UK General Discussion: 2017 and onwards, Mayhem

[Coldstream]

Probably going to be Anas Sarwar now since Findlay and Rowley have ruled themselves out. He's an interesting one, was once on the board of Progress but went out of his way to show his support for Corbyn in the 2017 election. Fun fact, his dad was the first Islamic MP elected and beat Nicola Sturgeon to do so in 1997.

[Coldstream]

No, they wouldn't be in the Labour Party if they did. Rowley is the only prominent Labour figure to ever flirt with supporting independence, and that was only briefly after the EU referendum.

[Coldstream]

Lansman’s power if often overstated - he is hated by a lot of grassroots Corbynites, ostensibly for his draconian control of Momentum - (though I think most people would agree the fact he’s a Jew and one who’s not hostile to Israel plays a part in that). He could become General Secretary owing to the sort of patronage he has with a lot of the CLP/PLP members of the NEC but it’s more likely that the Trade Unions would want to pick one of their own like Formby or Karie Murphy.

I can be reasonably confident (as a Labour member) that It won’t be Andrew Murray. In addition to the fact he’s only been a member for a few months since he left the Communist Party; the man is a self professed Stalinist and support of North Korea he only stays around as McCluskey’s enforcer he doesn’t have any actual support within the Party.