Who should be the next leader?

SeduLOUs

I'm a bit biased with him being local but would be interested to see what Andy Burnham would do.

I work in general practice and hear his name being thrown around a lot at various NHS locality meetings. I don't know practically what he's actually done but he does seem to like to get stuck in with the local level NHS in Wigan/Leigh.

antrobus

SeduLOUs wrote: »

I'm a bit biased with him being local but would be interested to see what Andy Burnham would do.

I work in general practice and hear his name being thrown around a lot at various NHS locality meetings. I don't know practically what he's actually done but he does seem to like to get stuck in with the local level NHS in Wigan/Leigh.

Burnham was briefly the Health Secretary under Brown in 2009-2010, during which time he did things like, oh, privatise the odd hospital. Of course, after the Coalition took over, he then appeared to change his mind, and decided that privatisation was a really bad thing and should be stopped.:)

antrobus

antrobus wrote: »

Mind you, it's a bit of a disappointment that Chuka's pulled out. Just after I'd found a source quoting him as saying "No, I'm not a Blairite", and stating that he "prefers not to be described as a socialist".:)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/who-can-lead-labour-chuka-umunna-can-6555803.html

Perhaps this is what Chuka was worried about?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084677/Exposed-Chuck-Chuka-s-shady-secret-Labour-MP-belongs-members-den-300-cognac-locker-bar-named-rattled-leadership-contender.html

The revelation is that he is a member of some super-exclusive men's club with his own key and cognac locker.

Generali

My take on the candidates in order of how the bookies rate them:

So the choice is:

1. Burnham. Cambridge and then career politician
2. Cooper. Oxford and then career politician.!
3. Kendall. Oxford and then career NGO/politician.
4. Creagh. Oxford and them career politician with a short break in academia
5. Hunt. Cambridge, academic historian and then politician.

So of the five options, the closest to being a normal human being was a history professor for afew years. Dad was a politician. And he's the rank outsider.

Posted previously.

padington

Anyone know why Hunt is the rank outsider ? On the face of it he's clearly a solid statesman like contender that seemingly would be very electable from what I've seen.

michaels

padington wrote: »

Anyone know why Hunt is the rank outsider ? On the face of it he's clearly a solid statesman like contender that seemingly would be very electable from what I've seen.

Too obviously public school.

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

...So of the five options, the closest to being a normal human being was a history professor for afew years. Dad was a politician. And he's the rank outsider....

I would have said that 'Dad is a politician', on the grounds that he was created a life peer, and isn't dead yet.:)

padington wrote: »

Anyone know why Hunt is the rank outsider ? On the face of it he's clearly a solid statesman like contender that seemingly would be very electable from what I've seen.

Then perhaps you should put a few quid on him? Katie Hopkins (whom I understand passes for a journalist these days) thinks he's the one. On the grounds that he's the contender who most looks like Tony Blair.