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Which sums up how politically naive Corbyn was. Pidcock was elected in 2017. How could they have expected anyone to be fit to being the leader of the opposition and perspective PM after 2 years of being an MP.

I wasn’t inspired by either of Burgeon, Pidcock nor RLB. Angela Rayner, in my view, was the best candidate from the ‘left’ of the party. But, I think a Starmer and Rayner partnership is quite good. At least, as good as things can be at this stage!

The priority for an opposition is forming a viable alternative to the current government. If he’s receiving criticism for saying ‘zero tolerance on AS’, then an important frontbencher is accused of RT’ing an ‘AS conspiracy’ and this creates a story, it doesn’t reflect well on Starmer, does it...

RLB refuses to delete the tweet and apologise. In fact, trying to justify herself was possibly the worst thing to do there. As a leader, you’d be foolish not to get rid of her in that circumstance. Starmer gave her way out, and RLB didn’t want to, which is fine. Also, the people who voted for...

Blue Labour does reject the Blairist assumptions of the free market. Combining a generally more ‘left wing’ economic platform with conservative social policies. Which frankly, seems to be the basis of a populist ticket. Broadly speaking, I’m a fan of nationalising some things (Royal Mail...

Worked in security for 3-4 years. Seen and been involved in some grizzly situations (95%+ my career was uneventful). People have restrained people similarly to that who weren’t trained in Krav Maga. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that anyone who is trained properly, could do something like...

That’s a good question, and honestly, I’m doing a bit of soul searching atm, politically. Firstly, the key battle grounds of the next election is not clear. It’s too early in the election cycle for policies. A few things, in my view, the Labour Party needs to address (in no particular order)...

They were concerned because a lot of Labour voters (at the time) were pro-independence and the party was worried about losing votes to the SNP. Yet, it tried to appease both sides, yet offering nothing to either. Leaving a vacuum for the Tories to fill in Labours place. Hindsight is 2020...

Labour is also being pushed in Wales too. Frankly, the outlook is bleak and the next election probably make or break for the party. It’s dominance looks to have evaporated for good, but there’s no reason the party cannot work back up to 15-30 Scottish seats. If it gets its act together. At the...

For future politics students, the 2010s will be regarded as a failure for the Labour Party to come to grips with the 2 pertinent referendum issues of the decade. It’s no coincidence that the ambiguity on Scottish independence followed a wipe out in Scotland. It’s no coincidence that Labour’s...

Paul Mason estismated Labour lost about 1.1m votes to ‘Remain’ parties and about 900k votes to ‘Leave’ parties. The nature of our electoral system was going to disproportionately impact Labour in these Brexit seats, which leads me onto my next point. In polls ran by Sir John Curtice, to...

Exactly, and in the eyes of the electorate, Corbyn failed just about every leadership test. I was getting fed up with his dithering on Brexit, but it was disheartening when ‘we’ seemingly kept scoring own goals every other week.

I don’t really see how keeping RLB fits this well? Brexit was a pertinent issue, but the Red Wall is generally socially conservative too. In the minds of voters, RLB represents a continuation of Corbyn. The Red Wall very decisively rejected that offering. There are a lot of factors contributing...

I don’t really see how this relates to ‘winning back’ the ‘Red Wall’. Corbyn’s perceived inability to address the issue of antisemitism damaged his credibility beyond Jewish voters. A ComRes poll showed that 55% of those polled felt that it showed his inability to address antisemitism showed he...

Power is a game, and it was a very good power move. Sends a strong message on Labour dealing with anti-semifinals, and ‘disgraces’ a potential contender to his role down the line. As a few people have alluded, appearances matter in politics. Something Corbyn never quite grasped (best case) or...

I was in France during the Euros, and that song is still perhaps my fondest football song that is non-CCFC related. Also have great affinity for Mo Salah ‘Egyptian King’...

Did this happen on your football manager save, too?

£4m on Will Grigg too... *winces*

That would be the most convoluted way of getting a Primark handbag to date...

I agree with you, some of those decisions were shambolic and that it wasn’t necessary inevitable we going to relegated. After all, we were relegated 4 years after they took over. I’m not going to indulge in an alternate timeline, but my point remains clear: before SISU, it was a shit show and...