Liz Kendall Appreciation Thread

Discuss.

Yay Liz.

I was at the Camberwell CLP last week, we had a vote for which candidate the branch would support. 96 people turned up (the most I've ever seen at a CLP). 50 votes for Liz, 35 for Corbachev.

Cant stand her. She panders yo ukip trolls and panders to get votes

By 'modern' you mean right wing? I take it.
The right love to do that, take nasty concepts and give to them nice fluffy words such as 'reforming' or 'modernising'.

No more Tory lites. She's far to the right of even where Blair was.

She'll split the party just like corbyn would.


The best bet for labour out of the current candidates is Andy Burnham. In the centre of the party so will be able to appeal to both sides and keep the party together.
He's not going to win labour the enzyme general election but I think he could well get a few seats back and get labour close in some of the marginals and then allow someone with a bit more of a 'wow' factor like Jarvis or Umunna to take over in 2025.

The current job at hand for a labour leader is one more akin to Neil kinnock then tony Blair - just get the party back in contention for 2025. That's partly why umunna and Jarvis backed out.

Burnham is similar to milliband in terms of policy but he's got more personal appeal. More charismatic, better looking and a better orator. That should be enough to get back some of the voters who were put off by ed milliband.

If labour can get to within 50-60 seats of the Tories after the next election and knock away their majority - it will have been realistically a success.

I like her. She's very attractive and dynamic, obviously far too modern for the Labour party.

If Liz Kendall gets it Labour will at least be closer to where the electorate are. That is important because that is who votes. I mean I know Labour's funding may come from the unions but they will, at some point, have to win over the public. Sadly for Labour they haven't realised the public nowdays are quite right on a few key issues and prefer to allign themselves with trade unions.

Since you mentioned attractive I don't know if it is just me but a Liz Kendall leader, Stella Creasy deputy would be the most aesthetically pleasing result. The Conservatives have only Theresa May high up. They wouldn't win that competition. If they promoted Penny Morduant sharpish though then the competition would be a hotly debated one.

I don't understand the Left's ideological hatred of Blairism, which won them 3 elections. Liz Kendall is quite clearly the only candidate who can claw back Tory voters who felt the Tories were the more fiscally responsible party, without whom Labour will not win another election. No other candidate appeals to the centre ground in the way that she does.

And lost them the last two...

Discuss.

And lost them the last two...

Miliband was not a Blairite.

Not exactly, but the Labour party has followed the same basic ideology as they have done since Blair - Blair moved them to the centre right, where they remain to this day.

Are you living in July 2010? It's July 2015.

Nevertheless, the political landscape has not changed since 2010.