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<h1 class="gmail-page-header">Another senior Labour MP uses colourful language to dismiss Labour policy</h1>
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<div class="gmail-date">Written by <span class="gmail-author">Dods staff</span> on 10 April 2018 in <span class="gmail-taxonomy">Diary</span></div>
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<div class="gmail-views-field gmail-views-field-body"> <div class="gmail-field-content"><p>Barry Gardiner avoids the sack after suggesting that one of Labour’s key Brexit tests is ‘bollocks’ </p>
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<div class="gmail-field-item even"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Angela Rayner recently
caused a stir when she described Labour’s economic plans for major
increases in state spending as a high-risk “shit-or-bust strategy”. But
it turns out that she is not the only shadow cabinet member with a
penchant for using colourful language to dismiss a key plank of Labour
policy.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Having already
got in trouble for describing the Good Friday Agreement as a
"shibboleth", Barry Gardiner has now been caught criticising one of his
party’s Brexit tests.<span></span></span></p><div class="gmail-teads-inread gmail-sm-screen" style="margin:0px 0px 9px;height:362px;max-width:560px"><div style="margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-label" style="display:block">ADVERTISING</div><div class="gmail-teads-player" id="gmail-teads0"></div><div class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits" style="display:block"><a href="http://inread-experience.teads.tv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-teads-ui-components-credits-colored">inRead</span> invented by Teads</a></div></div></div>
<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Speaking during a question-and-answer session at a <span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">thinktank</span> in
Brussels last month, he said: “Well let’s just take one test – the
exact same benefits. Bollocks. Always has been bollocks and it remains
it.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">“We know very
well that we cannot have the exact same benefits and actually it would
have made sense – because it was the Tories that said they were going to
secure the exact same benefits – and our position should have been to
say they have said they are going to secure the exact same benefits and
we are going to hold them to that standard.”</span></p>
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<p>But asked about the row, Jeremy Corbyn said: "Barry Gardiner
does not denounce our Brexit policies. We have had a conversation with
him. It's quite clear he does support our strategy of holding the
Government to account on the tests that have been put forward." </p>
<p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">And in a further silver lining for Barry, as </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">one wag </span><a href="https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/983670693744300032" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt" target="_blank">pointed out</a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> on Twitter, neither his ‘bollocks’ quote or </span>Rayner’s<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> ‘shit or bust’ line is likely to be deployed by vicar's daughter Theresa May at </span>PMQs<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> - because the language is unparliamentary.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></section></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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