Who is the best placed to replace Brown to lead Labour through the recession?

lostinrates

I was wondering who all contributors, regardless of political affiliation, thought would be a good successer for Brown, not necessarily as leader of the country, but as leader of the Labour party. I'm particularly interested in who it is felt would have strong and believable (within the party and/or beyond) economic policies and thus is relevant to this board rather than general political discussion.

ultra10

Nick Griffin !!!

mewbie_2

Mr. !!!!!! Blobby.

edit: sorry LIR, I couldn't do a sensible answer, I am in melt down over this complete mess we're in.

Rochdale_Pioneers

Brown won't need a replacement this side of the election. There will be no more silly games - Milliband et al will all have to wait.

lostinrates

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Brown won't need a replacement this side of the election. There will be no more silly games - Milliband et al will all have to wait.

And after the election?

BTW: this is not meant to be an inflammatory thread, just a curious one

ad9898_3

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Brown won't need a replacement this side of the election. There will be no more silly games - Milliband et al will all have to wait.

Good lord, Milliband. ROTFL:rotfl::rotfl:.




To be honest, I'm happy for no replacement before the election, as nothing would change and Labour would be less likely to lose by the landslide that's on the cards.

treliac

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

Brown won't need a replacement this side of the election. There will be no more silly games - Milliband et al will all have to wait.

No, they don't dare make it any worse!! He'll be out pretty swiftly afterwards though.

Can't say I've detected any integrity lurking in any of them, so couldn't possibly say who could have the honour of taking on this mess.

Surely only a psychopath might want to try

MiserlyMartin

Nobody. They are all awful in Labour. Let him stay on until they lose the election. We need a change of party, not leader.

Cleaver

lostinrates wrote: »

I was wondering who all contributors, regardless of political affiliation, thought would be a good successer for Brown, not necessarily as leader of the country, but as leader of the Labour party. I'm particularly interested in who it is felt would have strong and believable (within the party and/or beyond) economic policies and thus is relevant to this board rather than general political discussion.

Good topic.

I don't know about leading the country, but I quite fancy Alan Johnson (in a political sense, rather than a Sarah Harding way). I'm ready to be shot down in flames, but I don't really think it's vitally important to have a certain person as PM. I think it's more about the culture of the party, the openess of the MPs, the courage to not just please the masses and actually stand by your convictions and live and die by them. I see a bit of that in Alan Johnson. I pretty much agree with everyone saying 'just get rid of labour'. Then I look at the alternatives and come to the conclusions that there aren't really any credible alternatives. The Torys and Libs are just as keen to somehow try and keep everyone happy as the Labour party in my opinion.

Apologies for those who read that paragraph expecting a weak pun of some sort, I had a serious 30 seconds for some reason. I think it might be because LIR was planning to be unfaithful with another 'more serious' economic forum, and I'm trying to keep her here with some heavyweight, f*cking 'A', economic discussion.

lostinrates

Cleaver wrote: »

Apologies for those who read that paragraph expecting a weak pun of some sort, I had a serious 30 seconds for some reason. I think it might be because LIR was planning to be unfaithful with another 'more serious' economic forum, and I'm trying to keep her here with some heavyweight, f*cking 'A', economic discussion.

My heart will always belong to MSE, I think,....which I think might make me a battered woman? I dunno...I wanna go, (in fact wanted to to just view for a while but can't get the cookies to delete and I'm logged on automatically and if I'm here I can't seem to bite my tongue..fingers?). But I like lots of you very much.

Thank you for the response. I'm going to think before responding.....makes a change

mewbie_2

Cleaver wrote: »

Apologies for those who read that paragraph expecting a weak pun of some sort...I'm trying to keep her here with some heavyweight, f*cking 'A', economic discussion.

Yeah, and also an opportunity to show up my Mr. Blobby remark for the 'weak pun' that it was.

I can 'do' serious, honest. Trouble is it gets me so wound up.