Emily Benn

[Meade's Ball]

are you Gary Glitter?

I am a member of the glitterati, yes. We are an amusing lookalike club who tour scouts clubs in the Midlands.
Come on, come on! Come on, come on! we shout as our leather trousers fall to the surprise and glee of those troop leaders who are PE teachers in the daytime.

 

[Nibble]

Can this really be a good thing? Most eighteen year olds I know don't know what they want in life, let alone what other pwople want or need.

 

[Buzzer]

Really? what the hell does she know about life? shes never had to pay a bill in her life, not done a days work and hasn't even finished her education yet.

agreed - with a very privileged background despite what the Wedgwood Benn's claim.

Actually - is there a member of that family who has EVER done a day's work in their lives or is it as George Orwell says - they'll do anything for the working classes except become one?

 

[magoo]

on one hand yes, what can she know about life? on the other hand what the hell kind of kid WANTS to be an MP at 17?? a bloody freak kid that shouldn't be trusted is what i'd say!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Fair play to her, but Worthing is about as blue as they come. She'll do well to hold her deposit.

 

[Nibble]

If anyone had any sense the minute she suggested the idea she should have been told to sit back down and shut the f*** up.

 

[Simster]

agreed - with a very privileged background despite what the Wedgwood Benn's claim.

Actually - is there a member of that family who has EVER done a day's work in their lives or is it as George Orwell says - they'll do anything for the working classes except become one?

*sigh* The usual diatribe trotted out by the tories. What do you want him to do? Give all of his money away?

Is he not allowed to believe in socialism because he has money?

Funny how that doesn't work the other way round - it was OK for Thatcher to trot out some 16 year old kid living on a sink estate with his single parent mother on benefits because he happened to hold Tory values. Was he not allowed Tory opinions then?

 

[Tooting Gull]

or is it as George Orwell says - they'll do anything for the working classes except become one?

Ouch! He's good that George Orwell...read and weep Harriet Harman (and most of the rest of the Cabinet).

 

[unnameable]

No doubt Cameron's Tories will trump Labour by fielding a 17-year-old candidate somewhere. The Lib Dems will respond by fielding, in Eastbourne of all places, Ming Campbell's great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter, who must be all of 67.

 

[Buzzer]

*sigh* The usual diatribe trotted out by the tories. What do you want him to do? Give all of his money away?

Is he not allowed to believe in socialism because he has money?

Funny how that doesn't work the other way round - it was OK for Thatcher to trot out some 16 year old kid living on a sink estate with his single parent mother on benefits because he happened to hold Tory values. Was he not allowed Tory opinions then?

no - just don't preach about fairer societies and equal rights for all for WORKERS and yet never manage to do a day's work in your life thanks to a privileged background opening all the right doors for you. Would some 17 year old single mother from Maybridge have been chosen as the Labour candidate in Worthing? I very much doubt it - and will Emily Benn go to Oxford or Cambridge? You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

I respect people's opinions if they actually speak from experience irrespective of politics. I have the utmost respect for Dave Nellist and Jeremy Corbyn(?) yet despise their politics.

Speaking as someone who grew up in a dirt poor environment on a council estate I find it very patronising to get preached to about what's best for me and how my money should be spent and what I aspire to by someone who claims to be a socialist yet has no experience of living life as part of the proletariat.

rant over

 

[Questions]

*sigh* The usual diatribe trotted out by the tories. What do you want him to do? Give all of his money away?

Is he not allowed to believe in socialism because he has money?

Funny how that doesn't work the other way round - it was OK for Thatcher to trot out some 16 year old kid living on a sink estate with his single parent mother on benefits because he happened to hold Tory values. Was he not allowed Tory opinions then?

I shall denounce my title but do you mind if I keep the cash............................

Tony Benn

 

[Grendel]

No doubt Cameron's Tories will trump Labour by fielding a 17-year-old candidate somewhere.

You have to be at least 18 to stand for election so, no, they won't.

 

[Storer68]

Doesn't stand a hopie in cats hell of getting elected

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 19,548 43.9 +0.7
Labour Daniel Yates 11,365 25.5 −3.5
Liberal Democrat James Doyle 10,844 24.3 +1.4
UK Independence Richard Jelf 2,109 4.7 +1.9
Legalise Cannabis Chris Baldwin 677 1.5 −0.6
Majority 8,183 18.4
Turnout 44,543 61.6 1.7
Conservative hold Swing +2.1

General Election 2001: East Worthing and Shoreham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 18,608 43.2 +2.7
Labour Daniel Yates 12,469 29.0 +5.0
Liberal Democrat Paul Elgood 9,876 22.9 −7.6
UK Independence Jim McCulloch 1,195 2.8 +1.0
Legalise Cannabis Christopher Baldwin 920 2.1 +2.1
Majority 6,139 14.2
Turnout 43,068 59.7 −13.1
Conservative hold Swing

General Election 1997: East Worthing and Shoreham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 20,864 40.5
Liberal Democrat Martin King 15,766 30.6
Labour Mark Williams 12,335 23.9
Referendum Party J. McCulloch 1,683 3.3
UK Independence R. Jarvis 921 1.8
Majority 5,098
Turnout 72.9

 

[severnside gull]

as George Orwell says - they'll do anything for the working classes except become one?

Quality quotation

Have to say I am really struggling as a labour voter - would I vote for an 18 year old or not? It's not that I have any specific objection to youth - it can be precocious, gauche, niaive ....indeed all the things that age and experience fails to remedy. What it rarely is is cynical as so many of our elder statesmen so demonstrably are. I think perhaps it is the privelege I shudder at? How many better candidates might there be from less rarified backgrounds who would never be considered?

On the whole I think I wouldn't vote so he chances in a tory stronghold must be zero

 

[Uncle Buck]

It is like an episode of Blackadder.

 

[Goodfella]

It's funny how we assume that because we have lived longer we know the answers to life, when, in fact, we just know of a few more errors we perhaps oughtn't make again.
Of course i wouldn't automatically respect her, or adhere to her surname's will, but i like the idea of being told what to do by a youngster, her eyes sometimes full of tender tears, still embraced by the passions that time hasn't yet dismembered.

Well, if you put it like that.

 

[colinpants]

Prime contender for a moustache if you ask me.

 

[unnameable]

She looks Asian. That won't go down well in Worthing. It will go down like a lead balloon in Lancing.

 

[simonsimon]

Better looking than that pompous idiot Tim Loughton, and would not have to do much to be a more successful constituency MP.

 

[Col P]

good luck to her