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SALFORD GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES FOR 12TH DECEMBER
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Star date: 1st November 2019 FIRST SALFORD GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED As the Queen stamps approval for a General Election on 12th December, some parties have already announced their candidates for Salford's two and a half seats – Blackley and Broughton, Salford and Eccles, and Worsley and Eccles South. The standing Labour Party MPs have huge majorities but other parties are lining up to try and unseat them. Full details here...
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Yep, December 12th will see yet another General Election but is the Labour Party stranglehold on Salford about to be loosened? Probably not but some parties have already declared candidates to have a go, with more to follow. Here's the list so far... Salford and Eccles Standing MP, Rebecca Long-Bailey, hasn't spoken to the Salford Star in eons, despite declaring the week before she first got elected in 2015: "Yeah I think it's sad that people aren't taking to you because, irrespective of the kind of coverage these people are going to get, at the end of the day it's important for local politicians to be held to account whether it's good publicity or bad publicity..." (see here) Mmmm, so there's been no communication from Ms Long-Bailey as she builds her national career, but she did write to a local constituent this week, breathlessly stating that, "from 12.01am on Wednesday 6 November 2019, Parliament will be dissolved and from that moment in time I shall no longer be your Member of Parliament and instead I shall be the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Salford and Eccles Constituency in the impending General Election as the Labour Party candidate..." Up against the Labour MP, who has a whopping majority of almost 20,000, are... Green Party – Bryan Blears
A nephew of former Labour MP Hazel Blears, Bryan tells the Salford Star that over the past year he's been "meeting with communities across Salford who aren't happy with the direction our city is travelling in. We are suffering from a lack of affordable housing, worsening poverty in our town centres, an increase in knife crime, and traffic and pollution problems across the city..." If elected, he adds that "I will ensure that the residents waiting for dangerous cladding to be replaced on Salford's tower blocks have to wait no longer", will speak up for more NHS and Council funding, and "act to reverse the effects of man-made climate change and reshape our economy to put people before corporate greed..." Liberal Democrats - Jake Overend
A former student at the University of Salford, Jake says: "Salford has been my home since I started university here, so I am thrilled to be able to offer people here a real, Liberal alternative, as well as giving people the option of voting for a party that unequivocally wants to stop Brexit. "We have already seen first hand the damage a no-deal Brexit can and will do to communities like Salford, and by running in this election we are giving people the opportunity to firmly oppose this disastrous outcome." Brexit Party – Matt Mickler
Matt, who works in the recruitment industry and lives in Prestwich, says: "I believe that for the sake of our democracy, the outcome of the Brexit vote must be respected. We need a clean-break Brexit. "...I would fight for a cleaner and safer Salford and Eccles and I want to see more investment and growth. We need more jobs and I would encourage start-up companies and empower small and local businesses in the constituency. There is a desperate need for more affordable and social housing in the area and that is something I would campaign for." Conservative Party -
No announcements as yet from the Salford Tories – but they are not great at speaking to the Salford Star either...
Worsley and Eccles South
Labour Party – Barbara Keeley
Another politician who doesn't speak to the Salford Star but she has posted a meme asking voters to 're-elect' her...Keeley has a majority of almost 10,000 and up against her are... Liberal Democrats - Joe Johnson-Tod
Joe, a 19 year old student from Salford University is taking on the veteran MP, and describes this as "one of the most important elections in recent history... "Politics in the UK is broken at the moment - we have Boris Johnson's bumbling, hard-right Conservatives on one side and Jeremy Corbyn's incompetent, scandal-hit Labour on the other. Jo Swinson's Lib Dems are a progressive alternative and I am proud to say that I will provide a strong voice for local residents." Green Party – Daniel Towers
No official statement yet but we have had confirmation he is standing. Conservative Party - ?
No announcements as yet from the Salford Tories Following Nigel Farage's press conference this morning, also expect a Brexit Party candidate
Blackley and Broughton
Labour Party – Graham Stringer
With no social media communication and very little venturing into Salford, the standing Labour MP has a huge majority of almost 20,000. It seems his biggest problem is his own Broughton party members, as only last week a left leaning faction held a non-binding 'trigger vote' as the first stage in removing him as the candidate. Once the election was called, it was too late, the Star understands, to take it further. Expect Mr Stringer to stand... Green Party – David Jones
No statement as yet from David Jones, except confirmation of him standing. Liberal Democrats - Iain Donaldson - no statement as yet, except confirmation of him standing. Conservative Party/Brexit Party
No announcements yet on prospective candidates.
