Next Labour leader

[BigH]

McCluskey is part of the whole rotten Corbyn cabal. As, unfortunately, is Long-Bailey.

Labour needs to get rid.

McCluskey is also utterly useless as a union leader. Anyone who has had the misfortune to rely on Unite for help at any stage - as I have - will have experienced some of the most inept support possible. Disorganised, inexperienced, hapless. So bad that it was easier for me to leave my job.

People slag off Gordon Taylor - and he deserves it - but McCluskey's as bad for using Unite and its members' contributions to indulge his own personal vanity projects.

[ravenrover]

And why didn't she comment about anti-semetism ......... I was too busy! 
It just gets better

[wilts rover]

And why didn't she comment about anti-semetism ......... I was too busy! 
It just gets better

Do you have a link to that comment please Raven?

Earlier this months she said she had argued for a stronger line on tackling anti-semitism, speeding up processes and communicating with the Jewish community.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/rebecca-long-bailey-we-werent-strong-enough-on-antisemitism/
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/rebecca-long-bailey-we-werent-strong-enough-on-antisemitism/

[ravenrover]

It was on an interview on tellybox but heres's a link to Mirror interview
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://mobile.twitter.com/jbickertonuk/status/1220052391153864709&ved=2ahUKEwjCur7Jr5znAhWzkFwKHa6UDFMQjjgwAXoECAkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3Owsn9XN6ItLhgjoDWxUK8

[wilts rover]

Sorry raven but it says that page from the Director of Oppose Corbynism doesn't exist

If this is the interview by Pippa Crerar you are referring to https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labours-rebecca-long-bailey-says-21330820

the quote appears to referring an accusation that she didn't speak out on difficult issues because she was shy

She laughs that off. “I’m not shy, I was too busy working. I was locked in a room for four years developing a lot of the policies that were in the manifesto, rather than going around wining and dining.”

It is a perfectly legitimate question to ask why RLB didn't speak out more on anti-semitism and what she would do about it if she were to become leader - but to intimate she said something she didn't say, hmmm

[ravenrover]

We see things differently then, this is the quote you couldn't locate

Rebecca Long-Bailey tells The Mirror she didn't speak out over Labour anti-Semitism because "I was too busy working" which is honestly even more pathetic than I was expecting her excuse to be. https://t.co/gc78naOuEu
 
As to intimating something she didn't say
Her answer to Pippa Crerar included the words I was too busy working did it not? which to me and others was in response to as to why she made no comment on the difficult questions including Anti Semetism, nothing to do with denying shyness
All down to your interpretation as opposed to others I suppose mmmmm!

[foxbat]

Going to vote Starmer ,no problem,
not sure about who to vote for Deputy though

[selby]

  Foxbat, wait to vote in ten years time, there might just might mind you, be a reason to  vote by then.

[wilts rover]

We see things differently then, this is the quote you couldn't locate

Rebecca Long-Bailey tells The Mirror she didn't speak out over Labour anti-Semitism because "I was too busy working" which is honestly even more pathetic than I was expecting her excuse to be. https://t.co/gc78naOuEu
 
As to intimating something she didn't say
Her answer to Pippa Crerar included the words I was too busy working did it not? which to me and others was in response to as to why she made no comment on the difficult questions including Anti Semetism, nothing to do with denying shyness
All down to your interpretation as opposed to others I suppose mmmmm!

No it is not my interpretation - it is what is written in the article. You have selectively chosen the quotes that suit you to claim RLB did not speak out on anti-semitism because she was too busy working.

This is the actual quote. It is clear the question to her is are you too shy to speak about difficult issues' NOT 'why did you not speak about anti-semitism'.

Other critics claim she rarely spoke out on difficult issues - from anti-Semitism to Brexit - during her years in shadow cabinet. Some, including her supporters, have blamed it on shyness.

She laughs that off. “I’m not shy, I was too busy working. I was locked in a room for four years developing a lot of the policies that were in the manifesto, rather than going around wining and dining.”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labours-rebecca-long-bailey-says-21330820

[ravenrover]

For some reason my reply is not showing, however I stand by my opinion. Is anti semetism not included in difficult issues. Is she shy no she's not  she says but you are spinning the next part to suit your own interpretation for me she denies shyness then follows it up with a reason as to why she failed to comment on difficult issues I was working

[wilts rover]

I am not spinning any part raven - that is copied directly from the Daily Mirror article. It is what the journalist who asked her the question wrote.

It is you who is doing the spinning. Any issue you want to think is difficult can be covered by difficult issues: Heathrow expansion, open cast coal mines, Trident, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Northern Rail, free broadband, cycle routes in Manchester not only anti-semitism - she was not asked about the issues, - she was asked if she did not speak out because she was too shy.

[ravenrover]

Followed by ............
Lets just agree to disagree?

[SydneyRover]

Would a shy person apply for the job of leader of the labour party that could morph into leader of the country? methinks not.