Letters: Forget Corbyn, David Lammy has what it takes to steer the Labour Party in the right direction

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God help us all then !!!

Fuck me. Into the sea is the best direction for him and his minions.

A mouthy MP does not a leader of a party make. 😂😂😂 UKLabour

You want to go check out how a Labour leader is voted in? NOT selected ... VOTED IN. CallThisJournalism?

As a brown person I’m glad he’s called out racism. It’s quite bad out there if you’re not white and the frequency of incidents has increased from zero to a few times a day. Corbyn needs to spend as much time on racism as anti semitism

Mr finger jabbing untreated anger problem will never be leader of anything

He’s in LFI so he’s a supporter of racism and terrorism which rules him out, for me.

Can we stop heralding the likes of Cooper and Lammy as these great leaders of the left just because of their stance on Brexit? Do we not remember their actions regarding both the private sector and Iraq under Blair?

David lammy represents the worst of labour. He is an anachronism from a very dark time in labours past. Check out his voting record. He likes the taste of human blood

Cheers for the friendly advice and all that but we’ll stick with what we’ve got.....✊🏼

İ dont think 🤔 so. In fact no body thinks so.

The Independent coming across like a second rate Christian drama & improv troupe visiting a secondary school. 'Forget peer pressure and drugs, Jesus has what it takes to steer you in the right direction!'

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Labour isn't a shiny forehead or a run through wheat fields, it's 1 person 1 vote. Labour has the best policies that's why msm tries to play the man not the Ball. No stories about poll numbers?

Yes, Labour really needs a remoaner who keeps fanning antisemitism criticisms of the party at the helm - NOT

He's too fat

Not a hope, David is a good MP, but he ain't Leadership Material.

Next, you'll be comparing him, to Barac Obama...which is what both the Indy and Guardian used to do, to Chukka the Chicken....

The Blair-Right direction? 🤦🏽‍♀️😂 JC4PM GTTO

Oh piss off! No thanks 😂😂😂

Still at it?! Nauseating

Because he shouts or is it because he is a centrist?

He's too divisive. Seriously dudes are you on crack or something?

R A T I O

I hate the Israeli government for their brutality and oppression of the people of Palestine

He's an anti-Palestinian racist, and with that a thundering f*cking hypocrite that he purports to be a champion against racism. What you're really saying is that the Labour Party needs another centrist shill at the wheel. No it doesn't. Get over it. Centrism is finished.

He frequently plays the Race Card but is a supporter of ApartheidIsrael He's snake, can't be trusted.

What's the right direction? Your statement doesn't mean anything without clarification

Well, that gave me a good laugh. Corbyn is steering the party in the right direction which is why membership has dramatically increased. Please don't presume to tell us who we want-we've made it clear, twice.

If he was leader. I would not follow.

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Oh, look - Labour ahead in the polls, let's cause more division - again. Corbyn's doing a fantastic job, thank you for telling me what to think but no thanks.

He voted to Bomb Syria He abstained on the health and social care bill He abstained on the Bedroom Tax He is NOT my sort of PM

You mean Lammy is right-wing & will steer the Party in the 'right' direction '. No thanks - we're in the *Labour* Party - all other parties are led by right-wing exploiters - we need someone to stand up for the suffering, exploited, impoverished majority - a good person: JC4PM

Well not I. Their direction Thankyou I’m happy with the way it’s going labour remind yourself why do you think Blaires labour got a free pass from MSM... Murdock gave him it and what was given in return?

Lammy should take London mayor seats

How many others are they going to offer up JC is the leader, Lammy just won’t attract the numbers

Lmfao keep trying 😂👍

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The membership of the party elect the leader, not right wing msm, thank you.

I won't vote for him. I'd only vote for Corbyn.

LoL I find this Hilarious it’s the Labour members not the Media that picks Labour Leader

The day The independent lost the plot. Lammy would have everyone he disagrees with arrested for being a nazi the madness as started.

Forget the independent's advice. They told us vote tory in 2017¿ Hahaha

Does The Independent ever reply. 🙄🤣 Or just keep printing rubbish like this?

Mr Lammy specialises in blowing holes in the bottom of his own boat. He had it all going for him at one point. There's always Tig/Chuk.