The Salford Star is non-political and does not endorse any candidate or party.
More details of prospective candidates will be posted as and when information is received.
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ROSSI wrote
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| Yes Ray, yes I have. About nine years ago I spent one calendar year volunteering at the Narrow Gate Night Shelter.
Listen Ray, desist okay. I'm tired of spanking you on here. It's getting embarrassing. It's like that 1970s fight between Muhammad Ali and that guy from Leeds, Richard Dunne. It's a one sided slap down Ray, and it's just making you look like the Mother of All Puppets. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 15:18:40 on 13 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,you've turned whining into a fine art form! |
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Despondent wrote
at 10:35:04 on 13 November 2019 |
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| @Brynma welcome to Tory England! Has everyone forgotten that we have had NINE YEARS of TORY austerity??? How the hell can a councillor change that?? And still people want to vote for the Tory’s or the Brexit party which is just a lame excuse for a right wing Tory party.
God help the poor and vulnerable if we get another Tory government for 5 years. The bodies will keep piling up. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:34:20 on 13 November 2019 |
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| Farage's embarrassing climbdown yesterday,axing Brexit Candidates standing against existing Tory MPs,speaks volumes of the rotten,unprincipled nature of Mr.Farage. Obeying commands like an obedient lapdog,Farage has been exposed as a Tory Stooge!
No decent person can now contemplate voting for the Brexit Party! Smash the right!! |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:31:43 on 13 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,in all of your miserable existence,have you ever made a contribution to the wider community? |
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Darren Hayward wrote
at 10:31:30 on 13 November 2019 |
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| Salford and Eccles is staunch Rugby League territory with a strong leave vote with the largely remain voting football territory in Ordsall mixed in I would suspect that the conservatives were waiting for Farage before making a decision on a candidate |
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ROSSI wrote
at 10:31:18 on 13 November 2019 |
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| Brynma, If Eccles disgusts you so much, then earn some money and move to Worsley. Don't whine about things. Whining is deplorable. |
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Brynma wrote
at 12:57:07 on 12 November 2019 |
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| An ex-long term labour voter will NOT be voting for Miss Becky another waster on the Corbyn Chain Gang. I try to exist on a pittance for a pension. I live in a freezing cold housing association property. If I eat I can't heat or vice versa. Not one of this mob has addressed the fact of people trying to live in such poverty? Until they do I won't be voting for them. I am terrified of trying to survive another winter. I am so cold it hurts. I admit I think often that dying is a good option. I go to supermarkets at night because they're warm. I go to libraries in the day for the same reason. They also have computers! MP's & Councillors need to see beyond their own comfort zones. |
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Brynma wrote
at 12:57:03 on 12 November 2019 |
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| Very well said Elizabeth. Eccles is a 'Shit-hole' with live rats running in the streets in broad daylight. Over-run with Take-Aways' and dereliction. Years of no investment has left it rotting in squalor. Car wrecking roads with pot-holes down to the cobbles from years gone by. The once proud and thriving town has been abandoned totally by the Salford City Council. Where the hell are Eccles Councillors? standing up and screaming to defend the place. I've no idea who they are and never see anything off any of them and THEY want MY VOTE! This 'One Horse Town' full of Take-Aways and boarded up pubs and shops, dominated by one supermarket with 'Dick Turpin' parking scammers in management out there to rob the poor car drivers/shoppers to make themselves rich. Has anyone noticed the horse of this 'One Horse Town has died? |
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ROSSI wrote
at 13:36:23 on 10 November 2019 |
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| Be Quiet Ray. Don't embarrass yourself any more. You're a big man, but you've gone to seed. For me this is a full time job. Please, don't disgrace yourself any more, son ... |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 09:43:52 on 10 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,seems to be possessed by the green-eyed monster,envy! What has he ever done or achieved? |
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ROSSI wrote
at 18:01:02 on 09 November 2019 |
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| Ray of Sunshine You are nothing but a little puppet who regularly spouts nonsensical crap on here. People who read your ill thought out waffle, laugh at you. They know that you are nothing but a stooge of your Civic Centre Masters. I laugh at you. Everybody laughs at you. Do us all a favour, give your absurd bleatings a rest and look after your constituents at Riverside. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 07:59:08 on 09 November 2019 |
