It's over..who will take over ?

[festive]

Angela Raynor - no surely not.

Wes Streeting - good friends with Mandy..

Andy Burnham - not possible.

Who is taking over?

On a side note Miliband and Corbyn wouldn't entertain Mandelson...

Others in the know talk about Mandelson being like a moth to a candle when it comes to money, we could argue Starmer had the same attraction to Mandelson.

 

[fillyboy]

Raynor sadly imo. Mind you, that will just speed up Labour's demise.

 

[Murdochcat]

David Lammy as interim PM . OMG

 

[aveatry]

Just watch as the vote labour forever types on here start saying "well he was never the right person for the job"

 

[warey4life]

There's only one person competent enough to take the helm, and thats Yvette Cooper.

 

[Munroast]

he won't go, or at least he will hang on until after the May election stuff

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Diane Abbott. Double OMG.

 

[fillyboy]

Jacob Rees Mogg is touting Ed Milliband as a contender simply because he has no links to Mandelson and is scandal free.

 

[morqthana]

Just watch as the vote labour forever types on here start saying "well he was never the right person for the job"

Don't forget that there are some "Labour voters" who weren't "Labour forever" voters last time round precisely because of him, and who have always thought he was "never the right person for the job", and have always said that.

I know of at least one.

is I think my first post on the topic. Dozens more since then.

Not everyone saying "well he was never the right person for the job" is cynically jumping on some sort of bandwagon.

 

[King Billy]

Andy Burnham - not possible.

It's eminently possible.
There is no legal requirment for a PM to be a MP.
But convention would expect the PM to find a MP seat asap.
The monarch 'appoints' the person to be PM who is most likely to command a majority of Parliament.

 

[morqthana]

There is no legal requirment for a PM to be a MP.
But convention would expect the PM to find a MP seat asap.

Last seen in 1963, when Alec Douglas-Home became PM whilst still a member of the House of Lords. He renounced his peerage 4 days later, and they scrabbled around to get a by-election sorted out so he could become an MP, but for 20 days he was PM while a member of neither house of Parliament.

 

[Justin Passing]

Also Liverpool, Peel and Salisbury. He was 1900 sometime.

 

[noseall]

Just watch as the vote labour forever types on here start saying "well he was never the right person for the job"

I think he's the right person for the job.

 

[Mottie]

I think he's the right person for the job.

The job of finishing off labour?

 

[noseall]

The job of finishing off labour?

You've got years left to endure mottie. Dig in lad. Be brave.