#12568382, By breakablepants UK Politics Thread

breakablepants 6 Jan 2020 13:37:05 1,118 posts
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You-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Don’t completely write off Thornberry and Lewis. Both have dark horse potential imo.

Nah - I was at an event where Thornberry spoke and she absolutely bombed - terrible speaker, and a bit too gaffe-prone.

I don't think Clive Lewis is well known enough, but his record is solid and I think he may do better than people think, but I don't see him getting to a final run-off.

The actual positive from all this is that all of these candidates would make great front-benchers for whatever leader gets elected, so if nothing else it does give me hope that there is some actual talent in the Labour party.

Much as I love Jess, she's too 'of the people' to win this race.