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rob_dylan
11 May 15 01:41
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Pretty sure he was 25 or 33/1 for next PM a few weeks back.  Thought it was a great price, had only seen him once or twice and he really does tick all the boxes.   Think I have missed the boat mind.  2/1 is not so tempting.
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Report Pokermonster • May 11, 2015 1:47 AM BST
He's an emotional prima donna, Rob, another disastrous mistake waiting to happen for the Labour party.  How did you get on with the audiobooks by the way?
Report rob_dylan • May 11, 2015 4:52 AM BST
Matey never got back to me poker.
Report rob_dylan • May 11, 2015 4:58 AM BST
I do not car about how actually good he is more how actually it was a good bet, and is a good bet.
Report Ramruma • May 11, 2015 5:16 AM BST
Is OP sure that any bet on next PM "a few weeks back" would not have been settled on David Cameron last Friday morning?
Report Joel • May 11, 2015 5:24 AM BST
Hope this block doesn't play cricket.
Report Joel • May 11, 2015 5:26 AM BST
*bloke
Report rob_dylan • May 11, 2015 9:53 AM BST
defo this was a without DC market.
Report giggitygiggity • May 11, 2015 10:19 AM BST
Chuka has a blonde girlfriend...1.01 landed
Report rob_dylan • May 11, 2015 10:36 AM BST
Why is it 1.01 that a labour leadership contender would have a blonde girlfriend?
Report flushgordon1 • May 11, 2015 11:19 AM BST
No chance mandy gave him a recommendation.
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • May 11, 2015 11:58 AM BST
But the next pm is now in place.
Report rob_dylan • May 11, 2015 11:59 AM BST
are you fishing money tree?
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 11, 2015 12:05 PM BST
now Alan Sugar has resigned from the Labour Party

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http://www.amshold.com/social_media/LabourParty_11-05-2015.JPG
Report Money Tree cost me thousands!! • May 11, 2015 12:05 PM BST
Is it worth tying up the money for 5 years??
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 13, 2015 12:31 PM BST
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Report giggitygiggity • May 13, 2015 12:35 PM BST
Next time you hear him interviewed listen how many times he says errr, watch how you can see his brain ticking over and listen to his terrible fake laugh
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 13, 2015 12:49 PM BST
be a good gimmick to have a sword lodged into Ed's stone, and only the one that can pull it out will be the true king of Labour.
Report sofiakenny • May 13, 2015 1:16 PM BST
this Chukka geezer is try to out posh Dave...Saville Row suits and a silver spoon
feck off pal no chance of getting the gig.
Report sofiakenny • May 13, 2015 1:17 PM BST
has he taken elocution classes from Chris Eubanks?
Report The Leopard • May 13, 2015 1:18 PM BST
Father was possibly murdered in Nigeria when he was 14.
Report giggitygiggity • May 13, 2015 1:24 PM BST
chuka having a hissy fit..Laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmkRwJ2f8z0
Report giggitygiggity • May 13, 2015 1:26 PM BST
In 2013 he was forced to apologise after being accused of hypocrisy when he accepted a £20,000 gift from a gambling executive, while he was campaigning against the growing number of betting shops in his constituency of Streatham.
Report giggitygiggity • May 13, 2015 1:28 PM BST
possibly murdered

Lefties trying to create a fake x-factor style back story alreadyLaugh
Report alun2005 • May 13, 2015 1:49 PM BST
He can certainly trot out the mantra that Immigrants have "culturally enriched" the country (although we never seem to hear about the vast majority who obviously haven't) but he is ever so shy about telling us exactly how many more he'd like here.

I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon.
Report guinness2dear • May 13, 2015 5:48 PM BST
Added to the list..
Report scandanavian_haven • May 13, 2015 5:59 PM BST
Too many posh voices in politics makes it dull to listen to.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 13, 2015 6:23 PM BST
now Andy Burnham has put himself forward. The campaign to choose who will lose Labour the next election is really hotting up.
Report Facts • May 13, 2015 6:30 PM BST
giggitygiggity     13 May 15 13:24 
chuka having a hissy fit..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmkRwJ2f8z0




He had every right to. Typical rancid interviewing by Sky News. Murdoch is the scum of the earth.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • May 13, 2015 7:55 PM BST
Labour in Rotherham are the scum of the Earth.
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 13, 2015 9:45 PM BST
Facts

What are your thoughts on this interview on the BBC where Andrew Neil takes Umuna apart with some soft enough questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFIQFBYlKo8

