• UK Labour leadership voting closes, result to be announced on Saturday
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34216625[/url] [quote]Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn has thanked his supporters at a final rally before the result of the three-month contest is announced. The left-wing MP, who has gone from outsider to frontrunner, said Saturday was not the end of inspiration for the campaign, but the "staging post". It comes as some of his rival candidates appeared to concede victory. Unite union boss Len McCluskey said the MP had "already won" in his eyes as he had "lit up" the Labour movement.[/quote] Dis gon b gud. If you're not from the UK and don't know, basically Labour is having to pick its new leader since David Cameron got re-elected, and MPs pity-nominated this fringe radical guy called Jeremy Corbyn who was saying all this stuff about opposing austerity and going back to the party's left-wing roots. And then they all shat themselves as he instantly took a fucking untouchable lead and now it looks like he's probably won and we dunno wtf will happen to the party now because most of the MPs hate him and think he'll ruin the party and make it unelectable. Exciting as fuck though, which is more than could be said for the last five years of Labour really.
Lets hope for Corbyn, agree with him or not there's not much point of having what is basically a 2 party (and lib dems) system when both are relatively right wing.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;48658498]Lets hope for Corbyn, agree with him or not there's not much point of having what is basically a 2 party (and lib dems) system when both are relatively right wing.[/QUOTE] There's not much point in having a left vs right system for the sake of left vs right. I'm fairly sure UK Labour are relatively left anyways, so what if they're centrists by European standards. The UK isn't Europe.
New Labour under Blair and Brown was a conservative party with minor policy differences compared to the Conservatives. Most people in this country are willing to compromise to vote for a party with sway which also tends to agree with them, so a party like Labour becoming more left-wing again could bring more people to the polls in 2020. However, the Conservatives could basically choose not to run a campaign and still get a very large proportion of the vote considering how many people in this country just vote for who they've always voted for.
It is disgusting how past and present Labour members are fighting so hard to discredit Corbyn. They are absolutely shitting themselves and I love it.
I don't doubt Corbyn's resolve or his ideas, but I'm not sure that when it comes down to the crunch of being the UK Prime Minister that he could step up to the plate and be able to handle it.
[QUOTE=Noss;48658730]It is disgusting how past and present Labour members are fighting so hard to discredit Corbyn. They are absolutely shitting themselves and I love it.[/QUOTE] They don't even need to try to discredit Corbyn, he's got enough skeletons in his closet as it is.
As an outsider, from what I've read, it sounds like he's going to be a person only electable to Labour voters, and not the voters they need.
[QUOTE=DogGunn;48659236]As an outsider, from what I've read, it sounds like he's going to be a person only electable to Labour voters, and not the voters they need.[/QUOTE] With Corbyn in charge of Labour, they'll be stuck in opposition until the sun enters the red giant phase.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;48659245]With Corbyn in charge of Labour, they'll be stuck in opposition until the sun enters the red giant phase.[/QUOTE] That's not at all true
The rest of the candidates look like over-inflated plastic bags, he's the only one who's displayed any grit and character.
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