Can you name one current political figure you admire?

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Preferably in this country (UK) but could be international. One person who seems inspiring, hard working, well intentioned, pioneering or any other characteristic you admire.

Michael Fabricant ❤️❤️❤️

Rosie Duffield. She stands up for what she believes in at great personal cost.

I admire Jess Phillips. There’s a reason Elon Musk’s going for her, and it’s because he recognises she’s a threat to his stupid world view. I rate Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper, although she’s been given an impossible task.

Hillary Benn could do with a higher profile, as could Pat McFadden.

She’s a tax dodger. I hope she’s heavily fined and serves time. She thinks she’s invincible. I can’t think of any likeable MPs from any party.

Yes, of course the electorate elect the government. If you can't tell the difference between the parties, there's info out there.

The trade unions made Angela Rayner. She admits it herself. They saw a feisty, loud female and decided to make something of her.

Definitely not Wes Streeting, who may as well be a Tory, for his work in the NHS. Can’t think of a single one.

Rayner gets this classist, sexist nonsense all the time.

All parties and movements 'make' their leading politicians - but only Rayner gets dismissed this way.

I’m so confused with this.
when I’ve bought houses the solicitor has gone
“this is your stamp duty, I need it now to proceed”
it’s not something I’ve personally calculated (other than in budget form) and paid directly to anyone other than my solicitor who is the one legally obliged to handle it.

putting the house in trust to ensure her disabled son is cared for is entirely sensible. It prevents her ex husband selling it off, prevents a new spouse inheriting it, prevents it being used for care home fees for for either Angela or her ex husband. Being an ex care worker she will appreciate the situation her son could be on much more acutely than most.

Andy Burnham
Yvette cooper

do you actually think all that can be fixed in a year?

really? which bit I wonder ?

You appear to misunderstand the words “right” “far” and “fringe”…

Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Corbyn

Thangam Debbonaire. Wes Streeting(although I expected more of him-come on Wes, step up) Pete Buttegeig.

Completely missing my point 🙄

Read it from the horse's mouth. Two horses in fact.
Angela Rayner MP - TUC 150 Stories

I would be interested in your sources for that. I follow him (among many others) on X and have for a long time, and I don't recognise what you describe in what I have seen from him.

There seems to have been one very ill-advised tweet from 2009 when he said he wanted to push a journalist under a train as part of a heated exchange, which he has spoken about. All other claims seem to be the usual unsourced social media claims, which get repeated so often that they become accepted despite having no foundation in fact.

It is perfectly acceptable to dislike the man, many do, but not to just make things up about what he has said. If he is that awful, you shouldn't need to.

David Davis for supporting Lucy Letby, I'm a HCP and i've never felt comfortable about the Lucy Letby case and I think it is reasurring that their are people like David Davis willing to stand up and say what a lot of people are thinking and to put in what has clearly been an enormous amount of time and effort to trying to help get justice.

Personally, I'd say Tim Farron, the LibDem MP for Kendal and ex leader of the LibDems. It's not my constituency, but pretty close, so I know/read a lot about what he does and he's incredibly hard working for his constituents and his constituency. He'd have made a really good LibDem leader if he'd been allowed to do it without the media hounding of his religious views.

Joanne Cherry and Rosie Duffield. Two courageous women who wouldn't wheesht.

Bernie Sanders

Jamie Raskinhttps://www.facebook.com/share/r/16XY5vMZv4/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Not spaff our and our children and grandchildrens cash at Mauritius so that the Mauritians can reduce income tax.
Not spaff cash we don't have at the very well paid train drivers for no goof reason.
Not.scare off the non doms and millionaires ie the people who pay the.most tax.
Not deter parents from chosing private school and instead their kids are now financed by the state instead.
Not wreck farms and family firms
Not deter employers from employing people.

That might have helped the "no money" situation.

Highly unlikely that I have, Curlew.