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#PoliticsLive
today, asked about London Labour barring me from standing for North East Mayor. How’s it possible that I’m good enough to be a Labour Mayor, but not good enough to be candidate for Labour Mayor?
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@MayorJD
Regrettably, the Labour Party leadership appears drawn from an elite removed from the realities of average, everyday folks. It's disheartening when politics becomes a game reserved for a like-minded few, sidelining diverse ideas, principles and ethics. The party seems to be in…
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@MayorJD
Didn't you understand the process when you applied?
Why do you think you should have been given an advantage over the other applicants?
What's wrong with a process that treats all applicants equally?
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@MayorJD
this is a weird logic. it implies mayors should be candidates every time just by being mayor
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@MayorJD
I'm not sure you were good enough to be Labour Mayor. Standards were lower under Corbyn.
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@jayneb64
I really don't know how you handled being spoken to like that by the super arrogant host. You must have the payience of a saint.
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@graceblakeley
Because you’re left wing and have some actual ideas. Rather than just no, we need to be fiscally responsible and means tested id cards. And war.
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@MayorJD
Because hypocrisy, deceit and a blind vindictive hatred of the left are the hallmarks of Starmer's Labour.
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