Angela Eagle has achieved the impossible.

I'm pretty certain she is Eddie Izzard.

If it wasn't so important it would be laughable; our country needs a strong opposition but what we're now left with is an absolute joke of a political party.

And a joke of a government

I think not

UKIP will be the official opposition party after the next election

dear me what drivel you speak Burton

1 mp

you best get an early ticket to  Vermont old boy

Mind you the tories and ukip are the same old thing crumbs of the same stale loaf

you'll see anx your thugs are a laughing stock. Wurzel will end up with about 10 mps under the Socialist Labour banner, the others will get about 40 voted in and they will be the New Social Democrat party. With the numbers deserting you and the Tories UKIP will have about 70 mp's.

At current Burton Labour has 330 mps  your idiots have 1 and the spivs 330 , Burton your little racist gang will get less than 10 probably less than 5

labour 230

Remember the good hiding the patriots got in Oldham

Anxious.

If there was a snap general election called now, how many seats do you think Labour would win?

There's a clip going around of Eagle wallowing in Boris's political demise when someone shouts to tell her that he's the new foreign secretary. If you pause it in the correct place you can actually see her die a little bit inside

She resembles a Bulldog

At the moment things are difficult but I would still say 180-200

Ive not got much time for eagle but middle aged racists and homophobes on here do their keyboard warrior jokes

Pathetic cowards and clowns

racist gang? I think you will find it was Wurzel who took the platform with Hamas. Wurzel had just got in when Oldham came around they can now see what he and his brownshirts stand for. Steven Woolfe threw his hat in for the leadership today and he'll get it, man of the northerners who knows what a dump it is as he lived in Manchester.

UKIP are going to get chased out of Manchester Burton and that idiot woolfe will be running the fastest the vile little weasel

UKIP have been told in Manchester bring it on theres plenty ready for them

Why are UKIP racist anxious?

Is it because Farage has been spotted wearing UJack shoes?

Dear me another one of the patriots has arrived

sounds like spivland is also full of brownshirts

Fascist racist scum that's what they are

You see patriotism at every major football tournament anxious.

Nothing wrong with it.

I would agree with somewhere around the 180 mark.

But why does the party keep promoting wholly unelectable members to the front bench, it's as if they are actively pursuing a self-destructive agenda?  With the likes of Miliband, Corbyn, Eagle, Abbott etc, not only will your party never be able to govern, they'll never offer the country a credible opposition either, which is far more damaging to the country.

Pork , last summer the Labour party had an election under new rules with membership voting rules which eD miliband brought in and originally a blairite idea , Jeremy was big outsider with andy burnham , Yvette cooper, and liz kendall all running , as you will know Jeremy won with 60 per cent of the vote a massive victory

Jeremy Corbyn's politics are unelectable.

since then the PLP has been moaning about Jeremy  and the Blairites  recently led a bungled coup in order to unseat him , the reason being and I can accept is that he is not a tv star and perhaps not a great speaker in parliament, but should politics be about the punch and judy show at question time, real life is not at Westminster its in everyday life

Anxious.

Yes, sir, I am aware of all that, but Corbyn will never lead his party into government.  You know that, I know that, and the Conservatives know that.  Under his leadership, therefore, Labour cannot provide effective opposition and this is highly detrimental to the country.

Jeremy has a lot of support within the Labour movement he is anti austerity, believes in defending the nhs, defending services for ordinary people and reversing tory attacks on the vulnerabl;e and the poor.

I refer you to the answer given some moments ago.

Pork do you want Rupert Murdoch to pick the opposition somebody who is similar to the tories who will not threaten the banks , the square mile , the establishment and the biased vile right wing media

It seems you do not want an altenative you want something you agree with

No, but a more pertinent question would be... do you?

The Labour Party and the Unions were not created to bow to the bosses and the money men

anxious - where will he get the money for all that?

We have a monthly deficit (on which we pay interest) of £8Bn.

Surely its about priorities

JC shows up politics for what it is, a manipulation of the masses where spin and euphemism is a 'dark art' of deception and the majority buy it.