Stop

He doesn't

He's not

Take over the steering Lammy,but keep your eye out for icebergs,holy shit!

His oratory skills are without question, impressive. However, his neoliberal views are not representative of the views of the majority of Labour members.

Writes Mrs Lammy, Daves mum 😂

But.. but... but... We want to go in the LEFT direction not a Right wing direction!!!!... That was the whole point of electing jeremycorbyn

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In your night mares

Yet Corbyn was elected and is the leader, moving on.....

Has he fuck! Lol!

The bottom of the swamp dwellers you have to realise he's not journalist they don't have journalist. How you know that, they are not shouting free Julian Assange. Because he puts them to shame. Noam Chomsky said he would vote for Jeremy Corbyn that's good enough for me

They are getting desperate they would sooner give us a man who bombed Iraq. Do you know how dirty these are and I mean dirty. have a look at Jeremy Corbyn CV it's amazing. The elite and the Talking Heads are getting desperate, anybody will do but Jeremy, socialism coming

Yes just the level head we need right now

We the members voted Corbyn to be the leader twice, He has proved that we were correct and he will become a great PM, We don’t want another leader so stop meddling in Labour Party affaires, worry about you’re own ‘tory’ leader.

No he really doesn't...

Nopers. Next.

No he doesn't. Corbyn is what this country needs.

Nobody in LFI is a future leader.

No

Is this a Joke not funny

No thanks, we have a leader...jeremycorbyn

Whose next? Before him was Jess.

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The man who likes to wage war no thanks JC4PM2019

Whi is LETTERS? Never heard of her/him/they/that/It

The 'right' direction...

Get te fuck.

After voting against investigations into the Iraq war, oh dear me, no.

So basically if you only talk about one subject, never endorse/talk about your parties policies & are an LFI member then you are fit to be the future PM.🤔

There isn’t a Labour Leadership election.But there might be a Tory leadership election.Might be better to write about that.

It's not like you to be right...and you're wrong again.

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Indpendent means Chuka Umunna lol... why on earth would they push Corbyn it is aginst what they stand for, that is why the newspapers are going broke, since becoming Tory the Indpendent lost it.s way and tries to follow the Mail with naff headlines.

' Steer the Labour Party in the right direction?' The Labour Party is going in the right direction thank you with JC at the helm. We are heading for HOPE ISLAND.. JC4PM2019

Doesn't independent mean Tory?

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Have you seen the polls ?

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😂 Yes good one.

Pmsl. I can confirm that even his own constituents despise him, he wouldn't be an MP if he wasn't in one of the safest Labour seats in the country. We all know he's a total charlatan. Deselection is way more likely than promotion.

This is only true in the literal sense. Labour Members will not let the party be taken rightwards by Blairite MPs though

Haha very funny his politics are all over the shop

Thankfully, the membership pick the Labour leader, not the MSM .

You wish.

just: 😂😂😂

Not today thank you.

One trick pony

😂 you're kiddin'?

in the *right wing* direction, amirite?

Bollocks. And you know it is.

Nope! Jeremy Corbyn is the right man. He’s the prime minister in waiting. He’s who we need right now to sort this country out. No disrespect to DavidLammy He’s doing an okay job. But, nobody is more needed than jeremycorbyn who’s doing what he can for the many, always 🌹

I have news for you DavidLammy is more than happy with jeremycorbyn leadership!

I'm sure us members already voted for our leader

Into the LFI ?

Forget The Independent. Umunna writes for it for goodness sake.

The position is filled thanks!

David Lammy is great but the direction of the party under Corbyn is already right and why hundreds of thousands of people have joined the party.

No thanks. How many more MP's are you going to go through with this schtick? It's boring now.

Forget Corbyn? Why? He is going to be the next PM....

Labour have over taken the Tory party in the polls despite pretty much all the MSM being against him. Why the hell would labour members want to ‘forget Corbyn’?

I dunno Tax to spend on NHS, education (not Academy feeding trough) social care ... At tax rates below EU countries mind Nationalise Rail & Utilities like France & Germany Reduce inequality of hope & outcome Corbyn has my support 🙋🏽‍♂️

Why do the press feel the need to tell Labour members what they need Shut the f*k up .... we can think for ourselves 😡🥴

For the sake of all the murdered Palestinians we must never let a member of LFI become leader of our party.

