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[Nigel Irritable]

Jon Cruddas, the Deputy Leadership contender who has been making some leftish noises has nominated... Brown.

As have the last two members of the Campaign Group to nominate, Austin Mitchell and David Hamilton.

 

[Kabumbo]

15 undecided MPs remaining, McDonnell needs all of which to stand.

Dead in the water

 

[audiotech]

More than dead when he uttered these words:

Does Mr John McDonnell MP do what he says on the tin? We only ask because it seems He Who Would Best Broon may have issues. Did you know, for example, that only three years ago, following the admittedly startling revelation that MI5 once proposed using pigeons as flying bombs, he signed an early day motion to the effect (and we quote) that "humans represent the most obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal species ever to inhabit the planet"? And claiming, moreover, that he positively "looked forward to the day when the inevitable asteroid slams into the earth and wipes us all out, thus giving nature the opportunity to start again"? Thought not. And you'd certainly think twice about giving a chap like that a chance to run the country, wouldn't you? Thought so.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,2080363,00.html

 

[EddieMec]

Why are they doing this, its pretty weird, are they bankrupt or something? surely they are beginning to become democratic

The cliche is that if Labour were a private company it would be bankrupt - but the cliche seems to be true. The party has admitted to £28m in loans but only £3.4m of income in donations, a combination which does not bode well for a party which has long fought against the power of capital against individual workers. Labour now needs money, from whatever source, not just to win office again but to pay its workers and keep the lights on. Yesterday's figures show that it is being kept afloat by trade unions - the organisations which founded the party more than a century ago and which have kept it in contention ever since. But that does not sit easily with the mass-membership, pro-business modern party that Tony Blair claimed to launch when he took office a decade ago.

Paying The Bills-Guardian Special

 

[guinnessdrinker]

15 undecided MPs remaining, McDonnell needs all of which to stand.

Dead in the water

it is now. he could not get enough nominations, according to radio 4

 

[october_lost]

Please can we stop flogging a dead horse?

The Labour Party is finished as vehicle for radical change, and has been for a hell of a long time.

Here here

 

[treelover]

no one saying it is, but the left in the uk in the last twenty years has also been a disaster.

'The Labour Party is finished as vehicle for radical change, and has been for a hell of a long time.'

 

[bluestreak]

More than dead when he uttered these words:

to be honest that would ahve made me vote for him.

anyway, this whole thing was a fail. even if anyone had been fool enough to believe the naive optimism or shameless propaganda of the nu-labour stooges on this thread it would have been a waste of money. it's going to be brown now, so more of the worst aspects of both thatcherite capitalism and nanny-state socialism without any of the advantages of either. here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.

 

[treelover]

oh fuck off Bluestreak, iI'm no nu labour stooge i despise them, but like JM i wanted the arguments and debates to be seen on tv, etc, and yes, if Jm could have ameliorated some the coming attacks on the vulnerable, that would have been enough for me, btw, didnt see you on the welfare reform protests.

 

[lewislewis]

So imagine your appeal for people to join the LP had actually worked, loads of people would've paid into the Labour Party (money they won't get back even if they leave) and then not even have been able to vote for John McDonnell. Sounds like some sort of scam run by central office.

 

[audiotech]

to be honest that would ahve made me vote for him.

nhilist.