Concern within the Labour Party that Jeremy Corbyn is doing well

Thanks, Grannyknot. I just wondered. Some people our age are new to UK politics because they've never bothered to vote. Not just our age, either.

Will be interesting times over the coming mo nths if JC wins.

Will anyone leave the LP?
How will the press respond?
How will he perform at QT? Not that that is terribly important.
How will the country respond will it encourage more people to join the LP?
Must start a new thread if he does to outli e and discuss his proposed policies.
I am beginning to feel quite cheerful!

Be interesting to see who will be in the shadow cabinet , think we can say by by to Tristram Hunt education, Chuka business , Chris Leslie shadow chancellor , not the party though. Diane Abbot will be in, I would be very surprised if Hilary Benn left the cabinet .

Michael Meacher

Bags the sound that characterised the Furness accent for me was 'or' being pronounced 'ar'.
When we first went there I heard a small child talking about the big harses in the field. It took a few moments for me to clue on that she was referring to the horses.

I do hope that he's elected. I've given up on being able to vote now, it's probably because we live in France though we did have a vote in the general election.

Did you apply tricia? Only newer members are being emailed so I see no reason why you shouldn't have a vote. Exciting isn't it?

Yes I applied nearly 2 weeks ago, but heard nothing after the initial acknowledgement of the applicaion.

The Electoral Reform Services are sending out ballots over the next couple of weeks Tricia so do not despair

Indeed, nil desperandum, although I think that Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper are starting to.

The media are building it up, it is August so they have little to report. I am so annoyed at the 'Ed Balls' is advising Yvette, she was in the house eight years before her husband . 2015 and it's still the little woman syndrome . When she was first interviewed after the leadership battle opened she was asked how she would manage with the children, a husband and a home should she win, the two men were not asked , naturally

Couldn't Ed take over the home and childminding duties?
How backward some of these media types are!

twitter.com/lindasgrant/status/633157805785133056. Chuckle.

Corbyn spoke to a room of 800; Cooper to 60, so it said on the local news today.

I think that is what Ed is doing Ana

Jen, much depends on where they were speaking to realy compare

It was in the North East, in Labour areas. Do not have the exact place for Cooper, but Corbyn was speaking in Newcastle.

I keep getting this image of Southport beach (or any beach) lots of grannies bums up in the air (fully clothed of course) and their heads nowhere to be seen.

(Hides behind a dune.)

It was actually 1100 tickets sold for the Tyneside Theatre, but he had to have another rally outside, for those who just turned up.
Hope he doesn't lose his voice.

Thanks Jen, no surprise Evette drew a much smaller number then . I have mixed feelings towards Liz, she has no chance so as she is so loyal to the party and is on the right why doesn't she stand down to increase the votes of the two in the centre , not that I want her to but the party doesn't come first for her does it ? I will be quite relieved when 12th September arrives, emails, snail mail, text and phone calls , I did get irritated with a chap who was telephone canvassing for Liz, doubt he was born when we had the miners strike

Shadow cabinet.

Dianne Abbott
Paul Flynn
Dennis Skinner
Michael Meacher (noticed no response to my post on Meacher 15th)
Tom Watson
Hilary Benn
John McDonnell
Geoffrey Robinson

Can't think of anybody under the age of 50 but the new intake are as yet unknown.

I guess a few from the Labour/Co-Op grouping.

Any more guesses.

Angela Eagle, she has said she will work with who is elected

Quite are few of the younger ones think they are walking in the footsteps of Blair ,

Can't see Caroline Flint walking away either .

Liz now has David Miliband's backing. I wonder if that will get her any more votes.

POGS What commentator would you consider to be unbiased? I don't think that the views of a respected commentator like Richard Murphy should be dismissed as being biased when it seems to me that other commentators with different views might also be considered by some to be biased.

I think one of the ways of disputing an argument that is being put forward is to identify incorrect information within it or to demonstrate that such information is not balanced because it presents only a partial picture and has omitted facts that do not support the argument. Just saying that someone has left or right leaning connections or supporters and therefore their views are tainted seems to me a bit of a sloppy way of dismissing an argument.

whitewave I think it was seeing the procession of lacklustre Labour politicians on Question Time, who appeared not to have an original thought in their heads but just trotted out the party line, which made me despair. (That goes for the Lib Dems and the Conservatives as well but I didn't really expect better of them). It's so refreshing to see Corbyn actually answering a question in a straightforward way without playing for time or using every trick in the book to avoid it.

anniebach I sincerely hope that if JC is elected he will not have Tristram Hunt or Chukka Umuna in his shadow cabinet. They are, in my view, career politicians who try to be all things to all people, wriggling and squirming in interviews in their efforts to avoid giving a straight answer.