Next leader of the Labour Party should be.....

[tonyh29]

Bit weird , donations to an individual are capped at £155k

Yet the £750,000 the unions have admitted to spending on the Ed campaign doesnt count since costs incurred by unions in internal communications in the party leadership campaign fall outside the overall party spending limit of £155,000 for each candidate.

[drat01]

Bit weird , donations to an individual are capped at £155k

Yet the £750,000 the unions have admitted to spending on the Ed campaign doesnt count since costs incurred by unions in internal communications in the party leadership campaign fall outside the overall party spending limit of £155,000 for each candidate.

Tony as a Tory to even pose a question re. funding is highly amusing

[chrisp65]

can we all agree that funding and expenses finished as a score draw?

it's all a bit circular, it's like that slogan in tehran a good few years ago: USA is worse than USSR. USSR is worse than UK. UK is worse than USA. Or something like that anyway.

There isn't a party that would do well out of proper analysis of finances. I'm sure if we ever found the guy that funds Plaid Cymru he'd turn out to be Belgian or somesuch.

[leviramsey]

I really am failing to see the point that you are trying to make though Tony. The electoral scheme is a fair one based on rules that were agreed to the election. At the end of the day Ed won and that is it.

also if you have a problem with this how do you then react to the following

David Davis - 62

David Cameron - 56

Liam Fox - 42

Ken Clarke - 38

Recognise that? Its the results from the first round of the Tory vote for leader. Obviously the party wanted Davis as leader?

A majority of the party didn't want Davis so it wouldn't make sense to have him as the leader, would it?

[veloman]

Did you all know that there is a third Milliband brother - Steve.

He did; The Joker, Gangsta of Love and several other hits !

[snowychap]

'No more cliques'.

Does that not acknowledge that there were cliques previously in the party?

[Awol]

Tony as a Tory to even pose a question re. funding is highly amusing

So - and correct me if I'm wrong:

Non doms donating to Tories = BOOO

Non doms donating to Labour =

Labour caught out selling Peerages for cash = silence

I'd guess I'm not the only bolitics poster seeing the flaw in your logic Ian.

"Let he who is without sin....etc, etc."

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

Get rid of vested interests and be done with this petty squabbling.

[AVFC-Prideofbrum]

I've gone with Ross Kemp on this one.

[Ads]

The strongest candidate I always thought was Balls. But he was never going to win due to the handicap of being a bit of a dick and thought of as such by nigh on everybody.

If everyone thinks he's a dick, how can he be the strongest candidate? Honest question

Perhaps you mean you like his policies the most you closet trotskyist you

Ha! What I meant was that he seems to be the largest and most robust character. Both Milibands come off as a bit wet to me, unlike Balls, who I’d also credit with the greater intellect. It just seems that he has focused most of it on devious back stabbing and all-round naughty political behaviour.

I’m not a fan of his policies and like many I think he’s a dick, but if you're able to ignore his dastardliness, then he’d be the best choice. The new Mandy perhaps? A future as a power behind the Labour leader?

[snowychap]

Balls, who I’d also credit with the greater intellect. It just seems that he has focused most of it on devious back stabbing and all-round naughty political behaviour.

Sounds like a Tory. :nod:

[tonyh29]

The new Mandy perhaps?

What makes you think balls is going to have to resign twice for corruption ?

[Richard]

Here's a thing about the election of Ed Milliband and the reaction amongst some Labour supporters I have spoken to that intrigues me.

I have said to a lot of them that he is more left wing than his brother and now this wll see their party embrace more of it's left wing roots and maybe go back to being a socialist party.

They have rejected his left wing bent and basically distanced themselves from thinking he is a left wing politician. Why would they do that? I mean surely if he is a left wing politician it plays to what they as Labour supporters should be looking for? Why would they try want to hide from his left wing outlook?

[blandy]

Did you all know that there is a third Milliband brother - Steve.

He did; The Joker, Gangsta of Love and several other hits !

You missed the other brother - Glenn - the one who did all that swing music - In the mood, etc.

[Gringo]

Possibly cos you're friends are neo-blairites and possibly because he isn't very left wing at all, he's slightly more left wing than his brother who was an acolyte of the aforementioned tory, tony blair.

[Richard]

Possibly cos you're friends are neo-blairites .

Steady on, I never said they were friends :winkold:

[tonyh29]

Apparently Ed is going to announce new policies today and apologise ( someone teach the meaning of that word to Gordon before this afternoon ) to those angry at the party claiming it could end boom and bust

Bet he conveniently omits the part where he tells us he was Browns advisor and played a lead role in formulating the economic policies which have done such harm to the public finances.

things not getting any better for Brown ..he had wanted to hand over to the new leader in person when the result was announced, but was vetoed by party officials and so he walked out .... Seems he won't be forgiven any time soon

[Jon]

Apparently Ed is going to announce new policies today and apologise ( someone teach the meaning of that word to Gordon before this afternoon ) to those angry at the party claiming it could end boom and bust

Shouldn't it be the b(w)ankers who do the apologising for the boom and bust?

[tonyh29]

Shouldn't it be the b(w)ankers who do the apologising for the boom and bust?

If the current stock market rollercoaster symbolises lunacy, it resides in those who set up and monitor the system, not the individual money-chasing traders

[Gringo]

Shouldn't it be the b(w)ankers who do the apologising for the boom and bust?

If the current stock market rollercoaster symbolises lunacy, it resides in those who set up and monitor the system, not the individual money-chasing traders

That's just twisted. Do you blame the police for all the murders committed or do you place some resonsibility upon the criminals carrying them out?

Regulation would have been no more effective under the tories, it might have looked different and had a different name, but they'd still have been tickling the tummies of the fat cats.