My vote - Yvette Cooper

My dream team 

I am waiting on my voting form or e-mail for the Labour leadership and I know who I will be voting for with total commitment looking to the future of a Labour government in 2020. It won’t be for Jeremy Corbyn because I am looking to the future not the past.

My first preference will be Yvette Cooper than Liz Kendall followed by Andy Burnham and I will not give a tick to Corbyn on my voting slip. I think it is time for a woman to lead the party, and with that in mind in the deputy leader vote I will go with Caroline Flint. Yes, I want to see an all-woman leadership of the party and I think a Cooper/Flint partnership covers most of the bases in terms of policies in the party and will attract a larger voting demographic.

I want the Labour party to have a good chance of Government come 2020 and if it is stuck in the past in some time warp of ideological self-indulgence claptrap the likelihood will be more years in opposition. Corbyn the likely winner is still battling battles from the 1970s, history. The left got some idea about Scotland and the SNP have shown some way to the promised land of socialism and pointing to the lefts gains in Europe mostly because of protest voting.

The SNP think they landed some socialism killer blow to the Labour party when there were many reasons for their stunning election victory. Many Labour supporters would not have voted SNP if Alex Salmond lead them into the election he was roundly hated by my Labour voting pals in Scotland who voted SNP in the end. We British love a protest but rarely when it comes to our vote. We can protest locally, but nationally, it’s not that easy which could be down to the first passed the post system.

People in the party go on about connecting with the core support when we should be looking at all the electorate and from what I have heard from Yvette Cooper, she has the policies. The next battlefield will be the National Assembly for Wales 2016, and the Scottish Parliament. In Wales, Labour may be the biggest party and in government but they need a working majority. It is all square in the Assembly with the opposition level with 50 seats each.

The biggest battle will be in Scotland that socialist heaven many Corbyn supporters look towards and want to bring to England and Wales forgetting that someone is sitting on that plot of land up north. We have to go to battle to regain Scotland and cloning the SNP will not readily work, as we need to have our own distinctive policies. Labour in Scotland only the other day voted in a new Scottish party leader Kezia Dugdale who after the massacre at the last general election north of the border will have an uphill battle to keep the seats they already got. Maybe that is why the SNP have been surprisingly quiet about the Labour leadership because their worst nightmare is a Corbyn victory.

Still I just hope the 600,000+ who can vote will see past this Corbyn love-in and see the aftermark of a 2020 election and see a Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Theresa May or George Osborne standing outside No. 10 Downing Street. If you are not scared enough, just think about to future of the Labour party. If you don’t I would like to thank you for another 5 years of misery.