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| Well Rossi, I bet your less than half my age, 31 32? I can understand why anyone would not want to do a dead end min wage, min hours contract job. I wouldn't do one, rather sit on my arse and draw dole or sick pay. In fact that's what I have done in the past when the building trade has gone tits up.I can manage on what they give you, but there again , I have not smoked or drank for 30 years ,and never used drugs. If you Rossi, got off your arse, you could get the job centre to send you on one of the bricky courses. They are free, then perhaps you could get a job that pays you a bit more. Any fool can become a bricky, I know hundreds of guys who have made the transition.Why not you Rossi? |
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ROSSI wrote
at 07:56:42 on 09 November 2019 |
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| No Ray, I ain't got no self respect, but at least I ain't no deluded nutjob who probably has posters of his heroes on his bedroom walls. Calibre socialists of the like of Mother Jones, Bill Haywood, Lenin, Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Wolfie Smith and Tony Benn to name a few, while the Deluded One lies there, dreaming of a Corbyn Government. You Muppet, Ray. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 12:56:27 on 08 November 2019 |
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| Listen Bob, just be quiet okay. No one wants to hear this La Dolce Vita story of yours. It smacks of triumphalism. And aren't you, by the way, a Brexiteer? If so, isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? The kind of rank hypocrisy normally only seen being performed by politicians ... and now brickles from The Height. I reiterate, Be Quiet, Bob. Nobody likes people harping on about what they're going to do, be it in Southern Italy, Greece or the sun kissed Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. It comes over as gloating. We Brits, Salfordians in particular, and especially those living on minimum wage doing dead end jobs, or even worse, eeking out a miserable existence on JSA, with only the sound of vintage Bruce Springsteen to soothe our blues; probably his album 'Darkness on The Edge of Town' at that, and most likely the track 'Factory' played over and over on repeat play, Do NOT Like Gloating.
Rid yourself of that smugness, Bob. It's insidious, like a boring old relative who outstays his welcome at Christmas, and spends most of his time telling crap old jokes and dispensing tedious pearls of wisdom, all the while banging on about how in the New Year he'll be moving to the Philippines and settling down with this new girlfriend he found on the internet, a twenty two year old dental nurse called Gloria.
Just rid yourself of the smugness, Bob ... |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 12:56:06 on 08 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,what are you going to do if the Tories win the election? Five more feckless years for you;a continued hunger for validation by sucking up to the
right! Have you any self-respect?? |
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ROSSI wrote
at 08:34:53 on 08 November 2019 |
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| What are you gonna do Ray, when we get five more years of the Tories? I ask because it's people like you and Miss Becky and Corbo who turn people off voting for Labour. You just don't get how voter unfriendly you witless geeks are. So what you gonna do Ray? Are you gonna carry on with your silly comments on here? Are you gonna carry on being the Guevara of Riverside? It's people like you Ray. People like you who have turned Labour into an unelectable and endangered Party. |
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DJB wrote
at 08:33:13 on 08 November 2019 |
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| @Jayne Gosnalloh shut up you utter bore. Women and men are equal you delusional fool. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 08:33:00 on 08 November 2019 |
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| Rossi old pal, getting covered in shit ,ripping apart an old knackered stone cottage,bought for 15000 euros,spending loads of dough on matterials, for an increase in asset value that after costs values your labour time at about a half of what you would get working for someone else, is not what international playboys do. There are plenty of dirt cheap old houses for sale in sunny Italy,but nobody wants to buy them. The youngsters over there don't want these houses as they would rather live in big cities where jobs are. I am going to live in a warm climate because it is good for my old aching bones after a life of working in the cold,and because it is cheaper to do so than living here. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 17:11:24 on 07 November 2019 |
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| Cody,to clarify, by "morons",I mean members of the
Brexit Party, not Brexiteers in general! |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 17:11:09 on 07 November 2019 |
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| Bob the regular,what I'm really asking is what are Pro Brexiteers going to do when Brexit doesn't "deliver the goods"? |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 17:11:01 on 07 November 2019 |
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| @Jayne Gosnall
That's the most sexist thing I've read in a while.
Sounds like you'd want to be voting for the Green's then.
Their manifesto literally says that women shouldn't be imprisoned as they don't cope with imprisonment very well.
