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I leaflet dropped for the 1970 election and the 2 in 1974, with pushchair ?

If having babies doesn’t make you think about politics then I don’t know what will.

Exactly nightowl

Good on you Annie. I knocked on doors to find out if they had voted yet and if they hadn’t I flagged down a car to take them to the Polling Station. One old lady told me she was going to vote Conservative anyway ?

I was 21 with my first then 2 more in quick succession, over and done with, didn't mind looking after my own, or the house - eventually, the first was a mobile home in February.
So I went from parties to marriage to kids, no regrets

I think my first vote was for Jim Callahan, then Kinnock, my first success was Blair, seemed a good idea at the time but like Thatcher it all went sour in the end.
Call me a Blairite if you want, I'm a world away from the politics of this years conference but it doesn't matter because Corbyn has more chance of becoming President of Russia than Prime Minister of the UK.
In fact if there were an election now the Tories would probably win despite their problems

I got into trouble in the 1970 election, sitting in the polling station crossing off voters as they gave their cards, at that time a police officer was in every polling station, my husband was still in uniform then, he came into the polling station to do his bit, he was jerking his head at me, ooops, police wives were not allowed to be openly involved in politics, even posters not allowed in windows of police houses, I did my alloted time anyway.

I voted for Harold Wilson and every labour leader after him , the 70’s , and 80’s were grime , canvassed for everyone untill last year , will not vote if Corbyn is leader at the next election.

I think we know Annie ?

Will not vote for McDonald or the ghastly Rebecca Long Baily either.

I was 22 when my boy was born, 21 when I married my Sailor! In deepest Cornwall, (1964/5) we seemed a long way from anywhere particularly 'home' . We were then posted to Portland which WAS nearer to Oxford so family could visit more easily and vice versa. Absolutely loved our time there, still didn't think about politics!?

Anniebach, Quote [We had a debating group in school, foul language would have not been allowed and one side not allowed to go on and on and on.[ End Quote

Anniebach, I would have thought that mythology was also banned in that debating group.

And who has been using foul language on this forum?

Grandemash43 Thank you for reporting my post about Annie what it has confirmed to me is that the right wing posters on GN are quite happy to sling around abuse but don't like a few facts being pointed out to them. And when something vaguely near the truth is suggested they huddle together and cry to mamma to make it go away.
The rest of my post which you succeeded in removing referred quite reasonably to Annie's assertion that in 2018 there are no soup kitchens. There are. One operated by volunteers near me provides homeless people with a hot meal in the street. And that food banks are now in ascendance. A situation that in 2018 we should be thoroughly ashamed of. But never mind Annie thinks they don't exist and we all know Annie is a true Labour supporter.
I also commented about trade unions and how trade union power is people power and the highest growth in membership now is amongst women who are suffering the most from the economic measures this government has taken. But never mind Annie doesn't like trade unions and we all know Annie is a true Labour supporter!

Soup kitchens in the general strike, children , fathers unable to work ,families starving , not homeless , people in mining villages for example, please do not compare feeding the homeless now with feeding families in the general strike

I support unions, I do not support unions running governments, I do not support unions having the power they did in the late sixties and seventies , I do not support the power of unions to keep a Lord in his job,

Yes, we do know that Anniebach is a true Labour supporter, am sure that others are too, they just won’t vote for Comrade Corbyn.
Just as others wouldn't vote for Blair if he was still around in politics, but they are still Labour supporters.
Your post was removed because it was insulting and untrue.

Ah Annie you are applying the old Victorian values of the deserving and undeserving poor. I see. So perhaps what you would prefer is that the homeless starve? Or maybe they should all be collected up and sent off to some sort of camp or something. But hang on didn't that actually happen? And wasn't it the unmentionables who actually did it? And Annie isn't one of them, she is a true Labour supporter.
(Although I didn't think she approved of going on strike, so why on earth the general strike was different I don't know)
As for supporting unions quite how is anybody's guess

Well said Trisher, your post at 17:30 today points to exactly what is happening in this country and this forum.

There are on this forum members who would call themselves Labour supporters and even members of the party who are prepared to witness food banks and soup kitchens operating in this country in 2018 without any real condemnation.

All those people do is live in the past and are incapable of moving on.

How pathetic, the far left, today we have had workers today compared with the Tolpuddle Martyrs and a soup kitchen for the homeless today compared with the soup kitchens in the National Strike.

Yes, we do know that Anniebach is a true Labour supporter

And what exactly is 'true Lanbour supporter', lemon?

A number of us have been trying very hard to find out what this means, what these 'true Labour supporters' would like to see in the way of change in this country.

All we get is what they don't like.

Ugh. Labour (fat fingers)

Yes, those Labour supporters will not even condemn the Gig Economy, although I have come to believe that many of them do not know the difference between that and zero hours employment contracts.

Again living in the past.

Living in the past ? By a poster who posts constantly about the birth of the unions and the 1945 election.

A soup kitchen is a soup kitchen Annie it feeds people who are desperate. And in 2018 that is the homeless, who may in fact be working but unable to afford accommodation. During the miner's strike it was the miners. Historically it was the deserving poor. Doesn't matter who it is, it is disgusting that we cannot feed, clothe or provide homes for any people today. And how anyone can dismiss these people as unworthy I don't know. Especially someone who alleges they are also a christian.

Never long before my faith would be brought into it,

Wonder why I get the constant personal attacks from trisher and grandad1943 .

An alleged christian

An alleged Labour Party supporter

Despised by the Labour Party

I am not the only poster who criticises Corbyn yet I get the constant personal attacks, most strange !

Simply, very simply, cutting to the basics a true Labour supporter wants a more equal society. A true Labour supporter, even if they didn’t approve of the leadership or all the policies, would not defect to the right, but would stay and work within the party to steer it more onto the path they would prefer.

A Christian believes that ‘in my father’s house there are many rooms’. Likewise there is room for many (not the few) views within the Labour Party. Sometimes it swings more to the left, sometimes to the right, sometimes it settles in the middle.

You don’t abandon ship just because it lists to one side or another. It is a ‘broad ship’.

There are some homeless who refuse accomodation , this for diferent reasons, some because they want to stay on the streets because they have formed close friendships, some because they cannot give up drugs or alcohol. Some to earn more money begging than working