Potential UK General Election Late 2016 / Early 2017

[ChrisDR68]

Corbyn loses vote of confidence 172-40.

[ChrisDR68]

I've always considered the greatest electoral asset the Conservatives have is the Labour Party and the fear of a Labour government.

If Labour manage to get themselves an attractive and electable leader there is a natural majority in this country that will vote them into power as Blair's three victories show. The British are essentially very moderately social democratic in outlook.

Labour though prefers to elect leaders based on which faction they belong to rather than how electable or popular in the country they are.

That's true of Foot, Kinnock, Miliband and Corbyn who together represent 4 of their last 5 general election defeats. The odd one out (Brown) was undone by the global financial crisis and it's aftermath.

Miliband's idea of moving electing their leader by one member one vote has put the party in a bind due to the surge of far leftists joining up. Those people will always vote for the most left wing candidate with the ultimate effect of keeping Labour out of power.

[ChrisDR68]

Apparently (and obviously take this with a truckload of salt as I've only heard this in the Spectator and Torygraph, and the idea just seems bizarre anyway) a movement is afoot, should Labour fail to dislodge Corbyn and Leadsom wins the Tory leadership, by 'moderate' Conservative and Labour MP's to form a new 'centrist', 'pro business' and pro European party. Obviously, if such a thing did happen it would likely be a hilarious disaster.

What's the point?

Why not just join the Liberal Democrats and rename them the Social and Liberal Democrats?

Oh wait...