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Given she had 45 minutes to prepare, she was mighty.

Yup she was excellent

Possible replacement for Sir Keir well? Doubtless it would bring forth a load of "tougher than IDS bollocks" (she didn't say that, the Guardian did, she was announcing creating jobs for the long term unemployed paid for by taxing bankers) but I think she might get stuck in more consistently than Starmer.

I wouldn't mind a bit of Richard Burgon comedy as well.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:16 pm I wouldn't mind a bit of Richard Burgon comedy as well.

Benn, Burgon and Reeves - never a dull moment at Labour Leeds HQ.

Reeves struck me as bright but a bit wonky for the frontline. Wrong about that. I know she was a junior chess champion but didn’t see much evidence of that in her political skills. I was wrong again.
Good to see the rise of her number two as well; Bridget Philipson, an ardent Remainer who looked her Sunderland constituents in the eye and told them why. Didn’t do her any harm.

Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 12:52 am Reeves struck me as bright but a bit wonky for the frontline. Wrong about that. I know she was a junior chess champion but didn’t see much evidence of that in her political skills. I was wrong again.
Good to see the rise of her number two as well; Bridget Philipson, an ardent Remainer who looked her Sunderland constituents in the eye and told them why. Didn’t do her any harm.

Much as I admired those NE MPs who laid it on the line re Brexit, they didn't come out of it well electorally. Phillipson had a bigger swing against her than Laura Pidcock. She was saved by starting from a better position and the Tories being less good at squeezing Brexit Party MPs.

I'm glad to see her getting more profile now though. Maybe the Brexit squeeze will help vindicate her going forward. I don't think any Labour figure is going to tell Brexitland that they're taking a 4% GDP hit to keep a very small number of "Poles" out of their local area.

That’s unfortunate for Bridget but she’s not the one eating shit now or likely to be in the future. 4% is a national average and as a Brexiter in the north east famously said to a Remain campaigner; that’s not our GDP. Or high tech Remoaner Cambridge’s GDP either. -6 + 2= -4. But hey Freeports.

Somewhere else got the freeport and all.

Dom may be gone but the same sort of people are in charge. Clever tech future (mannnn) evokes Cambridge more than Sunderland.

Unbelievable. Not just that Kuenssberg said this, but stuck it in the edited final item.

Who do you think you are Mr former DPP to define a corrupt practice?

Sir Keir and his donkey field, Corbynite edition. He's just like Owen Paterson, having worked on projects to oppose the death penalty, on youth justice and refugee mental health.

I'm not sure why it was that tweet/replies that did it, but that's it. Twitter can get fucked. The medium is the message, and the message given out is that too many people are irresponsible.

I gave up posting on it, but I read it a lot. Or I read a few sensible people a lot. Via one of them (Steve Peers) I came across Beckett's latest.

I think you have the right idea though.

What's so bad about being "co-owner of a house in Surrey inhabited by family members"?

Do *real" Socialists live in squats or sleep on the streets, and make their family members do the same? Corbyn's no Socialist. The capitalist bastard owns a house worth a lot more than £100, 000, *and* he lives in it. #redtory

Howard didn't read it.

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:58 am I'm not sure why it was that tweet/replies that did it, but that's it. Twitter can get fucked. The medium is the message, and the message given out is that too many people are irresponsible.

tbf most of the replies pointed out it was bollocks.

#themediaisthevirus

Then again, it did generate this spectacular reply:

Utterly dim.