Breakaway Labour Party.

[Leekbrookgull]

Over the last few days we have seen bitter infighting within the Labour Party and it has been muted that there may well be a split within the party leading to a possible Labour Party Mark 2 ? However how realistic is this bearing in mind finance and organisation ?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Cue David Miliband

 

[The Albion Roar]

Over the last few days we have seen bitter infighting within the Labour Party and it has been muted that there may well be a split within the party leading to a possible Labour Party Mark 2 ? However how realistic is this bearing in mind finance and organisation ?

There was something similar 30-odd years ago - the infamous 'Gang of Four' (Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, David Owen and Roy Jenkins). They called it the Social Democratic Party, and elected David Owen as the first leader. They eventually merged with The Liberal Party to form The Liberal Democrats, and had David Owen and David Steele as joint leaders.

Spitting Image had a field day.

 

[severnside gull]

If they'd elected the right Milliband in the first place there'd be a Labour PM now and we wouldn't have had any of this shit.

(England would still have lost though)

 

[beorhthelm]

Labour changeed in the 1990's to something more social democrat, and should probably have changed the name more to reflect that. now its in an existential crisis because the MPs dont reflect the old Labour membership, there's very few real socialists around. rather than continue to fund it with no real purpose, the unions could put it out of its misery and disband the party so that a couple of new ones can form.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Brand new Labour/Green fusion party would be just GRAND. New rules, all historical ties swept away, Caroline Lucas installed as leader. Time for a new politics.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Brand new Labour/Green fusion party would be just GRAND. New rules, all historical ties swept away, Caroline Lucas installed as leader. Time for a new politics.

I think the Greens are too far left on the Social Democrat wing of Labour. A mass defection to the Lib Dems would be a better fit

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think the Greens are too far left on the Social Democrat wing of Labour. A mass defection to the Lib Dems would be a better fit

Lib Dems are terminally tainted now IMHO. Better to cherry pick Lib Dem talent and get them to defect from that sunk ship.

 

[alfredmizen]

If they'd elected the right Milliband in the first place there'd be a Labour PM now and we wouldn't have had any of this shit.

(England would still have lost though)

I'll give you a clue, there wouldn't , they are BOTH weird.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Lib Dems are terminally tainted now IMHO.

Possibly. A merger of the Lib Dems with the sensible Labour wing, and a rebrand to the Social Democrats could work however.

 

[Ernest]

I'll give you a clue, there wouldn't , they are BOTH weird.
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Don't forget the banana, made the bacon sandwich look normal. No Miliband is electable, both a pair of WEIRDOS

 

[Notters]

Breakaway parties would be great if we had proportional representation.

 

[Collingburnian]

I presume that in the original message the poster meant that the idea of a breakaway party had been mooted (debated) rather then muted (silenced)

 

[severnside gull]

Breakaway parties would be great if we had proportional representation.

Blame the LibDems.
So hungry for power they forgot their principles when they went for a coalition with the Tories & look what it cost them

 

[Eeyore]

There was something similar 30-odd years ago - the infamous 'Gang of Four' (Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, David Owen and Roy Jenkins). They called it the Social Democratic Party, and elected David Owen as the first leader. They eventually merged with The Liberal Party to form The Liberal Democrats, and had David Owen and David Steele as joint leaders.

Spitting Image had a field day.

 

[BBassic]

I could get behind a Labour / Green / Lib Dem fusion.

 

[beorhthelm]

Brand new Labour/Green fusion party would be just GRAND. New rules, all historical ties swept away, Caroline Lucas installed as leader. Time for a new politics.

Labour and Green has much less in common at their core, to deliver the ideals of green politics requires taking a axe to most of industry, all of which in some way destroys some part of the environment.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

I presume that in the original message the poster meant that the idea of a breakaway party had been mooted (debated) rather then muted (silenced)

Sorry,your correct.

 

[Superseagull]

If it is going to happen it's now or never. There is a huge potical vacuum waiting to be filled if the right team of people can form in the coming weeks. Some funding will need to be found from somewhere as they would not initially have Union funding. Interesting times.

 

[studio150]

Brand new Labour/Green fusion party would be just GRAND. New rules, all historical ties swept away, Caroline Lucas installed as leader. Time for a new politics.

Called Garble?

This uses the 1st 3 letters of both parties names