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So who's going to replace Corbyn?

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PineappleDanish · 13/12/2019 07:07

Worst election defeat since Michael Foot in the 80s. Surely Labour has to realise that they need someone to appeal to the masses and the floating voters like me who would never vote for the Momentum crowd.

Keir Starmer is impressive. He's bright, articulate and has a life outside politics. Would Yvette Cooper be up for it?

And more importantly, can the Momentum lot take their blinkers off and realise that THEY are the problem?

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Bluntness100 · 13/12/2019 16:25

Photoshopped by the labour mp who originally uploaded it? Are you sure? That's quite the accusation,

Marleyisme · 13/12/2019 17:07

I didn't vote for Labour yesterday, but would like to point out that Corbyn got over 32% of the vote, which is higher than Ed Miliband (30%) and Gordon Brown (29%).

And what? Basically he isnt quite as shit as the other 2? Is that the best we can hope for? 'he isnt quite as shit as the last 2'

GatoFofo · 13/12/2019 17:11

Kier Starmer or Yvette Cooper are the only credible options imo. Labour need a leader with vision, drive and gravitas.

Holymolymackerel · 13/12/2019 17:35

Stephen kinnock

Whattodoabout · 13/12/2019 17:59

Yvette Cooper or Emily Thornberry would get my vote. Also a huge fan of Dawn Butler.

Fizzypoo · 13/12/2019 18:07

Kier works as he appeals to different people. He's quick and competent but you could also imagine him having a pint in his local. He's a lord and went to oxford so appeals to the aspiring middle class and higher earners. He's a great tick box with the intellect to match.

Boris, Trump and Farage also have the pint down the pub appeal. Jeremy didn't unfortunately, although I would try his jam on a home made scone!

Jess Philip's is awful imo. She isn't knowledgeable or quick enough. She's just good at being a bit gobby on TV and is partly to blame for the shit storm of the labour party.

Can't believe skinner lost his seat! That was the biggest shock of the election for me.

PineappleDanish · 13/12/2019 18:33

Like I said in the OP i think Keir Starmer would be great.

But you guys are really going to have to learn to spell his given name. KEIR. Not Kier. Common Scottish surname.

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noodlenosefraggle · 13/12/2019 18:47

ten million people voted for them, just three million fewer than voted for Johnson and three times the number who voted SNP.
Most of those 10 million people were in Labour remain seats. I'd be willing to bet they voted for a second referendum over and above anything else. It was virtually impossible for Labour to enact any of their policies, so the only thing that wasnt a pipe dream was the chance of a hung Parliament and second referendum.

Smilethoyourheartisbreaking · 13/12/2019 18:54

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noblegiraffe · 13/12/2019 18:55

Clive Lewis could be a pretty good option

Clive Lewis is a smarmy used-car salesman.

Anyone who says that Labour’s policies/manifesto weren’t a problem are not paying attention. Labour looked desperate. Cheaper train fares? Not voting for us? How about a second referendum? No? Pay rises for all? No?! Erm shit, free broadband???

No one believed their manifesto could be delivered by billionaires paying tuppence extra tax or whatever the claim was. No point in voting for free broadband if you don’t actually believe it will ever happen.

noodlenosefraggle · 13/12/2019 19:20

I have no idea who Siobhan McDonagh is but shes my parents mp. They adore her. My mum thinks she should be the next Labour leader

PineappleDanish · 13/12/2019 19:25

I have no idea who Siobhan McDonagh is but shes my parents mp.

Was she not the redhead in the Sugarbabes?

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feathermucker · 13/12/2019 19:27

Keir Starker, but I'd like to see Jess Phillips more prominent too.

cannycat20 · 13/12/2019 19:36

I also think, of the candidates in the running, Keir Stammer would probably be one of the better choices. I just hope it's not Jess Phillips, she'd be even more of a gift to the Tory press.

cannycat20 · 13/12/2019 19:37

Aaaagh, got the first name right but misspelled the second name. Sorry, possible-new-leader-of-the party!

sunglasses123 · 13/12/2019 19:45

As a right wing supporter (having come from a Seriously Labour supporting household when I was growing up) not Keir, he comes across as smug and above all of this. He also appears quite robotic at times. Can you really see him appealing to Workington man?

Their figures don’t add up. Giving freebies to all insults us all. The billionaires will have gone. The funding for all this free stuff will be paid for by us. I don’t want free bb, I don’t want the WASPI women to be paid £30k without any means testing.

Looney left have left the building...

KnowBetterDoBetter · 13/12/2019 20:42

Interesting map of votes based on age. Looks like he isn't universally despised.

Massive shame for us young ones (including your kids/ grandkids) that'll have to survive in the world when the older generation have fucking destroyed it by voting in a leader who CBA to even turn up to a climate change debate, and took a private jet instead of a 50 minute train journey this election.

So who's going to replace Corbyn?

So who's going to replace Corbyn?

SummerPavillion · 13/12/2019 21:14

Problem is, I believe the Labour membership have always voted for the furthest right male candidate in their leadership elections. That's even before this current lurch to the left.

So I don't know how it can be done. How the heck did Tony Blair et al convince them? And how did he get the papers on side?

Unless the party is interested in working that out there's no chance

SummerPavillion · 13/12/2019 21:15

Furthest LEFT candidate argh!!

Moonmelodies · 13/12/2019 21:30

KnowBetter
I didn't see anything to indicate my age on my ballot.

andyoldlabour · 14/12/2019 12:50

"Kier Starmer or Yvette Cooper are the only credible options imo. Labour need a leader with vision, drive and gravitas."

Keir Starmer is not a real Labour MP, he has nothing in common with traditional Labour voters. Yvette Cooper very nearly went the same way as Jo Swinson in the election, and would be out of a job if the Brexit candidate had not taken 5000 votes away from the Tories.

Fizzypoo · 14/12/2019 13:00

Tony Blair, to be fair to the war criminal, did the impossible with getting old school labour members to vote for him and the right wing press inside. Lots of traditional labour party members quit when he agreed to continue Tory economics and not legislate the banking system. However, enough remained and voted for him.

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TrickyD · 16/12/2019 15:08

Keir Starmer is not a real Labour MP, he has nothing in common with traditional Labour voters

Do you mean all those traditional Labour voters who happily voted for Johnson?

user1497207191 · 16/12/2019 15:19

Needs to be a Northerner to regain the lost Labour heartland - certainly not yet another metropolitan elite who hasn't a clue about life outside London.

Harpingon · 16/12/2019 15:23

5 years to prove to the Midlands and the North that labour hasn't abandoned them.......... Let's put a Londoner in charge again! Labour won't get in again until they change tack.

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