politicians you've met

[kebabking]

i've met most of the Scottish political scene, none of them gave off the aura of being one of the intellectual or moral collosses (collosi?) of our age - though Rosie Kane did manage to single herself out as the most frighteningly thick person i think i've ever met under any circumstances...

i mean an inability walk, talk and chew gum thick, rather than an appraisal of her political views, though she didn't seem to understand her own views very well either...

Mandelson was utterly correct, polite, well-briefed and intelligent, and wouldn't have pissed on you if you were rolling around in flames on the carpet in front of him, Mowlem believed whatever the last person she'd spoken to wanted her to believe, tried to make out she was nice and bubbly, but actually she was horrible to anyone she didn't need to be nice too - fortunately her uselessness prevented it mattering.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

rhodri morgan was very charismatic i have to say, regardless of what you may think of his political slant.

 

[JimW]

Huang Yanrong who's now deputy governor of Sichuan, before she was famous.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Benn,Scargill,Livingstone,Abbott,Harman,Griffin,Hughes and Blunkett.

Chris or Harriet?

 

[tbaldwin]

Chris or Harriet?

UBFO

 

[audiotech]

Those with long lists of names would that be because you were on the same demo?

Dropping names of longstanding SWP members is a bit sad.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Barbara Castle.
Glenda Jackson.
Liz Davies
Ken Livingstone.
Keith "the teeth" Hill.
John Bercow (when he was a tory councillor).
John Reid.
John McDonnell

 

[ViolentPanda]

Those with long lists of names would that be because you were on the same demo?

Dropping names of longstanding SWP members is a bit sad.

Whereas dropping bricks on longstanding SWP members is plain good fun!

 

[audiotech]

Whatever's your bag VP.

 

[Scarlette]

I had a fight in the street with David Amess once, when 16. He is a knob. He wrote to my school asking my friend and me to write and apologise. We did not. Instead the local paper wrote an article about our brave refusal to bow to political thuggery. Or something. Rarr!

Snogged Teddy Taylor's son once, though suspect that doesn't count. So did my sister.

 

[audiotech]

John Bercow (when he was a tory councillor).

I suppose he would have ditched wearing his Hang Nelson Mandela t-shirt by then?

 

[Gromit]

Ron Davies MP
Rhodri Morgan – First Minister (Several Times)
Peter Hain MP
John Redwood MP
William Hague MP
Jeff Cuthbert AM
Andrew Davies AM
Edwina Hart AM
Jane Hutt AM
Leighton Andrews AM
Cllr. Geraint R. Davies (when he was an AM)
Cllr. Adrian Hobson
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Plus one labour MP whose name escapes me despite being a really nice bloke.
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Plus I’ve walked past Tony Blair in the corridor when he was Prime Minister, but didn’t actually meet him so I guess that doesn’t count.

 

[Geri]

I met Arthur Scargill when I was at a youth trade union conference - I didn't like him at all.

Tommy Sheridan came and spoke in Bristol at one of our meetings - I assume I talked to him, but I can't actually remember.

I met Derek Hatton at his book signing/meeting in Bristol and we had a chat after - he was the nicest of the lot.

Oh, Mildred Gordon is my friend's mum - don't know if anyone on here will remember her, she used to be MP for Bow & Poplar. Quite a formidable woman, she was a friend of Trotsky, I believe.

 

[N_igma]

Main one's: Conor Murphy, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness.

 

[DotCommunist]

Main one's: Conor Murphy, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness.

Part of the same ASU?

 

[N_igma]

Part of the same ASU?

Sssssh.

 

[Citizen66]

Been on the piss with Lembit Öpik as he's a friend of a friend but I was too inebriated to actually speak when he was in company!

 

[machine cat]

Barry Sheerman MP.




He was a cunt.

 

[danny la rouge]

Those with long lists of names would that be because you were on the same demo?

A lot of those I've listed were involved in the anti poll tax campaign. They were at meetings I organised, or on warrant sales blockades with me. That sort of thing.

 

[starfish]

Ive spoken to Tony Blair while he was only wearing a pair of blue boxer shorts.

 

[Fedayn]

Oh, Mildred Gordon is my friend's mum - don't know if anyone on here will remember her, she used to be MP for Bow & Poplar. Quite a formidable woman, she was a friend of Trotsky, I believe.

Her former partner was Sam Gordon who was a member of the RCP in the 1940's. I spoke to her a few years ago when I was working for The Pension Service, she started chatting away and gradually worked out I was a TU rep and she just asked what my politics were. I told her I was an ex Millitant and knew a few former pals of hers Dave Nellist and Terry Fields, she started lauhging and recounted loads of wee tales about them pissing Labour bigwigs off, sound woman.

 

[Fedayn]

Main one's: Conor Murphy, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness.

I met Davy Hyland a good few years back, he was drinking with a mate here in Glasgow.

 

[tangerinedream]

Some local MPs I can't even remember they were so bland, Roger Stott, who said ' You know the big wheel?, I am that big wheel, I make things go round' which was funny as he was deadly serious. He referring to a big wheel from a pithead that is in Wigan town centre. Irc he's dead now.

Dennis Skinner was top, really good to me. Very gruff but really kind and seemed really genuine. Didn't wholly appreciate who he was in terms of the Labour Party er, dynamic and that either really then, so I'm fairly sure that's not just a misty romantic view.

 

[rekil]

My mate's wife is a Die Linke candidate in the upcoming German election.

 

[Cobbles]

Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Margaret Thatcher, Gordon Wilson, Kenny MacAskill

 

[N_igma]

I met Davy Hyland a good few years back, he was drinking with a mate here in Glasgow.

Aye know Davy.He ran as an independent a couple of years back, left the mainstream movement over policing.

 

[100% masahiko]

Tony Benn. Kinnock.

 

[butchersapron]

I met Barbera Follet at a labour party fundraiser - she didn't know who Bessie Braddock was.

 

[Geri]

Her former partner was Sam Gordon who was a member of the RCP in the 1940's.

That's right, their son is Dave Gordon, who has done a lot of research into poverty and social exclusion. I used to live with him and his girlfriend (wife now) who was a good friend of mine, as a lodger. I met them through the Labour Party. Her second husband was Nils Dahl who looked after Trotsky in Norway.

 

[audiotech]

A lot of those I've listed were involved in the anti poll tax campaign. They were at meetings I organised, or on warrant sales blockades with me. That sort of thing.

I'd list all those involved in the anti-poll tax group I was in, but you wouldn't know them from adam.