He's a lightweight snake oil salesman. I fear for our democracy if he gets the nomination. Labour will be reduced to a rump and we do need effective opposition.
Report Facts • May 13, 2015 11:03 PM BST
I agree. Not convinced by him yet
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 13, 2015 11:13 PM BST
You know when you see those obvious knock offs and they can't even get the name right? Girls buying Prado bags and trying to change the O to an A because it was cheap. That's what Umuna reminds me of. He's a very poor Blair clone. Suck the charisma and style out and leave the shifty bits in and you've got Chuka.
Report Emitdeb • May 13, 2015 11:26 PM BST
Possibly the gayest looking straight guy ive ever seen...Confused
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 13, 2015 11:56 PM BST
It honestly never crossed my mind and it remained a non issue until two seconds after he announced he was running for Labour leader and he's suddenly from nowhere holding hands with his supposed "girlfriend" out for a totally unscripted walk in the park. The deceit is pretty shoddy lets be honest but it's the taking the electorate for fools which is so galling.

If you love the cocck you love the cocck. I don't care. It's the 21st century. Anybody thinking of voting for Chuka The Spooner is going to be far more concerned with his smarmy shiit eating grin and snake oil tactics than if he's swallowed gallons of spooge and if that is the case and an issue for him then he shouldn't be putting himself forward.
Report Facts • May 14, 2015 12:05 AM BST
Tell me EO , why do you feel it necessary to always be crude ?
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 14, 2015 1:18 AM BST
You're factually incorrect Facts. I don't always feel the necessity to be crude. I talk how it pleases me as I do when I write. A rose by any other name. Sweet or otherwise. I find humour in some of what I write and so I write it. If it offends your sensibilities I respect that and advise you to give me a wide berth because I'm a scamboogah and I won't change.
Report Facts • May 14, 2015 7:53 AM BST
I will
Report duncan idaho • May 14, 2015 8:44 AM BST
You are right OP..2/1 not nearly so tempting as 33/1 imho
Report wildmanfromborneo • May 14, 2015 9:13 AM BST
The comparisons with Barrack Obama are inevitable.

Both had black fathers who abandoned them.
Both have law degrees.
Both are disastrous on immigration.
Both get an easy ride from the press.

Obama has been lionised here in Europe,he is above criticism,he even managed to win the Nobel Peace Prize whilst engaged in three separate wars.
The fawning press here called him elegant,beautiful,an antelope and most nauseatingly a rainbow.

If you want a glimpse of the future listen to Edwina Currie on Question Time with Will Self discussing the preening Chuka.
Report lfc1971 • May 14, 2015 9:16 AM BST
The British working class will not vote for him...why not?
Report vin2385 • May 14, 2015 12:02 PM BST
Facts has got more chance of winning the next General Election as leader of the Labour Party than Chuckie














....then the country will really go down the sh1tterCool
Report Howdi • May 14, 2015 9:34 PM BST
duncan idaho • May 14, 2015 8:44 AM BST
You are right OP..2/1 not nearly so tempting as 33/1 imho...not the same bet Cameron will step down in 3 years so next pm will come from tory market
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 15, 2015 10:42 AM BST
sounds like he's now withdrawn from the leadership contest and wasted chit chat's time.
Report giggitygiggity • May 15, 2015 10:46 AM BST
One of his former gay lovers must have threatened to go to the papers..
Report rogerthebutler • May 15, 2015 11:25 AM BST
Not surprised

That song he released in 1997, that goes 'I get knocked down, but I get up again' was bloody abysmal.
Report mobo • May 15, 2015 12:05 PM BST
I was hoping he would win and take Labour into another disaster in 5 years time
Report cooperman • May 15, 2015 12:20 PM BST
Has that creepy, slimy, Quentin Wilson type of uncomfortable manner and therefore cannot be trusted.
Report Burton-Brewers • May 15, 2015 12:22 PM BST
bhatti boy
Report knot in wood • May 15, 2015 12:27 PM BST
Sad gutted- had big hopes for this lad,perhaps he will try the lib-dems instead.
Report alun2005 • May 15, 2015 1:36 PM BST
A monumental bottle job, by ANY standards. 

Should stand down as an MP too.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • May 15, 2015 1:44 PM BST
Is he a closet gayer?
Report Burton-Brewers • May 15, 2015 1:46 PM BST
that tart he was with was just a front
Report boxingthefox • May 15, 2015 1:52 PM BST
Says a lot about the Labour party, another career politician in it for all the wrong reasons, and had no concept of being in the limelight??????, but would like to be Prime minister one day, FFS. Still he can always go back to his old job soliciting money from people.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 15, 2015 2:19 PM BST
if he is gay then why on earth, in this day and age is he hiding it? Why's he being so anal?
Report guinness2dear • May 15, 2015 2:26 PM BST
He's resting his arris so he can have another 'pop' in a few years time..
Report Burton-Brewers • May 15, 2015 2:32 PM BST
frightened of being stoned
Report Ivor • May 15, 2015 2:34 PM BST
I rate the new Labour shortlist.. almost GUARANTEES a further loss in 2020 :)
Report guinness2dear • May 15, 2015 3:08 PM BST
Ben Bradshaw.....

