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Labour leadership contenders:
Jess Phillips
Lisa Nandy
Emily Thornberry
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Angela Rayner
Yvette Cooper
Keir Starmer
RLB is Corbyn's favoured successor. She's the only one I dismissed instantly when reading the list. I guess she'll win. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
Note: the names on the list are the ones the Guardian cited. It's not *my* list.
My own picks:
Jess Phillips (yes!), Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper. One as leader, all 3 in senior roles. And nobody associated with Corbyn anywhere in the Shadow Cabinet. His poison must go.
Added: seems like a perfect opportunity to choose a female leader. Not because they're a woman, but because *they'd make a really good leader*.
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"Downing Street is threatening the future of the BBC by insisting it is seriously considering decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee, while boycotting Radio 4’s Today programme over the broadcaster’s supposed anti-Tory bias." It's starting. theguardian.com/media/2019/dec…
"Abolishing the Department for International Development (DfID) and merging its aid functions into the Foreign Office, which has long been his ambition." It's starting.
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And it's only been 48 hours or so... Imagine 5 years of this wrecking!
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Labour need to choose a leader who can appeal to the country at large, including non-Labour voters whose support will be absolutely crucial if they are ever to win elections again.

Popular with the membership but not with the wider public is just Corbyn 2.0, no matter who it is.
"New Labour" won 3 elections, and yet Blair seems to be vilified by many Labour members now. (Setting aside the Iraq War issue, I mean, which was unconscionable.)

The country rejected every other flavour of Labour in the last half-century. We don't want your socialist paradise.
So Labour has to make up its mind: is it a protest group whose main function is to wring its hands louder & louder as the Tories dismantle the welfare state, and tear up worker protections and human rights?

Or does it want to govern?

Because as a spectator it achieves nothing.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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There is genuinely an important lesson here in the winning Tory strategy.

At the end of the day, political parties are there to win elections, not to retain an ideological purity. Encroach on enemy territory and pinch the ideas with broad appeal that you can also live with.
Imagine a party with Labour's social conscience, the LibDems' open approach to business and Europe, and the Greens' overarching environmental drive...

It might take a lot of hammering and sawing (and a fair amount of compromise) but it should be possible to make the pieces fit.
Instead of a party "for the many not the few" (or "for the few not the many" Tories) it would be a party for - whisper it guardedly - everyone.

No more pillorying or envying or trying to pull down the rich. Instead, harness their success in the form of fair (not punitive) taxes.
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Obligatory post General Election reflection thread ....

It's not stopped raining here in Bolton. It feels symbolic. The Tories got a majority. Corbyn is going. Our office is going. Our Labour staff are facing Christmas without jobs. Why?
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Labour spox on Corbyn's talks with May:

"We have had constructive exploratory discussions about how to break the Brexit deadlock.

"We have agreed a programme of work between our teams to explore the scope for agreement."

Meetings to continue tonight & tomorrow, I understand.
Politicians in the meetings:

Theresa May, David Lidington, Stephen Barclay, Julian Smith
Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long Bailey, Nick Brown

Tory and Labour teams are set to have a planning meeting tonight and technical discussions throughout tomorrow.
Downing St spokesperson says "talks were constructive, with both sides showing flexibility and a commitment to bring the current Brexit uncertainty to a close."

Each side has assembled negotiating teams for a full day of talks tomorrow, I understand. Sounds quite positive...
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Corbyn doesn’t mention Brexit in #PMQs. Understandable with compromise talks lined up for this afternoon. Focuses on Universal Credit, poverty instead. PM bracing herself from some furious Qs from the benches behind her, I suspect.
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Guys it's simple. Keir contradicts Jeremy, who is both contradicted and supported by Emily. Labour is the choose-you-own-adventure Brexit party.
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