Labour Has A Chance ...

[sunny-dave]

... if it dumps Corbyn now?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/jeremy-corbyn-bob-hawke-general-election-landslide

Fascinating article - it couldn't actually happen here ... could it?

[-Talbot-]

Yes dump Corbyn and give Diane the job.

[sunny-dave]

Oh Talbot - you are a one ... my sides will surely split :)

D xx

[sunny-dave]

I think the theory is that (this close to an election) Jeremy would resign and (with no time to consult the membership) a 'more electable' leader would be parachuted in from the smoke-filled back room.

There would obviously be a promise to the membership that it would be properly ratified after the election.

It's a 'no downside scenario' - if they win, then the members would be happy to endorse the new leader, if they lose, then there was going to be a leadership contest anyway.

[-Talbot-]

a 'more electable' leader would be parachuted in from the smoke-filled back room.



Go on then ...

[sunny-dave]

Alan Johnson - still time to reverse his decision to retire.

Dan Jarvis - popular ex-soldier with very little ideological baggage

[sunny-dave]

Not a bad call, 10ClarionSt.

[dannyk13]

The bookies don't think so:-
https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/most-seats

[-Talbot-]

I actually thought Keir Starmer was going to be your pick SD.

Of the 3 mentioned I would go for Jarvis but has he ever shown any interest in the leadership?

[Rosetta]

Peter Mandelson is critical of Keir Starmer in an article in The New Statesman, so there's a plus for him

[sunny-dave]

I like him more by the minute, Rosetta

[ichkeria]

No not really the same at all. Corbyn is NOT a good and principled man who's been let down by everyone around him. He is a man of outdated principles who has nothing to offer but sloganeering. In some parallel universe if Alan Johnson was to parachute in on the back of a pig and Labour suddenly was a different party with different policies then yes eho knows. But that is so unrealistic as to be not worth entertaining