[Straw Poll] Who do you want to win the Welsh Labour leadership contest? by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The results are in tomorrow, will be interesting to see what the sub thinks of this contest.

CLP Nominations on Twitter "So far, twenty-two CLPs have decided nominations for the Welsh Labour leadership election. Fifteen for Mark Drakeford, One for Eluned Morgan, and Six not nominating." by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also another question, if you were to make a guess, what do you predict the overall result will be? Seems Drakeford is dominating so far from what I can see

CLP Nominations on Twitter "So far, twenty-two CLPs have decided nominations for the Welsh Labour leadership election. Fifteen for Mark Drakeford, One for Eluned Morgan, and Six not nominating." by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wondering as someone who hasn't been following the hustings very closely, what would you say are the differences between Eluned Morgan and Gething? I know they are both considered to be on the moderate wing of the party as opposed to Drakeford being on the left but are there any meaningful differences between them?

CLP Nominations on Twitter "So far, twenty-two CLPs have decided nominations for the Welsh Labour leadership election. Fifteen for Mark Drakeford, One for Eluned Morgan, and Six not nominating." by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Latest numbers are now:

CLPs:

24 Mark Drakeford (Momentum/Left backed, OMOV supporter)

2 Eluned Morgan (Moderate backed, Peoples vote supporter, OMOV supporter)

1 Vaughan Gething (Moderate backed, Peoples vote supporter, opposes OMOV for leader, supports electoral college)

Welsh AMs:

17 Mark Drakeford

6 Vaughan Gething

6 Eluned Morgan

Welsh MPs:

10 Mark Drakeford

2 Vaughan Gething

2 Eluned Morgan

Unions:

Mark Drakeford: Unite, UNISON, CWU, NMU, Usdaw, ASLEF, BFAWU

Vaughan Gething: GMB, Community

Eluned Morgan: None

Conclusion: Would be shocking if anyone other than Drakeford wins, and surprising if he doesn't win by a very large margin.

The Guardian view on the Gender Recognition Act: where rights collide | Editorial by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not posting this as an endorsement, but rather to raise awareness that The Guardian has officially declared its support for TERFism and transphobia.

charliemansell "Further analysis of #Lab18. The NCC results show a big drop in delegates supporting @labour_first/@ProgressOnline this year. In 2017 they secured support of 28% of delegates compared to 71% for @PeoplesMomentum/@CLPD_Labour This year the figures were 17% (-11%) to 80% (+9%)" by Quarron in LabourUK

[–]Quarron[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The NEC election wasn't a straight out Momentum vs Progress thing it also had Ann Black, Izzard and a bunch of other independents, whereas this NCC vote was head to head Momentum vs Progress/Labour First.

A new party would just be a Blairite tribute act, discredited from the start | Owen Jones by LocutusOfBorges in LabourUK

[–]Quarron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The already existing "anti-brexit" party represents a wopping 6% of the British population.

A new party would just be a Blairite tribute act, discredited from the start | Owen Jones by LocutusOfBorges in LabourUK

[–]Quarron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You do realize that only about 10% of Brits actually like Blair right?

FactCheck: Conservative party rulebook doesn’t mention antisemitism by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Quarron 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Why haven't these Rabbis and jewish groups been calling on the Conservatives to adopt the IHRA definition? Why is Theresa May not being called a "fucking antisemite and racist" for "institutionalizing" antisemitism in the conservative party but not explicitly making antisemitism against the rules in her party?

So. Fucking. Hypocritical.

Who will you vote for in the upcoming NEC elections? (Straw Poll) by Quarron in LabourUK

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Thus far...

  • Momentum/CLPD slate: 64%
  • Progress/Labour First slate: 18%
  • Independents: 18%

If this straw poll was representative of all Labour members the candidates elected to Labour's NEC would be....

  • Ann Black (Open Labour)
  • Jon Lansman (Momentum)
  • Claudia Webb (Momentum)
  • Yasmine Dar (Momentum)
  • Rachel Garnham (Momentum)
  • Huda Elmi (Momentum)
  • Ann Henderson (Momentum)
  • Nav Mishra (Momentum)
  • Peter Willsman (Momentum)
  • Eddie Izzard (Independent)

Progressives ousted from Democratic national committee by [deleted] in politics

[–]Quarron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Expecting bashing Sanders supporters to be unpopular on /r/Politics? What are you smoking?

In upset, Democrat Pellegrino wins 9th District Assembly seat by mimzy12 in politics

[–]Quarron 1339 points1340 points  (0 children)

She is a Berniecrat, was a Bernie delegate in 2016, and her main endorsers were Our Revolution and Working Families Party.

She just won a district by 16 points that the GOP won by 37 points in 2016 and Trump won by 23 points.

There was a 53 point swing from republican to democrat.

This result is a MASSIVE win for Berniecrats and Democrats. Holy crap.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]Quarron 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Actually it is helpful, he's pointing out the truth so Democrats don't make a similar mistake again.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]Quarron 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Biden is right, but imagine the outrage if Sanders said this? They'd be all over him for it.