If Lammy took over id resign my membership.

oh dear....ever thought to speak to a UKLabour member...?

The right direction being straight down the toilet hopefully 👍🏻

Lammy will implode labour it will revert back to Neoliberal shystermomics Hes a pretender

How about no...

No we good

haha ha ha

The country is desperate for real change, not another neoliberal centrist. JC4PM

You mean THIS David Lammy?

No way whatsoever

Hey! You lot at the so called Indepedent, why don't you all cancel your Tory memberships and join the Labour party and then you can have a say on the matter. Until then you can keep on dreaming.

Short answer: no, he does not.

No he doesn’t. Nice bloke. Done some good stuff. Not up to it. To centrist.

Forget The Independent, the electorate have what it takes to steer the Labour party in the right direction- into Office GTTO

Nope. Really, nope. We’ve got a good’un in Corbyn.

Fvck outta here with uour BS!!

We don’t need the “Independant” to tell us who should lead OUR party thank you! We have a Leader who were Very happy with, decided on by membership (not a “news”paper- much to your disdain)

Funny how his arguments for Lammy are the very things that Mr. C. does, innit? He also thinks it's great that Lammy ignores party policy, which I find quite strange, myself.

Let's be honest. Corbyn can't be bought, he can't be bribed and he's uncorruptible. He scares the stuffing out of you, doesn't he?

Depends what your values are?

Nope. Don't think so. As an MP he is passionate but I think he would only favour the things he cares about as an individual and not our Country as a whole.

I thought you wanted Dan Jarvis!? Make your minds up.

A loud mouthed car crash in a suit so perfect for leading the labour party into oblivion. Next party conference to be held in a phone box. stoplabour

Is this a parody account?

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OMG comedy central still on the go . FFS reality people .

Bollocks

He is a god whistle politician of the worst kind.

What's the 'Right Direction'? The world needs to know 🤣🤣🤣

Utter crap.

Click bait

Who needs friggin steering, steer yourselves into being a credible newspaper

Difficult decision for the LabourParty , which nutter to lead the masses Corbyn or Lammy

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We don’t want steering in the ‘right’ direction, thank you. We are happy with our current steer, left of the centrists. We want the Labour Party to be what it says on the membership card... ...A Democratic Socialist Party... That means the members choose, not the media...

Lammy is a fully bona fide member of the Apartheid Israeli Regime Lobby (LFI)

Warmongering Hypocrite! (Blair 2.0) 1) Supports & advocates for the Apartheid Fascist Regime of Israel. 2) Voted for the Invasion of Iraq, killing millions of HUMAN BEINGS. 3) Voted against investigations into Iraq war.

🤔🤣😂🤣😂🤣☠️ Shove it up where the sun don't shine. I'd rather vote Tory!!!!

Its very easy to criticize from the sidelines, not so easy when you're the Leader, trying to keep a Party together and also to pursue the democratically agreed (!) Manifesto policies DavidLammy .

Without his Labour overcoat he would be down the job centre. Wolf in sheep's clothing!

lol.......

This is getting like 1970 when every band with two hits was ‘The New Beatles’ Lammy will be remembered as well as Edison Lighthouse or Vanity Fare.

This would be the DavidLammy who told Marr that he stood with Margaret Hodge Thanks but I'll pass, I quite like the leader we elected, twice, thanks very much

Labour is going in the right direction with Jeremy at the helm. There is no vacancy, no contest and no change.

Are you for real?

Forget democracy?

JC4PM🌹

Yawn

It’s not meant to be

He’s got a bit too much new labour in his blood. A warmonger. I’m afraid if he were leader it would be more Tory lite shit. We need radical change...now

No he doesn't.

Ha ha! The bloke's psychotic!

Erm no! jeremycorbyn is steering just fine thanks. He doesn't need replacing🌹

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Just STOP. The traditional media is dying and completely untrusted

His voting record states otherwise

Sorry, David Lammy doesn’t do it for me.

Corbyn wants to steer the Labour Party into the direction of anti Semitic Marxism and Lammy wants to turn it into a black and brown hating white party, they are both evil divisionists, who will tear the party to shreds

No, I wouldn't support someone who abstained against the hostile environment, welfare reforms and NHS bill.

