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Well, there we have it: Jeremy Corbyn has just been announced the next Labour Leader

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InTheBox · 12/09/2015 11:46

With 59% of the vote (first round).

I've just been following the live BBC broadcast and just wanted them to get on with it.

No doubt people on both sides of the political spectrum will be overjoyed with the result.

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LumpySpacedPrincess · 12/09/2015 16:08

I think the members of the shadow opposition resigning is just pathetic, it's like when a boyfriend dumps you when he knows you are about to dump him, idiots.

KeyserSophie · 12/09/2015 16:08

also, I believe the vote share was 37% (happy to be corrected though)

QueenStarlight · 12/09/2015 16:08

Green

KeyserSophie · 12/09/2015 16:15

so, if you add the green and labour vote together in your constituency, would you have beaten Tory, or was it a labour safe seat?

BeyondYourPeripheralVision · 12/09/2015 16:17

Someone on page 7 said he wasn't about throwing money at all and instead easing austerity. What's the "people's quantitive easing " all about?

Inkanta · 12/09/2015 16:18

Well done Jeremy Corbyn. The real people have stood up and voted for a "real" person, not a man or woman in a suit looking to further their own ends. Blair and Kinnock go and crawl back into your money lined holes. The people have spoken.

aquashiv · 12/09/2015 16:20

Think he'll be a good opposition leader.
I'm delighted with Watson.
I can't see the British public voting for him as PM.

JanetBlyton · 12/09/2015 16:22

Well 60% of 500,000 of the people so hardly any. This is all brilliant news. This chap who went to a private primary school and is married to a woman 20 years his junior ( who not 20 years older - because he's as sexist as they come of course......) has ousted the female acting leader and because of his views we will have 10 years of Tory rule. I very much welcome that so I regard his election as great news for the nation. However no way will Labour get in 5 years' time.

Garrick · 12/09/2015 16:25

What's the "people's quantitive easing " all about?

Instead of creating debt to give to banks, we create debt to give to the people.

Rationale: Money invested in private institutions goes straight overseas, we see little to no benefit. Money invested in public activities creates jobs, raises living conditions and builds confidence.

It's what we did after WW2. Worked a treat.

juneau · 12/09/2015 16:27

Genuine socialists will have someone to vote for - yes - but there aren't enough of them to make a hard left Labour electable, particularly when left-wing Scots already have the SNP.

I actually admire Corbyn for having ideals that he's lived by for decades. He's one of the most consistent politicians in Westminster - he's always held the same views and hasn't been swayed by fashion or the changes in direction of his party. And he has the lowest expenses of any policitian - he travels by bus! Good for him, I say and at least he isn't an idle hypocrite like 'Two Jags' Prescott.

But in terms of PM he's unelectable - he's too extreme. You need to conquer the middle ground to win and he will never do that.

Garrick · 12/09/2015 16:30

... People's QE continuation: No post-war government has run a worse balance of payments than Osborne. In fact, he's created more debt for the UK than all the previous administrations added together. So not much could be worse - and public investment is a tried & tested route out of recession, throughout history and across the world.
Only reason Osborne doesn't do it is Conservative ideology, which is committed to the idea of bankers as wealth creators and populations as profit units.

Inkanta · 12/09/2015 16:31

Janet - why so personal and negative about his private life and going to a private primary school and ousting a female acting leader? Ousting??

He has amazing popular support today and I think this could be the start of a new era in politics. He's a great communicator and things may change for the better.

Garrick · 12/09/2015 16:34

Juneau, I think the flaw in that argument is that many UKIP and Green voters made their choices for reasons which are traditionally Labour's preserve.

We are - mostly - the 80% of Brits on less than the average income. That's a lot of people. Labour has traditionally represented a broad corss-section of our views, and that's what it's failed to do since Blair.

LumpySpacedPrincess · 12/09/2015 16:37

Ousting? By being elected democratically? Okay...

He isn't even that far left, it's just we are so used to far right and confuse that with the centre ground which we left a long time ago.

Garrick · 12/09/2015 16:41

He isn't even that far left, it's just we are so used to far right

YES! Exactly Thanks

He's very slightly more left than me, but I'd rather that than living in an ever right-shifting world. He's no more left than Wilson, and I voted for him. (Also Foot, who was winning the polls but got stitched up.)

APlaceOnTheCouch · 12/09/2015 16:43

I think the resignations are horrible rather than honourable. Every new leader reshuffles the shadow cabinet anyway. They were not guaranteed a seat and by resigning they are just showing that they think their opinion is more important than the Labour membership who unanimously voted JC in as leader.

Also by announcing their resignations today they are ensuring that what could have been a positive story for Labour becomes a muddied one ie if they hadn't announced their resignations then the story could have been Labour had a high voter turnout; JC received support across all strands of the membership, etc.

But, no they had to turn the focus on to them by throwing their toys out of the pram. Here's hoping they are so honourable that they also resign from the party because if they refuse to work with a leader who was democratically elected, it looks selfish and opportunistic to remain in the party. I would be very unhappy if they represented my constituency.

tbh I expected better of some of the Shadow cabin.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 12/09/2015 16:44

cabinet no idea where the final et went in my last post

Andante58 · 12/09/2015 16:49

Lumpy - fair enough.

MrsDeVere · 12/09/2015 16:51

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SwearySwearyQuiteContrary · 12/09/2015 16:56

The last two "electable" Labour leaders did so well, though...... Oh, hang on, no they didn't. Labour has spent years morphing into Tory Lite because it's what the spin doctors said voters want. Unfortunately, the Tories are already pretty good at that.
I have no idea whethef JC will be a good leader or not. I think it's unlikely that he'll ever be PM. What he can do is remind the Labour Party that it's meant to stand for something, not waft around telling people what they think they want hear,

QueenStarlight · 12/09/2015 16:59

'private primary school'

Hang on, so at 4yrs old, er, what did he do wrong again?

QueenStarlight · 12/09/2015 17:00

'A wife 20 years younger'

Erm, did she have no say in this marriage then?

BoneyBackJefferson · 12/09/2015 17:09

KeyserSophie

The tories got in on less than 1/3 of those that voted, more than 1/3 of the population that is eligible to vote didn't vote at all.

The tories are not the party of the majority people, they are not even the choice of party of the majority of people that voted.

LunchpackOfNotreDame · 12/09/2015 17:12

Of those who voted the majority of voters went right. This country is very central when it comes to how it wants it's government to be run. The left are very noisy but ultimately won't get in.

TheSpectator · 12/09/2015 17:12

Well well, a dozen shadow cabinet ministers are expected to retire - how embarrassing but good on them. Whoever he appoints I hope they are as loyal as he was - ie not at all.