Go on then, who do you reckon will win? The Labour Leadership contest, that is...

Burnham has really tanked this campaign hasn't he? Guessing there'll be a big flow of voters from Burnham to Cooper. Corbyn will win, but the result will be a lot closer than people expect.

He spent a lot of time talking up the common ground he shared with Corbyn and there was that bollocks about "harnessing this energy" and then he disagreed with all Corbyn's policies apart from on Rail nationalisation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXXJ3NrjplY&sns=em

That's what a future PM looks like.

I got an email from John Prescott which started:

Hello comrade! (We can still say that can't we?)

I'm going to break the habit of a lifetime and be brief.

That's what a future PM looks like

nooooooooooooooooooo

She is edgy, with it and post totty #resistanceIsFutile

http://thequietus.com/articles/18714-jeremy-corbyn-labour-election-rally-policies

An interesting read, even if I don't agree with everything it says

(which is more or less what the tweet linking to it said) (by someone off here, I believe)

i disagree where it calls Harriet Harman a man

A penny for Carmody's thoughts on this one :-)

funny how 3 candidates with barely perceptible political differences haven't been able to organise themselves to present a united front against the evil Trot

Its been great as long as Liz Kendall doesn't win whatever the outcome

The distinctions as far as I can tell are that Burnham is prepared to sidle up to him slightly, whereupon Cooper will go full Donald Sutherland and demand that Burnham be punished for it.

And Liz Kendall's a Tory.

Burnham basically going in whichever direction the prevailing wind seemed to be going in has knackered his campaign really, can't see him coming ahead of Cooper.

Pretty sure Kendall has conceded defeat already.

Part of me worries/wonders if Cooper is actually right about the risibly named 'People's QE' but that's for another day. Expect Osborne and Cameron to spend a lot of time telling Corbyn how wrong headed his own party thinks his economic policies are.

Yeah, Kendall has switched over to "we must support whoever wins" - meanwhile a man in a George Osborne mask has started getting the boot in:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/09/george-osborne-labour-generations-work-unravelled

When tories talk about Labour's "Good old days", they don't usually mean anything more recent than 20 years ago, now it seems Kinnock, Blair, Brown and Miliband were "all right really"...

"Burnham is prepared to sidle up to him slightly"

He is actually beyond parody. I was listening to a not very hilarious comedy show on R4 and they did a short impression of each candidate and his sounded even more so than the others, just a straight recording of him talking leadership. I think he will come out of this looking the biggest tool which is saying something considering the competition.

The thing I have enjoyed most about this campaign has been the moments where Blairite tossers who are dealing with their own unexpected irrelevance are reduced to making bluffing statements through gritted teeth about how great it is that the party is having this dialogue etc...

The distinctions as far as I can tell are that Burnham is prepared to sidle up to him slightly, whereupon Cooper will go full Donald Sutherland and demand that Burnham be punished for it.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, September 10, 2015 6:24 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't understand this post - could you expand, AF?

Sorry - it's a reference to this picture:

https://jonathanjanz.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/sutherland.jpg

(which I am very probably misusing - I haven't seen the film!)

A longer version would probably be that in so far as the Blairite policy is to stay one inch to the left of the Tories (and so be dragged along in their wake), it's not surprising that as soon as Andy Burnham moves an inch further to the left, Cooper demands that this be punished:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/08/cooper-vs-burnham-a-panicked-desperate-stunt-straight-out-of-the-ed-balls-playbook/

Ah, ty

In that image from Invasion of the Body Snatchers Donald Sutherland is emitting an alien scream, indicating that he too is now a pod person

That moment terrified me as a child, even more so than the chilling Salem's Lot tvm and the Thatcher Gov combined.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I'm kind of annoyed that the BBC are saying that Corbyn was "cheered by fans" rather than by supporters.

Still waiting for Hubert Humphrey to announced the winner.

tomorrow morn?

"ladies and gentlemen... i present to you the next president of the United States.... Hubert... Horatio.... HORNBLOWER!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dTJTD01n4

i know it's early Saturday morning but the 4 candidate's supporters that Five Live rounded up this morning for a chat are a good reminder of why it's probly best to just ignore parliamentary politics and go and commune with nature for the rest of yr life instead

i feel a little sticky, a little sad

handy to remember that any pleasure in today will be based on the discomfiture of a complacent middle class rather than much real prospect of genuine radicalization tho

also weird sensation sometimes hearing people express ideas that you're sympathetic to pitched back at you as articles of faith rather than explorations of tactics. meme leftism will do most of the newspapers' job for them

basically if the vicar on Gogglebox is behind you you need to reassess, pronto

If the vicar from gogglebox is behind me I usually start walking a little faster

Mike Gapes
‏@MikeGapes

Thought for the day. Parliament may have rejected Assisted Suicide yesterday. But Labour will restore it for political parties today.

oh that Mike Gapes

Gapes né Giggler

why would u not have gone with fields o' fat henry there tom

HE'S READY

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/files/2012/05/stalin.n.jpg

Looks like Corbyn has won on first preferences.

remind me what the point of a Deputy is again

Liz trying not to cry

Xp, to take over when Corbyn gets the axe in six months.

i'm sure Tom will keep lightweight social democracy warm for the faithful

hate it when our friends become "successful"

NV is right this is an awful day for the UK left

Get on w/this I've got to fuck off watch Chelsea

Douglas Carswell MP
‏@DouglasCarswell

Labour MPs seeking exile are welcome in UKIP

Every day is an awful day for the UK left.

oof

Tom edging closer to "hard working families" by the second