Oh, goody goody, a Labour Deputy Leadership Election. There is nothing quite like one of those if, as you should, you like your politics with proper venom. Let the games begin.
If the Left could not get a candidate onto the ballot paper, then it would manifestly be finished in the Parliamentary Labour Party, but of course we already knew that.
If anyone other than the most left-wing candidate who had made it failed to win, then all remaining hopes or fears about the Labour membership and the unions would also be dispelled.
Now, how about Angela Rayner's resignation statement to the House of Commons? We also continue to await Louise Haigh's. Such fun.
Rayner was probably brought down because she would have beaten Streeting in a leadership contest. Streeting needs to stand unopposed because no one outside Westminster likes him. He couldn't oust Starmer while Rayner was in play. Starmer is now far more vulnerable.
ReplyDeleteWes Streeting would uphold the most sacred article of the unwritten Constitution, that no male product of a mixed secondary school must ever become Prime Minister. Look it up. That has never happened.
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