Leadership Hustings: A Committed McDonnellite Account of Proceedings

TONIGHT: The long-awaited Fabian Society Hustings in London was blogged live by Marsha-Jane Thompson.

Marsha-Jane - a staunch McDonnellite - concludes with slight subbing from LOL:

Although not our home territory - the Fabian audience were more supportive of Gordon Brown - John McDonnell had a very good debate and didn't rise to Brown's digs, and went down well with the audience. McDonnell rebuffed Brown's criticisms excellently which is why GB had to resort to cheap digs about moving back 20 years! He had no other responses to John's proposals! The fact that GB did get slightly nasty at the end shows how worried he is!

Michael Meacher collapsed completely! He couldn't debate with Brown and when McDonnell was debating he just stood there watching! Meacher didn't answer any of the questions just parroted the answers John said prefixed with an I agree with John! Honestly man you need to withdraw before you make yourself even more of a laughing stock.

Will this encourage or dissuade Gordon Brown from allowing a contest. GB did in fact challenge the two lefties on costings as well as on being a 20-year throwback. Hat tip: Nick at 4glengate.