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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204
    So the gender-balance-thing is going well.
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    SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited September 2015
    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.
    He sounds like he want's to bully Corbyn and be his bouncer at the same time.
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    1970s theme starting already - miners' strike, really Tom..?
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    glwglw Posts: 9,549
    Tom Watson talking absolute bollocks that is contradiction to his own political career.
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    CornishBlue said:

    It's Tom & Jerry!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

    Jerry prepares to drop an anvil on Tom.

    Tom prepares to smash Jerry with a frying pan.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Kendall to go sub-5%?
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    edited September 2015
    alex. said:

    kle4 said:

    Watson: 'Being prepared is not something I'm renowned for'.

    I don't really know Watson well. He's coming across alright, if trying for folksy.

    Well, you were probably expecting a strong West Brom accent...
    I think it's because the word that springs to mind when I hear his name is 'pugnacious', and of course in a victory speech he is bound to be more reasonable.

    Ok, 'Only Labour can speak for the real Britain' is a line of supreme bullshit though. That's the the partisan thinking of labour and Tories that leads to them doing shady things because anything is worth doing as only they can help Britain.
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    SlackbladderSlackbladder Posts: 9,704
    Ok got a meeting to go to. Dont have too much fun
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    CopperSulphateCopperSulphate Posts: 1,119
    GIN1138 said:

    rottenborough said:

    GIN1138 said:

    The top three faces of Labour between now and 2020 will be:

    Jezza Corbyn, Tom Watson and Sadiq Khan?????

    Words fail...

    Don't forget the new Shadow Chancellor.
    Dianne Abbott? Denis Skinner?
    The might go for a paper plate with a face painted on it.
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    Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 60,980
    Watson a step away from claiming Labour is the party of the Archangel Gabriel.
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    tlg86tlg86 Posts: 25,189
    Tom Watson: "The Tories don't play fair".
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    bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 21,858
    edited September 2015
    My two first choices elected.

    Interesting couple of years ahead.
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    alex.alex. Posts: 4,658
    "We've had a Tory Govt for too long"?

    4 months?
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    GIN1138 said:

    Watson still looking hacked off!

    I'd love to hear his views on all the hacking at the Mirror.
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    MarkHopkinsMarkHopkins Posts: 5,584
    Bored now.
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    John_MJohn_M Posts: 7,503
    Oh no! Won't someone think of the ovaries? Harriet will be tewwibly cwoss.
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    GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,814
    kle4 said:

    Watson: 'Being prepared is not something I'm renowned for'.

    I don't really know Watson well. He's coming across alright, if trying for folksy.

    He was a key member of El Gords "Forces From Hell" played a key part in forcing out Labour's most successful leader in history, is obsessed with alleged Westminster pedophile rings in the 1980's (especially if they involve Tories) and wants to shut down Rupert Murdoch's business interests in the UK....
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    CromwellCromwell Posts: 236
    Emily Thornberry was one of the ''morons '' who nominated Corbyn and gave the LP the chance to commit suicide
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    david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,419
    Watson looks like he could play the Prescott role well, if he had a Blair to contrast against.
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    RobbieBoxRobbieBox Posts: 28
    welshowl said:

    Miners, ASLEF, 1972.

    It's all about the future

    Bring back Arthur Scargill!
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    Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    I wonder if Watson's victory is made to look more overwhelming than it actually is, due to them not counting the final-round votes. I suspect the bulk of Flint's second preferences would've gone to Creasy, perhaps enough to reduce Watson's winning margin to something like 55-45.
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    Markets are evil now, according to Comrade Watson
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    PlatoSaysPlatoSays Posts: 46
    Weren't the miners in 1972 campaigning for £100pw ?

    Still it's only 43yrs ago.
    welshowl said:

    Miners, ASLEF, 1972.

    It's all about the future

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    CopperSulphateCopperSulphate Posts: 1,119
    "It's not a Conservative country"

    He might have to have a word with the voters about that.
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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204
    Danny565 said:

    I wonder if Watson's victory is made to look more overwhelming than it actually is, due to them not counting the final-round votes. I suspect the bulk of Flint's second preferences would've gone to Creasy, perhaps enough to reduce Watson's winning margin to something like 55-45.

    You don't need to count them under AV. Cue new thread?
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    SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    Mirror Politics ‏@MirrorPolitics 3m3 minutes ago
    Breaking: Sources confirm Jeremy Corbyn has 60% in first round #labourleadership http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/labour-leadership-result-live-updates-6428870 …
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    Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 49,269
    welshowl said:

    Miners, ASLEF, 1972.

