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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t this guy sort of a ‘never-was’/’has-been’ ?

(I don’t really follow Brit stuff...)


6 posted on 01/08/2020 6:35:51 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

Yes; after losing big(ly) to Johnson and the Tories, he announced that he would step down as Labour leader (but not when).


9 posted on 01/08/2020 6:39:03 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Jamestown1630
Isn’t this guy sort of a ‘never-was’/’has-been’ ? (I don’t really follow Brit stuff...)

He was the leader of the Labor Party. After the electoral butt-kicking his party just took, his political future is very uncertain.

22 posted on 01/08/2020 6:47:02 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Jamestown1630

He was a radical backbencher and then the British leadership election system got broken. They made it more like primaries in the US, but Brits are not used to it, only the radical people organized, turned out and elected him the leader of the Labour party.

He recently led Labour to it’s greatest electoral defeat since 1918.


33 posted on 01/08/2020 8:47:36 PM PST by Krosan
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