Eddie Izzard running for Labour MP in Brighton

JFC

So shall be running as Eddie I thought he was now mainly Suzie

I guess he needs financial backing

So, he used to be a man in a frock. Now he is one of us, because reasons (and this stunning and brave transformation coincides with him getting serious about getting into parliament.

No man in a frock would be voted in, as he well knows, but riding the coatails of the trans express might just do the trick.

I would have had so much respect had he run as a gender non confirming man. He could have broken so many taboos. Now he is just the latest on the TRA bandwagon.

Supercharged councillors isn’t the insult Eddie thinks it is. If you do it well it’s a lot of work for expenses but no pay and it involves looking at potholes and grass cutting

Didn't he call the other candidates "supercharged councillors "

Oh yes I can imagine Yorkshire people just loving hearing about how much better Londoners are

I should imagine that went down well. Northerners just love being subservient to London, right?

To be fair, his campaign also included telling locals that he could use his London celebrity and general fabulous London-ness to help put Sheffield on the map.

that's what I mean. he should definitely be allowed to be a very public proponent of operation let them speak

He's failed to get elected to a number of positions within the party, and a few as Labour's representative, the latest being Sheffield, where his campaign seems to have consisted of "Look at me: I'm trans!", "Oh yeah, and I went to uni here, too." and very little else.

To be fair, his campaign also included telling locals that he could use his London celebrity and general fabulous London-ness to help put Sheffield on the map.

This is really annoying. I grew up in Brighton. It is quite different from most of the rest of the country but it still has some fairly serious social problems. It needs a serious politician to be its MP, not someone there to put on a show - it gets enough of that.

😂

Nice.

He's gone for Brighton because it's one of the very few places that might vote him in just because he's trans.
He's failed to get elected to a number of positions within the party, and a few as Labour's representative, the latest being Sheffield, where his campaign seems to have consisted of "Look at me: I'm trans!", "Oh yeah, and I went to uni here, too." and very little else.

He still has to be selected to stand in the General Election and I think he'll still have a tremendous battle on his hands. He's actually not that popular with Labour party members and he's done very little to change that.

So he's on a bottle with Edinburg Gin promoting the festival, I unsubscribed and told them why via email.

And are they going to have a song and dance about Eddie changing pronouns / clothes when they haven’t had a female leader at all

It may not be a bad thing, in terms of making people think what is going on

This quote is so over the top but also quite good at putting Starmer in spotlight

Is he going to stop that ott thing, but Eddie believes it, happening or do it. Either way it’s got blowback written on it

Also, local party members really do have a strong preference for local candidates. Occasionally central office parachutes someone in but they are usually pretty good people. I don’t see little Keir doing this for Eddie

I think even if he did get selected and elected there’s no way he’d last the full term. Being an MP is actually quite a mundane and difficult job. Even the attention seekers (yes Jess Phillips were looking at you) actually do quite a lot of hard graft which attracts little notice. it’s not a job for a showbiz look at me type.

Good lord. That's so tone deaf as to almost need a different term to describe it.

Starmer must be bricking it.

I’ve young friends living in Brighton who hate the Greens as they are so inept at local government. Would they vote for Izzard as Labour though?

What are the odds of the Tories taking Brighton Pavilion? Must be worth a punt if the Izzard of Was splits the luxury opinion vote. Could be spit 3 ways with the Lib Dims.

Get yer money on !

Obama quote is from the interview in the local Brighton paper

www.theargus.co.uk/news/23699795.amp/

@GolgafrinchamB Fucking hell. The arrogance is astonishing. And comparing being a straight white man who wants to invade women’s spaces with being African American

Quite alot of the tossers who govern are not fit to govern.

Eddie is unique in that Eddie has made this abundantly clear in advance in so many many ways.

It's all about Eddie. It's always all about Eddie.

No-one else matters.

But… but…. but… then young aspiring political hopefuls with a first class degree from Oxbridge and well connected parents would have to work at proper jobs for AGES, I mean like YEARS, before getting advisor/ research jobs with MPs for three years and walking into safe seats. That is SO not fair. Some of them have got LOADS of really useful skills to offer, experience isn’t EVERYTHING you know, you can pick up AMAZING understanding of like how things work when you are on a gap year and then like transfer those into really useful sound bites to support your constituents when they come to you with their issues. And anyway, if you had to live somewhere for like 15 years you would probably be well over thirty before you took your seat, far too old, you just wouldn’t have the energy to be an MP.

@BernardBlacksMolluscs - here’s the screenshot I say on Twitter but the user didn’t quote the source.