He isnt well liked as he doesnt fit into the expected career politician mould, but thats a good thing imo.
He will continue to win each vote he's put in for while the greedy continue to dip bread and backslap thinking that while there is a scapegoat their actions dont have consequences.

If Theresa May is true to her word she could reverse the cuts to labour councils which has crippled local social care this is money for the elderly , the frail , day centres for those with mental illness and learning disabilities which have been crushed by tory cuts

For what its worth I think the Eagle woman has done a reasonable job in daily parliamentary business, she has stood up well when asking questions of government.

Corbyn lost his integrity not pointing the Labour Party to Leave the EU.

He didn't represent the working class with that decision. He sold out Hilary Benn.

The UK working class want representation as it is they who vote in a GE.
Jeremy wants to represent the global impoverished.
You can't help everyone.
The needs to be priority.

whilst ordinary people have suffered the most under austerity forced to pay the price for the casino style wild gambling of the square mile and wall street

Anxious.

If Labour do not get their house in order pretty damn quickly, installing credible left wing candidates to the front bench instead of the clowns currently in residence, your worst fears will undoubtedly come to pass regards a resurgence of the Blairites in the party.  Why you persist in arguing otherwise is a mystery.

The immigration issue is totally different , yes everybody knows there is a problem and yes I agree Jeremy has not handled it well ,but he not lost his integrity far from it he is a very honest decent human being

Pork , why do you not give the man a chance he has been leader for 1 year and the membership has increased by about 80 thousand so he has done well in reaching out to the public

I  think this present crisis has been triggered by the EU referendum and all the hysteria and mayhem surrounding it

Because everyone knows under his leadership the Labour Party will never form a government, and for that reason they are not offering effective opposition.

Its some of the Labour mps who have shown disloyalty and their motives should be questioned

They don't like him or his beliefs , so if they are not prepared to accept the result do you run off and start crying , its themselves who have created the trouble

Some?  Nearly all of them, surely?

No its the Blairites who have started the trouble if they are so upset why do they not join the tory party they would be at home there

The majority of them are not Socialists in fact they are not even Social Democrats

General Elections are won/lost over centre ground though anxious. That is were most lives are
People want balance and the Tories do that better than Labour.

The Tories have upped the national living wage
Increase tax allowance
Increasing free child care.

Corbyn's suggestions seem counter productive.
Ending capitalism is like killing the goose.

Is Angela Eagle a Blairite, then?

The attack on the 'square mile' is not fair.

The financial sector which is across the UK (not just in London) has brought billions of wealth to this nation over many decades. Brown loved it because of the taxes that could be spent schools, welfare etc.

To criticise the 'banks' for the crisis is ok if you also give them credit for all the wealth they have also created.

I would not say she is a Blairite but she has been persuaded to fall into their camp

Fickle, you mean?  Or just untrustworthy and disloyal?

Injera  once you give the markets free rein they will run wild

She has been untrustworthy yes , in fact she has been silly but she has been conned

You only have to look at the likes of mandleson , reid , blunkett , Campbell etc they are all sticking the knife in now from their comfortable seats in the Lords all stuffing themselves with a cushy number seriously you could not make it up

Kinnock another one his family have made about 10 million from the EU, its a complete joke and they call themselves Soicialits

They are the troublemakers not Jeremy Corbyn

Injera  once you give the markets free rein they will run wild

...Agreed sir. Deregulation of lending/borrowing was utter madness. It led to the house price boom that cripples households and those longing for a place of their own.

but he not lost his integrity far from it he is a very honest decent human being

anyone who has boned Flabbott has no integrity (or standards)

Please don't go there

no chance but you would

anxious would pay for it
and Abbot would not declare it

The Mash contends that Eddie the Eagle would be more electable. Have to admit they may have a point.

Angela Eagle resembles a nervous Badger trying to cross the road.

Crazy fred, anxious would still be loyal to a labour mp who was a serial killer imo.