Gonzo's Erection Thread

Burnham is running for Manchester mayor fella, vote is very soon

 

Johnson is very, very good

 

Nice bloke but too old now, unless he sort of does the job that Howard did for the Turdies. Eventually it should/will be Jarvis, but in 10 years time it's hard to envisage Labour as the principle opposition, especially if Scotland goes or keeps electing Nats.

And only 15 years ago there was talk of Turdies splitting into left and right after the IDS putsch.

 

I know. So he won't be Labour leader for at least five years.

 

I don't think he's too old, Donga.

 

Depends how he does I guess, he will probably win as most constituencies in/around Greater Manchester are Labour

 

Voted in our local county elections this morning. I won't be living in this area come the actual election day though

#postalvote

 

Interesting.

 

Not really...

 

It's the French Presidential election today, will we be getting regular updates from RHC, our specialist correspondent on all French matters.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ing-nigel-farage-100k-libel-claim-ukip-leader

I'm proud to have given. If/when Farage loses, he'll probably use one of his dodgy offshore tax havens to pay for it anyway.

 

French letters?

 

Alan Johnson is stepping down is he not?

 

Is he?

 

Yeah..looks like quite a few are stepping down.

 

does anyone else think the french elsection shows what a person could have done after brexit... set up a new party and exploit the seemingly total disregard politicians have for the public.

this guy in france has had some luck after the other guy was basically a clinton and unelectable... now he is up against le pen and she is un-electable.

If someone split out of labour and formed own party 12 months ago do you think they could go well in this election?

 

No
a year isn't enough to set up a party organisation and you would just cause further fragmentation in the left leaning vote.

 

The guy in France has not set up a party. He has just run for President, they have a weird set up over their which puts a lot of power in the President's hands. It will be interesting to see how he gets on as he should annihilate Le Pen in the final vote.

 

quite
though how he intends to get some of his policies to be enacted by the Senate & National assembly is anyones guess

 

I would add to that Garlic that politicians who were massively pro-EU should have dumped their parties and set up a new centre-right party to attract the Conservative voter but also the more liberal minded guys. The UK Conservative Party is really UKIP in reality, Someone even compared Tory policies with the BNP election manifesto of 2005 and found not a lot of difference. My heart is heavy for the future of British politics and how we long for PM as brilliant as Harold Wilson. Best PM ever.