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T_i_B

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10. From Scotland to South East England......

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 30, 2015, 08:29 AM

Nov 2015

....The coalition that gave Labour landslides in 1997 and 2001 has fallen apart. At the last election Labour was losing votes to just about everyone other than the Lib Dems. That's a pretty clear sign that they've stopped being an effective broad church party.

And now we have a situation where there are factions of the Labour party who simply cannot abide or work with each other, which makes it virtually impossible for them to reach out to a broad church of voters.

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the inevitable Jeremy Corbyn thread.... [View all] Ironing Man Nov 2015 OP

If he doesn't allow a free vote on Syria..... T_i_B Nov 2015 #1

I find it mindbogglingly shortsighted Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #2

If you placed Jeremy Corbyn in charge of a whelk stall Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #3

If the PLP can't represent their own activists.... T_i_B Nov 2015 #4

I think that's a non-sequitur. Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #6

to illustrate... Ironing Man Nov 2015 #7

From Scotland to South East England...... T_i_B Nov 2015 #10

"By contrast, the PLP are, for obvious reasons, representative of the much larger group ... Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #5

In my opinion, neither... LeftishBrit Nov 2015 #8

I think most people learned from the last election to treat polls with a pinch of salt. Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #9

I see him as a Foot or a Smith (or a Livingstone or a Benn) rather than a Kinnock or a Blair ... Nihil Dec 2015 #11