Lefties 9: This will succeed through its success

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Is everyone on Twitter now?

I have persuaded myself that being a leftie is not incompatible with liking expensive shoes and bags. It just means you want everyone to have expensive shoes and bags. The Grazia equivalent of champagne socialism.

pmsl.

elephant's breath socialism anyone? ffs...i'm a nightmare.

Good article here giving pros and cons of the two brothers.

Consider me an official subscriber to your school of thought cinnamon!

Sorry... dragging the intellectual tone down with my talk of toddler sleeping habits, shoes and bags

So, where were we? Can you believe it has only been three days that they have been in power?

Elephant's breath is lovely though soph!

Good title

Did anyone see Caitlin Moran's Celebrity Watch in the Times today?

I liked her MiliBand of Brothers arf arf.

at banana photos. Ed looks like he needs a haircut

fuckinghell watching news...wtf is going on in thailand?? fill me in someone? army coup? coup against army govt? am v ignorant

Yes Yvette is great but so nice that I suspect that Ed (Balls) would bully her into not running.

I know there won't be another election for years (well that's the theory), but doesn't Labour need a new leader fairly soon to start the process of renewal and to form an effective opposition? No matter how good Harriet H is, she's just a caretaker, so not a rallying point in the same way as a new leader would be.

i HATE yvette cooper! i can't actually remember why, is she catholic (i am half catholic) but there is something.....wracks brains for reasons...

In hindsight, Harriet Harrman wa sthe alternative to Brown that should have been considered.

sophable- that's a bit strong. She has never done anything wrong.

Article in Guardian said that he offered to not run as he felt it was more important that a woman be in the running but she said it wasn't the right time for her.

I can understand that, they have three pretty young kids IIRC.

cinnamontoast - agree that we need shiny new leader. Also need to be ready should LibDems walk out however unlikely.

By the way, in article I linked to earlier I've just noticed the bit about David being prone to sucking the end of his tie in public 'which would embarrass his wife' but could apparently be built on as a political asset. Am I losing the plot here??

tdiddy: we've ALL done something wrong...

Well let him look after the kids. She will never get the chance again to run.

cinnamon - great link re Milibros

I think I am a teensy bit in love with Mili Jr now

she flipped her house with ed for a start...despite warnings from the committee not to (i do love wikipedia).

am i muddling her up with yvette fielding?

sophable - now it's all coming out . I have a pure image of Yvette ..... probably just me idealising leftie woman.