This Once Great Movement Of Ours

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Christian Wolmar, another person who has been desperate for a while to get in parliament, also probably in.

[CumbrianLefty]

He is about the same age as Corbyn, so perhaps unlikely.

[Pericles]

Amazing how a Tory MP talks and Labour talking points come out. "The Shadow Chancellor stands for exactly the same as the last Labour government", come on guys, how out of touch can you be?!
https://twitter.com/GullisJonathan/status/1791393845722137061

[CumbrianLefty]

Mind you, its Gullis. There have been more sentient boulders.

[Blair]

Thought the scale of vacancies was worth posting here alone; John Cryer the PLP chair is quitting, along with former Ministers like Kevin Brennan.

Virendra Sharma is also standing down.

Much like in 2010 & 2017 it will mean the NEC will be in a position to appoint in some rather safe seats...

[CumbrianLefty]

A few more Labour MP retirements today too.

Some at least were clearly meant to be announced in the summer and had to be brought forward because of the PM's "surprise" decision.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Missed this at the time:

For those interested, David Lammy has just dropped an essay on the next Labour government’s foreign policy, progressive clichéism.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom/case-progressive-realism-david-lammy?

“Progressive Realism”

 

[Wiswylfen]

Abdul Hai stabbed a child to death in an unprovoked, racist murder and now his good pal Sir Keith (who he worked with on a 'youth safety taskforce') wants to get him into Parliament.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Abdul Hai stabbed a child to death in an unprovoked, racist murder and now his good pal Sir Keith (who he worked with on a 'youth safety taskforce') wants to get him into Parliament.

He was aquitted of that charge

[Pres Mike]

Anyway, do we know how many of the rest of the Thirty Seven are still alive? There's obviously Kinnock himself, of course.

What is the 37?

[Wiswylfen]

Abdul Hai stabbed a child to death in an unprovoked, racist murder and now his good pal Sir Keith (who he worked with on a 'youth safety taskforce') wants to get him into Parliament.

He was aquitted of that charge

And?

[Ancestral Republican]

Abdul Hai stabbed a child to death in an unprovoked, racist murder and now his good pal Sir Keith (who he worked with on a 'youth safety taskforce') wants to get him into Parliament.

As long as he didn't support Corbyn in 2015 he's a good man in Keir's book.

[Pres Mike]

Presumably a woman, otherwise we would have had two non-heterosexual Prime Ministers in a row and three non-heterosexual major party leaders in the 1970 and the two 1974 general elections.

What?

[Hnv1]

Missed this at the time:

For those interested, David Lammy has just dropped an essay on the next Labour government’s foreign policy, progressive clichéism.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom/case-progressive-realism-david-lammy?

“Progressive Realism”

 

I actually found it as a decent approach all things considered. A strong scent of Blairism though, I wonder how that will go down.