New Statesman Labour Leadership Debate Part 1

[afolksinger]

I remember this line up went on question time in the run up to a new labour leadership contest and not one of them mentioned immigration. How out of touch are the left with the general public? alot.

[lazytown222]

@JoeBLOG5 I cried in Ed Miliband's opening statement huhuhuhu and also to Andy Burnham's

[lazytown222]

Ed Miliband, I really admire your effort and everything .... I PLAY VIOLIN BECAUSE OF YOU

[evertonjf08]

and that means back to the 80s !!! is that what we want ? NO! so its simple ! Vote labour ;p.... okay ill leave it at that xD i think i might of waffled on a bit haha.

[evertonjf08]

so what could we have done ? left the banks to go down ? leave everyone to suffer? nooo they bailed out the banks to save all our savings ! so i we didnt have to bail out the banks we wouldnt be needing to pay back all this debt. So what would the torys have done ? just leave it like they said we should do ? and if they were in power at the time and let the banks fall like they said they were doing we would be in a DEPRETION right now. Just think bout this if you dont vote labour that means tory

[evertonjf08]

torys come out with we 'failed' britian' !!! can iask how ? we improved the police, schools, hospitals, boosted up employment ! got back the british industries which were destroyed in the 80s ! i think we forget about all the good labour has done for us! (minimum wage, best 'affordable' health care system in the world etc the list goes on and on and on.... ) can i ask how it was 'labours legacy' to leave this country in debt ? we only got into this massive debt hol for bailing out the banks!

[rushkagon]

Diane Abbot wouldnt make the leadership coz she speaks too many truths especially about the war on terror scam.

The British people will vote either Millibland brother because they have given up on truth and prefer lies instead. To be a successful politician you need to be a good LIAR. Tony BLIAR set the standard remember and both Milliblands are nothing more than Blairites.

They are good LIARS and thats what the British people want God bless em!

[MrChriswoodsuk]

andy for leader!

[Runrome]

and were supposed to be a democracy selected questions ?

[flyingtissues]

Why is Nick Clegg second from the left? Sorry I mean David Cameron, sorry I mean Tony Blair.

[tezmellez]

@josiahBLOGS

lol your comment got marked for spam. Someone doesn't like what you say.

[josiahBLOGS]

@tezmellez Think yours might have done as well LOL!

[tezmellez]

@josiahBLOGS

Seems like some angry labour supporter hates free speech lol.

[josiahBLOGS]

Them politicking Miliband bros play a familial game 'gainst protagonists Balls and Abbott who are better suited 2 heading our Labour Party. Them bruvs are cahooted 2 git either one elected. & there’s their Mother (Muv) pretendin’ to play stum 4 either? DOH!...

[BrainDeadBritain]

After voting Labour from 1983 to 2000 I shall never vote for this bunch of fascists again.

None of the mainstream parties - including Labour - have anything in common with REAL people like me.

None of you represent us, you only represent the corporations, banks, oligarchs i.e. the ruling elite.

[andresviveros]

@BrainDeadBritain labour was good party, but am sorry even our government has given away our sovereignty. There is no point of a government here of they cant decide the laws of their own country and be accountable for them.

[evertonjf08]

@BrainDeadBritain well... with people like you in this country god help us all !! im really dissapointed becuase with people like you in the country, no 'normal' person will benefit because... lets face it the tory's control the media, majority of the news papers (thank god for the dailly mirror ;) ) i mean labour Are the losest youll get to a good government who have common sense and can connent with 'normal people' tbh labours has done alot for us. We just focs on that bad 10% they did ;(

[BrainDeadBritain]

@evertonjf08 If you call DNA swabbing of innocent people, CCTV cameras everywhere, immigration overload, man-hating fascists like Harlot Harperson and her anti-men ideas, selling out british workers to foreign ones, wars in Iraq/Afghanistan (only minor wars, eh?) etc...etc...etc......

