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« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2017, 11:17:17 PM » |
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Doing it again, with brief comments:
1922: Ramsay Mac - the anti-WWI candidate 1935: Attlee, obviously. As if I'd vote for Mandy's grandad or a pre-war George Brown. 1955: Nye, although I quite like Gaitskell in some ways. 1960: Wilson, if mostly for factional reasons 1961: Greenwood, ditto. 1963: Wilson. George Brown as Labour leader...I mean if you think Corbyn is doing a bad job....... 1976: The go-to "look at how there were more heavyweights in the old days of politics!" leadership election. Probably Foot, definitely not Woy. 1980: Shore, then Foot. Quite like Healey though. 1983: Maybe something like 1. Heffer, 2. Shore, 3. Hattersley, 4. Kinnock out of bitterness. 1988: Benn, definitely. 1992: Probably a sympathy vote for the oddball Gould. 1994: Prescott, Beckett, Blair. Quite easy. 2007: Johnny Mac had he been nominated. But I was glad that Blair was finally gone. Meacher actually attempted a run here btw; must be the British equivalent of Gene McCarthy 1992. 2010: Supported Abbott at the time, but in hindsight it would have been 1. Burnham, 2. Balls, 3. E Miliband, 4. Abbott, 5. D Miliband. 2015: Actual vote was 1. Corbyn, 2. Burnham, 3. Cooper, 4. Kendall. 2016: Actual vote went to Corbyn, would rather he'd have stepped aside in favour of Johnny Mac though (but that wasn't really an option).
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