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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 24, 2020 19:47:19 GMT
Rebecca Long-Bailey has won the backing of the Unite trade union in her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
The shadow business secretary now needs just one more union or affiliate group to endorse her to confirm her place on the members' ballot.
Unite's general secretary, Len McCluskey, said Mrs Long-Bailey had the "brains and the brilliance" to take on PM Boris Johnson.
The union will also back Richard Burgon for the vacant deputy leader post.
Speaking after a meeting in London, Mr McCluskey said his union would make a "substantial" donation towards Mrs Long-Bailey's campaign.
The union, which was Labour's biggest financial backer during last month's election, had been widely expected to back her pitch for the top job.
Rebecca Long Bailey - slightly to the Left of Corbyn
So that's Labour buggered for another five years.
(or maybe not - wot the fcuk do I know)
Hyphen or no hyphen?
What is more Working Class? - In a hip and groovy Labour Party?
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 24, 2020 19:54:53 GMT
It's also interesting that the Labour Party always goes on about diversity and sexual politics but it's the Tories that have had two female Prime Ministers and far more "people of Colour" MPs and on their Front Bench.
Whereas the Labour Party goes for White Middle Class Chaps from Islington.
I hasten to add that I have never voted for the Tories in my life.
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Post by voice on Jan 24, 2020 20:06:02 GMT
They are in the habit of loosing and by the look of things its gonna be a hard habit to break
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Post by flatandy on Jan 24, 2020 20:25:22 GMT
I actually quite like most of the leadership contenders. Ironically, given WKC's comment, my favourite of them is Kier Starmer who is the white middle class bloke from Islington.
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Post by mids on Jan 24, 2020 21:01:08 GMT
Starmer's the most working class of the lot I think. Their best bet is Nandy- she's almost normal and probably isn't a massive anti-Semite. She's boring as hell and totally uninspiring as a leader but they really should be thinking about just steadying the ship rather than winning any elections until the 2050s. I hope it's Wrong-Daily though. It's nice to see foetal alcohol syndrome victims doing well.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 24, 2020 21:27:12 GMT
It's also interesting that the Labour Party always goes on about diversity and sexual politics but it's the Tories that have had two female Prime Ministers and far more "people of Colour" MPs and on their Front Bench. Whereas the Labour Party goes for White Middle Class Chaps from Islington. I hasten to add that I have never voted for the Tories in my life. Do the MCC know that? |
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 24, 2020 22:18:50 GMT
yes - and I was horsewhipped on the steps of the pavilion
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 25, 2020 1:53:31 GMT
I thought it may be Keir Starmer.
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 25, 2020 1:54:17 GMT
I actually quite like most of the leadership contenders. Ironically, given WKC's comment, my favourite of them is Kier Starmer who is the white middle class bloke from Islington. I liked him too (and he maybe middle class now but seems to be from a fairly working class background. Unusual for politicians.) (And a side note - he has an excellent name.) |
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 25, 2020 1:58:41 GMT
It's also interesting that the Labour Party always goes on about diversity and sexual politics but it's the Tories that have had two female Prime Ministers and far more "people of Colour" MPs and on their Front Bench. Whereas the Labour Party goes for White Middle Class Chaps from Islington. I hasten to add that I have never voted for the Tories in my life. Shields. They need the shields. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 25, 2020 6:59:46 GMT
I actually quite like most of the leadership contenders. Ironically, given WKC's comment, my favourite of them is Kier Starmer who is the white middle class bloke from Islington. I liked him too (and he maybe middle class now but seems to be from a fairly working class background. Unusual for politicians.) (And a side note - he has an excellent name.) For now. |
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Post by mids on Jan 25, 2020 7:53:43 GMT
If it's to be chosen by name then they should have Thangman Debbonaire. Mind you she's a woman and Labour do have their woman problem when it comes to leaders.
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Post by mids on Jan 25, 2020 7:55:54 GMT
It's also interesting that the Labour Party always goes on about diversity and sexual politics but it's the Tories that have had two female Prime Ministers and far more "people of Colour" MPs and on their Front Bench. Whereas the Labour Party goes for White Middle Class Chaps from Islington. I hasten to add that I have never voted for the Tories in my life. Don't forget the Tories' ethnic minority PMs and leaders too. Disraeli and Johnson as well as IDS. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 25, 2020 8:28:53 GMT
Yeah, Shirley William of the SDP and Seamus Mallon of the SDLP have done well out of WKC's dyslexia over the years. All those donations, and torchlight rallies for the NSU and NASA ....
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 25, 2020 8:56:00 GMT
Oh yeah, Keir Starmer's working class background: how about bollocks?
Typical artful use of language. Privately educated and from a very comfortable background indeed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 9:02:33 GMT
And just look at his hair-do.
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Post by Repat Van on Jan 25, 2020 15:05:15 GMT
Oh yeah, Keir Starmer's working class background: how about bollocks? Typical artful use of language. Privately educated and from a very comfortable background indeed. “He was the second of four children of Josephine (née Baker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker.[2] Keir was named after the first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie.[3] He passed the 11-plus examination and gained entry to Reigate Grammar School, then a voluntary aided state school,” (although yes the school did convert while he was there) Definitely working class background. www.google.com.au/amp/s/blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/the-reason-keir-starmer-sounds-middle-class-is-that-he-is-in-fact-working-class/amp/“ But Starmer is right to defend his background as it isn’t what people say it is. His father worked in a factory as a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse. She was in and out of hospital with a rare illness which eventually forced her to stop working. Starmer was the first in his family to go to university. He is from a humble background. What makes him seem as though he has had the same comfortable upbringing as the stereotypical politician is that he has learned to look the part. ” |
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Post by perrykneeham on Jan 25, 2020 15:43:30 GMT
I think you're falling victim to wishful reading. What makes you think he came from a working class family? Is it the grammar school?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2020 17:02:31 GMT
Mixed race too.
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Post by mids on Jan 25, 2020 18:21:59 GMT
Mixed species, more like.
Anyway, why does it matter about his background?
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