[Tubby Isaacs]

Jez has popped up to criticise the lack of policy debate around the leadership question. Possibly because the government already has policies and got elected on the back of a manifesto which it is mostly fulfilling. Obviously some things will change, but to think that a selectorate of Labour members get to make radical changes to that is anathema to me, and I suspect to the markets.

It’s a government not the school politics society. Get on with it.

[Oboogie]

Burnham has no democratic mandate to diverge from the manifesto. If he doesn't want to deliver that manifesto, he needs to call an early election and get his own mandate.

[Watchman]

I’ve just renewed my membership; have I done the right thing ?

[mattomac]

I’ve just renewed my membership; have I done the right thing ?

I’m close to leaving

[Andy McDandy]

I'm also surprised by how much the Left have bought into the inevitability of Faragism in 2029. More people really don't like it than do.

Those of us of a certain age may recall "Mikey Mikey", a poster on the old site who was about as stereotypical a student union SWPer as you could imagine. A Jezzite of course. However, he broke off his chanting of the gospel according to St Jeremy when the Mango Mussolini was elected for the first time. The opportunity to sneer at all us optimistic centrists with our naive faith in the basic decency of people, was too hard to resist.

There's something deeply nihilistic about any political extreme. Commonly "hopefully it gets so bad that they're begging us to take over, because we're the only ones with a plan". After all, it worked for Lenin.

[Boiler]

If I could buy a vote in any leadership election I would, just to vote for Starmer. But I won't get one from my Union which is strictly politically neutral as it's a subsidiary of Prospect.

But the way Labour is heading, I'll not be rejoining any time soon.