I voted Labour all my life up to 2001. I USED to vote Labour. Now I vote for NO ONE.

[evertonjf08]

@BrainDeadBritain the thing about the DNA is good becuase actually i know some one who got raped and because some one was on the register they got caught so i dont know what your arguement is their. there isnt a immigration overload (dont listen to the sun and dailly mail) but i admit that there is alot of illegal imigrants over here!! and how can illegal imigrants sue us and use our courts when their illegally here in the first place ? also i thought iraq/afghanistan is the right desicion

[evertonjf08]

@BrainDeadBritain also we dont sell out our own british workers thats all to do with the e.u and we cant really have an arguement against that becuase we were out ote by other e.u countries and im a fan of the e.u but... we should leave the e.u at it is. TURKEY mus NOT be able to join the e.u.. then well have massers of immigrants. CCTV cameras are a good film if their used in the right way, which they are btw ;)... also its upto companies about who they employ and unions to have a say soo...

[evertonjf08]

@BrainDeadBritain cant really fault labour their... also my arguement to u was if you dont vote labour then who will get into power ? who would you rather be in power? atleist their is a party out their.. yes labour... labour are the ones who saved us from the 80s and saved us from depresion! gordon brown ftw .. unlucky the media tried everything they could to get him out ;( was just saying who else is their? and labours probabley the right party the govern britian ;)

[possession2]

What are the labour achievements? Is it the fact that we have no say who comes into the country from inside of the EU? Or is it Uk born muslims blowing there self and others up on London streets?Or maybe it's haveing Sharia courts in the Uk? Or maybe it's the wonderfull record on the economy? Or is it changing the whole face of britain in a few short years?

And Ed Bullshiter said Labour is about solidarity, yeah and i love muslims.

[AndrewTally]

@possession2 What are you talking about, explain how Islamic extremists have anything to do with Labour, you are clearly just another right wing idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. The Minimum wage, Sure Start children centres, EMA, huge NHS improvements to name a few. Diane for leader!

[possession2]

@AndrewTally Where was all the extremists before labour? It's because of the wars, the wars that labour took us into. Huge NHS improvements that we are now all paying for, it's easy to chuck other peoples money at things. Under labour knife crime was up, teen pregnancy was up, we gave away say on our own borders under labour, we had one of the biggest budget deficits in the world under labour. They have nearly brought this country to it's knees, and if that big fat dumb black bitch gets to power

[AndrewTally]

I'm voting for Ed Balls or Diane Abbott... can't decide who to give my first preference to.

[MissPressPlay]

@AndrewTally Diane Abbott is good with her speeches and has A LOT of good points, however, i find her completely unlikeable as a person - i find her reactions and constant eye-rolling when other candidates, her fellow party members, are talking very disrespectful (watch her in other parts). Hence, she has a lot to continue offering as a politician but i don't think she would make a good leader at all.

[AndrewTally]

@MissPressPlay I can see your point there I guess, the thing is I like Diane and agree with most of what she says, but I wonder if she can capture those middle England voters who were vital to our election success.

[delphiproductionz]

she should get the make-up artist from this week, she looks better there (no offence!)

[goughrmp]

Yep real diverse group there. Cambridge, Oxford, Cambridge, Oxford, Oxford. One Candidate that only got through because she is black and a woman. And the rest might as well be the same person on each podium. Keep the champagne flowing people. Goodbye Labour party

[LuminousCorruption]

@goughrmp Well what would you rather have? Candidates who studied at the University of Life? Personally, I would rather have leaders who studied at the top universities in their country and proved their intellectual worth than leaders who are wonderfully diverse but aren't quite up to the same standards. Wouldn't you?

[goughrmp]

@LuminousCorruption Um no, because they have absolutly no experience of real life. They dont have any respect for the people they claim to represent

[kpnutsaboutcricket]

I was very impressed by Diane, I must say!

[GenevaSwiss]

the woman contestant is just to LOL at ...