{"id":367,"date":"2015-08-27T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paganfreak.net\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-08-27T01:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T00:23:18","slug":"the-labour-leadership-contest-oh-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Observations on The Labour leadership contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after a god awful General Election result earlier this year for The Labour Party, they now seem to have begun what can only be decribed as a\u00a0 `Kafkaesque nightmare ‘ of a\u00a0 leadership\u00a0 contest.\u00a0 Instead of embarking on a process of\u00a0 uniting the Labour Party members & appealing to prospective Labour voters it would seem the following is happenening.<\/p>\n

Contenders campaigns for the Labour leadership so far;<\/p>\n

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Liz Kendall is demanding that the members of the Labour party vote for her because;<\/p>\n

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  1. She wants to win.<\/li>\n
  2. She\u00a0 really wants to win.<\/li>\n
  3. She really wants to win & if she doesnt she will stamp her feet & there will be trouble.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Yvette Cooper asks you vote for her because;<\/p>\n

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    1. She is doing her utmost to look sincere & has been practising her best hand wringing middle class angst pose.<\/li>\n
    2. She really has honestly, & if that doesnt denote a great leader, well you just dont know how lucky you are to have her.<\/li>\n
    3. She will explain all her policies & ideas after she has figured out what a socialist feminist is.\u00a0 She really wants to win.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Andy Burnham would like you to Vote for him because;<\/p>\n

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      1. He likes to flip, he likes to flop & he truly will not stop.<\/li>\n
      2. He likes to flop, he likes to flip, the vote for uni fees was just a slip.<\/li>\n
      3. He wants to win…..or maybe not….yes he does.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Jerermy Corbyn\u00a0 would like you to consider voting for him;<\/p>\n

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        1. He has consistantly voted against austerity measures that have impoverished many working, disabled, unemployed people & children in Britain.<\/li>\n
        2. He wants\u00a0 debates, not soundbites by rote.<\/li>\n
        3. He possibly wants to win, but if not he will continue to oppose the current Conservative Governments policies & fight for a fairer society.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          It would seem that three of the candidates in this leadership contest are spending more energy & campaign resources trashing a member of their own party than offering up any meaningfull opposition to the current Conservative government.<\/p>\n

          Along with all this, questions are being asked about former members of the Labour Party being unable to rejoin, Labour Party members being unabled to vote. Threats to oust a leadership candidate if `the wrong one wins’. Lord Mandalson slithering around in the shadows trying to dictate the outcome, & an ex Labour PM who really does think he’s a messiah figure, bleating on & on & on that the winner needs to be of the centre ground, which in actuality has moved to the right of the political spectrum thereby, making the Labour Party look like\u00a0 a `Torylite’\u00a0 spin machine.<\/p>\n

          Political discourse will, & action\u00a0within the Laboutr Party,\u00a0 cannot simply be about maintaining the status quo at all costs, it has to be inspiring, innovative, & inclusive for all Party members in order to have a strong united party. It\u00a0 can then go to the country & offer sound policies & ideas to the betterment of all sections of society.\u00a0 The sooner the blairites of the labour Party realise this isnt suposed to be a narcissistic vanity bitchfest the better,\u00a0 perhaps then the real business of politics can begin.<\/p>\n

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          So after a god awful General Election result earlier this year for The Labour Party, they now seem to have begun what can only be decribed as a\u00a0 `Kafkaesque nightmare ‘ of a\u00a0 leadership\u00a0 contest.\u00a0 Instead of embarking on a process of\u00a0 uniting the Labour Party members & appealing to prospective Labour voters it would … Continue reading “Observations on The Labour leadership contest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}