Pop some popcorn, sit back, and watch the UK Labor Party leadership election meltdown

American Thinker ^ | 08/17/2015 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

If you're like me and think that sometimes, politics is a spectator sport - especially when the outcome doesn't affect you - then you are going to love what's happening with the Labor Party in Great Britain.

The venerable political organization is about to elect as leader a man who has called Hamas and Hezb'allah "friends," whose radical economic ideas are scaring the wits out of the financial industry, and whose bombastic and aggressive style turns off most voters.

In short, Labor is about to commit political suicide by electing Jeremy Corbyn as its leader and is tearing itself apart in the process.

Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband sums up the coming disaster:

Electing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader would be a backward move that risks creating a one-governing-party state dominated by the Conservatives, David Miliband has warned.

The former foreign secretary, who narrowly lost the Labour leadership election to his brother, Ed, in 2010, is the latest in a long line of senior politicians from the New Labour era to argue against the frontrunner.

Writing in the Guardian, Miliband said he would be backing Liz Kendall as his first preference, after being impressed by her “plain speaking, fresh thinking and political courage”. His second preference is Yvette Cooper, for arguing “passionately and effectively for a positive reformist vision and against the siren calls of ‘defiance’ of the Corbyn campaign”.

Echoing the warnings of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Alistair Campbell, Jack Straw and Neil Kinnock, Miliband said Corbyn’s ideas on nationalisation, 7p in the pound increases in national insurance for those earning more than £50,000, and equivocation about Britain’s place in the EU, were the same policies he learned were wrong when he first joined the Labour party in 1981.

[Cowboy Bob]

So, the liberal meltdown is not just limited to the US. Good!

[VanDeKoik]

Labour in the UK, the Liberals in Canada too.

Hopefully the Dem/GOPe here will go down the tubes as well.