Labour Party (UK) Leadership Election, 2016

[DC Al Fine]

I must say that you Brits do a much better job doing ideological leadership elections. Here in Canada it's pretty awful figuring out factions and such.

[DC Al Fine]

Could it get any worse for Labour at this point? This is just sad to watch.

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What exactly makes Diane Abbott so unpalatable as a leader?

[DC Al Fine]

I mean, this is a political disaster. Britain has no opposition to speak of. Why should any English voter who does not like the Conservatives not vote Libdem at this point?

Stop trying to make they LibDems happen. They're not going to happen.

Well, in that case England will become a one-party nation. Please get ready to welcome (for a short time) SNP as the official opposition. Unless, of course, UKIP volunteers. Labour, surely, is trying to get itself out of the job.

The SNP can't increase its seat count much, for obvious reasons. Labour would have to lose about 170-180 seats for this to happen. That seems like a bit of the stretch. Is Theresa May supposed to get  60% of the vote or something?

[DC Al Fine]

If it's going to happen, it'll have to involve the Lib Dems "re-splitting" into their Liberal and SDP factions, and the SDP half becoming a safe-space for non-Corbynite Labour...

The Lib Dem factions are not "Liberal" and "SDP".

What exactly are their factions these days?

[DC Al Fine]

Theresa May will be likely in power by 2025, and the Labour Party is in grave danger. This is what happens when you allow far-left fringe kooks to take over a once grand party. Yes, Blairism/Brownism/Milibandism had some flaws, but Corbyn is too pacifist to win Britain's minds. Can you see a Prime Minister Corbyn under a international crisis?

May will probably be there until 2025. If not, the Tories could pick Johnson or Hammond as a successor.

I sort of agree, but then I remember that up until about 18 months ago, the Atlas as talking about how demographic changes had ensured the Tories would never win a majority again Anything can happen.