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[Daveysgingerlovechild]

They see him as being on the left of the Party.

Plenty of reports and even Andy has spoke up about it over the years.

Andy Burnham urges Sir Keir Starmer's Labour to 'leave me alone'

The mayor has hit out at 'the negative Westminster briefing machine'

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That's quite amusing given his part in the Blair government. I'd have thought those soliciting the support of thirsty centrist Dad's pining for the Blair years would have lapped him up.

 

[tsubaki]

That's quite amusing given his part in the Blair government. I'd have thought those soliciting the support of thirsty centrist Dad's pining for the Blair years would have lapped him up.

I don't think they ever forgave him for joining Team Corbs (briefly), and of course any alternative leader - be it him, Khan or Drakeford - gets that sort of treatment, in fact come to think of it Khan probably gets it worse. The way they tried to blame ULEZ expansion, a policy whose benefits they and their families literally experience every single day, for losing the Uxbridge by-election was sickening.

 

[Rita_Poon]

That's quite amusing given his part in the Blair government. I'd have thought those soliciting the support of thirsty centrist Dad's pining for the Blair years would have lapped him up.

PRTSD - the R is for that russ bellend.

 

[tsubaki]

I hate what this party has become.

I love how organizing against official Labour candidates at recent elections (Wain was CEO of a - titter ye not - grassroots movement called United for Change set up with £5 million from donors) has somehow been deemed ok now, after they spent so long throwing people out for much less than that.

Wain's comments about Knowsley shouldn't disqualify him from being a Labour candidate; his demonstrable utter ineptitude at politics as a career and his lack of any skill which the country needs a leader to have should be what disqualifies him.

 

[tsubaki]

Must. Be. Outraged. By. Everything.

"I've found myself in strange places...."

Bruce he went to Kings College London, has a short career in advertising and spent at least the last ten years working in politics with senior politicians (he used to work for Liam Byrne). It isn't like he fell asleep on the train and found himself in Bidston.

 

[Digger09]

Must. Be. Outraged. By. Everything.

Nah it’s him being a bootlicker.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

"I've found myself in strange places...."

Bruce he went to Kings College London, has a short career in advertising and spent at least the last ten years working in politics with senior politicians (he used to work for Liam Byrne). It isn't like he fell asleep on the train and found himself in Bidston.

You mean he's not quite being honest??? Unbelievable behaviour from a politician

 

[Mrbluenose]

Come on Labour.

The next General Election is there for the taking.

You just need a Tory Lite leader to reach out and take it.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Noooo, not the precious...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

"I've found myself in strange places...."

Bruce he went to Kings College London, has a short career in advertising and spent at least the last ten years working in politics with senior politicians (he used to work for Liam Byrne). It isn't like he fell asleep on the train and found himself in Bidston.

I don't recall commenting on the rest of his quote, nor indeed him as a person. Just the idea that we should take offense at what is clearly self deprecating humour seems like Kopite behaviour.

 

[tsubaki]

I don't recall commenting on the rest of his quote, nor indeed him as a person. Just the idea that we should take offense at what is clearly self deprecating humour seems like Kopite behaviour.

Well yes, but we should take offence at him being anywhere near selection as a Labour PPC.

 

[orchard]

I don't recall commenting on the rest of his quote, nor indeed him as a person. Just the idea that we should take offense at what is clearly self deprecating humour seems like Kopite behaviour.

It wasn't self deprecating though was it. Nice try Bruce.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It wasn't self deprecating though was it. Nice try Bruce.

He's a scouser who was using the stereotype of the city to suggest he didn't belong where he was. It might not be the height of humour and he might well be a terrible candidate, but of all things to get your knickers in a knot over.

 

[orchard]

He's a scouser who was using the stereotype of the city to suggest he didn't belong where he was. It might not be the height of humour and he might well be a terrible candidate, but of all things to get your knickers in a knot over.

I get it, but not self deprecating imo. More context needed from the footage. If I was Scouse i'd probably get peeved with people perpetuating the myth too, it's pretty much all of the former industrial areas where people have been finding it rough, including London.

 

[tsubaki]

I get it, but not self deprecating imo. More context needed from the footage. If I was Scouse i'd probably get peeved with people perpetuating the myth too, it's pretty much all of the former industrial areas where people have been finding it rough, including London.

Its a narrative - listen to my accent, I grew up in "a poor area", ignore everything I've done in my adult life, what I am likely to do if I get in and the well-worn path upon which I tread.