It's time for Mumsnet to choose the next Labour leader

[MrsJAlfredPrufrock]

Cooper, Balls or the other Miliband?

Or someone else?

Ed Miliband is a DISASTER.

Chuka Umunna definitely has potential.

Would vote Harman, but I guess she'd never get in.

Ed Balls, awful. David Miliband is at least electable.

Very disappointed in Ed - I voted for him, but he just isn't saying anything.

Ed Balls should have changed his name by deed poll before he became well known. The way it is, he just hands it to the tabloid headline writers on a plate. I think he's disqualified on that alone

I like Ed ( M) too. He has a great deal of integrity.

Ed Miliband it is, then.

The problem is that most senior labour politicians since 1997 are either spoiled goods, discredited or unelectable.

David Milliband spent to long plotting against Gordon Brown and then not doing anything about him. Had he pulled the trigger when he had the chance, perhaps the country would have been spared the worst excesses of Brown's premiership - as things stand, he comes across as weak and indecisive. Similarly, the view from the other side is that Balls is an economically illiterate, power hungry, back stabbing, champagne swilling socialist policy wonk with no experience of life outside of politics (not that many have these days). His wife fits much the same description - although probably not such a venal back stabber. Harriet Harperson comes across as one of those mental shrills who makes a lot of noise but doesn't make much sense and is a professional offence-taker! Andy Burnham isn't leadership material - he seems competent enough but is he just another tax-and-spend Labourite?

Despite the fact that he isn't a natural leader, I think one of the few untainted politicians from the last Labour government was Alistair Darling. He was consistently right about his predictions and the direction he believed the country should have been moving in economically and was consistently overruled by Brown.

Edward Cooper does have a ring to it, aviatrix.

Alan Johnson will always have a place in my heart.

It would be nice to have someone prepared to represent the people who founded the party - that's us. Ordinary working class people who want decent public services and social welfare, not pandering to the City. Someone who will get the avoided tax paid and build council houses. Prepared to look after disabled children before casino banksters. Contraversial I know.

JuliaScurr, shame Ken Livingstone is not in the frame, then. Ed M for me, or if not the other Ed.

Cameron's playing silly on the bankers with his two grand gestures in the last few days.

Ed Miliband made a better point with Cameron's utter incompetence over the veto.

Very funny piece here about Machiavellian machinations in the Balls-Cooper kitchen.

Sounds like the Cooper kid who (according the post upthread, presumably describing the same dinner party) predicted that her mum was about to oust Miliband and seize the leadership was, in fact, spot on.

LineRunner - Miliband is scoring very cheap personal points at the expense of making Labour look anti-business.

I adore Alistair Darling and I think he would make a brilliant leader. But sadly I think anyone Scots is out of the running because of the 'end of the union' debacle.

I feel sorry for Cameron with all those wanker back-benchers. The veto was not in fact squandered. Otherwise the Non-Treaty Treaty would be a Treaty. I'm not sure looking isolated in Europe is necessarily a bad thing at the moment.

Is it true that the 'loss' of Scotland would be really bad news for the Labour Party?

I'm with youthesecondcoming. Kate Green is great.

I think Ed Miliband is the best man. He is improving and has the passion. I really don't think anyone should write him off. Also like Andy Burnham. I do not think Evette Cooper or Chuka have enough personality or charisma.
Think Caroline Lucas would make a brilliant P.M !

Like Caroline Lucas too.

But I don't think she's planning to join the Labour Pary.

Personally, I'll vote for anyone who looks like they want the Labour Party to be the Labour Party not the Tory Party mark 3. We've got two right-of-centre parties in power currently. I really don't need a number right-of-centre option thank you.

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