Labour MP Jamie Reed quitting Parliament

[tinfoilhat]

The Liberal Democrats have been the best performing party in the last 3 by-elections, they should do it again.

 

Not up there they won't. But I hope mr reed, who as MP very vocal against the labour leadership stance against nuclear power, enjoys his new job at sellerfield.

[hush]

It's going to be interesting because it's a marginal seat of exactly the sort Labour needs to win

 

As Reed was one of JC's biggest critics and was one of many Labour Mp who passed a motion of no confidence in the leader, he was one of the MPs who was under threat of deselection and replacement by a candidate who was "one message".

 

What better way to respond than to take a highly paid job and rub the party's nose in it by forcing an election where JC's new boy will likely be thrashed?

[999tigger]

As Reed was one of JC's biggest critics and was one of many Labour Mp who passed a motion of no confidence in the leader, he was one of the MPs who was under threat of deselection and replacement by a candidate who was "one message".

 

What better way to respond than to take a highly paid job and rub the party's nose in it by forcing an election where JC's new boy will likely be thrashed?

 

Do you know who the Labour candidate is then? You predicy its going to be a Tory landslide?

[hush]

Do you know who the Labour candidate is then? You predicy its going to be a Tory landslide?

 

Who said anything about a Tory landslide. I just said the Labour candidate, who will be selected by the local party, will be thrashed.

[999tigger]

Who said anything about a Tory landslide. I just said the Labour candidate, who will be selected by the local party, will be thrashed.

 

So you believe another party will thrash them?

[hush]

So you believe another party will thrash them?

 

You do like to put words in other people's mouths.

[El Cid]

Who said anything about a Tory landslide. I just said the Labour candidate, who will be selected by the local party, will be thrashed.

 

Will Labour voters vote for UKIP or Tory, or maybe a Liberal Democrat?

[hush]

Will Labour voters vote for UKIP or Tory, or maybe a Liberal Democrat?

 

I can't see then voting for a party run by someone not wanting to replace Trident when the plan is to build the submarines in Barrow and process the fuel at Sellafield.

[El Cid]

I can't see then voting for a party run by someone not wanting to replace Trident when the plan is to build the submarines in Barrow and process the fuel at Sellafield.

 

Tim Farrons seat is just around the corner, they love him up there.

[blake]

It's going to be interesting because it's a marginal seat of exactly the sort Labour needs to win

 

not really. It's a seat Labour have always won, but never by large margins. They kept hold of Copeland and its predessessor Whitehaven throughout the 1980s. It's not a really safe Labour seat, but it's not a marginal seat either. It's a seat Labour expect to win and the Tories have never won it. If Labour lose the by-election, and they probably will, then this seat will be in the Tory column for basically the first time ever.