You couldn't make up a more ridiculous policy. |
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Jayne Gosnall wrote
at 08:23:23 on 07 November 2019 |
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| I'd like all the prospective Parliamentary Candidates to reassure Salford women that they will continue to promote women's legal, sex-based rights as in EA2010. We make up 51% of the UK population, a majority, and it's about time we weren't paid 14% less than men, killed at the rate of 2 per week at the hands of known males, 1 in 3 of us subjected to serious sexual assault. Women and girls need their female-only spaces like changing rooms, toilets and refuges, to protect us physically and also save us from the trauma of sharing with a male-bodied individual when we've survived abuse & rape. Women's sport needs to be free of male participants. Women's Officers and Women-Only shortlists should be for females only. They were created because of our SEX-based oppression, not because of what we feel. Girls are already missing schools where they are forced to share toilets with boys, especially when on their periods. Please reassure me that girls' education is every bit as important as boys and you will ensure that school is a safe place for them. Can you reassure me that women's refuges in Salford will be for females only? Can you reassure me that girls will be encouraged to excel at sport, filled with hope that no males can appear to win their trophies? Can you reassure me that Salford public buildings will always retain toilets and changing rooms that are segregated by sex as a minimum, with additional provision for trans individuals who feel threatened using the spaces that fit their sex. Can you reassure me that women in Salford whose cultural and religious practice means they cannot undress or adjust head wear under the male gaze will have THEIR rights to privacy, dignity and religious freedoms upheld? If you can, you have my vote |
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ROSSI wrote
at 08:23:06 on 07 November 2019 |
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| Be quiet Bob. Stop making out your some kind of international jet setting playboy. You're a good kid Bob, but you don't half waffle a load of Eli Wallach's. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 08:22:03 on 07 November 2019 |
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| Another thing Bob, you seem fixated on Miss Becky, harbouring fantasies that Miss Becky will end up as PM. Get real, Bob. Miss Becky has nothing electable about her. She is another Michael Foot. She doesn't have any charisma or anything else needed to become Top Dog. She's not even a good constituency MP. Hazel Blears was a class act by comparison. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 18:14:37 on 06 November 2019 |
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| Well Ray its not what I'll think, it's what I'll do in the event its all going tits up which I am sure it is going to ,when Steptoe looses a few votes and Boris does as well and they both get the sack and when Miss Becky walks into number 10 supported by those two angry scotish women. Even if Boris wins, and takes us out of europe, this country will still be going down in the world.AS you all know, I am a staunch no deal, give em sweet FA brexiteer, but I admit now, the remoaners have won, we are staying in, it is what the establishment and the bankers and finnanciers want. What do you think that Gina Miller woman does for a day job? She is not a dangly earing and dungarres wearing guardian reading social worker is she? Her and her husband are international hedge fund financiers, that are big supporters of your Labour party. Anyway what will I do, well I'll tell you. I am coming up to my pension, I am going to build a "gym" behind my mates house, that I will put all my junk in and me and the girlfriend in when were here. I will rent my pad out to students or nurses. Girlfriends house can be given to her daughter. Then were off to the south of italy where a mate of mine has found us a dirt cheap run down old cottage I am going to do up. They do not have this daft idea about housing ladders over there. Housing ladders are what painters and window cleaners use.Houses are just places where you live.Repairing old houses is seen as a cost and liability, not a good investment. We will come back here in the summer when it gets to hot and at Christmas. What will you be doing Ray, when Miss Becky gets in number 10 as I predict.? |
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Cody wrote
at 15:15:42 on 06 November 2019 |
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| Rayofsunshine - You always have a go at anyone that talks down Salford residents, yet you show utter contempt for the 56.8% (62,385) who voted leave by referring to them as “Morons”. Shouldn’t you rescind that comment, given that you have asked several others on here to apologise for similar comments in the past? As for the election I predict RLB winning with a slightly reduced majority, with the LibDems picking up Labour voters who are frustrated with Labour’s Brexit position. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 15:14:52 on 06 November 2019 |
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| Ray, just be quiet okay. Your tragic bleatings are getting further and further away from reality.
Ray, Viva the Revolution. Long Live Socialism!!! Hahahahaha!! You puppet. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 09:45:06 on 06 November 2019 |
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| Bob the regular, what will you think if it turns out that Brexit is inimical to your working class socio-economic interests ? |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 12:44:08 on 05 November 2019 |
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| People who write off the Labour Party at this election do so at their own peril! Like 2017,there's a concerted right wing campaign to demoralise supporters of the Labour Party. What are the right so worried about?
