Who would be the best leader for the Labour Party?
What an eventful two weeks in politics! We have voted to leave the EU, tomorrow we will have a new Prime Minister in Number 10, and next on the political agenda is a contest for a new leader of the Labour party.
Angela Eagle has said she can provide the leadership “in dark times for Labour” that Jeremy Corbyn cannot, as she launched her leadership challenge.
Ex-shadow business secretary Ms Eagle said she wanted to bring the party and the country “back together”.
Labour Party general secretary Iain McNicol said he had received enough nominations to trigger a contest.
Mr Corbyn has refused to step down since losing the support of most of his MPs in a vote of no confidence.
So what are your views? If you could choose between the two of them, who would you vote for? Angela Eagle, Jeremy Corbyn or someone else?
Who would be the best leader for the Labour Party?
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Labour Party together.
He had a reputation for being in favour by the Unions but since then he has hardly led the Party or come up with any program on which
the Labour Party could gain popularity.
The Labour Party has little to offer and making it easy for the Conservatives to do as they please.
Too many of them are in it for themselves & Eagles are ten a penny, but Jeremy Corby really cares about the people.
Add to that, he is not a suitable person for the job, openly stating that in the event that the country was attacked and nuclear weapons were involved, he would not retaliate in like. What is the point of having a leader that would not put the Country and it's Citizens first, before his own feelings. That is nothing but weakness and a total disregard for the population at large.
If it comes to a stand off between us and, say, Russia, and Corbyn will not press the nuclear trigger... well, I'll leave that to you. i think you already have the answer.
Safety of the realm is the first, and most important duty, of a prime minister. All else is secondary.
There is HUGE danger, but not that way. It will come from terrorists who sneak in, not submarines. Spend the money on our country, not on warheads that will never be used.
Eagle walks the walk but is a red in socialist clothing.
Corbyn doesn't know which side is up.
I've suggested a couple of times on SS we need to clear out the Westminster Bubble, sever the top this of Civil Servants and start again.
What do you think?
April, I also feel, and have said on SS, our two party system just isn't equipped to deal with an independent twenty first century Britain. I can barely remember a time when we had an effective opposition in Labour.
Neither, I feel, do either of the two parties represent the views and life styles of people like you and I. So, some form of regionalism would be worth looking at. If Tory moderates would combine with Labour moderates to form a third party, or perhaps enhance UKIP - their 2015 manifesto was pretty smart - a third force in the Commons, then the sitting Tories would have real opposition and we just might have some original thinking from this new party!
As far as May is concerned, yes, she's so very Thatcher - not my favourite politician. I can't see May working for the good of people like you and I, no, but for the good of banks and big corporations, so no change from Thatcher, Major, Blair and Cameron.
If we have any blood left, they'll find a home for it in a corporate blood bank.
As for the younger people, I too am delighted to see that are beginning to engage with their own futures. It's about time! But I can't see they'll stop whinging about we oldies ruining their lives anytime soon. We do live in a blame culture after all.
UKIP are about to have their own election contest. Eight people are standing, the person that seems to be the most likely victim is Steven Woolfe MEP.
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Never heard of him. A quick Google does not give me a lot more information, so maybe information does not exist.
As far as I know he has not said "As a mum", so that is one hurdle he does not have to overcome.
By the way, I'm not a Ukip supporter!
It suggested a chunk of disaffected Tory MP's might get alongside disaffected moderates in the Labour Party and form a third, middle ground Party, more representative of the mood of the country at the moment, and therefore very electable at the next General Election. No suggestions were made for the leadership.
In the light of todays news that upwards of three hundred Tory members and voters have signed up with Ukip - disaffected Tories - I wonder if the dear old Telegraph might not just be right?
Is it a time for a revision in our political class, and the way we do politics.
Almost everyone in the Commons has a had political career with the safety net of the now EU as a backdrop. Politics has been done whilst being referenced - or perhaps ossified - by Brussels. Having voted Brexit we must build a stronger, more cohesive nation to face the rigours of world trade and diplomacy. The old ways just won't prosper us.
We must keep a few of the more sage politicos, but front line people need to be younger, far more committed to this country and furthering it interests on every front.
Roof Top, I think Dan Jarvis would be a good leader of the Opposition, but you're quite right, not at the moment. Umunna? No, don't think so. Good back bencher though!
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Right now we don't have a Shadow Cabinet, the PLP won't work with him, for whatever reason, so at what is the most difficult time in seventy years we can have no true consensus in government.
He's got to go!
occasion I have to agree with him.