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Bridget Phillipson secures more than 100 nominations in deputy leadership race, with Powell close to 80 MP threshold – LabourList (labourlist.org)

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FINAL EDIT: It's now officially a two-horse race, as Powell cleared the 80 vote threshold and Ribeiro-Addy didn't. More MPs are backing Phillipson but I reckon Powell will win over the membership.

Well, I'll be voting for Powell, assuming she gets the last three nominations she needs. The leadership badly need someone in the room who's willing to tell them where they're going wrong. As Phillipson is already in the room and one of the people going wrong, she's obviously the wrong choice.

I don't think we can do polls on Lemmy, but I'd be interested to hear who people here want to win, especially those of you with a vote!

EDIT: Thornberry has officially withdrawn, per the Guardian, so the MPs who nominated her are now free to nominate someone else. I'm fairly sure some of those 13 will nominate Powell, if only so they can actually have an election.

EDIT 2: Paula Barker has also dropped out, leaving only Bell Ribeiro-Addy from the party's (far/hard/looney/socialist/real/actual/Trotskyite/Bennite/Corbynite [please delete according to ideological preference]) left. But she won't get the nominations, so on practice it remains a two-horse race.

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[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I called them the 'looney left' in the exact same way that I called them the 'real/actual' left. Since it would make no sense for me, a left wing person, to describe some other group of people as the real left, that's a clue that I wasn't being serious, as was the overall tone of the sentence. In fact, you've been far ruder about the party's left (however defined) than I have, in that the implication of what you're saying must necessarily be that they're all fools and dupes for having dedicated their lives to the party!

You're under no compulsion to find me amusing, of course, but if you don't like the way I post on here, I suggest not replying at all rather than bothering me with rude and patronising misinterpretations of my comments.