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Sporting Index open a market on how many days Corbyn will last as leader

Sporting Index open a market on how many days Corbyn will last as leader

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SportingIndex open spread market on how many days Corbyn will last as leader. Opening 475 (cont) http://t.co/QVSaKrz0xB — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 14, 2015 The market opens at 475 days The 475 days would mean that Corbyn’s stint as leader would end on the 31st of December 2016. Whilst discussing this market earlier on today with PBer Tissue Price his view on 475 was if pushed he’d sell, but it’s a risky one. I agree with him that it is risky…

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The shadow cabinet reshuffle is becoming interesting – Update John McDonnell appointed Shadow Chancellor

The shadow cabinet reshuffle is becoming interesting – Update John McDonnell appointed Shadow Chancellor

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This really is the gift that keeps on giving for opponents of Labour and Corbyn’s opponents inside Labour   Shadow Cabinet far from complete… #Corbyn and Winterton still making frantic phone calls from their room in the Commons. — Darren McCaffrey (@DMcCaffreySKY) September 13, 2015 Shadow cabinet reshuffle delay because some senior figures refusing to serve if John McDonnell is shadow chancellor. https://t.co/UURjSQt5rT — Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) September 13, 2015 Seems like Corbyn's reluctance to promise to campaign for an…

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Corporeal on the Corbyn excitement factor

Corporeal on the Corbyn excitement factor

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“The Labour party is a moral crusade or it is nothing” was Harold Wilson’s rallying cry to the Labour conference a little over fifty years ago (somewhat unusually for political quotations it seems clear that he did actually say it). Twelve years later he was declaring they were now a “natural party of government”. It’s an awkwardly matched pair of declarations that have rung down the decades since (put either into google today and you find clichéd* starting points for…

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A new day has dawned for Labour as Corbyn wins on the first round

A new day has dawned for Labour as Corbyn wins on the first round

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Corbyn wins on the first ballot with a higher share of the vote than Blair did in 1994 pic.twitter.com/upXinPwvKo — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 Tom Watson wins the deputy leadership on the third round of voting. pic.twitter.com/HnaOro0Wg2 — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 12, 2015 His 59.5% is higher than the 57% Blair received in 1994 All those Burnham supporters that lent Corbyn some nominations to make it on to the ballot paper to see a broader debate will be feeling…

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So much fun, let’s do it all again

So much fun, let’s do it all again

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Will Labour’s winner have a clear mandate? 2015 hasn’t been the happiest of years for Labour. They have had worse ones – 1931, perhaps – but it’s still been a bit of a shocker. Today’s leadership election result ought to close that chapter and open a new and more hopeful one. Unfortunately for those desperate to put the Miliband era behind them, that may not be the case. The irregularities of the leadership election, where many members and supporters haven’t…

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Corbyn: Britain’s first X Factor leader?

Corbyn: Britain’s first X Factor leader?

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But how now to survive in the Social Media age? Jedward may not, on the face of it, have much in common with Jeremy Corbyn. One is an irritating novelty act, swept up in a collective wave of public enthusiasm to a prominence far beyond which natural ability alone would justify; the other is an Irish pop duo. Ba-dum-tish. Unfair? Of course: Jedward mostly hit the right note. And so the jokes go on. This summer might have been witness…

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Some fashion advice for Jeremy Corbyn

Some fashion advice for Jeremy Corbyn

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Michael Foot at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday 1981 wearing the ‘donkey jacket’ that wasn’t pic.twitter.com/aPRxo3ngoI — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 11, 2015 Mr Corbyn needs to choose his wardrobe and words very carefully If as expected Labour elect Jeremy Corbyn, his first official appearance as Leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition won’t be Prime Minister’s Questions next Wednesday but a day earlier when the new Labour Leader should be attending a commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle…

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Voting has now closed and the speculation begins

Voting has now closed and the speculation begins

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Predicted #Labour vote shares, based on Ladbrokes' odds. Corbyn wins on first preferences. pic.twitter.com/EgaL2onfCu — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 10, 2015 A £6000 bet on Corbyn in Essex betting shop as his odds shorten again, from 1/6 to 1/7; 7/1 Cooper; 9/1 Burnham; 150/1 Kendall. #Corbyn — William Hill (@sharpeangle) September 10, 2015 Diane Abbott cut from 33/1 to 20/1 to be London Mayor as voting for Labour's candidate closes. http://t.co/QRYVOgWrgr pic.twitter.com/ovHwgpTd0W — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 10, 2015 .@itvnews…

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