Milibands Are GO!

[NickFitz]

It's rumoured that David Miliband is stepping down as an MP to go to work for International Rescue in New York. Sadly, it turns out to just be some charity, entirely lacking in secret bases under volcanic islands

EDIT: linky to the Mirror, which broke the story: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...labour-1786858

[Cliphead]

It's rumoured that David Miliband is stepping down as an MP to go to work for International Rescue in New York. Sadly, it turns out to just be some charity, entirely lacking in secret bases under volcanic islands

So he's not some species of space cadet?

[KentPhilip]

That's the right choice for socialists - running charities, so I wish him all the best.

There will be a by-election. In 2012 Labour got 52% of the vote, with the tories getting 21%. It's going to be an uphill job for Nigel to get his first MP there, but it IS possible.

[eek]

That's the right choice for socialists - running charities, so I wish him all the best.

There will be a by-election. In 2012 Labour got 52% of the vote, with the tories getting 21%. It's going to be an uphill job for Nigel to get his first MP there, but it IS possible.

Knowing that town its not possible. As safe labour as safe can be.

[NickFitz]

Knowing that town its not possible. As safe labour as safe can be.

Apparently it's the only constituency to have never returned a Conservative MP since the Reform Act of 1832: South Shields (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Zippy]

Apparently it's the only constituency to have never returned a Conservative MP since the Reform Act of 1832: South Shields (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The place does have something going for it after all ...

[mudskipper]

[EternalOptimist]

F.A.B.

[d000hg]

Who's pulling the strings behind this, that's what I want to know.

[NotAllThere]

It's rumoured that David Miliband is stepping down as an MP to go to work for International Rescue in New York. Sadly, it turns out to just be some charity, entirely lacking in secret bases under volcanic islands

But if they do have them, we won't know, because they're secret.