And now the next kerfuffle - the Labour Leadership

[Montmorency]

Reserving comment for only the contents of this article:

“We live in the most dangerous moment in a generation,” the mailer says in bold white font at the bottom. “Who is ready to lead us?”
[...]
“Joe Biden: Strong, Steady Leadership.”

Sounds familiar.

Edit: OK, you know what? I should have searched before I posted, because it's no mere resemblance.

Joe Biden’s first Iowa television ad this summer flashed four quick photos of the former vice president with Barack Obama, along with a tagline about as far as possible from their old “hope and change” rallying cry.

“Strong, steady, stable leadership,” intoned a gruff narrator.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Would a mod like to weigh in on whether or not this is Spam?

[Beskar]

Would a mod like to weigh in on whether or not this is Spam?

I would say it was posted in the wrong topic than spam. Probably meant for the Democrat one.

[Montmorency]

I would say it was posted in the wrong topic than spam. Probably meant for the Democrat one.

It's at least as pertinent to UK politics as it is to US politics.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Labour sees a 20% surge in membership off the back of the election race: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51245211

I wonder if this is people returning because Corbyn is on the way out, whether its people wanting to vote in another Socialist or people wanting to wrest the party back from the Hard Left.

we shall see.

[edyzmedieval]

With regards to the post - it's somewhere along the line between wrong post and correct post. There are parallels to be drawn between the two political systems but not so much in this case.

[edyzmedieval]

Labour sees a 20% surge in membership off the back of the election race: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51245211

I wonder if this is people returning because Corbyn is on the way out, whether its people wanting to vote in another Socialist or people wanting to wrest the party back from the Hard Left.

we shall see.

I read a well balanced article recently in GQ UK about this - https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politi...neral-election

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

With regards to the post - it's somewhere along the line between wrong post and correct post. There are parallels to be drawn between the two political systems but not so much in this case.

I don't see how a Democrat adopting the rhetoric of a failed Conservative Prime Minister has anything to do with the Labour Leadership election. This is not a "general" UK politics thread and most of us agreed a few years ago that those "mega-threads" aren't really very useful - they're just a mess.

I read a well balanced article recently in GQ UK about this - https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politi...neral-election

So, I read that entire article. The author seems extremely harsh on both sides, and it's worth noting that they reduce both to being essentially morally bankrupt husks. It reads very much like a "call to action" for the moderate Left and centre-Left.

Speaking of Corbyn's supporters, it looks like Len McClusky is trying to have his cake and eat it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51255529

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr McCluskey said: "I'm absolutely convinced that there were those individuals who opposed Jeremy Corbyn's election right from the beginning, used the anti-Semitism issue - which I think is quite despicable that they did this on such an important subject - to undermine Corbyn, there's no doubt about that."

But he said that the party had "never handled the anti-Semitism issue correctly", adding: "We should have done things quicker."

Now that he's in Power Boris Johnson is going to be rather difficult to remove - he's not unpopular, he's not stupid and he's not a bad political campaigner. None of which makes him necessarily the right person to by Prime Minister, though I think he probably was the right person to handle Brexit. Kier Stammer is the centrist candidate with the best chance of beating Johnson, but he's a bit boring and therefore difficult o differentiate from, well, anything else.