Is it that they,the right ,don't have any policies except for kissing the backside of bankers or could it be that most of their supporters are morons,i.e,the Brexit Party!
Although at an early stage of the campaign,Labour has started to climb in the polls and is beginning to set the news agenda. I predict outright victory for Labour - victory to Socialism! |
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DJB wrote
at 09:06:25 on 04 November 2019 |
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| I'm torn, torn between wanting a future without the prospect of living in a bankrupt country or voting Labour just for the sheer comedy value of seeing the world's most unintelligent human being Abacus Abbott on the TV every day. |
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bob the regular wrote
at 19:28:50 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Yes ,I can see it now. It is for certain that both the Lib Dems and SNP are going to be the winners in this election. Corbyn will loose a good few seats and get fired. Despite our learned friend Rossi's misgivings, Labour have to elect a woman to the top job. In a political climate where even a backward bunch like the DUP have a woman leader, it seems strange to me that Labour have never had one. Miss Becky has got to be favorite for the job. Miss Becky as leader would then have to reach a deal with both Lib Dems and SNP. Juicey Jo would have to "reluctantly have forced on her", a second referendum of the peoples vote, which she would win, and the SNP price would be an independence referendum. Miss Becky would then be up in Scotland all the time, pleading with the Scots to stay, telling them how sorry she was that the two Scottish labour prime ministers we have had were a pair of wankers who never did anything for Scotland and that "lessons had been learned". I think that Miss becky would win that one,and so she would go down as a great stateswoman, who saved the union, and kept us in the EU.This is what the establishment want.The only losers would be working class brexiteers like me. Ah well,it will all be over by Christmas, or will it? |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 19:28:43 on 02 November 2019 |
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| ROSSI needs to get a JOB. Hes got To much time on his hands up there in magnolia court doing NOWT and eating his Ringos crisps on His JSA, and writing CRAP. In a previous article dated24july19 about hazel blears,This scruff found hazel blears SEXY.He went to her langworthy shop a few years ago,spotted her sat on a chair and LOOKED at her legs and found her sexy.He said she looked like Sharon Stone. Seriously. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 19:28:24 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Raymond, Old Son, get ready for another five years in the political wilderness ... And don't hold your breath at the thought of Labour getting in in 2025 either. Politically, Labour are an endangered species, and by 2025 they will be all but extinct. |
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 16:50:20 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,just because you are a total failure doesn't mean you have a divine right to mock,denigrate the efforts of others! I hope you enjoy your Ringoes - how many months did you have to save up for them?
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former resident wrote
at 16:50:12 on 02 November 2019 |
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| If last man is right, how can the interests of us be in common with the ones of arch remainers Gina Miller and her husband Alan? These two billionaires are international hedge fund operators. What they do is just shuffle money around for a living. They have no loyalty to any worker or indeed any capitalist or capitalist company, only their own greed. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 15:26:01 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Ray of sunshine, or as I prefer to call you, Walker, just be quiet okay. You've never said anything constructive in all the time I've been reading the Star. Labour are finished. Corbyn and Miss Becky are the political equivalent of General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Minus Custer's courage and charisma. Labour will do disastrously in the December election. For those mugs it really will be a bleak midwinter of utter discontent. Hahaha ... It makes me laugh, just the very thought of it as I go off to the precinct to buy some Ringos from Poundland. |
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Kev wrote
at 15:25:45 on 02 November 2019 |
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| @Marie, are you really that gullible? Corbyn and Co will bankrupt the UK. |
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Hedley Hopper, Geriatric Curmudgeonly Political Commentator and Fashionista wrote
at 10:15:15 on 02 November 2019 |
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| The alarm bells went off t’other day at my home for the last 40 years, the Salford Maximum Security Twilight Home for Bewildered Geriatrics (rated as “Outstanding” by the CQC); Matron Myra was running round barricading the doors and screaming demonically, “Watch out, the candidates will be popping round soon for photo opportunities! Better double up on the Mogodons in the inmates’ nightly cocoa! Better make sure that Bekki Long Bailey takes off her diamante and tiger-print stillies if she comes round!
I was music to my 96 year old ears. The Election’s on!! Time to come out of retirement! I spent the rest of the day prepping my trusty turbo-powered mobility scooter, checking the electrolyte levels in my batteries, checking the air pressures in my tyres and tightening my nuts. The chrome’s polished and shining and the stickers are on!
