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REBECCA LONG BAILEY SAYS IT’S NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR HER TO ATTACK SALFORD COUNCIL
 

Star date: 11th February 2020

SALFORD MP IN U-TURN ON ATTACKING LABOUR COUNCIL

Salford and Eccles MP and Labour Party leadership contender, Rebecca Long Bailey, told a hustings audience in Nottingham that "It's not acceptable to attack Labour councils if you are a Labour MP".

This appears to go completely against what she told the Salford Star the week before she got elected as an MP in 2015 and said: "I have my own principles and morals, and I would make moral judgements on certain issues. If it meant going to face the Council, a councillor or the Mayor that's what I would have to do..."

Full details here...

A few days ago, a Labour Party leadership hustings took place in Nottingham, attended by all the main contenders, including Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long Bailey.

While some media concentrated on a clash between Long Bailey and Emily Thornberry over who worked the hardest eating pizza into the night, there was one sentence that should bring shock waves particularly to Salford...

Someone in the audience asked the question whether it was acceptable for a Labour MP to attack a Labour council, and Rebecca Long Bailey replied..."In terms of attacking colleagues, we shouldn't attack each other under any circumstances...We have had four years of division in this party. It's not acceptable to attack Labour councils if you are a Labour MP. It is not acceptable for Labour MPs to attack each other."

This appears to go completely against what she told the Salford Star in 2015, days before she was elected as the local MP in place of Hazel Blears...

Back then, the Star listed what we felt were a few financial atrocities carried out by Salford City Council, like spending £200,000 on fountain management, while cutting transport for disabled adults, and asked for her opinion...

"If I saw the Council doing something and acting in an irresponsible manner, pushing funds in the direction they shouldn't be, it would be my job to act for the people of Salford and Eccles first and not for the...

SS: Would you do that?
RLB: Yeah

SS: How?
RLB: I want to have a good relationship with the Council because I think we will achieve more on joint projects but if there's an issue that I can see clearly that it's not in the interests of the people, and it could have been dealt with in a better way, then of course I would have to come down on the side of the people of Salford and Eccles.

SS: The problem you've got is that Mayor Ian Stewart backed you; you're seen as his candidate, yet Stewart is seen as the worst thing that's happened to Salford politically in a very long time. How are you going to change that?

RLB: If I felt there was an issue, for instance, people's health was at risk or cuts to services that didn't need to be made and they were funnelling funds into other areas I would have to stand up for the people of Salford and Eccles because they are my employer at the end of the day.

And, again, later in the interview... "I have my own principles and morals, and I would make moral judgements on certain issues. If it meant going to face the Council, a councillor or the Mayor that's what I would have to do..."

Having an MP in Salford who won't go on the attack against a council, no matter what it's done, because of apparent loyalty to a party, should not go down well, particularly with those who contact Rebecca Long Bailey's office hoping for justice against any Council wrongdoings...


