Corbyns Momentum

I can't get excited about a young couple, whatever their politics, buying the best house they can afford.
Me neither MaizieD (although when I mentioned on another thread ages ago about young relatives buying a flat in London I was torn to shreds ) - No, what is ridiculous is the silly girl saying she would have liked a council house.

You read the DM website Jen ?

Gillybob, are you not concerned that the DM has put the equivalent of her home address on their website?

Should anyone on her (single) salary be considered for a council house, even if there were more to go around? Of course not . She is quoted as saying that she couldn't afford a deposit to buy, when perhaps what she really should have said was " I can't afford the deposit to buy the house I really want and deserve" which is very different.

I hate hypocrisy. If she had been a Tory MP she would have been ripped to shreds by Corbynists on this thread but hey ho .

I hope Laura Pidcock complains about that article.
If I can identify the house she lives in from the photos in the article, I am sure others can.

Foothills of the Pennines, a few miles from Durham and nearby Newcastle? That puts the foothills of the Pennines at 20 miles from the North Sea.

dj's right. I know that village pretty well (identified it from the photo in the DM) and 'foothills of the Pennines' is really stretching it. It is, however, in the 'foothills' of a very depressed area which has lost most of its industry in the past few decades and has little to replace it.

Of course, the DM has chosen to show a picture of the most 'picturesque' (but rather small) area of the village (with a really busy main road running through it - not somewhere I'd care to live). The rest of it isn't particularly wonderful. Pleasant, but not wonderful.

(and it only has two pubs...)

I can't get excited about a young couple, whatever their politics, buying the best house they can afford.

GG MK2

'This whole thread is deflection DM style.'

No , it's not it is using available information from various sources and hearing/reading from the horses mouth.

You may not have read / heard of some of the points being raised but that does not make them Fake News or deflection DM style.

No Jen, she was talking about her £250,000 house , what is the connection. Between a £250,000 house and a council house ?

durhamjen

I didn't say they were the reason why Pat Glass stood down and you are correct.

She , like other MP's who voted Remain or Leave , have received death threats , those may be from idiots from the left or right of politics. Certainly it will be from a faction who do not believe in others having a differing view from themselves or believe in democracy .

Average salary in North West Durham is just over £20,000.
I think Laura Pidcock knows that and that's why she is talking about the difficulty of saving deposits for houses.

Foothills of the Pennines, a few miles from Durham and nearby Newcastle? That puts the foothills of the Pennines at 20 miles from the North Sea.

For all their loathing of the Tory ‘enemy’ they may find it difficult to avoid Conservative supporters in their new surroundings. Situated in the foothills of the Pennines, the village is home to professionals who commute to the university city of Durham just a few miles away, as well as to nearby Newcastle.

Well, what a silly assumption. The biggest employers of 'professionals' in this area are the universities (Durham and Newcastle) and, after them, probably Education (teachers). Don't we know, courtesy the right-wing media, that university academics and lecturers, and teachers are raving left wingers?

I certaintly do not defend people who complain about the deposit for a £250,000 house Jen, you do, what does that make you?

What's wrong with defending your MP and her complaining about her struggle to buy the house ? Unbelievable, you would defend Corbyn if he moved into Windsor Castle, I don't do rainbow politics and promises, I live in the real world , try it

Pat Glass resigned because she was a remain MP and she received death threats because of it. One of her family was threatened, too and police were involved.
Put the whole story on, please, POGS.

This whole thread is deflection DM style.

Read the bloody article properly, Annie, and stop pretending you're a socialist yourself.
At least Laura Pidcock stands up for the poor, unlike yourself, who sounds more like a Tory every post you put on here.

Fact.
She became an MP at the last election, so has been on that salary for a few months.
Fact.
She was a council worker before then, so not even earning half of that salary.
Fact.
She lived in a town in Northumberland, an ex-pit village turned into a new town, before she became MP for North West Durham, so she does know something about the people she represents.
Fact.
There are loads of socialists in the village she lives in, despite the DM saying she will not be able to avoid tories.
Fact.
She was talking about saving up the deposit on a house on her salary, not whether or not she would be able to afford the mortgage.

Annie, if a Tory MP had said the same, would you attack him/her so fiercely? No, you don't, do you?
What's wrong with defending my MP?

Most interesting POGS, thank you

I don't think anybody cares whether Pidcock buys a house or not but if you use a ploy to make a point , such as I can't afford to buy a house I would like a Council House but there aren't any sort of thing , don't be surprised if you are called a hypocrite if you are shown to be spoiuting rhetoric that does not sum up.

Out of interest wasn't Laura Pidcock one of the candidates to give 2 different addresses at the General Election?

As the thread is about Momentum it is interesting that Pidcock took over from Labour MP Pat Glass who stood down at the last election and she had resigned from Corbyn Shadow Cabinet:-

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36661409

She said she was resigning "with a heavy heart" because the "situation is untenable".

On Twitter, her resignation was met with a series of angry tweets from people declaring support for Mr Corbyn.

They threatened to deselect her and called her decision "disgusting".

Her husband was voted out as Campaign Co-Ordinator by Momentum

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jeremy-corbyn-supporters-vote-durham-10478898

"Members of Labour’s new left wing faction Momentum ousted a campaign co-ordinator after turning up at a constituency meeting en masse and allegedly claiming they had “a mandate to assume control.”

New MP Laura Pidcock has said she doesn't socialise with other MPs because she is too busy trying to work hard for her constituents, and suggested that her Parliamentary colleagues are "all off having a good time".

She was speaking to the Spectator about her previous comments, where she said she would never be friends with a Tory because they are "the enemy".

Ms Pidcock appeared to suggest she works harder than other MPs, saying: "I want to reach out more because I don’t really socialise much.

"I’m just so insistent on doing a good job and I don’t know if they [her fellow MPs] are all off having a good time."

While other MPs, after she made her comments, spoke about their cross-bench friendships and collaboration and said it was an important part of working in Parliament, she said "professionalism" keeps her from having a coffee or an alcoholic drink with other Members of Parliament.

As said, she has a lot to learn, unless she wants to be seen as a complete pillock.

Is she in every newspaper complaining about the difficulties of buying a £250,000 house. Jen if a Tory MP had said the same would you defend them so fiercely?

Flogging a dead horse comes to mind

Over £100,000 between them?
Plus I presume she gets generous expenses

Most people could only dream of that - and a holiday in Venice.
The fact that she would like a council house - her words - shows that she is out of touch with reality.

Never mind, she's only 30, perhaps she will learn on the job.

Which interview are you talking about?
She's given lots.

Sorry, Annie, you'll have to explain. I have never understood what that phrase means.

Jalima, how do you get two people on very large salaries?
The article says they get over £100,000 between them.
Her salary is £76,000.
His is not very large, in that case.
I can't imagine the DM missing that if it was very large.

Come off the orange Jen, she gave the interview