So I wonder who’ll be standing. That erudite, informative, unbiased publication, the “Claremont Clarion” (Pendleton, Irlams, Swinton & Salford edition) would undoubtedly be a good source. (Incidentally, this week’s edition has a free gift – a “Where’s Bekki” based on that popular game “Where’s Wally” - a wicked coincidence?). Scanning its political pages, surprise surprise our invisible/missing MP Bekki Long Bailey will be standing (or should that read “tottering” in her six inch stillies (sooo Essex!); so too is Hazel Blear’s nephew, Bryan for the Greens. I wonder if Aunty Hazel will be delivering leaflets in her tight motorbike leathers like a modern day, Suzi Quatro, in order to get him a few more votes? I see the Liberal Democrats (such misnomer considering they propose to ignore the Referendum Result!) have a candidate under the tutelage of their new leader Jo Swansong. As an ex student, I hope he remembers to get up in time to vote on Election Day!
The Brexit Party (aka The Nigel Forage Fan Club & Reminiscence Party) have given us an (almost) local candidate in Matt Mickler and plenty of newspapers over the last few weeks. At least we know where he stands on some issues! Barry the Budgie is very grateful for them – they line the bottom of his cage and are the “Andrex” equivalent for the avian world and smoother than sandpaper!
No news from the Tories on their candidate but I expect it’ll be some no-hoper WASP with a name like The Honorable Peregrine Featherstonehaugh-Cholmondely (pronounced “Fanshore Chumlee).
To all candidates: Beware the Geriatric in a mobility scooter! I shall be around, watching and listening, recording everything you say and do in my trusty little black book and hold you to account!
And it’s already filling up.
You see, I got my copy of the “Claremont Clarion” (Pendleton, Irlams, Swinton & Salford edition) from my local reasonably priced supermarket and whilst browsing the Senior Citizen incontinence devices in the middle aisle of my local Lidi supermarket, I overheard a conversation coming from the fruit and veg aisle. The voices were instantly recognisable as belonging to our esteemed Mayor, Cllr Dennett, and his sidekick – The Lord of the Towers - Cllr Merry, the well-known fashionista, role model and doyen for Labour’s soap dodgers aka the Young Momentumers! (Oh, grammar note: I was not referring to Messrs Dennett and Merry as being “fruit and veg”!).
“Oh Praise Ye, Praise Ye, Praise ye!” boomed the voice of “Moses” Merry.
“Pull yourself together Mr Merry, tuck your shirt in and stop squeezing my plums!!” hissed the Mayor, “Why are you in such a state of ecstasy? Overdosed on your tablets?”
“Haven’t you heard? Happy days are here again! The Sun will shine on our socialist Paradise Utopia once more! That dark cloud has removed itself from our sight! Praise the Blessed Jeremy!”
The Mayor rolled his eyes heavenwards in exasperation, “Yes, all Praise to the Blessed Jeremy! What are you on about? Have you had one too many sweet sherries from the Council Executive’s Drinks Cabinet?”
“We’re having a General Election! And the Blessed Bekki of Long Bailey will be in the Cabinet, out of our hair!”
“At last we can make more unfulfillable promises, promise the sky, be everything to all people and pull the wool even more firmly past the eyes of the electors. And sod the truth and accountability. We shall no longer have to justify and double check anything! We could almost get away with murder! We’ll have a free rein!”
The Mayor stopped in his tracks. “But we need good opposition to make us give good governance. Yes, she was difficult for us but people believed in her and she made us perform better. They trusted her honesty and transparency.
“They don’t any more, according to our canvassing!”, groaned Mr Merry after consulting his iPad.
Well, you could have knocked me off my buggy with a feather! Is Labour worried? Did I imagine the whole conversation or who it sounded like – perhaps Matron at the Salford Maximum Security Twilight Home for Bewildered Geriatrics has been tampering with my evening cocoa again! Or perhaps I’m coming down with a dose of Election Fever! But it’s all in my little black book!
