Talk:Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007
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[edit] Citation
I am currently working to find citations for all possible and confirmed candidates. Seivad 15:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Prod
Please do not prod this article, if you believe it should be deleted then create a proper AfD debate so it can be discussed.
As I have said before, the coverage of this election does not violate WP:CB in my opinion, as in concentrates on current facts, and is actually happening at the moment, it is vital that this is covered on Wikipedia. Seivad 11:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Afd: Keep
Well, not happy, but I'll stick by the consensus of the deletion process which was to keep this article. The article smacks of putting together a host of predictions and crystal-balling and calling the mush of sourced quotations "an article", but that view is obviously not carried by those who voted.
If I can contribute to this article in time, of course I will do my best. doktorb wordsdeeds 22:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia is a crystal ball after all
- ‘The 2007 Labour Party leadership election is predicted to begin before 31 May 2007’
I suppose there must have been a change in policy when I wasn’t looking. —Ian Spackman 21:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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- The BBC News article quoted exactly after that does use the word predicted when referring to Labour MP's opinions, Tony Blair is committed to the 2006 Labour and TUC Conferences being the last during his time as Prime Minister and given it takes nearly 2 months to hold a leadership election in the Labour Party then the turn of July 2007 really is the latest possible, although possible he is not likely to go during the Local Election campaign as leader but then again usually the Summer months are avoided for elections because so many people are away or wanting to go away, if he stands down in June as leader then the leadership election would be in August which is High Summer, it is improbable that the party would want to go into Local and Devolved Elections that year without a national party leader, so Tony Blair is likely to resign as leader either some time between the New Year and early March or after the Local Elections in 4 May to 31 May, he may not stand down immediately as Prime Minister and allow a new leader to front the various elections in 2007 while he gets on with tying up loose ends in Westminster in which case it may be earlier in the year he goes as leader.--Lord of the Isles 00:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Certainly something like a leadership election pre-campaign has been underway since the summer at least; and the predicted date is a plausible one. But I think that the wording of the first sentence does make it look as if this is going to be a crystal-ballish article. —Ian Spackman 12:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- It's what many MP's on all sides of the House of Commons and the Media have been saying for sometime, it's their predictions and as Tony Blair has not outlined any kind of timeline then what they say is prediction, as such saying it is predicted is factual correct.--Lord of the Isles 14:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Certainly something like a leadership election pre-campaign has been underway since the summer at least; and the predicted date is a plausible one. But I think that the wording of the first sentence does make it look as if this is going to be a crystal-ballish article. —Ian Spackman 12:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- The BBC News article quoted exactly after that does use the word predicted when referring to Labour MP's opinions, Tony Blair is committed to the 2006 Labour and TUC Conferences being the last during his time as Prime Minister and given it takes nearly 2 months to hold a leadership election in the Labour Party then the turn of July 2007 really is the latest possible, although possible he is not likely to go during the Local Election campaign as leader but then again usually the Summer months are avoided for elections because so many people are away or wanting to go away, if he stands down in June as leader then the leadership election would be in August which is High Summer, it is improbable that the party would want to go into Local and Devolved Elections that year without a national party leader, so Tony Blair is likely to resign as leader either some time between the New Year and early March or after the Local Elections in 4 May to 31 May, he may not stand down immediately as Prime Minister and allow a new leader to front the various elections in 2007 while he gets on with tying up loose ends in Westminster in which case it may be earlier in the year he goes as leader.--Lord of the Isles 00:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chancellor of the Exchequer
It is going outside the scope of an article on the leadership to start speculating in it on who the next Chancellor of the Exchequer might be, in fact the Chancellor of the Exchequer article would be a more appropriate one to include such an article, it is important to bare in mind though that as recently as Stanley Baldwin a Prime Minister has also served also at one point as Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the war Winston Churchill also handled major departmental briefs, the Prime Minister is actually First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service by tradition and subject to royal approval can handle any departmental brief, although improbable it would be quite possible for Gordon Brown to ask the Queen to allow him to continue as Chancellor of the Exchequer and be Prime Minister simultaneously or be Prime Minister and Home Secretary.--Lord of the Isles 23:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
