To think Andy Burnham should be the next Labour leader?

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Think he would be great and Labour would become much more electable under him than what they ever have been under Corbyns leadership.

Who do you all think will get the job?

Whatever way people voted, we need a good opposition so it is in everyone’s interests to not have someone divisive etc.

I was just watching the news at 10 and unfortunately I just sat there thinking ‘turkeys at Christmas’ when they were interviewing voters. I have no idea where the faith in Boris came from but it was there among the working class ex/labour voters they spoke to. If you look at seats in wealthy places like Surrey,Boris and Brexit seemed to be a turn-off as Lib Dem vote percentage was high (even if that didn’t translate into seats). There seemed to be much more faith in Boris than Corbyn in poorer areas and god knows why but it was there. Labour will need to tap into that if it’s to have any chance.

Oh @ZenNudist bring back David miliband! I love him! Was foaming Ed got the leadership!

Burnham isn’t an MP and his last leadership campaign proved he isn’t good enough.

Keir Starmer won’t win with the current membership.

McDonnell won’t go for it.

Angela Rayner might have a chance and would be good. She is v good mates with Rebecca L-B though, so they may run a ticket.

Jess Philips will go for it and be the PLP choice but has no chance unless loads of people join/rejoin. Not convinced she’d be good, het character seems better suited to backbench rebel.

If corbyn endorses someone, they’ll win. Please let it not be Rebecca L-B, there’s no reason for Labour to need its own Jo Swinson.

Clive Lewis is probably worth an outside bet. One of the few who have successfully left Shadow Cabinet without making the membership hate him.

Stephen Kinnock has more chance of being the next man on the moon than becoming Labour leader.

Emily Thornberry also a possibility and wouldn’t be bad. I doubt she’d be many people’s first choice but she could be a compromise candidate and she has spent the election building activist popularity. She’d at least be competent.

The press will bring up that time Thornberry was a bit rude about an England flag draped outside someone's house.

They'll say she's a middle class leftie who sneers at the working class English and isn't patriotic.

He’s one of the ones who didn’t try to stop Austerity Measures. He’s basically just a Tory lite, therefore. No I don’t want him possibly running this country in the next 5 years
Oh and I don’t give a shit how long ago it was.

It will be whoever Momentum decides. It's too late now to think anyone electable will be the next leader :(

I like Angela Rayner I thought she was impressive during the TV debates. She used to be a home help so has worked right in the front line of the health system.

If you feel strongly about the LP leader I'd advise you to join said Party. That's how it works. The members decide. Seems reasonable to me. And I'm not a member of either the LP or Momentum. I do/did vote Labour.

This article states that the Leader doesn't have to be an MP according to the Labour rule book, but most likely will be.

General Election 2019: Who will be Labour's next leader? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50781341

Keir Starmer would be my choice though.

It used to be that the Labour leader didn't have to be an MP. I think that's probably changed but even if it hasn't, the next leader WILL be an MP. I can't imagine there is a by-election coming up imminently (unless someone dies) and I can't imagine Burnham would want to leave the job he has now (and the support he has now) to take that on, at this point.

Benn and Kinnock would just lose Labour voters from the left of the party so achieves nothing mathematically. I'd like to see Emily Thornberry but I think David Lammy would be a good compromise candidate.

I voted for him to be leader last time. Hes not eligible now sadly.

Andy Burnham's old seat isn't even Labour anymore...

He should have been last time, but now should continue in his present role.

They will chose a woman surely.

I joined the Labour Party yesterday as I'd like a say in the new leader. I like keir stater, I expect the right wing media will tear him apart for his pro remain stance but when the shit shower that is brexit falls he'll look pretty sensible

I would really like Alan Johnson to be leader. I know he's getting on but he's younger than Trump and Bernie Sanders.

@ChristineBaskets

Johnson ran Labour's disastrous Remain campaign in the Brexit referendum. He'd be seen as weak.

Alan Johnson will never be Labour leader. How many decades have people been suggesting him for?!

And yes, if you want to choose the leader join Labour now.

I just joined. Labour has shot itself in the head twice now by rejecting first David Miliband then Burnham/Cooper. I am a floating voter - have voted Labour/LD and Green in the past. The more non-Momentum folk that join, the better the chance of getting a remotely electable leader. And the next leader really does need to be chosen on electability.

I've been saying this for months, it's all part of labours plan.... ship him off to be mayor for a few years to keep him out of trouble and then ship him back in get him a seat, and groom him for leader....! He'd be great too

Oops, shot itself in the foot.