Liz Kendall Appreciation Thread

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

IF Labour want to spend the next 5 years not really making up their mind about anything, then losing, then blaming it both on being too left and too right wing, before another leadership election exactly the same as this one happens.... then yeh, Kendalls yer gall.

Kendall is a candidate with a platform which won one third of elections of Labour. That's 3 out of 9. Or 3 out of 7 if you ignore Harold Wilson's toys out of pram early elections.

In other words, it's a better bet than the alternatives, which either haven't been tried (Cooper), failed (Burnham) or is a century too late (Corbyn)

You make the assumption that the world is the same as it was in those previous elections, it clearly isn't.

How much the world has changed in 3 months ... terrifying.

The politcal landscape HAS changed massively since 2010, let alone 1997. Hoping to succeed now by copying what was done then is foolishness to the nth degree.

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

Of course you would, she's a Tory dressed as a Labour candidate.

Says the person who is part of the Labour equivalent of the Tea Party

Saint Jezza as Leader, Diane Abbott as Shadow Chancellor. What could possibly go wrong?

She should quit Labour and set up a new Blairite coalition. At the end of the day, an SDP-like situation of 1983 is absolutely bound to happen in this parliament anyway, considering Corbyn is winning. Or Tristram Hunt's coup of Corbyn will succeed. One or the other.

Whatever happens, if she wants to win, she needs to quit. There needs to be a successor party of Labour that is further to the right than Corbyn and further to the left than Lib Dems. That's the only place that they can realistically win, and in the words of Tony Blair yesterday "get a transplant if you believe otherwise"