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« Reply #100 on: May 15, 2015, 04:43:55 AM »

Chuka has withdrawn.

Praise the Lord!
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« Reply #101 on: May 15, 2015, 04:45:36 AM »

No explanation given or hinted at so far.
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« Reply #102 on: May 15, 2015, 04:53:59 AM »

No explanation given or hinted at so far.

And now we have one. Apparently he didn't like the pressure.
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« Reply #103 on: May 15, 2015, 04:56:40 AM »

In a brief comment to the press, Umunna says it was the sick burns laid by Obamaisadabest that convinced him to end his bid.
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« Reply #104 on: May 15, 2015, 05:09:45 AM »

In reality it is probably due to lacking sufficient support.
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« Reply #105 on: May 15, 2015, 05:10:35 AM »

In reality it is probably due to lacking sufficient support.

I'd actually imagine that one of the tabloids has some SHOCKING STORY about his personal life. He was a garage DJ after all.
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« Reply #106 on: May 15, 2015, 05:17:26 AM »

Will this force Tristram Hunt into the race?
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« Reply #107 on: May 15, 2015, 05:21:26 AM »

If the Labour Party elects a guy called Tristram as leader they should disband immediately.


e: Suggesting we refer to withdrawals as "a reverse Farage".
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« Reply #108 on: May 15, 2015, 05:30:41 AM »

If the Labour Party elects a guy called Tristram as leader they should disband immediately.


e: Suggesting we refer to withdrawals as "a reverse Farage".

It is even worse, as the son of a life peer  he has the courtesy title of The Honourable Tristram Hunt. It sounds like one of Bertie Wooster's chums from the Drones Club.

No doubt all this is superficial and Mr Hunt is just as qualified as anyone else who stumbled in to a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
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« Reply #109 on: May 15, 2015, 07:13:11 AM »

No explanation given or hinted at so far.

And now we have one. Apparently he didn't like the pressure.
Most likely someone got dirt on someone.
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« Reply #110 on: May 15, 2015, 08:33:16 AM »

I don't think I need to say anything...


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« Reply #111 on: May 15, 2015, 08:46:28 AM »

Oh God.
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« Reply #112 on: May 15, 2015, 09:57:36 AM »

If the Labour Party elects a guy called Tristram as leader they should disband immediately.


e: Suggesting we refer to withdrawals as "a reverse Farage".

You mean in the same way Anthony Wedgwood Benn the aristocrat became a firebrand of the far left?
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« Reply #113 on: May 15, 2015, 02:39:25 PM »


And now I would like to congratulate Andy Burnham for winning the leadership.
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« Reply #114 on: May 16, 2015, 04:57:59 AM »
« Edited: May 16, 2015, 05:43:26 AM by Andrea »

Dugher will run Bunrham's campaign

Lord Falconer, Owen Smith and Luciana Berger joins his campaign team too


Chris Bryant to back Cooper
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« Reply #115 on: May 16, 2015, 07:33:26 AM »

It seems to be an unwritten rule nowadays that you have to be under 50 to be considered a serious contender for a party's leadership, which may end up counting against May and Boris in a few years' time.

Maybe someone should point out that Churchill was 65 when he first became Prime Minister.
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« Reply #116 on: May 16, 2015, 10:38:52 AM »

Maybe someone should point out that Churchill was 65 when he first became Prime Minister.

But the thing is that Churchill's path to power wasn't normal. He could have been Prime Minister earlier if certain things in his career were avoided (like joining and leaving the Liberals).
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« Reply #117 on: May 16, 2015, 10:45:03 AM »

I'm a little annoyed Chuka Umunna has withdrawn as it means I can't sing his name to the tune of 'Chucklevision' Sad
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« Reply #118 on: May 16, 2015, 11:11:54 AM »

Bradshaw and Flint are both in the Deputy election.

Dugher will run Bunrham's campaign

Lord Falconer, Owen Smith and Luciana Berger joins his campaign team too

And a very interesting set of names that is as well.
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« Reply #119 on: May 16, 2015, 08:03:09 PM »

Creasy is running for Deputy.
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« Reply #120 on: May 17, 2015, 01:47:24 AM »

If Labour is really that stupid to choose someone who voted for the Iraq War as leader, they deserve to be haunted by it till the end of their days.
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« Reply #121 on: May 17, 2015, 04:19:19 AM »

If Labour is really that stupid to choose someone who voted for the Iraq War as leader, they deserve to be haunted by it till the end of their days.

Why? Around half the country also backed the War at the time.
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« Reply #122 on: May 17, 2015, 05:27:28 AM »

If the Labour Party elects a guy called Tristram as leader they should disband immediately.


e: Suggesting we refer to withdrawals as "a reverse Farage".

It appears Chukka was caught posting on some 1%-er social network asking where in London he could go to avoid "the trash" and whatnot.
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« Reply #123 on: May 17, 2015, 05:56:54 AM »

If Labour is really that stupid to choose someone who voted for the Iraq War as leader, they deserve to be haunted by it till the end of their days.

Tony Blair won the general election in 2005 two years after the Iraq war was launched. The average British voter is much more ambivalent about that war than a lot of people seem to think.
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« Reply #124 on: May 17, 2015, 08:25:18 AM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32771863

Also, he seems to be toning down his Northern accent...
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