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Labour Live 2018 concert

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Anniebach Sun 17-Jun-18 10:10:41

Did it take place?

First email I received regarding this event tickets £35. Last mail received tickets £10 and free travel to London.

There were 15,000 tickets for sale , according to the Guardian 2,500 were sold. It was to follow the success of Glastonbury last year .

UNITE offered 1,000 free tickets and free travel.

Pop stars due to appear -The Magic Numbers, Hookworms and Rae Morris

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 15:37:38

Obsession ?, nearest I come to an obsession is for Denzel Washington . Corbyn is no Denzel Washington grin

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 15:34:03

Same old singer with the same old song.

Anyway I am now off to watch the England in the World Cup which is why I had the day off.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 15:30:43

Oh, this thread is in reality just anniebach back on her "I have Corbyn" obsession. In reality nothing to do with the gig at all. That was just an excuse to get her Corbyn hate started again in the forum.

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 15:26:26

It isn’t acceptable to speak of one thread when on a different thread surely?

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 15:24:37

.lemon, I wasn’t down the pub or watching football ?

I wonder if his speeches are written out for him, it really is pitiful that he has to have his questions written down for PMQ, he even reads his attempts at jokes.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 15:19:51

Anyway anniebach, what were you saying about Lord Lucan in that other thread?

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 15:14:58

The essentials first, and with the World Cup on that would be the first essential for young people on a great football weekend.

And why not, let the Tories carry on with the total mismanagement of the country and hopefully by the time the World Cup is over a General Election will be not far from being called. Then the half a million Labour party members along with the rest of the movement will be very much onboard.

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 15:05:10

The younger party members can’t be all that enthusiastic if they ‘were down the pub’ then.
This was a well advertised gig which simply failed to attract
The amount of people needed to make it a success.
Glasto worked for JC because there was a captive audience there who would have cheered just about anybody on the stage, and who went there because it’s Glastonbury and not because they wanted to see a politician.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:59:39

With the world cup on it was definitely the wrong time to stage such an event. All the young party members were down their local pubs watching the football and who can blame them there were some great matches over the weekend.

Anyway anniebach, did anybody find Lord Lucan, you remember that subject you insisted in discussing in a thread that was nothing to do with Lord Lucan two weeks ago. confused

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:55:12

Phew Annie they got it so wrong, didn’t they?

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 14:54:43

I did have a Che Guevara tee shirt ,I was soooo young ?

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 14:52:55

.lemon, 25,000 tickets for sale at £35 a ticket, then reduced to £10 a ticket with free travel , even then 2,500 tickets sold and UNITE gave away 1,000.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:52:38

Anniebach, has anybody now found out what did happen to Lord Lucan?

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:51:29

Somerset

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:46:50

Am all for balance, but, what you have to say bears no relation to the subject matter at all
A good gig but held in the wrong place? ?
What’s the right place?

Anniebach Mon 18-Jun-18 14:44:43

Escorted ? why couldn’t they stay, the voice of the people surely. Corbyn could never cope on the hustings. If someone said boo he would run and hide. Nye Bevan and Barbara Castle were fantastic on the hustings , gave as good as they got , no Momentum to arrange public meetings.

True lemon, Corbyn had no problem with meeting the IRA, Hamas, Jewdas Sedar .

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:44:10

Does David Davis do gigs now then?

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:42:46

I thought it was a good gig but held in the wrong place. As for diverting the topic Lemongrove, you are undoubtedly the forum expert on that.

What's up do you not like balance in a thread.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:39:22

I wonder if any GNers have the " I am for David Davis" T shirts that are about?

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:39:01

Grandad you are doing your usual sterling job of diverting the topic ( though I understand why you don’t like it!)
Any comment on the day in the park at Tottenham?

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:37:15

DH used to play on the tennis courts there, way back when.

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:36:30

Annie I wonder if anyone paid full price for a ticket, or in fact, any price at all? The biggest queues were for the ice cream vangrin I expect it was a free day out for those living locally anyway.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:34:43

Must have been a very embarrassing cabinet meeting for May following the above debacle.

Grandad1943 Mon 18-Jun-18 14:32:29

TM had to beg her own chief Brexit Negotiator not to resign last week, and some would claim she has no problems in her cabinet. Labour are not the party of government at present but the Tories are. Therefore it matters little who come and goes in that party, but the Tories are the UK governments face to the world and what is happening there very much makes Britain a laughing stock to that world.

lemongrove Mon 18-Jun-18 14:31:23

Wonder if any GNers have an official Jezza T shirt?