by Paul Jackson
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn chose Warrington as one of the six towns and cities to broadcast a live web feed to Labour party supporters in the run up to Thursday’s general election.
The party faithful turned out in their hundreds to see their leader and to enjoy the entertainment from Patrick Topping and Reverend and the Makers.
Joining the artists on stage was Rebecca Long Bailey, the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, energy and Industrial Strategy.
Also speaking to the crowd was star of TV, Film and stage, Maxine Peake who most recently starred in the hard hitting three part series “3 Girls”.
Maxine Peake poses for a photo with fans
Maxine Peake
Warrington South candidate Faisal Rashid with council leader Terry O’Neill
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Broadcasting to party faithful seems to be a bit pointless, if they are faithful he has got their votes anyway. What a total waste of time it was.
I was thinking the same Eagle. Was it publicised anywhere that he was coming or did only his true supporters know and get an private invite. Not that I would have gone anyway…I can’t be doing with politics/politicians and their ‘often false promises and meaningless words just to get votes’ and other twaddle.
perhaps it was a call to arms for a last push or a little social time and it was picked up and showed on national media so not a waste of anyones time really, unlike Eagles waste of typing time and it was invite only so you observe weren’t on the list dizzy.. What did inspire me was that about 70% of the crowd were under 30, Corbyn does seem to have appealed to the young voters.
Comments are invited on any news story, you don’t have to agree with them but opinions other than yours are allowed. So not a waste of time. I could comment that your education was a waste of time given the number of errors in your comments, I won’t because it would be churlish.
As Eagle says TOGGER everyone has the right to an opinion and the right to post comments under news stories. Just because maybe you disagree with what others say doesn;t make their time spent posting comments a ‘waste of time’ not does it make you having to read them a waste of time as you have chosen to come on here just like us others. I really should get a hobby lol.
Anyway that aside, yes it’s interesting that you say 70% of the crowd were under 30. Do you think that might have had anything to do with the fact it was FREE and the entertainment was Patrick Topping (apparently quite a well known and liked dance/rave music icon) and also on the bill was Reverend and the Makers again a band who appeals to the younger generation. Not my sort of music though…but hey each to their own 😀
I bet not as many under 30’s would have turned up if Slim Whitman and Nana Mouskouri had been the entertainment…. my dad would have fought tooth and nail to go though if they had been ha ha.
seems the young people of this town not only love a free concert, they listened to the massage and voted Labour 😉
Young people today seem to love anything that”s free and as Corbyn was promising plenty of that (without saying who was paying for it) they did indeed vote for him.
he did say who was paying for it in a FULLY COSTED manifesto, you must be confusing it with the completely uncosted Tory effort.