Labour leadership battle

Runners and Riders

It has been a while since I did politics on here and being the Labour party are shooting themselves in the foot daily I thought it was time to throw in my 10 penneth worth.

I am a strange bed fellow for the Labour Party as I am no fan of the unions I strongly believe in one member one vote not some bloke waving a card around with a million votes. Has for lefties! I believe in the centre ground so in today’s Labour Party that makes me a Blairite.

 

I am greatly interested in the leaders’ battle and have watched those I can with Jeremy Corbyn looking to have all the momentum. Everyone except for Corbyn supporters are suggesting the party will head into the abyss under his leadership. I would tend to agree with their statements even with 5 years to the next election.

 

There are a few of Corbyn’s policies that I like the renationalisation of the railways is one of my favourites although it will be costly and some of his welfare plans. They would be popular but the bad stuff outweighs the good. They the left seem to be looking toward the utopia that is Scotland for nourishment after the SNP wiped Labour out because they offered a left-wing alternative to austerity. There were many other issues floating around in Scotland including the talk of a Labour/SNP coalition and the media and press love-in with Nicola Sturgeon even negative reporting worked for her.

 

I like the idea of taxing the rich but a fair amount would be 50% not the stupid talk of 75%. Scrap the bomb, scrap the royals are standard left of party policies that will always be sprouted and another two policies I do not follow.

 

As of the other three, they are suffering because of up swell of support for Corbyn whose supporters seem to outnumber the others at most of these Labour leadership hustings. Andy Burnham according to a recent poll is in a distant second with the ladies Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall bringing up the rear. So who will be getting my vote? My centre position should have me in the Kendell camp and unless something drastic happens to vitalise her campaign my vote is going elsewhere.

 

I believe that if the Labour Party is a progressive party then it is about time we had a woman leader so I will be voting for Yvette Cooper. We have gone left before and lost, we took the centre ground a won but some of those in the party would have rather we lost, all lead by man so it’s time to break the mould. I have been very impress with Harriet Harman who is temporary leader of the party I wish she had decided to run for the leadership.