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Car Crash at the Labour Party Womens Network Leadership hustings

39 replies

DJLippy · 05/03/2020 18:29

Have any of you seen footage of the Labour Party Hustings last night? Leadership candidates yet again ignoring women's concerns delivering tone death answers yet again! Footage here along with a transcript should anybody we so interested
makemorenoisemanc.wixsite.com/mysite/post/labour-loosing-women-at-the-labour-party-women-s-network-hustings

In summary

'It is deeply frustrating that we seem to think that when we're talking about women's rights and women's safety that this is only an issue for women.' Lisa Nandy the gift that keeps on giving.

'The good thing about this leadership campaign is that we all agree with what one another say.' Rebecca Long Bailey is definitely not stuck in an echo chamber and has a thorough understanding of how democracy works...

The chair seemed to have a similar understanding warning women who tried to speak that 'If you cannot sit quietly I will ask you to leave.'

Kier Starmer criticised the tone of the debate and said we should all dial it down a bit. Tbh by that point he'd bored us to death so maybe he should be leader...One way to heal Labours divisions eh?

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Qcng · 05/03/2020 20:11

Yvette Cooper nooooo! God no.

Mockerswithnoknockers · 05/03/2020 20:08

They are all absolutely useless.

There are still good people in Labour who would make better leaders than this lot: Margaret Beckett, Yvette Cooper, Alan Johnston, David Miliband, hell even Ed Miliband.

It's the political second law of thermodynamics. Labour is slowly disintegrating into a primordial soup of incoherent virtue-signalling babble.

It wouldn't be so bad if there was a Liberal Democrat Party, but they're even farther down the line. Charles Kennedy was the last good 'un they had.

endofthelinefinally · 05/03/2020 20:05

Sadly, stupidity is rife.

BacklashStarts · 05/03/2020 20:03

Jesus! These fuckers should listen to some of the speakers from the IWD debates and cop on to themselves.

Why are the competing to impress no nothing gender dickheads on Twitter? Spoiler: you can never please those people as they don’t actually give a fuck.

pombear · 05/03/2020 20:01

Ah - transcript already done by the amazing Make More Noise group. Will breathe and read-along! I love all our transcripters, here and elsewhere - despite our challengers calling it 'typing in' - this is documenting history. Smile

pombear · 05/03/2020 19:58

I'm tempted to do a transcript so we have it here and elsewhere for posterity. (And so ROwantrees , our epic archiver has more to link to!)

But on the other hand, I'm so fucked off with this batshittery I'm not sure I have the energy to document it!

ClitoriaTernatea · 05/03/2020 19:51

Bloody hell.

2 leadership candidates who don't know the Equality Act is called the Equality Act (not Equalities Act FFS)

1 candidate who clearly has no clue what the GRA actually is and does.

And all 3 turned a question about women into answers about trans.

JFC.

And they wonder why we are pissed off.

Chiochan · 05/03/2020 19:38

All the answers were an insulting word salad of nonsensical self promotion and just utter rubbish.
It was an insult to the electorate.
If it had been about traffic calming measures it would have been an insult as an answer.
They must really think people are stupid.
Well I guess that explains why noone wants to vote Labour.

thecompletenonsequitur · 05/03/2020 19:37

I wish some Labour Party members would break away and form a new party. They could call it 'Old Labour'.

Qcng · 05/03/2020 19:24

Every single answer was straight from an echo chamber.
They don't listen. They refuse to listen.

Chiochan · 05/03/2020 19:21

You'd think they'd had enough of making tits of themselvs.

Labour is pritty much a joke right now, as I life long leftist frankly the left is dead.
I really cant see how it can come back. Mainly because they dont want to.
I see revolution coming, but not from the left. Which I would say is truely tragic except the left has shown itself to have about as much moral integrity as the catholic church.

Angryresister · 05/03/2020 19:05

Yes I was filling in that bingo card too. so depressing to hear this regurgitation all over again.

theflushedzebra · 05/03/2020 19:00

I want to make "leadership hustings bingo card".

  • Political Football...
  • Trans community have been abused and vilified...
  • The GRA is a good start but doesn't go far enough
  • I worked at CentrePoint...
  • Pitted against one another
  • I've got a young trans person in my constituency
  • Suicide rates
  • TWAW and TMAM
  • It's like the 80s
  • Dehumanising process

Every single Hustings would be "House".

Thelnebriati · 05/03/2020 18:35

''Losing''
sorry. (not sorry).