Jonathan Lansman

daphnidill Brilliant. Lol. Perhaps she does know something and is teasing us.

Oooh errr! Spill the beans, obie! What's he done?

Was he an undercover KGB hitman or did he eat somebody's hamster or something like that?

Gransnet should be told.

Tell us more obieone -all agog!!

Your predictive texting really has a mind of its own

I think Jonathan Lansman is very interesting!

Yes Daphne, John McDonald, he who has been trying to be party leader for years

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12060177/The-cheerleader-for-Corbyn-who-supports-sons-schemes-to-sell-off-homeless-hostels.html

Could just be shy or maybe just not very interesting.

And yet another ambiguous statement: "sounds like he is deliberately secretive" what!

Would this be John McDonnell?

Read an article today , Corbyn was called McDonalds right hand man !

Teacup storm ⚡️☄? Mountain molehill, fuss, nothing.

Where do you get secretive from? Do you have ANY evidence?
Maybe he hadn't been ASKED for many interviews.
Talk about suspicious!!!

Sounds like he is deliberately secretive. So he definitely needs to be talked about.

I wonder if people are frightened of him?

Maybe the consensus is that JL doesn't need to be talked about after all. Hardly riveting

This is interesting.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me. All political leaders have people working behind the scenes. And the conspiracy theory about mandatory reelection is yet to be proved.

Anyone who rarely gives interviews, and is yet very influential needs a close look at.

Very much a 'would be' (but not sure what) and he's certainly 'gris'.

He does tend to contradict himself

A would-be "eminence grise" or Warwick the Kingmaker?

Well, I know a little bit more about Jon Lansman than I did this morning. This interview in the Statesman is quite interesting...

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/05/jon-lansman-interview-theres-no-leader-who-would-find-it-easier-win-jeremy

PS. I don't think I like him very much (but maybe that's just me).

Oh for heaven's sake, nothing even remotely dictatorial, it was just an innocuous comment/query, however you want to view it that people could join in or not as they saw fit. No one was making you join in petra in any shape or form, so no need to ruffle your feathers!

Well if Jon Lansman needs to be talked about I cede the floor to anybody who wants to Obieone and invite her to talk about him.

Petra, surely a suggestion not almost dictatorial ?