Corbyn, an MP from London’s Islington North, was originally labeled a no-hoper and only barely gathered the minimum number of endorsements from fellow MPs to run for party leadership.
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He said having Corbyn as leader would be ‘like going back to Star Trek or something. “I think his politics are wrong for Labour and for the country”.
The findings electrified what had been widely dismissed as a tiresome and lacklustre contest, and, with alarm spreading through the Labour establishment, senior figures started feuding publicly about the implications of the Corbyn surge.
To make matters worse for the official Opposition, the Scottish Nationalists with their full-throated anti-austerity cry, is goading Labour, saying that not only is the SNP now the true party of social democracy but also it has become the “real opposition” to the cuts-obsessed Tory Government.
“After the 1979 election the Labour Party persuaded itself of something absolutely extraordinary”, Mr Blair said.
Kendall said that a Corbyn victory “would be a disaster” for Labour.
He doesn’t speak in soundbites, he doesn’t speak to people as a politician, he speaks to them as another person, and that is an appeal that many are failing to notice.
He urged the Labour Party to “stop the abuse” and “get back to policy“. That he is leading the contest reiterates just how traumatised and mad many Labour members are following their defeat in May. His mad attack on Corbyn could backfire. Those who had nominated Mr Corbyn were “morons”, he said.
Three out of four of the contenders also have a negative net rating on prime ministerial credentials. I grew up in precisely the kind of area that we need to win back to be in Government again, just outside Watford.
“To suggest that somebody should have a transplant if they are making decisions by the heart is totally unacceptable”.
Nicknamed “Comrade Corbyn” by the press, the 66-year-old backbench lawmaker, who usually wears a worn beige jacket and slacks, opposes austerity measures, was a vocal campaigner against the Iraq war and wants to scrap Britain’s nuclear weapons.
Burnham, Cooper and Kendall are all experienced and competent, but may lack the dynamism Labour needs. “It’s nonsense, ‘ says one Burnham source”. Cooper’s net score is -12, Kendall’s -14 and Corbyn’s -19.
Mr Corbyn secured 36 nominations, one more than was needed to qualify for the contest.
Prescott said: “Who the heck is John McTernan? He has no authority”. Harman ensured that Labour MPs were ordered to abstain on the main vote.
Leadership candidates often have a low public profile.
After its second-straight election defeat in May and the resignation of Ed Miliband as leader, the party is now debating its future, with Corbyn, 66, the standard-bearer for a return to the party’s pre-Blair values.
“As leader of the Labour party I’ll want to negotiate a big new deal to get more powers to the city region”.
Of course all this confusion amongst the Labour party over which way to go politically can only be to the satisfaction of David Cameron, George Osborne and the parliamentary Conservative party.
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“If not goodness knows what position we will be in after the votes are counted”, he told Radio 4’s World at One.
