Did anybody else see the video of Yvette Cooper in a Morrisons store handing out mince pies today?
It was hilarious because a local female resident could not resist going over and telling her what she thought of her and the Labour party.
She has just been on GB News talking about how very disappointed she has been and that she has always been a Labour voter. She told YC exactly what she thought in a very restrained way. She also said Yvette was making out she was donating mince pies but Morrisons donated them. She also ignored a homeless man who always sits outside the supermarket and did not offer him one.
This smart shopper told her exactly what she thought about the way Waspi ladies have been treated, how they keep on about a massive black hole yet they are giving more than that away to foreign countries for climate research, illegal immigrants, Ukraine, etc etc. she ended by saying she should be handing out blankets to freezing pensioners not mince pies.
She was just a 52 year old Mum but she was great!
Good on her I say.
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www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1261633-Banning-milkshakes-to-save-Farage
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This us the GB news video. Open to interpretation it seems. GB news contacted her through her Facebook page.
www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-news-yvette-cooper-viral-mince-pie-voter-latest
You cannot make a flat statement of fact: 'I know she is doing more than any Home Secretary.....' and and at the same time refuse to supply evidence to verify it.
What exactly do you know?
I'm always wary of these normal, everyday people who ",somehow," find themselves as minor celebrities.
Grunty
^Well done for starting a very goady thread.^
It's only goady because it doesn't align with your political persuasion. If it had been about Boris or Farage no doubt you'd have found it "topical".
How do you know what my political persuasion is? I didn't vote Labour or conservative but I still think this is a goady thread.
An MP is out in the community and is heckled by a woman. This has never happened before? Most MPs will have had their share of this and rightly so but it's hardly worth mentioning the mince pie incident.
I neither know nor care what your political persuasion is AGAA4, I simply don't see what is remotely goady in posters discussing the subject. But maybe you're more susceptible to what goads you.
I don't think it is great to whine about money being spent on climate research, just very shortsighted.
I don't think it is great to call people illegal and grumble about a bit of money to treat people with a bit of decency.
I am not a fan of Starmer's top team but the woman who was ranting on just sounded a bit selfish, not great.
An MP is out in the community and is heckled by a woman. This has never happened before? Most MPs will have had their share of this and rightly so but it's hardly worth mentioning the mince pie incident.
Well, at least Yvette restrained herself and didn't push a mince pie into her face 😁
Remembering John Prescott.
Wyllow3
She also says she did not vote labour at the last election, she is not as the O/P stated a "lifelong voter".
She said she had always voted Labour until this last time when she didn’t. so my post is correct.
petra
I’ve never been a fan of Yvette Cooper, but, what I do know is: she is doing more to stop the boats than any other Home Secretary.
And before anyone says show us the proof I can’t.
She should be down on the South coast right now stopping the boats instead of handing out mince pies.
Reports are that as 5 very mild and calm days are forecast thousands of people are queuing up at Calais to get here. Let’s see what she actually does to stop the boats now!
Smugglers are advertising a “Christmas Special”.
Grunty
I neither know nor care what your political persuasion is AGAA4, I simply don't see what is remotely goady in posters discussing the subject. But maybe you're more susceptible to what goads you.
What is 'the subject', though?
A 'political' heckler, a party-pooper, someone wanting to spoil the Christmas gesture, or the policies of Yvette Cooper, which will still be available for criticism or applause after the NY.
Even soldiers in wartime have held truces over Christmas, and it doesn't get much more 'goady' than the trenches.
Primrose53
Wyllow3
She also says she did not vote labour at the last election, she is not as the O/P stated a "lifelong voter".
She said she had always voted Labour until this last time when she didn’t. so my post is correct.
I could say I voted Reform until I realised that they are a very divisive and damaging 'party' (or whatever they call themselves). Would that make it true?
She also simply didn't give Yvette Cooper time to actually reply or engage with her despite attempts, its clear in the clip.
Primrose53
petra
I’ve never been a fan of Yvette Cooper, but, what I do know is: she is doing more to stop the boats than any other Home Secretary.
And before anyone says show us the proof I can’t.She should be down on the South coast right now stopping the boats instead of handing out mince pies.
Reports are that as 5 very mild and calm days are forecast thousands of people are queuing up at Calais to get here. Let’s see what she actually does to stop the boats now!
Smugglers are advertising a “Christmas Special”.
Well, its Reform Policy to "stop the boats" directly but they don't actually say how it can be done, perhaps you can tell us?
I've heard reports that Farage is offering two visas for the price of one, and an amnesty on all family members under the age of 90 for the price of a pint.
Maybe not all reports are equal?
Dickens
Chocolatelovinggran
So - an elected representative listened to a constituent who listed her shortcomings.
Well done to both, I'd say, celebrating our rights as citizens to declare our views and the ability of an MP to take it on the chin.Ex-actly!
I agree Dickens
Primrose53
petra
I’ve never been a fan of Yvette Cooper, but, what I do know is: she is doing more to stop the boats than any other Home Secretary.
And before anyone says show us the proof I can’t.She should be down on the South coast right now stopping the boats instead of handing out mince pies.
Reports are that as 5 very mild and calm days are forecast thousands of people are queuing up at Calais to get here. Let’s see what she actually does to stop the boats now!
Smugglers are advertising a “Christmas Special”.
Please can you direct me to the Christmas Special?
I have friends who may be interested.
Thanks.
I don't think it is great to call people illegal and grumble about a bit of money to treat people with a bit of decency.
A bit of money? A bit? I suppose it all depends on what you think a bit is.
The Home Office has repeatedly spent far more than budgeted for asylum, border, visa and passport operations in recent years. One of the largest pressures was for costs relating to asylum and illegal migration, with an estimated *£6.4 billion< of pressures on day-to-day spending in 2024–25.
Will Farage supporters please say how the boats can be stopped
within a couple of months ?
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Anniebach
Will Farage supporters please say how the boats can be stopped
within a couple of months ?
Well, I've asked this so many times, and answer - there is none.
Yet people continue to quote it. Its always evaded.
At least Yvette Cooper goes out and meets her constituents. Unlike cowardly Nigel.
I don’t really care how many Christmasses YC chooses a supermarket to stand in and hand out the supermarket’s own mince pies to shoppers.Let’s be honest here, it isn’t a gesture of goodwill as she doesn’t pay for the goods, nor is it used as a surgery to get into problems it’s purely to get herself noticed as the MP in other words ‘being seen’.
Doesn’t matter what PP an MP represents, this sort of thing is typical of what some MP’s do.
Nothing to get into a lather over but not something to coo about either and if people recognise them and decide to give them a piece of their mind then fair doos.
NonGrannyMoll
The original message was probably just another disrupting move by a troll (and it worked!). Let's not fight over the change in governmental power, for pete's sake! Labour will do what they want, just as the Tories did what they wanted. Same old same old. Let's wish each other a "happy holiday" instead, regardless of our various persuasions, eh?
The OP is not a troll
They are a regular poster on GN
The original message was probably just another disrupting move by a troll (and it worked!). Primrose is a long time member and poster of Gransnet and most definitely NOT a troll. If you suspect that any post is made by a troll, follow Gransnet guidelines and report it NonGrannyMoll.
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