Read the whole interview between Rebecca Long Bailey and the Salford Star – click here
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at 17:13:30 on 28 February 2020
Wrote@wrote well Felse again proves to be a guinius. His call out on dogs in China is today backed by them banning eating dog. Let the World know our man Mr Felse first brought this to the attention from Salford. Coronavirus has made Salford famous with his health scientific prediction that the dogs are causing the deadly virus to spread. Well done man. Why does the press not listen before it gets too late for saving humanity.
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at 10:22:03 on 18 February 2020
@wrote No you are wrong, the general consensus is the coronavirus has been passed by the eating of rare and protected animals, NOT rats and mice. Felse gives out Self serving Felse warnings all of which are batshit crazy
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at 20:43:48 on 17 February 2020
Mr Felse has a point. China thinks their virus also spreads by stray animals and mice. I know people living there say everyone is kicking out their pet dogs and cats into streets afraid of keeping them at home. Mr Felse gives out a publc safety warning. We will ignore it on peril of doom.
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at 15:22:18 on 17 February 2020
@Felse, you would rather work out of a portaloo? I thought you did work out of one considering all of the shite that you spout
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at 10:30:58 on 17 February 2020
Michael Felse trying to cause hysteria about litter rodents. Better to pay the Mayor and Councillors more than waste money on his rats and pigeon prevention schemes. What cute little things.
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Bob the regular wrote
at 21:03:46 on 16 February 2020
Recalcitrant means obstinately disobedient. Whose authority are these councils "obstinately disobedient" against I wonder? Whose side is our Ray on? Miss Becky's side, or our councils.Perhaps Ray is expecting the shit to hit the fan at the council,and he seems to be getting the umbrella out to make sure none lands on her. How chivalrous of him. Must admit, its the right thing to do.Why should Miss Becky get the blame for what others have done? Like her or not, she is a person of honest and sincere principles
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Felsey wrote
at 19:12:54 on 16 February 2020
I would rather work out of a portaloo than pay £100,000 extra rent. Am I seeing right. Total bill per year for Mayor office is over £1million. Salary over £108,000 a year plus expenses. It is little more than a Chair of Committee job. Salary must be no more than £26,000 a year. Rent no more than £32,000 a year. Put the £1,150,000 saving per year to better use, sheltering homeless, mending pot holes and getting street litter cleaned away before we too risk a Pandemic health attack from rats, mice and pigeon speaking disease. Disgraceful on GM Mayor is too understated a word.
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Rayofsunshine wrote
at 12:13:49 on 12 February 2020
Obviously a MP's first loyalty should be their electorate and at times that might mean taking on recalcitrant,"know it all" public bodies such as councils! Generally,MPs need to maintain friendly relations with such bodies in order to be an effective public representative. MS Long-Bailey is merely doing her job !
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Jon Smith wrote
at 12:13:09 on 12 February 2020
I would not trust this female version of Jeremy Corbyn, she is so two faced, she has to brush her teeth from the back of her head.
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at 12:12:39 on 12 February 2020
yes kev they also voted for a pathalogical liar johnson what are you gonna do kev whinge and post more dreary comments .
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Kev wrote
at 10:21:43 on 12 February 2020
I can't believe the amount of people that vote for this dreary woman. Mind you they also voted for the goon Dennett. Must be something in the water.
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bob the regular wrote
at 05:47:04 on 12 February 2020
"god help us if she wins" says kenny. Don't know about the big man in the sky, but the Tory press will if she wins. If she wins and one of our local councilors so much as farts in public it will be all over the national press, giving the British public a glimpse of what Labour nutters get up to under her watchful eye.They all know this as well, so they would have to mend their ways and treat Salford people better. This might suit a few of the dissatisfied voters in our city, but it doesn't suit me. I just want rid of the XXXXXXX lot of em.
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at 05:46:11 on 12 February 2020
rossi more like not a substance abuser like you thought you had given up pretending to be a socialist you and your tory chums trying to smear salfords socialist mp and leader of the labour party in waiting pathetic slurs and lies will be overcome by the practical socialist policies which will in the near future deliver a decent society for all .
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Steven North wrote
at 14:49:26 on 11 February 2020
When Salford City Council were due to close five nurseries, Rebecca Long Bailey announced publicly that she would stand with those campaigning to keep them open. She didn’t directly attack the council, but through her public position and work with UNISON and parents she helped bring the council round to a position of keeping the nurseries open and fighting for the necessary resources from Government. She then helped to organise a meeting in the Palace of Westminster to enlist support from the Shadow Cabinet, supported a lobby outside the DFE and secured a meeting with the relevant Government Minister. Eighteen months later, the nurseries are open. This Saturday we have a campaign launch to secure Salford care workers the Real Living Wage (£9.30 regardless of age), which could again see us in conflict with the council. Rebecca has already declared her support.
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ROSSI wrote
at 13:56:40 on 11 February 2020
This woman has no substance. She is a political nonentity. If she becomes Labour leader, then they as a party are finished. She will be the final nail in the Labour Party's coffin. She has said herself that she spent four years coming up with Corbyn's disastrous policies. If that doesn't tell the Labour Party membership anything, then they truly are a ship without a crew. With regards her not getting back to Kenny, what would anyone expect, she is about as poor as a constituency MP as it gets. She Makes Hazel Blears and Derek Stringer seem like miracle workers. And yes, I know that Hazel is no longer an MP, I'm writing of when she was.
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Kenny wrote
at 11:55:47 on 11 February 2020
God help us if she wins. I have sent her four letters, six emails and two recorded deliveries asking for help and none have even been replied to. It seems I am not the only one according to social media sites, who are also being ignored.Too busy to attend to our needs as she is pushing for leader.
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Gareth L wrote
at 11:55:41 on 11 February 2020
I dread to think what will happen to Labour if she gets the win. It will be a generation of Tory governments. I think they need Mandy as someone with no links to Corbyn.
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