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Ed Miliband wins Labour Leadership

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  • Aberdeenangarse
    Aberdeenangarse Posts: 1,262 Forumite
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    Malcolm. wrote: »
    I'm happy Balls

    That's nice, there does seem to be a fair amount of Balls on this forum :rotfl:
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
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    Oh Gawd..can someone please merge these postings? We know the boring little Prol "won" the ballot but in reality,it is of no consequence as he will never Govern. The best thing he can do is assist the current government to fix the mess the previous one left and also it would be nice if Milliband apologised on behalf of the Labour party.
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    its the one that we are going to be invited to vote about come next May

    and I shall be voting NO THANK YOU :)
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    C_Mababejive wrote: »
    Oh Gawd..can someone please merge these postings? We know the boring little Prol "won" the ballot but in reality,it is of no consequence as he will never Govern. The best thing he can do is assist the current government to fix the mess the previous one left and also it would be nice if Milliband apologised on behalf of the Labour party.

    or you can just not read this thread ;)
  • bristol_pilot
    bristol_pilot Posts: 2,235 Forumite
    Listening to the candidates for the leadership, almost all of them wanted to increase taxes for the working person and hand out more benefits to chavs so I think it makes little difference who won. Except that Ed is seen as the creature of the unions a bit more than the others, so the Tories now have a better chance of hanging on at the next election.
  • Malcolm.
    Malcolm. Posts: 1,079 Forumite
    GeneHunt wrote: »
    David won the 1st,2nd, and 3rd rounds - and LOST - what sort of stupid voting system is that!

    It's called the single transferable vote.

    No voting system is perfect.
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    bristol_pilot wrote: »
    Listening to the candidates for the leadership, almost all of them wanted to increase taxes for the working person and hand out more benefits to chavs so I think it makes little difference who won. Except that Ed is seen as the creature of the unions a bit more than the others, so the Tories now have a better chance of hanging on at the next election.

    I think it does make a difference. I don't think I can vote for Ed "I don't think we should rush paying down the deficit" but I could have voted for David "I'll keep to Alistair Darling's plans". I can't vote for more people paying higher rate tax either...
  • dazeruk
    dazeruk Posts: 313 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Ed Milliband lost amongst the Party MP's and the Labour Party members in every round.

    Only the Union vote got him through.

    Labour now unelectable by the way, with a swing to the left which will alienate the middle classes.

    Please get your facts right.

    It was Union members that voted. The Unions haven't had a block vote for a long time.
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    GeneHunt wrote: »
    David won the 1st,2nd, and 3rd rounds - and LOST - what sort of stupid voting system is that!

    Well if you've ever doubted that Labour was undemocratic...

    The very fact that an MP gets 600 votes is just indicative of Labour's "I know what's best for you" attitude.
  • GeneHunt_2
    GeneHunt_2 Posts: 286 Forumite
    Malcolm. wrote: »
    It's called the single transferable vote.

    No voting system is perfect.

    It's called dumb. I was quite happy to have David the winner .... since he ACTUALLY WAS:p
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