yvette Fielding who looks a bit like Ruth Kelly. I remember being pregnant.

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:50

well , I am not going defend DC looks. but please YC looks much more feminine than RK !! RK also sounds more masculine.

Ewe · 14/05/2010 22:50

I don't think Yvette Cooper has the monopoly on being parachuted into a safe seat and not giving a toss about her constituency, ditto the expenses stuff.

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