    It's all about the future

    Monarchy, Empire, WW2

    It's all about the future. :lol:
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    CornishBlueCornishBlue Posts: 840
    alex. said:

    "We've had a Tory Govt for too long"?

    4 months?

    I suspect he's thinking of all governments since 1979... ;)
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    Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039
    Is Tom Watson trying to filibuster against Corbyn's election?
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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204
    Cromwell said:

    Emily Thornberry was one of the ''morons '' who nominated Corbyn and gave the LP the chance to commit suicide

    She's had a good year.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Watson going on forever.
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    PlatoSaysPlatoSays Posts: 46
    A very fair assessment.
    Speedy said:

    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.
    He sounds like he want's to bully Corbyn and be his bouncer at the same time.

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    stjohnstjohn Posts: 1,779
    Watson: "Tories, watch your backs!"
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    ThreeQuidderThreeQuidder Posts: 6,133
    "We will win in 2020". Ok...?
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    JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 38,988
    Speedy said:

    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.

    He may try, but he's been serially incompetent. He tries to be Mandelson, and ends up being caught out. He tries to be Grand Vizier, and ends up as Iznogoud.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIM5Kd-lK1s
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    Using a favourite expresssion of my grandpa, Labour "looks like it has lost its wages and found a sixpence..."
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    PlatoSaysPlatoSays Posts: 46
    Peter Brookes in The Times will be having a field day - he created Wallace & Gromit for Ed and Balls.
    MarqueeMark said:

    CornishBlue said:

    It's Tom & Jerry!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

    Jerry prepares to drop an anvil on Tom.

    Tom prepares to smash Jerry with a frying pan.
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    GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,814
    Speedy said:

    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.
    He sounds like he want's to bully Corbyn and be his bouncer at the same time.

    The Forces From Hell will be unleashed on Jezza in about 5...4...3...2...1...
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    alex.alex. Posts: 4,658
    Labour's slogan at the next election:

    "We are Labour".

    Not sure that'll work...
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    welshowlwelshowl Posts: 4,460
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    welshowl said:

    Miners, ASLEF, 1972.

    It's all about the future

    Monarchy, Empire, WW2

    It's all about the future. :lol:
    What???
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    SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    edited September 2015
    Tom Watson is not a rhetorical person, he ended his speech with a "watch your backs" warning to the Tories, yeap he will play the bouncer mob type.
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    Sweating a lot under those lights - the perils of politics.

    Fair for him to warn 'sniggering Tories', it is too soon to write off 2020, but let us not forget plenty of Labour commentators have been saying the same thing, Tom.
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    CromwellCromwell Posts: 236
    I predicted Cooper would win because she was the pragmatic and sensible choice ; I predicted that Tessa Jowell would win due to the same reasons , but the LP are neither pragmatic sensible or favourable for women
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    FluffyThoughtsFluffyThoughts Posts: 2,420
    Prediction:

    Between now and the Autumn statement 2016 George Osborne to announce the scrapping of the 45% tax-band.

    :cats-and-pidgeons:
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    TCPoliticalBettingTCPoliticalBetting Posts: 10,819
    Speedy said:

    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.
    He sounds like he want's to bully Corbyn and be his bouncer at the same time.

    Good. Watson has lousy political judgement.
    "lets shift Ed Balls resources to target Clegg"
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    And now for the mane (sic) event!
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    Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    Lol, this wont take long.
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    BlueberryBlueberry Posts: 408
    Slackbladder said:

    Its the tom and Jerry show

    There's even a role for Diane Abbott.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    TSE getting ready with that new thread he never thought he'd put up...
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    Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 49,269
    Votes 422,664
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    alex.alex. Posts: 4,658
    kle4 said:

    Sweating a lot under those lights - the perils of politics.

    Fair for him to warn 'sniggering Tories', it is too soon to write off 2020, but let us not forget plenty of Labour commentators have been saying the same thing, Tom.

    Yeah but they're all Tories
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Eletctorate - 554,272
    Votes - 426,664
    Spoilt - 207
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    GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,814
    #thisisit
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    Champagne corks flying in 3, 2, 1.....
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    FrankBoothFrankBooth Posts: 9,046
    CopperSulphate said:

    "It's not a Conservative country"

    He might have to have a word with the voters about that.

    Do you think a majority of people would call themselves Conservative?
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    MattWMattW Posts: 18,501
    edited September 2015
    Speedy said:

    I have the suspicion that Watson will really be the power behind the throne.
    He sounds like he want's to bully Corbyn and be his bouncer at the same time.

    Analogies beckon.