"I think he would have made a great PM"

FFFS, he can't even stand the pressure of a leadership election..
Report xmoneyx • May 15, 2015 3:58 PM BST
ExcitedExcited
Report Howdi • May 15, 2015 4:04 PM BST
if they vote in cooper they are fecked.
Report guinness2dear • May 15, 2015 4:12 PM BST
Can't see any winners in that lot, tbph.

Burnham - left
Cooper - right middle
Liz Kendall - conservative
Tristram Twunt - doolally
Mary Creagh - likes a pint of me - so maybe..
Report Mick Sturbs • May 15, 2015 5:44 PM BST
He must have something to hide.He would be more under the spotlight as Labour leader.. wonder what skeletons are hiding in his cupboard
Report Zazu • May 15, 2015 5:47 PM BST
A politician scared of the level of scrutiny Laugh

and they wonder why people dont trust 'em
Report Pokermonster • May 15, 2015 5:50 PM BST
I wonder if the person who threatened to expose something will honour their promise not to do so now he has stepped aside?
Report Wesdag • May 15, 2015 5:51 PM BST
^ The scrutiny refers to their personal and private lives.

Given the level of intrusion these days, I wonder why anyone bothers to get elected to high office.
Report Pokermonster • May 15, 2015 5:53 PM BST
Aside from the power, fame and money?
Report Zazu • May 15, 2015 5:54 PM BST
Is the chit chat detective agency still operational?
Report Burton-Brewers • May 15, 2015 5:56 PM BST
it seems to be a weekend newspaper that was going to release some bits
Report Pokermonster • May 15, 2015 5:56 PM BST
I think the CCDA may have been disbanded in the wake of that Christopher Jefferies fiasco.
Report alun2005 • May 15, 2015 5:58 PM BST
It was surely just one "rogue officer" that messed up the Bristol case.
Report Wesdag • May 15, 2015 6:02 PM BST
Only mugs want to be famous.

Most MP's could earn a lot more outside of politics.
Report flushgordon1 • May 15, 2015 6:05 PM BST
Rumour has it something to do with fgm a pair of hedge trimmers and some dodgy halal butcher.
Report Pokermonster • May 15, 2015 6:15 PM BST
The signs were always there.  Chuka Umunna has always been an emotional prima donna and likely to bail at the first hint of pressure, his departure a small measure of good news for a beleaguered Labour party.  Not that they'll make the most of it, of course, self-destruction seems to be a speciality.
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 15, 2015 7:12 PM BST
Joking aside if it is because he's gay then that's sad. I wouldn't have voted for him because I think he's a snake oil salesman. I don't care who he sleeps with though. Within reason. If I saw him the graveyard at night with a shovel I'd have to think twice.
Report posy • May 15, 2015 7:55 PM BST
Well if Chuka (who wants a leader with a name like that) really has pulled out because he doesn’t want it publicised he's a closet fudgepacker then don’t think he’s that clever for tossing his helmet into the ring in the first place. All the candidates so far seem to me to be perennial losers especially that chipper Northern idiot who drones on and on about the NHS in a strange accent.
Report Pokermonster • May 15, 2015 7:58 PM BST
Andy Burnham, the bloke who wears make up?
Report posy • May 15, 2015 8:03 PM BST
That's the one;elect him and lump on the Tor y party winning the next election...Burnham still fighting the class war
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 15, 2015 8:32 PM BST
don’t think he’s that clever for tossing his helmet into the ring

Cus D'Amato and Manny Steward must be turning in their graves. Laugh
Report patrick starr • May 16, 2015 12:20 AM BST
Well one thing,at least Andy Burnham has proved he has some integrity about him,a quality not to be underestimated with the electorate amongst the sea of filth in which he swims,a hint of integrity is absolutely golden in this age imo.

Who do people think has more integrity,Burnham or Cameron?
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 16, 2015 12:23 AM BST
No idea. Apart from his nasal tone which was a little off putting he never made much of an impression either in government or opposition. What has he done to gain your trust?
Report xmoneyx • May 16, 2015 12:27 AM BST
hearing he chucked one up the speakers wife
Report patrick starr • May 16, 2015 12:29 AM BST
The way he campaigned on behalf of the hillsborough families in particular certainly made an impression on me eo.
Report patrick starr • May 16, 2015 12:32 AM BST
But if the "tone of his voice" is how you decide a mans character eo,you carry on,thankfully you only get the one vote.
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 16, 2015 1:47 AM BST
It isn't in the least how I judge him. I made the point that this was the one thing which came to mind. I'm a great believer in the concept that parliament is the meeting place for 650 people who represent the interests of their individual constituencies and I've always voted on the basis of who I think is the best person standing in my constituency.

