If you have actually voted in the Labour leadership election, who did you go for?

[miscsoc]

I voted yesterday, for Abbott, then Ed M, then Balls.

[T_i_B]

1. It's made me glad I'm not Labour.

Just 4 empty suits and Diane Abbot (who does not stand a chance of getting elected leader).

The Milibands, Burnham and Balls are essentially just career politicians with careers politicians priorities. :-(

[non sociopath skin]

2. So who would you say was the last PM who wasn't a career politician?

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[Ken Burch]

9. Probably Churchill

His main career was as a writer and speaker...and he had long periods where his political career was on the verge of complete extinction.

[non sociopath skin]

12. I'd say that Churchill was very ambitious in his early days ...

... but his Late Flowering was probably as much a surprise to him as to everyone else.

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[T_i_B]

11. Probably John Major

He had a career in banking prior to politics. Blair's a bit more difficult as he was a successful Lawyer but it's difficult to work out if this was simply a way of getting into politics for Blair.

[Jeneral2885]

3. I'll tell you who i would not have gone for

Balls and Abbott

[non sociopath skin]

4. Weren't they a famous Vaudeville turn?

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[miscsoc]

7. why them specifically?

it's true that abbott is unelectable but she's not going to win and voting for her is the only way to send a message that the left has to be paid attention to, whatever her deficiencies as a left wing leader. i think ed m. is the best overall candidate.

i don't see the problem with balls, he's also not a convincing leader, but is at least as much one as andy burnham.

[Ken Burch]

10. Why not Abbott?

Aren't the others basically "more of the same" candidates?

[craigmatic]

5. D. Miliband is probably the likely winner.

[non sociopath skin]

6. Probably likely ... bit of hedging there friend ....

I will be very surprised if Older Brother isn't in first place but equally surprised if Younger Brother isn't relatively close. Then it all comes down to second preferences ...

But I have been surprised before, of course.

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[Ken Burch]

8. I'm glad you voted for Diane Abbott

I agree that she doesn't like she's got much of a chance, but every first-preference vote for her is a vote against the Blairites(and you can't say that for sure about any of the others, even Miliband the Younger).