Will Jezza Get Kicked Upstairs When He's Replaced?

[ToraToraTora]

More to the point would he accept a peerage? Usually ex PMs and LOTOs get offered them, or in the past, a place on the EUSSR gravy train. Obviously the latter is off the table making a Peerage more likely. He'll be able to play with his mate Bercow!

[emmie]

don't think he would accept it. I would say that would go against his socialist principles.

[Bazile]

Why has Cameron , Blair & Brown , not being made a lord / sir

Or were they offered it and refused ?

[ichkeria]

Doubtless all refused. Certainly Gordon Brown would have. I think a knighthood is what you get offered first, as John Major.
Thatcher was the last life peer, MacMillan I think the last hereditary one.

[ichkeria]

Corbyn would certainly refuse. I’d imagine he’d want to stay in Parliament anyway

[ludwig]

He'll probably return to the back benches and carry on where he left off. He doesn't seem employable other than as an MP.

[Old_Geezer]

All over the place, I'd expect.

[youngmafbog]

It's an interesting one, would he refuse?

The good old socialist 2 Jags seemed to find it ok!

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - // e'll probably return to the back benches and carry on where he left off. He doesn't seem employable other than as an MP. //

I agree.

Jeremy Corbyn has always been a professional agitator, he has never had any other job.

Then he became a professional agitator and party leader who couldn't lead his hands to his bottom with both hands and a torch.

Now he should go back to being a professional agitator - it's all he knows.

[Gromit]

Michael Foot rejected apeerage several times,and Iexpe t Corbyn would do the same.

The whole shebang is about to be abolished by Johnson/Cummings soon anyway.

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - // Michael Foot rejected apeerage several times,and Iexpe t Corbyn would do the same. //

I believe that MF and JC share several things in common -

They are both men of principle.

The both believe in a fantasy version of Britain that has never existed, hence the impossibility of 'returning' to it.

Their political ideology is utterly at odds with basic economics, basic practicality, basic common sense, and the majority of the electorate.

They were both promoted into a role for which they are manifestly unsuited mentally, emotionally and intellectually.

Both lacked anything approaching the personal appeal likely to get them anywhere near being trusted to lead the country.

Both should have stayed where they were, and happy, instead of being seduced into a position of power where they floundered like fish out of water until circumstances intervened to put an end to their misery.

[Gromit]

You write drivel sometimes AH.

2017 Corbyn fought an election in which he said he would honour the EU referendum result. He many gained seats.

2019 Corbyn dropped his principles and let himself be persuaded by Starmer, Thornberry and the rest of those Remainer Labour MPs, into ignoring the referendum result and proposing a second referendum (which Labour voters didn’t want). And the voters all voted Tory and not Labour.

And the architects of Labour’s defeat are vying for the succession. Which will keep them in the wilderness for several election cycles.

[jno]

though Thatcher got a life peerage, her husband was made a hereditary baronet, which seems like sleight of hand and has given us Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd baronet and a credit to the British peerage system.

[ludwig]

// 2019 Corbyn dropped his principles //

He dropped his principles well before that when he pretended to be a remainer. I think it was his first experience of the difficulties of being the leader of something, and not having the luxury of just being a principled back bench critic.