David Miliband is the most popular choice as next Labour leader, among members of the public who knew who they would choose, a new poll shows.
A survey by BMG Research found that while more than a third of people did not know who to pick (36 per cent), of those who did, 10 per cent would opt for the elder Miliband brother to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.
Okay, let’s be clear here, I don’t like him, just as I don’t like his brother. However, I think there is a point here. The public outside of the bubble that is the hard-left and Momentum (but I repeat myself) are disinclined towards the seventies-style socialism being proposed by Corbyn and McDonnell, much as they were opposed to the same thing being espoused by Michael Foot thirty-odd years ago. Thirty-odd years ago, of course, there was a clear alternative whereas today the alternative is pretty much more of the same under a blue flag.
The British electorate is broadly centrist and Miliband is a centre left politician. So, yes, this poll outcome resonates. I also suspect that had his brother not won that leadership election, Labour would have fared better in the subsequent general election than they did.
I wouldn’t vote for him, though. I would, however, be slightly less alarmed by a Miliband led government than a Corbyn led one. That is not an endorsement, by the way.
If the answer is David Miliband, you know it is a crap question. The bloke is A grade, vomit inducing, I really cannot abide the scumbag. He’d enact draconian green measures because he’s a fervent global warming alarmist.
Yup. Just less awful than Corbyn.
You’d hope that Corbyn is unelectable, Miliband may not be.
Worryingly, given the Conservatives’ recent performance, I no longer think that Corbyn is unelectable. Frightening, eh? So, given that, I look upon Miliband as a slightly less horrifying outcome.
If, as looks increasingly likely and will hardly surprise anyone, the tories betray the country over Brexit, then in some ways it would be quite fitting to elect Corbyn and his goons.
The complete destruction of the tory party, and the plundering of those same tory’s wealth to pay for the lunacy of the subsequent 5 years? poetic justice.
No i don’t want to see a Corbyn govt, but he holds less fears for those of us of the genuine working class, the ones who actually go out to work, who always get crapped on from a great height whichever of the identikit tory/labour rabble holds the keys to number 10, mainly cos we’ve got sod all to lose anyway.
It’s the tory billionaires and their media mouthpieces who are terrified of Corbyn, so the more he seems a genuine threat to their comfy status quo, the more they might be forced into Brexit.
Whoever gets in, most working class people will have to work right till the pension age and then have to do something after retirement to top up the gruel rations, their pension raided or stolen without a by your leave, and don’t be surprised when, Cyprus style, they start dipping into your piggy bank if you were foolish enough to save a few quid for a rainy day.
A pox on all their mansions.
There is an argument that says those who want Corbyn should get him good and hard.
I’d be worried for Britain’s Jewish population.
No. It isn’t. (The Tory Billionaires). Why would you assume Tories are rich? We care just as much about people as socialists. We just believe there’s a better way to generate wealth for all.
The people scared of a Corbin government are hard working people who see McDonnell’s proposals to lower the tax free allowance back to 4K; who see the erosion of whatever small savings they have, and those above the age of 50 who know that Corbin and the hard left only care about their hordes of new 16-year old voters and those ‘working’ in the third sector.
Oh and and J3wish people. At my son’s school, they’ve been slowly leaving the country, for 2 years now. I never thought id see the days of a suitcase ready-packed in the hall again.
Whatever Corbin offers, it will impoverish us all ultimately.
Suspend elections, follow Cowperthwatist reforms. Leave to stew for few decades with liberty but tough law and order.
Sorted. Release with direct democracy under prosperity with a stern warning if they are not responsible.
I wonder how many Labour supporters actually know who he is?
That 10% of the two thirds that opted for Miliband Snr, is only around 6% of the group as a whole. 90%+ probably have no clue who/what he is. Of course that is no disqualification, as the same could have been said of the Corbyn person.
It’s the old “slap a Labour rosette on a pig” thing. Just because you can remember the pigs name doesn’t add any real value to it.
The problem with all of this of course is that Labour now has 300,000 revolutionary milennials in it’s membership, who would rather vote for Paul Mason…