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Gordon Brown: Seven-Point Plan for His Primacy
LOL agree with El Tom's Newer Labour that Freedland is right on the money. Perhaps not on the Chancellor appointment (D Miliband), but the idea of picking a Labour Party Chair from the Deputy also rans, possibly John Cruddas, is so good that I suggested it myself in comments here before reading the Freedland piece.
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Trouble with the 'lending a dozen MPs' idea is the public and press scepticism it would draw and the risk that the contest would then be seen as artificial. I would have liked GB to make the loan, but - as for Michael - it was only really going to hapen if the challenger to GB got to 40 or 41 votes, at which point it becomes much more credible for MPs not ideologically close ot McDonnell or Meacher to nominate for the sake of a contest and LP democracy.
It was still possible until about 18.00h yesterday really. Freedland was of course wrong on the loaning of MPs in any obvious way. But not monstering all MPs into line would have been a different matter.
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