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 10:15:11 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Rossi,permanently sat on your setee ,"how high can you go"?+ |
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Last man standing wrote
at 10:15:07 on 02 November 2019 |
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| I think some correspondents are confusing as
Ford's labour council with Corbyn's labour party. Brexit is a very useful smokescreen for the Tories. It hid the real problems the country (world) was facing after the banking meltdown of the late 2000s. It still suits Their purpose. Cameron's," we are all in it together' never really cut mustard. He's never had to use a foodbank or waited in the ,p*ssing rain for a bus that stopped running at six o'clock.
And Johnson, another Eton rifle, he will give you nothing back, you poor deluded Brexit supporters. What exactly did the EU take away ? What is it you are supposed to get from leaving. A theoretical concept of self determination. If it suits the likes of Johnson, Farage and Rees- Mogg how can it be any good for a peasant from Salford ? |
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Chris wrote
at 09:08:13 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Vote Tory and get 5 more years of austerity and economic decline. |
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Marie wrote
at 09:06:59 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Well this is going to prove interesting isn't it? A vote for the Tories, Lib Dems and Brexit parties will be a vote to get rid of the NHS because all three want an American style system that will see people unable to afford to even see their GP. Despite what some people think the Brexit party has nothing to offer the people of the UK whatsoever, a vote for them is a vote for racism, it's a vote for the erosion of your rights Nigel Farage would destroy your human rights, employment rights and the NHS,
I like my MP,Barbara does indeed reply when I write to her and she was very visible at the anti fracking protests in my area. I like both my labour councillor in Cadishead and our independent in Irlam both are very visible and hard working, we have no Green candidate yet, I will be voting Labour pure and simple, I like Jeremy Corbyn , I like Barbara Keeley and I like Lewis Nelson, I like the Labour plans for our future and with plans afoot to get rid of the NHS to an American style system we cannot afford to let the Tories in again. The NHS has saved my life 4 times in the last 4 years I would not be alive without it, It does not belong to the Tories and is not theirs to sell off, we pay for it every week in our national insurance, I would not be alive today if I had to pay for private healthcare. Labour will also get rid of Universal credit, sanctions will be a thing of the past, these evil and cruel treatments of the sick and disabled at the hands of ATOS etc will be ended, all this makes me feel very positive indeed |
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Peter Davies wrote
at 09:06:02 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Voted labour for 50 odd years, now I think my vote will go to Brexit, Rebeca long Bailey has gone against her constituents wishes,stabbed them all in the back, she can go and rot with Corbyn,they should be ashamed of themselves and both stand down |
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Rossi wrote
at 09:05:39 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Miss Becky has no chance of getting to the top. She's an apparatchik, not a leader. Miss Becky is a drab and colourless presence on the political stage, in truth she has risen far higher than her meagre talents would have led one to expect. She is ideally suited to being a local councillor, nothing more.
Trust me Starovians, Miss Becky and Steptoe have got as high as they can get. |
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Elizabeth wrote
at 09:05:05 on 02 November 2019 |
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| About time labour lost their hold on Eccles, place is unrecognisable to 40yrs ago, turning into a ghost time and third world shithole |
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DJB wrote
at 09:04:32 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Rebecca Long-Bailey should not be allowed anywhere near the ballot box for the way she has repeatedly ignored the will of her constituents following the Brexit vote, time and time again she has voted to reject any form of deal or compromise as she blatantly has both feet in the remain camp. If she had any balls she would jump the LiB Dems as they at least admit that they think the majority are wrong where RLB is to much of coward to do so. |
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Diane Wilson wrote
at 09:04:14 on 02 November 2019 |
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| Rebecca Long Bailey only succeeded because her Uncle was big in the unions.... She will probably succeed again because of the morons that would vote Labour even if it was a gorilla standing! |
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 17:30:16 on 01 November 2019 |
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| Why vote, there don't do anything, there all lie to the people. |
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former resident wrote
at 17:30:05 on 01 November 2019 |
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| We have all had enough of Brexit, and political rubbish to last a lifetime, so an election now with all the crap they all come out with is to much to put up with.Each cloud has a silver lining as they say and this one might have 2.Steptoe is going because he is going to loose for sure, but that does not mean Boris will win.I reckon the Tories might loose 20 or 30 seats as well. What then? A triple alliance with Miss Becky in number 10 as the leader of the biggest party. Or if these 3 do not have enough votes, we could ad the 3 dragons from the welsh nats, the greens, and the old battleaxe from Northern Ireland.Six of the worst for Boris, all eacer to chop his balls off. It could even get worse, what if that old bat Widdicombe stands? I can hardly wait. |
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