[Politics] Next leader of the Labour party

[Bulldog]

Just watched Wes Streeting MP for Illford North on the BBC

Very impressed, just the kind of centre left, eloquent, anti Corbynism leader the Labour party need.

FFS lets get someone like him in charge before the loonies convince themselves that they need to move further left when all the evidence and logic says they need to move to the centre.

If Boris stays for the full 5 years, it will be almost 50 years since anyone but Tony Blair won an election for Labour. He was the most successful leader ever and he was a centre left politician that drove the hard left out, Labour needs to begin that battle again or stay in opposition for ever. Wes could be a good start.

 

[Mellotron]

Labour's next choice of leader is humungously important, possibly to the country.

If they go with another Momentum-endorse candidate, they will 100% not be the 2nd largest party at the next election.

 

[Wilko]

I think Labour should copy the Finnish model. Get a centre left, progressive and young leader in. It would not hurt the rep to get a female in either seeing as labour have yet to do just that.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Dianne Abbott!

Fulfils so many tick boxes.

 

[BensGrandad]

It was suggested by many that Tony Blair was one of the best ever Tory Prime Ministers due to his policies.

 

[Justice]

Yep we need someone else to send the troops to war in the Middle East for absolutely no reason

 

[pasty]

Kier Starmer

 

[junior]

Anyone who isn't a terrorist sympathiser.

 

[spence]

Just for her speech MP Julie Elliott. Exactly what i want to hear.

 

[nwgull]

It was suggested by many that Tony Blair was one of the best ever Tory Prime Ministers due to his policies.

Straight out of the Momentum bumper book of sound bites.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

From an outside perspective.

Caroline Flint is the only Labour candidate that spoke sense for me, she has morals.

 

[A1X]

Labour needs a competent public performer who will put the right noses out of joint (on both sides), capable of laying into Johnson as and when he cocks up (as he inevitably will) and is prepared to "tell it like it is". A proper dose of salts.

For me, there's only one candidate for this. Jess Phillips.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Lisa Nandy

 

[BensGrandad]

Kier Starmer

Does he not have skeletons in the cupboard that would harm him. This has been suggested on here. n I would never vote Labour but wouldnt Yvette Cooper seems a possibility who would appeal to most. Alan Johnson sounded good last night but is not an MP currently.

 

[Mellotron]

I think Labour should copy the Finnish model. Get a centre left, progressive and young leader in. It would not hurt the rep to get a female in either seeing as labour have yet to do just that.

In our country they'd be seen as ludicrously far left, and painted as such by the press. It's gonna have to be a centrist.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Labour needs a competent public performer who will put the right noses out of joint (on both sides), capable of laying into Johnson as and when he cocks up (as he inevitably will) and is prepared to "tell it like it is". A proper dose of salts.

For me, there's only one candidate for this. Jess Phillips.

Jess Phillips would never swing neutrals over.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Does he not have skeletons in the cupboard that would harm him. This has been suggested on here. n I would never vote Labour but wouldnt Yvette Cooper seems a possibility who would appeal to most.

Does he? You've read it on Nsc so therefore you have to repeat it. It's a wonder you didn't hear it in the Bovril queue.
Care to back it up with any facts apart from I read it somewhere?

 

[Bulldog]

It was suggested by many that Tony Blair was one of the best ever Tory Prime Ministers due to his policies.

I know BG. The hard left have done everything they can to trash the Blair era because they fear its resurrection so much. For the hard left to win, they must first bury the soft left.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

It's a shame Andy Burnham sodded off to become Manchester mayor.

 

[martin tyler]

It's a shame Andy Burnham sodded off to become Manchester mayor.

That much is true. How he was over looked as a leader was beyond me.