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Labour leadership election (part II)

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Have any of the Labour leadership candidates said anything meaningful in regard to electoral reform?

This is an interesting question. I wonder what Corbyn's take on it is?

I assume the other three want the voting system to remain the same, but are against the redrawing of constituency boundaries from 650 to 600 which will favour the Tories.

Jack
 
With Labour losing Scotland, is being the major party in a coalition its only way to government now? If so, then I'd have thought that all of them would have something to say although it only seems to be Corbyn who's prepared to make any sort of policy commitments.

Junk
 
I think what I said doesn't need further clarification.

So you don't want to defend your position that if the Tories win with more people voting for them then Labour should not regard it as a failure? That's a weird thing for a Labour voter to say, Brian if Labour lose the next election they could become a modern day Liberal Party.
 
Only if he mouths the words as he types.

I listened to Andy Burnham on R4 this morning. He's the only person I've heard who's been able to talk over James Naughtie's interminable rambling, so he gets my vote. Well, he would get my vote if I had one.

I find him guilty of the same thing, interminable rambling with several stabs at shutting him down by the interviewer but not until he's got his last sound bite in.
Corbyn is just making the others sound irrelevant I'm afraid- people are turning off from them.
 
The pfm demographic is clearly not representative of UK voters on the whole. This poll suggests very far left of centre.

I'm sure the many constitutional Telegraph types in the Corbyn voting group here would disagree. I think the result is highly reflective of broader opinion.
 
Has any commentator offered a good critique of why more quantitative easing couldn't be done assuming that the proceeds were used for investment eg housebuilding and other infrastructure investments?

Many economists seem to be predicting that growth will only be around 1.5% over the coming decades so inflation is presumably a much lower threat than stagnation.

Junk
 
Jeremy Corbyn has signed up more than 10,000 volunteers for his leadership campaign, more than the other campaigns put together.
 
Jeremy Corbyn has signed up more than 10,000 volunteers for his leadership campaign, more than the other campaigns put together.

they could sell their votes on and make about £20k.
That should buy him a few anoraks.
 
I heard a soundbite from her the other day and her voice had definitely changed from her pre-election shrill moan to a condescending purrr.
 
I’m deeply shocked by the venom and bile now being heaped by pfm lefties on past Labour Party movers and shakers like Kinnock and Brown, from whose nether regions the sun once shone so brightly. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned…..”
 
I’m deeply shocked by the venom and bile now being heaped by pfm lefties on past Labour Party movers and shakers like Kinnock and Brown, from whose nether regions the sun once shone so brightly. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned…..”

Bored? That's a Simon Vess level post, or maybe you can spring a surprise by linking to examples? :D
 
I’m deeply shocked by the venom and bile now being heaped by pfm lefties on past Labour Party movers and shakers like Kinnock and Brown, from whose nether regions the sun once shone so brightly. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned…..”


That's how they roll. Some on the hard left think Labour is their biggest enemy and they denigrate them snearingly as reformists.

Then the Communists are jeered by the Socialist parties which are often Trotskyist and dispise any other group which is not. But the Trotskyist Parties have different agendas and they direct sustained venom at other Trotskyist parties which are not identical to themselves. In very lelft wing political parties there are often splits and factions which lead to new parties rising and older ones folding.

One thing is for sure, there ain't a lot of 'peace, love and understanding' on the left fringes of the political spectrum anywhere.
 
pfm: see how the right view the left and the left view the right, but sometimes not much evidence of light.
 
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