The Gooner Forum

Labour has a new leader today. Thoughts on this? Personally I don't think he's as left wing as other candidates (Balls and Abbot) and he isn't as stained as MiliD was by the previous administration so I'll be interested to see how his leadership develops

AA23Northbank wrote:Labour has a new leader today. Thoughts on this? Personally I don't think he's as left wing as other candidates (Balls and Abbot) and he isn't as stained as MiliD was by the previous administration so I'll be interested to see how his leadership develops

looked a scared, cúnt on the telly, can't be any worst than Brown who was a bigger cúnt

CWU was egging us all on to vote for Ed Balls and then Ed Milliband. Surely, he can't be any worse than that prick Brown. But Labour need to do a lot if they want to get in power.

Labour are *word censored*, simples.

I just think we are in for a lot of strikes over the next few years.

I think Labour has just guaranteed another term in opposition along with this one, unless the coalition make a major, major fuck up sometime within this Parliament.

The last thing the new leader needed was to be seen as beholden to the unions. Fair or not, the fact he won the majority of their support - whilst not also winning the majority of Labour members' votes - will see him depicted exactly like that. Indeed, some of the media have already labelled him 'Red Ed'!!

QuartzGooner wrote:I just think we are in for a lot of strikes over the next few years.

Yeah, but with our profligate attack, I bet you we'll miss at least quadruple the amount of chances!!

Ed is the rite man at the moment to lead the labour party, but his real aim will be to re-unite the party and get them all pulling in the rite direction. The cuts in our ecomony havent made it down to the man on the street yet, but it will. And this in my opinion will spell the end of the lib dems. 70-80% of thier voters will go red in the next election. I think labour will be out of power for at most two terms.

Although not a big fan of Ed his went up massivly in my estimation during the whole climate change "holocaust" issue back in copenhagen last year.

Arsenal Till I Die wrote:Labour are c**ts, simples.

Simples

He's not in the union's pocket:

Just annouced Bob Crowe shadow transport minister

As a nuetral outsider looking in I have to say that Ed Miliband is one of the most uncharismatic men I've ever seen or heard. He looks like a primary school teacher!

donaldo wrote:He's not in the union's pocket:

Just annouced Bob Crowe shadow transport minister

Arthur Scargill - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Whatever turns Labour into a overt laughing stock rather then a covert laughing stock is good news to me.

For every 10 years of labour rule we spend 20 years rebuilding the country.

LDB wrote:Whatever turns Labour into a overt laughing stock rather then a covert laughing stock is good news to me.

For every 10 years of labour rule we spend 20 years rebuilding the country.

Even tho they did completely lose the plot after the first four decent years, they have done some good in the country. And the tories did destroy a lot of the North of England and created a lot of resentment and shit when they were last in power

AA23Northbank wrote:

LDB wrote:Whatever turns Labour into a overt laughing stock rather then a covert laughing stock is good news to me.

For every 10 years of labour rule we spend 20 years rebuilding the country.

Even tho they did completely lose the plot after the first four decent years, they have done some good in the country. And the tories did destroy a lot of the North of England and created a lot of resentment and shit when they were last in power

I agree they had 4 good years... because they left everything alone. Stuck to Tory spending plans, passed some token 'tabloid' legislation most of which is useless fudge and just spent the time wooing people. Clearly it worked.

As for your point about the norffff, the fate of many of those industries was sealed not by the reformist tory government in the 80's but by the long term consequences of the post-war consensus coupled with excessive union militancy.