    Tom Watson is Oddjob?
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    TGOHFTGOHF Posts: 21,633
    Gillian Duffy has just texted me (seriously): "Vey sad will not vote Lab again" #labourleadership

    Sophie Ridge
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    TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 40,055
    Ivan White ‏@ivanwhite48 55 mins55 minutes ago
    BREAKING NEWS: Osborne tells Jeremy Corbyn that he won't be able to use the pound if he becomes Labour leader.
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    glwglw Posts: 9,549
    Blimey.
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    ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 4,971
    'When will this fearful slumber have an end?'
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    FrankBooth said:

    CopperSulphate said:

    "It's not a Conservative country"

    He might have to have a word with the voters about that.

    Do you think a majority of people would call themselves Conservative?
    Small c perhaps - most people are conservative, if not Conservative.
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    Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    Goodness.
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    GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,814
    Cromwell said:

    I predicted Cooper would win because she was the pragmatic and sensible choice ; I predicted that Tessa Jowell would win due to the same reasons , but the LP are neither pragmatic sensible or favourable for women

    When this is all over we're going to have to talk about Lab;s wimin problem...
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    RodCrosbyRodCrosby Posts: 7,737
    Beats Blair....
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Ivan White ‏@ivanwhite48 55 mins55 minutes ago
    BREAKING NEWS: Osborne tells Jeremy Corbyn that he won't be able to use the pound if he becomes Labour leader.

    Ha!
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287
    Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 12s12 seconds ago
    Update- Jeremy #Corbyn has been confirmed as #Labour's new leader after winning contest in first round of voting
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    Tissue_PriceTissue_Price Posts: 9,039
    Oh my. Kendall has got basically 0.
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    SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    Burhman clinches poor second.
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    JEOJEO Posts: 3,656
    Ten more years! Ten more years!
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    That's about 59% for Corbyn I think.
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    This is a landslide!
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    Cooper smiling too much.
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    Scrapheap_as_wasScrapheap_as_was Posts: 10,059
    pinch me
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    PlatoSaysPlatoSays Posts: 46
    :open_mouth:
    Blueberry said:

    Slackbladder said:

    Its the tom and Jerry show

    There's even a role for Diane Abbott.
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    hunchmanhunchman Posts: 2,591
    Final insult to liz kendall!
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    SpeedySpeedy Posts: 12,100
    It's official, Corbyn is hugged by Liz Kendall.
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    John_MJohn_M Posts: 7,503
    Corbyn walks it.
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    Canny guy, that Shadsy.....
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    FloaterFloater Posts: 14,195
    Feck me - they really did it - LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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    Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 49,269
    First round Leader:

    Corbyn 59.5%
    Burnham 19.0%
    Cooper 17.0%
    Kendall 4.5%
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    Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,327
    FUCK ME.
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    hunchmanhunchman Posts: 2,591
    edited September 2015
    Not even her total constituency vote at the GE. Oops!
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    rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 58,204
    Sickening display of false comradeship. Let the show trials begin.
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    RodCrosbyRodCrosby Posts: 7,737
    Kendall gets a stake through the heart...
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    dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,287
    Starts playing Brucker 7th Adagio.
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    Sub 60? Pathetic.
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    Danny565Danny565 Posts: 8,091
    4.5% Kendall.
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    AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Burnham: 80,262 (19.0%)
    Cooper: 71,928 (17.0%)
    Corbyn: 251,417 (59.5%)
    Kendall: 18,857 (4.5%)
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    RodCrosbyRodCrosby Posts: 7,737
    Kerching for me

    +£4k
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    SandpitSandpit Posts: 49,892
    The old man does own a suit after all.
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    CornishBlueCornishBlue Posts: 840
    Danny565 said:

    4.5% Kendall.

    She is so in the wrong party. I would like her in the Conservative & Unionist.
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    malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 41,905
    kle4 said:

    Cooper smiling too much.

    it is a grimace
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    bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 21,858
    Jezza 59.4% Kendall 4.5% very satisfying
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    ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 4,971
    dr_spyn said:

    Starts playing Brucker 7th Adagio.

    That's the only moment of good taste in the whole farrago.
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    MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 50,112
    Corbyn 40.5% ahead of second place Burnham.....

    No mandate to remove him until he loses an election.
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    GarethoftheVale2GarethoftheVale2 Posts: 1,996
    Well if nothing else, politics is about to get interesting!
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    GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 20,814
    So this is how Labour dies? With [not so] thunderous applause
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    david_herdsondavid_herdson Posts: 17,419
    They won't be doing it again then. Not before the election.
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    kle4kle4 Posts: 91,725
    Kendall only received a few more votes than she got in her parliamentary seat.
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    Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 55,327
    Labour truly are the stupid party.
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