You can't get away from the evidence though. Our system becomes ever more Presidential and one of the reasons a perfectly decent man in Ed Milliband didn't connect with the public is they just didn't see him as a high office let alone the highest office kind of person.

Which is what concerns me about Burnham. He may well be a very decent man but is he a leader of men and women? Is he someone the country will believe in? You may say we don't know and to some extent that may be true but the harsh truth is that in 15 years in parliament he has risen without trace. He has neither held a great office of state nor been a shadow for a great office of state. That suggests to me that amongst his peers he is seen as a safe pair of hands but not a big hitter.

He ay be the best of those being touted. I don't know but I'm not at all convinced he's good enough or that the country will think him so. Maybe he's Milliband without the charisma. Laugh
Report tictacman1 • May 16, 2015 1:58 AM BST
something in the wood shed... sunday newspaper to report
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 16, 2015 2:03 AM BST
something in the wood shed

It's like Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy sometimes in here. Is that a code?
Report Jack Hacksaw • May 16, 2015 9:16 AM BST
Watched him on TV last night.  Strange, the way he crossed a busy dual carriageway without looking out for or holding the hand of his girlfriend…..
Report Injera • May 16, 2015 10:06 AM BST
If he had been chivalrous and held her hand, he would of course have been accused of sexism.Silly
Report The Leopard • May 16, 2015 10:50 AM BST
Been googling :

This stuff will be in mainstream soon:
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http://order-order.com/2013/04/05/london-mp-chuka-umunna-london-is-full-of-trash/#_@/O2Djt2QxuVg2-g
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http://order-order.com/2013/04/12/chukas-1-million-jetrosexual-ibiza-hideaway/#_@/zepI3i8YYp4nAg
Report desperatemunter • May 16, 2015 11:23 AM BST
if all he's done is had a load of drugs and sex in Ibiza he's like a typical brit - but show the deluded public their true selves and they'd burn you at the stake.
Report desperatemunter • May 16, 2015 11:31 AM BST
or maybe he didn't even undertakle even those activitie
Report The Leopard • May 16, 2015 11:56 AM BST
Not good :

Chuka Umunna, a rising star of the shadow Cabinet, faces embarrassment after it emerged he received a £20,000 gift from an emeritus gambling executive at the same time as campaigning against the proliferation of betting shops in his constituency.

Mr Umunna, who is widely regarded as a future Labour leader, accepted the donation from Neil Goulden, the chairman emeritus of the Gala C*ral Group, which owns more than 1,700 bookmakers.

The shadow Business Secretary was accused of hypocrisy by the Tories for accepting the money. They pointed out he recently ran a campaign in his south London seat of Streatham in which he promised “new powers to control the number of betting shops”.

Mr Goulden spent 10 years as managing director, chief executive and chairman of Gala Coral and still acts as a consultant to the group.

Mr Umunna registered the gift last month and said he would use it to support his office and contribute towards staff costs.

A spokesman said: “This donation was made by an individual Labour Party supporter in a personal capacity and was accepted in accordance with the rules and properly declared.”

Mr Umunna, who is a close ally of Ed Miliband, has faced a series of controversies in recent months which supporters blame Conservative headquarters for generating.

They include the disclosure that in 2006 he protested that some London nightspots “seem to be full of trash and C-list wannabes”. Days later his office was accused of adding comparisons with Barack Obama to his Wikipedia entry.
Report Hound-Dog-2 • May 16, 2015 12:04 PM BST
"something in the wood shed... sunday newspaper to report"

..... or he read all the comments in the Daily Mail and thought "F*cK this!!!"
Report posy • May 16, 2015 1:11 PM BST
There's not one potential winner amongst the candidates so far declared.Labour look to be in real trouble and maybe there's no future for the party in which case it may as well just fold. Wonder if they'll consider begging Blair to come back.
Report guinness2dear • May 16, 2015 1:13 PM BST
Caroline Flint standing for deputy leader..
Report macarony • May 16, 2015 1:34 PM BST
Could it be that he is too young and does not want to be like William Hague?
Report guinness2dear • May 16, 2015 1:38 PM BST
Can't see Chukka ever being 'darn pit'
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • May 16, 2015 1:47 PM BST
Caroline Flint standing for deputy leader..


so we've had an Ed Stone, we could soon have a Flint Stone?
Report guinness2dear • May 16, 2015 1:48 PM BST
Bamm Bamm...!
Report flushgordon1 • May 16, 2015 2:08 PM BST
Course you could ,well his eyes and his teeth.
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