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LeftishBrit

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12. Most of the resignees are not 'sectarian Blairites'

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 26, 2016, 01:08 PM

Jun 2016

I don't approve of what the shadow cabinet is doing. Fiddling while Rome (or at least the Treaty of Rome?) burns; fighting each other instead of the Tories. But it's not as simple as a desire to restore Blairism.

This whole Brexit stuff is causing meltdown in both the Labour and the Tory parties. The LibDems had melted down already.

As I was saying way before Brexit: maybe the only way of preserving the UK, and moving forwards, would be to persuade Nicola Sturgeon to become Prime Minister of the whole UK. Won't happen, though!

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Half of Labour shadow cabinet set to resign after Hilary Benn sacked [View all] muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 OP

They won't stop until sectarian Blairism is restored. Ken Burch Jun 2016 #1

That's exactly what crossed my mind - back to the Third Way n/t TubbersUK Jun 2016 #2

Most of the resignees are not 'sectarian Blairites' LeftishBrit Jun 2016 #12

It would help if they would at least, if nothing else, agree to carry out Corbyn's plan Ken Burch Jun 2016 #15

Updates, Gloria De Piero resigns, Emily Thornberry supports Corbyn, Ian Murray resigns muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #3

Lilian Greenwood (transport) and Lucy Powell (education) resign muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #4

Sky says Kerry McCarthy (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has resigned muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #5

Seema Malhotra (shadow chief secretary to the Treasury) resigns muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #6

Ah do believe the appropriate word is quakerboy Jun 2016 #7

It's Low Energy Jeremy, ill suited to be Labour leader. What he has just presided over is OnDoutside Jun 2016 #8

Scotland's vote has only changed the result of UK general elections 2 or 3 times since 1945. Denzil_DC Jun 2016 #16

Vernon Coaker, shadow Northern Ireland secretary, has now resigned muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #9

Much of this is Corbin's own doing. His lackluster opposition to Brexit is being called one of the totodeinhere Jun 2016 #10

and Lord Falconer, shadow justice secretary muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #11

Karl Turner, the shadow attorney general has said he has resigned “with a very heavy heart”. AntiBank Jun 2016 #13

Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the Commons, resigns; Corbyn's statement muriel_volestrangler Jun 2016 #14