1. The Problems with Jess Phillips
2. The Miderable Collapse of Jess Phillips
3. How to Screw Up a Leadership Election
4. Keir-azy For You - Why Starmer Leads
5. The Silences of John Harris
Not the way I'd want to see Brexit in, with two posts about one of the worst people in the Labour Party. But it's you folks who determine what's hot and what's not around these parts. Snapping at their heels was my moaning and whingeing about having a leadership election almost designed to distract Labour while Johnson goes about defining the terms of the future trade deal with the EU. We then consider the support for Keir Starmer, which will no doubt be returned to over the next couple of months. And bring up the rear was a deserved mugging of John Harris.
A piece or two deserving of extra clicks? This consideration of Labour's new base is worth your time. If Labour is to recover it's not enough to know why we lost, but why millions still voted for us. And the second for a second chance? How about this foray into tabloid telly, a topic I've neglected for far too long because politics.
And how might things pan out in February? In my crystal ball I see more pieces about the leadership contest in my future. You know you love to see it.
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«a leadership election almost designed to distract Labour while Johnson goes about defining the terms of the future trade deal with the EU.»
ReplyDeleteIf you want a (bitter but) consolatory argument, we are at the beginning of a number of years in which the parliamentary far-right has an unassailable margin of votes, and can ignore Labour and "remainers" alike.
In such a case the job of the opposition is to avoid being ignored, to keep people talking about them, and the leadership election will do that; Let's hope that the principle "there is no such thing as bad publicity" applies here too.