Emily Thornbury

[The Only Way Is Keynsham]

I've always found Emily Thornbury to be condescending and rather smug. Glad to see her getting found out.

This is the woman who sneers at the white working class on Twitter.

Well, anyone who drive a white van and displays a St George's Cross.

[DodgyAgent]

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rc...73764674723340

[scooterscot]

Video now works. I'm not sure if she's ever worked mind.

[NotAllThere]

Video now works. I'm not sure if she's ever worked mind.

15 years a barrister. That's it.

[The Only Way Is Keynsham]

15 years a barrister. That's it.

The odd thing is, she actually is from a council estate.

I've seen her on QT doing the "Shame on you" routine when somebody put forward the proposition that being raised in a single parent family on a sink estate wasn't necessarily the most desirable situation.

Of course, she only plays that card when it suits her.

Like most people of her ilk, she does everything to distance herself from her origins & is the worst type of snob.

[NotAllThere]

if 9 in 10 Labour voters don't think he is up to the job, who does he speak for?

The Party. With a capital P.

[LondonManc]

Does he though? He speaks for party members who elected him, not the people that voted for Labour. if 9 in 10 Labour voters don't think he is up to the job, who does he speak for?

You've got three groups of people that could have voted for him:
1/ His peers - undemocratic to the extreme - party politics at its finest to get their man in
2/ The Labour Party members - the paying members of the Labour party, voting for who they want to represent them should their party win the next general election
3/ The electorate - pick a winner then vote for him? Isn't that just doubling up but with the contamination of other parties voting for who they think will be the least electable Labour leader?

I'd say option 2 is the most sensible.

[SueEllen]

You've got three groups of people that could have voted for him:
1/ His peers - undemocratic to the extreme - party politics at its finest to get their man in
2/ The Labour Party members - the paying members of the Labour party, voting for who they want to represent them should their party win the next general election
3/ The electorate - pick a winner then vote for him? Isn't that just doubling up but with the contamination of other parties voting for who they think will be the least electable Labour leader?

I'd say option 2 is the most sensible.

Option 2 is the most stupid due to how it has been done both currently and historically in the Labour party.

The Tories way of doing it is sensible if you want to elect a leader who is respected by both the members and their peers.

If the peers don't like the person or they do stupid things so have to pull out, they then don't get put forward to the members. Members have to be members for a reasonable amount of time before they can vote and no-one has a block vote.

[greenlake]

This is the woman who sneers at the white working class on Twitter.

Hmmm.... That's inneresting....

That's K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M for those that remember the big L...

Just wondering if anyone here has any experience of living in Keynsham and what there is to recommend about the place?

My aunty and uncle moved from Keynsham to Wokingham taking their cat with them.

The cat went missing and sometime after it was found dead under their old garden shed back in Keynsham.

I used to regularly get on one from Oldield Ark to Keynsham & it had cigarette stubbers on the back of the seats.

[LondonManc]

Option 2 is the most stupid due to how it has been done both currently and historically in the Labour party.

The Tories way of doing it is sensible if you want to elect a leader who is respected by both the members and their peers.

If the peers don't like the person or they do stupid things so have to pull out, they then don't get put forward to the members. Members have to be members for a reasonable amount of time before they can vote and no-one has a block vote.

1 or 2 are valid but with 1, you're not necessarily getting who the members want as leader. How far left or central/Tory Lite do the Labour Party want to go versus their members?