Time for Labour to get a new leadership

Left of centre without being able to be presented as a communist would appeal to a silent majority in the country who, despite attempts at polarisation, are still broadly speaking centrist.

Replaced by someone capable of building a consensus and winning a majority in the House of Commons will suffice.

So you don't care if it's a liberal aka mini tory government? Gotcha.

Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn

Benn would win by a large majority in the country. He's a formidable politician and a very clever man.

The Momentum lot don't like him though, they see him (not quite correctly) as a right wing Blairite.

A general election in the Autumn looks highly likely. Johnson won't be able to meet the demands from the ERG wing of his party for a Hard Brexit, the Irish backstop will remain unreconcilable with the DUP and ERG and his airy predictions that he can resolve it will prove to be so much hot air. Therefore Boris will have to go to the country in October, before the crucial deadline (which wasn't crucial at all until Brexiteers said it was) of Oct 31st.

Labour could win this - but only with a new leader. Corbyn is hopelessly unlikely to win or even match his performance at the last election. Boris is a far better candidate and although he will have had a few months to demonstrate his substantial capacity for screwing up, he will still look an attractive option compared to Jezza.

Corbyn's heart is in the right place, but he isn't the right person for the job. Labour needs to come out squarely for a second referendum and Remain. They need to take a lead and actively try to persuade. The working class voters in the poorer areas were conned by Farage and the right wing media. It will need a strong, effective leader to challenge that and one who can bring together the middle class and working class Remainers.

There is a big opportunity because Farage's Brexit party are going to take Tory votes in many areas. But someone other than Corbyn is needed to make that opportunity happen.

Without that, we may as well throw in the towel now, because the future looks bleak under a Johnson majority government:

- a Hard Brexit
- the ending of the UK - Scotland will secede and possibly Wales
- permanent right wing Tory rule in England
- a race to the bottom economy on taxes
- harsh reductions in worker rights, marginalised employees, massive unemployment, lower wages and increased temporary and insecure work
- huge cuts to public services on a scale not seen since the 19th century

Do you want Labour to win an election though? If so, we are agreed.

I'm not calling for a Blairite solution by the way. There are other good candidates. John McDonnell would be better than Corbyn as leader. So would Keir Starmer.

Benn would win by a large majority in the country. He's a formidable politician and a very clever man.

The Momentum lot don't like him though, they see him (not quite correctly) as a right wing Blairite.

Yes, all the more so given the rightward lurch of the Tory Party to try to out-Right the Brexit Party.

Someone like Yvette Cooper or Keir Starmer would be able to win centrists over and create policies that genuinely address the legacy of the financial crisis of 2008 and its lasting effect on the marginalised coastal and rustbelt areas.

As someone who's always supported Conservatives. Our entire party and structure is a mess at the moment, and any strong candidate from the Labour party could easily win a GE and any other elections but Corbyn has somehow managed to destroy the Labour party and split its voters. I'm really surprised he's still there.

I think we need someone on the left, but who's younger, a better speaker and has no baggage. Unfortunately I don't see any such candidates.

As much as it pains me to say it, I think you're right. I voted for Corbyn during the leadership contest because I believe he genuinely cares about the working-classes - prepared to standup to 40 years of neo-liberal hardship that has plagued the lives of millions & millions up and down this country. But I don't think the man can win an election. We need strong opposition now more than ever - sadly JC just lacks the charisma & comes with too much baggage (a great deal of which unwarranted sadly) to put up a good fight. The anti-Semitism controversy is being very well spun by the media & coined with a disgruntled PLP, this is the weakest and most disunited Labour party I've seen in years.

Who would you like to see as the next leader?

Milne and the others around Corbyn prevent anyone else from coming forwards who isn't properly (as they see it) attuned to the International Socialist propositions as defined in London Labour Briefing documents of the early 1970s. Struggle on in Comrade Trotskys footsteps!

No keep corbyn in, its nice to see the leftist expose their true colours as actual communists and hardcore socialists, plus when the do get in power again it will be just another reminder of why we cannot let leftists have any real power within government