General / Off-Topic UK only, labour leadership

[Arithon]

Keep Jeremy Corbyn, an insurance that labour will never get in power

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the whole "buy your vote for £20" policy that gained Labour so many new members and blasted Jeremy Corbyn to the top, was as fishy as hell and made me think most of those people were not "young voters" but conservatives who knew Corbyn would be unelectable and if put in power, would make Labour unelectable too. If that was the case, it's working like a charm so far.

 

[Javert]

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the whole "buy your vote for £20" policy that gained Labour so many new members and blasted Jeremy Corbyn to the top, was as fishy as hell and made me think most of those people were not "young voters" but conservatives who knew Corbyn would be unelectable and if put in power, would make Labour unelectable too. If that was the case, it's working like a charm so far.

As an aside, why can't they just change the rules back again to something sensible?

 

[Adept]

 

[Javert]

@Adept - I was not aware of that - that is actually big news but they never even mentioned it on the news this morning.

It's consistent with what the Conservatives do as well though - you can only vote in the leaders election if you've been in the party for x number of months before the leadership election was called. to me this makes sense because if you are running a political party, you shouldn't want to have people joining who aren't really interested in being active members of hte party, but are just joining to vote in a particular leader's election).

Are you sure this is true though because even on the radio this morning, they were talking about how the new members just joined would vote, and even saying that some of them might have joined to vote against JC.

(That's leaving aside the fact that the Tories bypassed the process completely by having only one candidate in the end).

 

[Adept]

Are you sure this is true though because even on the radio this morning, they were talking about how the new members just joined would vote, and even saying that some of them might have joined to vote against JC.

(That's leaving aside the fact that the Tories bypassed the process completely by having only one candidate in the end).

Not sure at all. This is second hand from a very smart person who follows the goings on of Labour and other Left Wing parties. Take it as an unconfirmed rumour for now.

 

[Avago Earo]

Not sure at all. This is second hand from a very smart person who follows the goings on of Labour and other Left Wing parties. Take it as an unconfirmed rumour for now.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-momentum-blairite-angela-eagle-a7133556.html

 

[amigacooke]

With a Conservative majority a vote will pass. With Labour all over the place and eager for a fresh start, even if it means burning Corbyn to the ground and salting the earth he stands on, expect them to vote to dissolve Parliament as well. And the Lib Dems, who really want a general election right now and get the message out that they're all about halting brexit, they'd be falling over themselves to dissolve Parliament.

I reckon we're going to get an election quickly, unless the Tory focus groups see there is a real hunger in the country to reverse Brexit (remainers right now carry a national majority) and decide to get that over with first.

Needs a two thirds majority, or a vote of no confidence.