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Blistering good story by @STJamesl. So BMG focus grouped, Rebecca Bailey-Long, Angela Raynor, and John McDonnell. https://t.co/n6Mf5eEwtr
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If she is the best hope Labour have, they're toast.
Here is the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury not having a clue about, well not having a clue about much at all really.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbgrgByAgSQ
I did note the other day that the leadership were coalescing around her. If she is the anointed one, her odds should be correspondingly short.
Must be utterly miserable to be a long-serving Labour member at the moment.
In fact I only managed to get about one minute into her interview with Andrew Neil before being repulsed by her dreadful Salford accent, but as if that wasn't enough she has the ultra annoying HRT, or Upward Inflection at the end of every sentence. Add to that the awfully pronounced "haitch" as in HMRC and such non-words as "inachievable" in her very first response and I could bear it no longer and neither I suspect would a very large proportion of the UK electorate, or at least those living outside the Manchester conurbation.
Generally, I have nothing against regional accents as such, many of which I positively favour, but her overall style of speech was way too much for me.
Not as much of a negative as turning up to an interview with Andrew Neil without having done your homework though, and on a set-piece day too, so it was hardly a surprise for her.
https://twitter.com/lettersofnote/status/816292960341991424
I have just listened to RLB's interview. I was reminded of Owen Jones, or rather, a much less intelligent version of him.
Any of those three would be the death rattle of the Labour Party.
As to "Walter Mitty"...what a pity.
There must still be a Labour Party that can coalesce around a non-bat-shit crazy option. Isn't there?
Home of the Gloster Aircraft Company, designer and manufacture of the famous Gloster E28/39 (the first turbojet engined aircraft), Gloster Meteor (the only jet aircraft used by the RAF in WW2) and Gloster Gladiator biplane, as well as the Hawker Hurricane and Hawker Typhoon for their parent company Hawker Siddeley.
no chance
Interesting match up in Paris.
I do wonder about this. Whilst we need a strong opposition, I would be curious to see how Corbyn would do at an election.
And the place where the music for the National Anthem was written.
OK, maybe that last one is scraping the barrel a bit.
"A focus group conducted in Manchester last month found that voters think
Jeremy Corbyn is “boring”, appeared “fed up” and “looks like a scruffy school kid”"
The focus group......
http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/305000/620x/grimsby-388614.jpg
Or maybe they meant a proper kid - a farming college with goats?
Either way it seems very unfair - to schoolchildren and to goats.
Berkeley Castle gets all the dubious fame associated with that.
NYT
21 percent of L.G.B.T. people are or lean Republican. What are they thinking? https://t.co/uFrw15deMB https://t.co/ojq7sUwzW4
New York Post
I'm a gay New Yorker — and I'm coming out as a conservative https://t.co/U9VqpYMa3w https://t.co/nx7rPIZkqB
That's not Nice!
That's Cannes!
http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1434274/albert-einstein.jpg
Perhaps she is looked upon as being easily manipulated by those putting her name forward.
We need someone who is going to be his own man/woman. Clive Lewis has certainly proved himself to fall into this category.
I really can't hear what's wrong with Rebecca Long-Bailey's manner of speech. I suppose you wouldn't like Lisa Nandy either, who is also a potential Labour leader.
It's a cunning plan....
Yet another serial killer associated with my birthplace? Aargh, what have I done?
Long-Drop more like.
Some kind of deal may be needed to get her on. Perhaps with a promise to change the rules so that a motion of no confidence from MPs can actually remove the leader? Or that once a year the leader has to survive a parliamentary vote?
Surely if that were offered there would be enough MPs who would think... This is a good deal.
Rugby, Nobility and Roast Pork ....
liberalsconservatives?Rugby, Royalty and Roast Pork.
Recently visited a pub which had double & single Gloucestershire cheese as part of a ploughman's lunch.
Or maybe not.
[On a serious note, deriding people for their background is pathetic and ridiculous. Doesn't matter if they're well-to-do or impoverished].
Mr. Isam, rumours that he's trapped beneath a large piece of limestone have been exaggerated, apparently.
1. Cameron and people from his background have ruled this country almost permanently for at least a century. Part of the criticism was because of over representation
2. Cameron tried to be something he wasn't
I've asked Betfair to include him on the War and Peace list which is the runners and riders for Corbyn's successor.
This is how to do it.
I cannot see any of the candidates put forward as being able to save Labour from a crushing defeat in 2020, except if events intercede (and even then the events may not be favourable to them). With Corbyn, they've essentially wasted two years during which they could have been rebuilding. Worse, they've gone backwards and dig up the foundations.
Stamrer seems the only one who has any competence at all, and I do worry that his time as DPP might contain some juicy stories.
The longer they leave changing leader, the worse the defeat.
I do worry she is pig-shit thick though.
If she is no good at the job then criticise her for that but moaning about her lack of RP is not the correct starting point
Mr. Ace, to be fair, the Gallaghers (one, at least, I think it's Noel) is really rather sharp. He'd be much better than the current Labour leadership.
Making sure that it's English and Welsh working class vote doesn't copy it's Scottish one?
(don't miss the end line!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfXkK1FD3s
As already noted the Duke of Gloucester as Richard III "succeeding" to the English crown. The royal Dukedom of Gloucester has some sad history.
Charles I youngest son died in 1660, a year after becoming the Duke. Queen Anne son William, the heir apparent died in 1700 aged 11. George II's eldest son and heir apparent - Frederick predeceased his father in 1751.
George V's son Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, saw his heir apparent Prince William die in an aircraft accident in 1972.
On the death of the present Duke, Prince Richard, the title will cease to be a royal dukedom as the Earl of Ulster does not enjoy formal royal status.
Incidentally, the England match was rather good. Very close throughout, and a sixteenth consecutive win for us. Huzzah!