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Hilary Benn Sacked From The Shadow Cabinet - wider political debate

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Tubey said:
Most surprising thing of this whole saga is that the PLP want Eagle as leader...

It's the right thing to get rid of Corbyn; but the utterly wrong thing to get someone that awful as the replacement. All it will do is get the unions and membership voting massively for Corbyn and you reset the board to square one.

Think we're looking at the end of Labour to be honest. A huge split-off and a new party may be incoming.
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Yes she stood the last time and got poor votes so why pick her?
Labour are pressing the self district buttons!
 
SNova said:
Who would people want as leader if Corbyn were to go?

Dan Jarvis?
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......like it or not, you need somebody who the British people will like. In simple words they have to be electable. There are a few good, young Labour MPs but they might not be ready now. Lisa Nandy always impresses me.
 
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tsubaki said:
A split certainly, but I am not sure it will be the end of Labour.

The most active of the plotters will probably flounce off into some new party - but given that they would get no union funding, no membership funding, would probably be reliant on the same dodgy sources that propped Blair up and would be inevitably cliquey, you can't really see much of the rest of the PLP signing up for it. I'd expect most to stay - especially if Corbyn was smart about it, binned the whips office off (who lets face it appear to have organized the revolt) and let everyone have a free vote on everything, providing they could explain why to their constituents and CLPs.
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No activists either, they'd have to do the old Tory trick of hiring people to canvas the constituency.
 

SNova said:
Who would people want as leader if Corbyn were to go?

Dan Jarvis?
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yes, win back working class vote...and the press wouldnt know how to slate an ex-soldier

i see owen smith being put forward as potential now, anyone know anything about him?!
 
Gadfly said:
Labour missed the chance to really attack the Tories for messing up Britain but instead they are having a civil war.
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That is the saddest thing about all of this.

The politics of this country is moving inexorably to the right and there is no one to stand up for the values of the just slightly less than half of us who opposed this madness and mayhem currently taking root in the wake of the Referendum.
 
Gadfly said:
Labour missed the chance to really attack the Tories for messing up Britain but instead they are having a civil war.
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All to cover their own arses over Chilcott as they know Corbyn will go for the jugular with those implicated by it.

Not a fan of Corbyn but the way Labour are tearing themselves apart over this when they should be taking the government apart is pathetic.
 

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