Popular voices at the Labour Conference
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Here’s Emily Thornberry, bigging up Labour’s election performance – the biggest increase in Labour’s vote since 1945 – and putting down Theresa May on Brexit. She said the “grown-ups” would handle it after the Tories have gone:
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned Andrew Marr that Labour gained voters in all sectors of society and confounded the commentators:
"Every commentator wrote us off in April, and in June, they were eating their words" says @jeremycorbyn #marr pic.twitter.com/VV2JIv99Fo
— The Andrew Marr Show (@MarrShow) September 24, 2017
Bless. Clearly he hadn’t been reading Vox Political in the run-up to the election. Perhaps he was too busy campaigning. I don’t mind because This Site was hugely popular in the run-up to the vote.
Finally, I wanted to draw attention to the following speech by disability activist Paula Peters, who reminded the Labour Conference that disabled people have suffered particularly badly under the current Conservative government. But let’s allow her to speak for herself:
#Labour17 https://t.co/QJJ9ewPvbh via @youtube @MrTopple @depresseddawg74 @blacktriangle1 @blueannoyed @AnitaBellows12
— paula peters (@paulapeters2) September 24, 2017
No doubt more memorable speeches will follow.
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Pity the grown ups don’t understand we can n to renationalise the water gas electric and railways whilst we are under legislation imposed but he unelected commission in 1990.
Apparently the real grown-ups know we really can renationalise the privatised utilities and railways under EU rules: http://www.renewal.org.uk/blog/eu-law-is-no-barrier-to-labours-economic-programme