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I think Burnham is verging on a good thing.

Corbyn might have the Unions in his pocket, but under OMOV, it's questionable if that means very much, and Burnham will make most appeal to the aspirational soft-left and Blairites amongst the caucus. Cooper can't beat Burnham amongst the core vote, and the other mot is a no-mark.

The fact that all four are easentially unelectable, is neither here nor there, it seems, and the party seems destined to splinter in the medium-term, in my view......something that also probably applies to the Lib Dems (who somehow managed to elect someone so heroically-forgettable, I've still no idea what his name is). Corbyn may end-up leading a party with a hard-left social agenda - pulling some of the Lib Dem leftie faction along in his wake....and something akin to the old SDP may emerge from what's left-over.

The way I see it, it could be years before a genuine electoral threat to the Tories emerges, and that is not healthy in any respect.

<blockquote data-quote="Grasshopper" data-source="post: 2518751" data-attributes="member: 65342">I think Burnham is verging on a good thing.Corbyn might have the Unions in his pocket, but under OMOV, it&#039;s questionable if that means very much, and Burnham will make most appeal to the aspirational soft-left and Blairites amongst the caucus. Cooper can&#039;t beat Burnham amongst the core vote, and the other mot is a no-mark.The fact that all four are easentially unelectable, is neither here nor there, it seems, and the party seems destined to splinter in the medium-term, in my view......something that also probably applies to the Lib Dems (who somehow managed to elect someone so heroically-forgettable, I&#039;ve still no idea what his name is). Corbyn may end-up leading a party with a hard-left social agenda - pulling some of the Lib Dem leftie faction along in his wake....and something akin to the old SDP may emerge from what&#039;s left-over.The way I see it, it could be years before a genuine electoral threat to the Tories emerges, and that is not healthy in any respect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2518751, member: 65342"] I think Burnham is verging on a good thing. Corbyn might have the Unions in his pocket, but under OMOV, it's questionable if that means very much, and Burnham will make most appeal to the aspirational soft-left and Blairites amongst the caucus. Cooper can't beat Burnham amongst the core vote, and the other mot is a no-mark. The fact that all four are easentially unelectable, is neither here nor there, it seems, and the party seems destined to splinter in the medium-term, in my view......something that also probably applies to the Lib Dems (who somehow managed to elect someone so heroically-forgettable, I've still no idea what his name is). Corbyn may end-up leading a party with a hard-left social agenda - pulling some of the Lib Dem leftie faction along in his wake....and something akin to the old SDP may emerge from what's left-over. The way I see it, it could be years before a genuine electoral threat to the Tories emerges, and that is not healthy in any respect. [/QUOTE]

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