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Having finished the Maconie book I've been going back through it fact-checking a dozen or so claims, quotes and assertions I'd marked as I went along. Some because they ran contrary to notions I had picked up across the years and I'd wanted to fact-check, others because they'd interested me enough I wanted to explore them further, but there was something on Page 78 that struck me as ridiculous coming from Leanne Wood.
I take it you recall Theresa May in the run-up to the Tory leadership contest in the wake of the Brexit referendum making a bid to occupy Macmillan's old centrist, One-Nation Tory position by claiming she would "make the Tories the party for working people?" Remember that statement, Tramp?
Maconie goes on to quote, with obvious tacit approval, (he describes her as being "white-faced with quiet rage" having been "pricked into passionate scorn") from Leanne Wood's response on Question Time later that evening. Now pay attention here, Tramp - " I worked as a probation officer in south Wales during the miners' strike.... they will never be the party of the working people."
Now a politician's propensity for coming out with self-serving averment notwithstanding that's an extraordinary thing to say! I have vivid memories of the miners' strike, but then I would, I'm older than her and by my reckoning she would have been a schoolchild at the time. Thirteen or thereabouts?
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 10:45 - Oct 16 by JJJack
That is truly bizarre, even given, politicians’ propensity to bend the truth. Her DOB is 13/12/71. Surely she couldn’t have meant that?!
It's why I'm asking. It's not impossible she could have got carried away given she was "white-faced with quiet rage" and having played some role back in '84 would have been wish-fulfillment on her part, but still...
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 11:08 - Oct 16 by swanjackal
That's what working as a probation officer at 13 does to you.
With due apologies to Eric Arthur Blair Esq.,"all history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and rewritten as often as was necessary and if the facts say otherwise then the facts must be altered."
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 22:40 - Oct 20 by Lohengrin
Bump for Trampie....
Wiki says :
From 1997 to 2000, Wood worked with the Mid Glamorgan Probation Service as a probation officer.
Wood credits her political awakening to reading Marge Piercy's 1976 feminist classic Woman on the Edge of Time, and the 1984/5 UK miners' strike.[4] Her political heroes include Lewis Lewis, one of the leaders of the 1831 Merthyr Rising.[4]
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Fake news ?
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Beware of the Risen People
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 07:51 - Oct 21 by Kilkennyjack
Wiki says :
From 1997 to 2000, Wood worked with the Mid Glamorgan Probation Service as a probation officer.
Wood credits her political awakening to reading Marge Piercy's 1976 feminist classic Woman on the Edge of Time, and the 1984/5 UK miners' strike.[4] Her political heroes include Lewis Lewis, one of the leaders of the 1831 Merthyr Rising.[4]
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Fake news ?
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What Wiki forgets to mention is that in 1984 she'd have been playing hopscotch and cutting photos of Wham! out of Jackie and pinning them on her bedroom wall not organising the picket at Treforgan.
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 07:51 - Oct 21 by Kilkennyjack
Wiki says :
From 1997 to 2000, Wood worked with the Mid Glamorgan Probation Service as a probation officer.
Wood credits her political awakening to reading Marge Piercy's 1976 feminist classic Woman on the Edge of Time, and the 1984/5 UK miners' strike.[4] Her political heroes include Lewis Lewis, one of the leaders of the 1831 Merthyr Rising.[4]
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Fake news ?
[Post edited 21 Oct 2017 7:53]
She's so right on she's even making me heave.
Each time I go to Bedd - au........................
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FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 12:45 - Oct 21 with 2059 views
FAO Trampie - Leanne Wood???. on 08:50 - Oct 21 by Lohengrin
What Wiki forgets to mention is that in 1984 she'd have been playing hopscotch and cutting photos of Wham! out of Jackie and pinning them on her bedroom wall not organising the picket at Treforgan.
Yes the dates clearly dont add up, if she said that. Why would she ?
Wiki also says .....
Upon becoming leader of Plaid in 2012, Leanne refused the party leader’s allowance to which she was entitled.[15] Upon being re-elected in 2016 and becoming leader of the opposition, she did the same again.
Chwarae Teg.
Anyhow its not a big fib like Brexit/aka breakfast/.
Beware of the Risen People
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