Labour Party Leadership Election

[VPH]

Vote away! I pick Burnham, although I really like Corbyn too.

[Murica!]

Corbyn.

[DavidB.]

Kendall. The least insane option.

[H. Ross Peron]

Burnham (wants to avoid 1983 2.0)

[Phony Moderate]

Corbyn.

Burnham (wants to avoid 1983 2.0)

According to the media and the Blairites that already happened.

[Oakvale]

I'd vote [1] Kendall (the only person who seems to realise Labour lost the last election) and [2] Cooper. The Corbyn mania is one of the more depressing things I've witnessed in politics in the last few years.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Burnham, then Cooper, then Corbyn, then Kendall.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

1. Cooper

Not sure I'd fill in the rest tbh. And I'm not enthusiastic about Cooper either.

[Cassius]

Probably Burnham.

[The Last Northerner]

When New Labour might finally pick someone who would turn the page on Blairism, it turns out they are just another wishy-washy Europhile.


EDIT - Didn't vote but Corbyn seems like the least bloody of the bunch.

[Zioneer]

I'm disappointed that the left of the Labour Party couldn't find someone less... bad with foreign policy issues. Though still, Corbyn is the best in my uninformed opinion.

[Phony Moderate]

I'm disappointed that the left of the Labour Party couldn't find someone less... bad with foreign policy issues. Though still, Corbyn is the best in my uninformed opinion.

I wish Dennis Skinner were 20 years younger tbh.

[TNF]

Corbyn, obviously.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Is Burnham the left-winger who doesn't have the issues that would probably make Corbyn unelectable? If so, him.

[Phony Moderate]

Is Burnham the left-winger who doesn't have the issues that would probably make Corbyn unelectable? If so, him.

No, Burnham is the right-winger who is speaking left-wing language (well, more so than Cooper and Kendall anyway).

[TNF]

Is Burnham the left-winger who doesn't have the issues that would probably make Corbyn unelectable? If so, him.

Corbyn is the only left-winger standing for the leadership.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Brief summary for the perplexed: Corbyn is a member of what is conventionally called the Hard Left, Burnham is from the 'traditional' Right wing but has decent relations with parts of what is known as the Soft Left, Cooper is from the technocratic centre-Right that formed around Gordon Brown, Kendall is from the 'Blairite' Right.

[Cassius]

What, in particular, marks the technocratic right out from the traditional right and the Blairite right other than supporting Gordon Brown? Or is it as simple as that.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Is it fair to say the Brownites were centre-right? After all, Ed Miliband was a Brownite and simultaneously a figure of the soft left...

[Antonio the Sixth]

Brief summary for the perplexed: Corbyn is a member of what is conventionally called the Hard Left, Burnham is from the 'traditional' Right wing but has decent relations with parts of what is known as the Soft Left, Cooper is from the technocratic centre-Right that formed around Gordon Brown, Kendall is from the 'Blairite' Right.

Thanks. I guess Burnham is still the least worse option after all.

I'd love to see the Labour left regain the upper hand eventually, but Corbyn isn't the right person for the job. If he leads the party to defeat in 2020, the Blairites will come back in full force.

[tpfkaw]

As me: Corbyn (so they'll lose)

As me, with my views shifted sufficiently leftwards that I'd actually want the Labour Party to win: Kendall (how I voted in the poll)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Is it fair to say the Brownites were centre-right?

Given the current climate in the Party, yes. A few months ago I'd have written 'centre'.

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Miliband was only really regarded as such (by literally anyone) after he became leader.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If he leads the party to defeat in 2020, the Blairites will come back in full force.

No, they're done. The Labour Right in general certainly isn't though.

[Leftbehind]

#Jezwecan

*engages in appropriate amount of self-loathing for using that phrase*.

I'd love to see the Labour left regain the upper hand eventually, but Corbyn isn't the right person for the job. If he leads the party to defeat in 2020, the Blairites will come back in full force.

He'll have done an enormous amount within the party to stop that (ie reinstate much of the internal democracy lost from the 1980s).

[Velasco]

The only one clear thing to me is that all candidates look uninspiring. That Corbynmania appears to be a symptom of a particular mood. As I see it, the dilemma posed is not on a specific candidate but on an order of priority. What is more important: winning the next elections or the recovery of lost values and a distinctive identity? The problem is if the left-wing of the party has found a way to recover said values and identity adapted to the new times. Taking into account the profile of the leftist candidate and the improvised nature of his candidacy, at the very least that is uncertain.