He is a tw*t.

It's amazing how so many life long labour voters change their tune the minute they get some property under their belts.

That's not a critisism but a statement of fact.

Absolutely magnificent speech by Hilary Benn. One of the best speeches I've ever seen in parliament

His father will be turning in his grave.

Spine tingling stuff. I've watched several hours of the debate, on and off, and there were several stand-out speeches but Benn's was very fine.

Theo Usherwood. Dear, oh dear, oh dear.

He is a tw*t.

Sorry for the repetition

Tom Swarbrick would do a better job.

I was thinking exactly the same.
Tom Swarbrick just reports, which is what a reporter should do.

I disagree with it but, it was a very good speech. There were some great speech's today, from both sides of the debate.

The style was good (and obviously well-rehearsed), but the substance was bankrupt. It was bombastic, empty rhetoric.
This is bound to happen, with so many Blairite New Labour MPs still in place. It will be interesting to see how the party resolves this issue in the future.

Well our masters have voted to drop more bombs tonight with the assurance that this will make us all safer. Personally I don't feel any safer than I did last night
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Tonight is a very sad night!

No doubt more fighting and MPs making nasty little digs at Corbyn!

The media (including LBC) have blown this out of all proportion, because our contribution to airstrikes on Syria will be minimal. The ulterior motive is to champion and reinforce the potential break-up of the only viable opposition to the establishment - the Labour Party. The silly schoolboy Theo Usherwood is pushing this issue to the extreme.

Maybe he wants a job at The Sun?

I can't listen to Theo Usherwood and Ian Collins anymore! I'm Off!

There'd be nothing to reinforce or champion if the vast majority of the PLP didn't want him as leader. Nothing to reinforce or champion If numerous senior former cabinet members hadn't spoken and voted against him today. The Shadow Foreign secretary stood up and made a devastating speech disagreeing with everything his leader who was sat behind him had said from that same despatch box a few hours earlier. Unprecedented.

I'm guessing Hilary Benn will be the next Labour leader, maybe within the next few months. I think Corbyn tried hard, but if he hasn't got the support of the PLP then he's pretty well crippled politically. I believe the Labour party vote was intended more as a ruse to cripple JC quickly rather than genuine appetite for a bombing campaign in Syria, which will have bad consequences 2 years along. Even Harriet Harman voted for the bombing which says a lot. This is once again going to cost us a huge amount of money, thousands of civilian lives and achieve little in stopping ISIS...not to mention exacerbate the refugee crisis.

Diane James keeps trying to make out this is a good result!

UKIP vote was up, it keeps Corbyn in his job, making Labour unelectable, it raised the real issues about how the postal voting system is being manipulated in an undemocratic manner, and the other parties didn't even get a sniff.
What's not to like?

Which, of course, UKIP would have pointed out if they'd won and would have demanded a re-election immediately.

If UKIP cannot get close in an election when everything was in their favour with the much reported disarray in the Labour party they may as well give up on domestic politics and concentrate on being a single issue protest party. One ex Tory MP and control of zero local councils is fairly dismal.

JOB made a very good point about UKIP getting less votes than Nick Griffin did in 2001!

Everything in their favour ?

Have you not seen the demographic there ?