No surprise here. Oona King was always going to be the establishment candidate.

I just wonder which way Diane Abbot will jump. The leadership race will add to her already strong profile to give her the biggest clout of any London MP. Let’s hope she actively declares for Ken.

Or if not Ken, then anybody apart from a Blairite warmonger like Oona King!

Also, they aren’t really her policies either are they?

Of the two that she’s announced, one is a Ken Livingstone policy from his last term, and the other is a chunk of the Labour government’s legislation on HMOs, which the coalition shelved. Neither does anything to dispel the prevalent impression of her as someone without ideas of her own. When will she come up with a genuinely original policy idea?

Oona King supported by that cowardly hypocrite Kate Hoey?

F**k that!!!

I can’t think of a more depressing front runner to put up to get rid of Boris Johnson.

Okay, maybe Charles Clarke.

Ken should stand for Mayor of Tower Hamlets.

Without wanting to be too dismissive, I think this is more of a vanity project a serious campaign.

Oona King lacks any sort of popular support amongst the grass roots, and a strong and energised grass roots campaign is our only chance of stopping the Tories from buying the election.

Or take Kate Hoey. The problem isn’t that she’s a ‘coward’ as somebody above said. The problem is that she’s the only woman in London to support fox hunting!

My prediction is that Ken will beat Oona easily and then give her some sort of well paid sinecure to keep her supporters happy.

Trebles all around, as they say over at Private Eye.

Oona is good candidate, better than Ken.
Also she is not as Blairite as people make out . She is an independent thinker on many issues.
She also would be a difficult target for the Tory press including The Evening Standard.

Why do you think she would be a good candidate, Nick ?

As far as I can see she is pretty much exactly the sort of dreary career politico people know and despise.

If I’m wrong about that tell me why.

Your silence is deafening

Given the recent attacks on children by foxes, perhaps Londoners will be moving more in Kate Hoey’s direction on the issue.

Is this the same Oona King who:

Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. (very diverse)
Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.
Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards.
Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.
Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.
Voted against laws to stop climate change.?

The same Oona King who rode the Blairtie tiger and couldn’t understand why she was not made foreign secretary after two years in the H of C?

The same Oona King who tried to play the race and anti-semitism card to save her seat in parliament and failed?

The same Oona King that still say she does not regret voting for the war in Iraq, despite the casualties?

The same Oona King, the professional politician who has never had a proper job and couldn’t run a whelk stall?

Do you know, I believe it is….

Christ, her or the “Kennist” Livingstone! What a choice. Lefties like me will have to hope a decent independent stands.