Lammy is nowt but an intolerant loud mouthed gobshite, who thinks anyone who doesn’t agree with him is a racist. If that’s the direction the Labour Party should be steered in then they really are fucked.

Seems there're many out there like The 'Independent' ('it isn't, neither are you.') who've no idea how Labour leaders are chosen. So - party members like me vote, which is why Jeremy Corbyn has TWICE been voted leader (nb: and would be again). Lammy is seen as not to be trusted.

You like racism from the elite/protected? At least with Corbyn we have clear reasons to worry about his Marxist attitude but not about a man who loathes and demonstrates, time and time again, how much he hates the majority of this country's population as white supremists/nazi's

Okay, ask the Labour membership who can steer the LP in the 'right direction', whatever the fuck that is, given that we already have a manifesto that DOES steer us in the right direction!!

He's got more chance of sitting on the Iron Throne, that's how fantasy like this idea is.

Hold on I thought it was Tom Watson, or Jess Phillips, or a Milliband, or Yvette Cooper, or that ex army bloke? Blimey, there are just so many amazing people the media want to be Labour leader viz anybody with a pulse who isn't Corbyn i. e the actual democratically voted leader.

Corruptibility is a much underrated trait

No way. We choose our leader NOT the media.

Absolutely hilarious. He wouldn't last five minutes under normal circumstances never mind in the backstabbing atmosphere Corbyn has had to endure. Did no one follow the last two campaigns? They alternatives got wiped out. No Blairite will lead Labour ever again.

Sultan of Brunei has more chance

Oi, Indi.

Er, the Labour Party have a leader already, thanks.

Surprised to see the endorse a person who is a supporter of _LFI, a self declared friend of a racist apartheid regime. You learn something new every day. Today we learned the Independent is a racist apartheid supporting newspaper.

There is already a Leader of the Labour party. .. CORBYN.

Lammy is a western imperialist. Voted for the Iraq war, voted against an inquiry into it, and is an LFI member. Not really a socialist, just pretends to be one. Zero chance the members will select him as leader.

Lol, ‘steer Labour to the Right’ classic Freudian slip 😂

No ta ... pro war ... LFI member...

Err no.. he went to the far-right organised enoughisenough rally at Parliament Sq. and is a committed LFI champion..

Calling Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson Nazis is puerile student union politics that just encourages the facile name calling we see from the Tories and the likes of Alan Sugar, that Corbyn is a 'Marxist' or a 'Communist'

Is this either a parody or written by the guy himself Cos it can't be serious. Like, really. It can't be.

Never.

Getting a letter in the Independent is a start . All he has to do now is persuade a few hundred thousand solid Corbyn supporters in the Labour Party that his voting record qualifies him as a candidate...

Not a chance, LFI, cherry-picks his issues, not a socialist.

No! He doesn't. He has a dodgy voting history & he can't get away from that! People would be put off. The reason people like Corbyn is because he always stands by what he believes. That said, I do think Lammy is decent & I absolutely stand with him on what he said on Marr...

You must be joking all he's going to do is cause division and a uprising

Did the push for Phillips not pan out? Basic lesson ... members choose . We chose. We're very happy with our choice.

Lammy, along with Corbyn, McDonnell & Abbott, was great on the Windrush scandal. Unlike those others, Lammy is a war mongerer, terrified of defying America or Israel. We'll stick with Jeremy Corbyn thanks

The guy is a loser!!!.....he has let down his own constituents!!...and he has become an embarrassment!!.....he needs to clean up his OWN BACKYARD BEFORE HE SPOUTS HIS BIGMOUTH!!......BLOODY HYPOCRITE!!😡👎.....just another self serving career jumper!!👎😡

Says who? 'Letters' in the Independent..

Into oblivion, more likely!

NicoletteErasms Oh yes,please make him the Labour Party leader. Please please pretty please.

He's an angry racist! More used to shouting people down in the most threatening way than influencing policy! Why on Earth would Lammy ever be allowed near a debate... Literally might up and hit someone. Watch footage on YT of him to see for yourself.

Lmao grasping at straws

Nah not for me he doesn't and plenty more like me but hey you just keep promoting your own agenda.

Has he the approval seal of the Jewish lobby?

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