Should I vote Labour

The caption was "Image from Rochester" and that is what it was, a photo image from Rochester. The howls of indignation were a put up job to try and discredit her. I quite liked Ed Miliband but I thought it was cowardly of him not to support her.

It seems to me fairly obvious that whatever background or image a Labour politician has, if their views do not adjust to accommodate a basically right wing agenda, they can be assured they will be attacked on whatever spurious charges can be drummed up.

There's a whole thread about it somewhere if you're interested daphnedill

Anyway, I had addressed my post to BeammeupScottie
to explain some slight misconceptions she had and why what she thought about ET being a member of the aristocracy was an understandable mistake.

Please could you explain why it's odd.

All Thornberry did at the time was to tweet a picture of a house adorned with England flags and a white van in front. I can't remember the exact comment, but it wasn't derogatory. That was the media's interpretation.

In any case, why should anybody who's been brought up on an estate have what some would call a "white van man mentality"? It seems to me that's a stereotypical attitude.

Beam
Emily Thornberry's father was Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations.
For whatever reason, she was brought up on a council estate after her parents' divorce.
She joined the Labour party at 17, motivated, she said later, by her “hard” and “unfair” upbringing.
so one would presume that her father abandoned the family and her mother was left to bring the family up on her own.
‘My mum struggled for years to bring up me and my brothers on benefits'
'You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can’t take the estate out of the girl.’
Which makes her remarks about white vans and English flags all the more odd.

As her husband is Sir Christopher Nugee her correct title is Lady Nugee.

I was surprised to learn that Thornberry is a member of the Aristocracy (father is a Lord and a Tory Grandee)

I think someone's been feeding you fake news, Beam

www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/21/emily-thornberry-profile-labour-mp-islington

Born in July 1960, Emily Thornberry was raised on a council estate outside Guildford by her mother, a teacher and Labour councillor, after her parents divorced when she was seven. Her father Cedric Thornberry was an academic and human rights lawyer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Thornberry

Of course, the wikipedia article could be talking about a completely different Cedric Thornberry, but it does say that Emily is his daughter.

Abbot and Chakrabarti that is. I was surprised to learn that Thornberry is a member of the Aristocracy (father is a Lord and a Tory Grandee) methinks a bit of family rebellion?
Talk about zeal of the converted!

At least Tony Blair and Cameron (and even Gove)sent/send their children State.
They are such whited sepulchres.

Not forgetting Shami is against grammer schools because they enforce segregation, her son is educated at Dulwhich College !

Dishonest, she was against the Lords but got her bum on the benches pretty damn quickly,

Clever, yes, but smug and self-righteous. Always thought she was iffy.

Quite a clever girl realy Beam, joins the party, gets the anti semitism allegations to investigate, in April , finds no faults and heads for the Lords and the title of baroness in August

She's another resident of Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Many interviewed today said the same Beam, but not Lady Shami who hasn't encountered any troubles during her campaigning !

I had a certain respect for the Labour guy who was defeated by Andy Street (the Solihull J.Lewis fans swung it) for Mayor of W,Mids. He said he had had trouble selling Labour because of antipathy towards the leader!

Well, seems Andy didn't know Jez was going to Manchester, Jez mailed momentum supporters but no others, explains the cheers and chants when he arrived, it was ?Momentum arranged , yet again,

Corbyn has trotted to Manchester and greeted with cheers, for some strange reason Andy didn't accompany him , wonder why!

Jalima, a third of the population of the UK now have a directly elected metropolitan mayor.

The older he gets, the more strange those eyelashes look...

Fitzy, who do the BNP suggest people vote for?

I voted for Andy when Milliband won the leadership. I am more than irritated ti keep hearing Wales did not suffer the wipeout predicted, McDonald and Corbyn were sooooo pleased, we campaigned as Welsh Labour with Carwyn our leader, Corbyn wasn't spoken of . It will be difficult come the election, we do not want Corbyns face on our fliers, our TV broadcasts are on behalf of Welsh Labour .party not Labour Party.

DJ, Rigby, neither UKIP, nor any "fascist, right wing" groups are advocating voting tory as far as I am aware. It's the support given by dedicated, politically active, extreme groups that I was commenting on. The leadership of such organisations mean business and would not support a party that they did not truly believe would implement policies very close to their own hearts.

It's just not fair, is it.

(the eyelashes I mean)

He of the long eyelashes.

The metro mayors were in the cities.
I think I understand what 'metro' means

I was talking about Andy Burnham

Yes, they will Beam.... and the bitter end isn't far away!