What would be the best method of electing the next Labour Party leader?

Getting rid of anyone who has been in the cabinet for the last 13 years (the whole lot of them are so appauling they make Brown look like a brilliant politician), then putting the rest of the names in a hat and pulling one out. You'd probably get someone better than an election where Balls, Milliband and Miliband are the front runners.|||Spin the bottle.|||letting the public vote for there favoured leader. i mean look wot happened with gorden brown|||Use the Graham Norton / Andrew Lloyd Webber formula. It might not produce the best leader, but it would certainly top up party funds.|||Ask questions whilst they're hooked up to a lie detector. The one with the best score wins! Perhaps the method could be used for ALL politicians.|||Ask him if he/she is a complete dick head then in you go!|||Maybe by selecting candidates that represent Labour values.|||Put it to a referendum, and at the same time have another General Election. That way we can perhaps get all the votes mixed up and by default let Labour back into office and get the ConDems out.|||Put them all in a gladiator pit. and who ever is left alive is the leader......then shoot him. NO country should ever suffer a new labour government again. It surely must be against our human rights.|||Exclude all members of the previous government for a start!|||Exclude anyone who actually wants the job (Labour is so full of egotists that this will improve the quality of candidates at a stroke) then have the rest play darts blindfolded. First one to actually hit the board wins. Or draw straws. Or put them in a knockout league (same as the World Cup finals work) and have a Monopoly competition. Or put them on Mastermind. Or.... well, I don't know. Does it matter?





Or... and this is a real shot in the dark... go back to the previous system where only the MPs get to vote. That way the MPs get a leader that the majority of them can work with, not someone the constituency parties and the unions happen to like. Ever since they changed it to 1/3 MPs, 1/3 local parties and 1/3 unions in the voting, they've elected oddballs and the election takes months. The Conservatives are potentially able to choose a new leader inside a week.





I remember when they changed the system. "New Scientist" printed a cartoon showing a class at the Institute of Very Advanced Mathematics. The lecturer is telling the class: "This week we will cover Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Next week we will go on to the Labour Party leader electoral system."|||Gordon Brown should not have resigned as party leader. If anyone wanted to stand against him by the time of the party conference then they should do so. In six months time let's see how popular Gordon Brown is when Vatman and Dave are running around like headless chickens not knowing what to do as the economy collapses under the burden of their wrong decisions.