Mailwatch(ed) Forum

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.

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.

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