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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Tue Nov 24, 2015, 05:29 PM Nov 2015

Can someone explain what the hell is going on in this clip?

To an outsider, it looks very much as if a Labour MP is attacking someone from another party for saying good things about Labour's new leader and promising not to split the left-of-center vote at the next general election.

Does this MPs attitude make an sense to any of you?

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Can someone explain what the hell is going on in this clip? (Original Post) Ken Burch Nov 2015 OP

Oh dear. What happened to Cuddly Best-Selling Postman Pat? non sociopath skin Nov 2015 #1

Beats me. Denzil_DC Nov 2015 #2

I think that if you replace "for" with "who is, inter alia," that would be accurate. Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #3

All that Hardy is doing there is praising Labour's new leader. Ken Burch Nov 2015 #4

non sociopath skin

(4,972 posts)

1. Oh dear. What happened to Cuddly Best-Selling Postman Pat?

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 05:44 PM

Nov 2015

"They don't like it up 'em. sah!

They don't like it up 'em!"

The Skin

Denzil_DC

(7,242 posts)

2. Beats me.

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 01:08 PM

Nov 2015

So does this:

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)

3. I think that if you replace "for" with "who is, inter alia," that would be accurate.

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 01:43 PM

Nov 2015

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

4. All that Hardy is doing there is praising Labour's new leader.

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Reply #3)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 06:03 PM

Nov 2015

He doesn't ask to join Labour. He doesn't call on Left Unity members to infiltrate Labour. He is simply saying Left Unity likes what is happening in the Labour Party at the moment and that they are going to make things a little easier for Labour by not standing against them in the next elections.

It's not like as if he's accusing Johnson of bestiality.

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