Eddie Nestor on the BBC today made the point that they managed to "connect" with the people there in a way that politicians do not.
So those who are born to rule appear to be better at "connecting" with ordinary people than those whom we elect to represent us.
Politicians on left, Dent Coad and Corbyn, arrogantly think they definitely "connect" with people because they practice the politics of the underdog and represent the underdog's interests. This begs the question, How could Grenfell survivors not connect with them?
A patronising position for these lefties in the extreme.
But do Dent Coad and Corbyn "connect" with people any better than Tories like Theresa May and Boris Johnson who appear very awkward and uncomfortable when confronting a horrendous situation facing ordinary people.
Dent Coad went to Grenfell with Corbyn just after the fire and bit her lip when Corbyn proclaimed that "Emma is your MP and she will speak out."
No one got worked up about that in the way they do when royalty puts in an appearance. Dent Coad and Corbyn were shown on the television in the same way that the Cambridge's visit was also shown.
Emma Dent Coad is snobbish, superior, and patronising.
Like Corbyn, and all middle-class lefties(and let's face it they are middle-class if they are in politics rather than toiling away in the supermarket) know best what the ordinary person needs.
How could middle-class, Emma, and her left-wing middle-class mate, Jeremy, mentally identify with the working classes. Her attempts at fellow feeling were as feeble and meaningless as Theresa May's fleeting visit to Grenfell after the fire.
Perhaps, the ordinary person prefers royalty to politicians.
Whereas, Judith Blakeman was a breath of fresh air for Grenfell people. A thoroughly decent woman without pretentious affectations who knows how to relate to people. She should get a medal
People generally don't like politicians. They know them for what they are...dubious people on the make.
ReplyDeleteVery good analysis
ReplyDeleteIan Henderson had the "common touch" in spades. A great bloke who saved a Housing Estate from destruction!
ReplyDeleteAnd he worked at the Food Bank during Covid unlike the current Labour lot. It was beneath the dignity of some in the Labour Party to help out there.
DeleteSuch nonsense. I donated some Iranian caviar
DeleteI love this boy
DeleteWhich boy?
DeleteThe Persian boy. I am his Alexander
DeleteNaughty.......
Deleteyes, I think that is true
ReplyDeleteMy very shy Asian wife was playing in the Pirate Ship one cold winter afternoon. There was no one else around except a policeman in the distance. Kate was on the boat with George. She started to ask my wife about our son as mothers do. She then asked whether George could take our son's place at the wheel. She has the common touch and a genuine, unaffected interest in the human race. I cannot think of any politician who could have that quick exchange without it seeming synthetic.
ReplyDeleteThat's right. Unpretentious!
ReplyDeleteNeither William or Kate would be a party to any homophobia unlike some in the Kensington Constituency Labour Party that I could mention.
So many things wrong with Kensington Labour Party at the moment but ,despite your repeated fishing, l do not think that homophobia is one of them .
ReplyDeleteExactly. Cllr Lari is lovely
DeleteHomophobia is very much in vogue in the Kensington Labour Party. One high profile member has form for antisemitism too.
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised to learn of homophobia in the local Labour.
DeleteThey have got a problem with HOMOPHOBIA. Stands to reason, they have a high profile member who has form for racism and antisemitism.
DeleteHow many books has EDC managed to sell? Might explain why she’s still trying to milk every ounce of publicity from the tragedy of Grenfell by making it all about her. Shameless.
ReplyDeleteShame she did not bang the drum for Council tenants when she was a TMO Board Member.
ReplyDeleteShe's a self publicist hoping people will remember the fake news she spreads when she next stands for parliament.
Moore Bick saw through Dent Coad's game when he denied her "core participant" status; worthless and opinionated. Her knee jerk reaction was to complain about chandeliers in the foyer of the hearing room.
ReplyDeleteDent is a Grenfell side show. The whole calamity happened on the Tory watch. It is a dizzy problem - lock, stock and barrel
ReplyDeleteDear Dame,
DeleteAccording to the Huffington Post, Emma Dent Coad the consummate left winger, branded the Moore Bick Inquiry's Report on the actions of the Fire Brigade "despicable." It seems that Moore Bick's panel agreed with the widow of a man who lost his life in the fire but the former TMO Board member who let tenants suffer knows best.
Dent-Coad is trying to get the "common touch" and to "connect" with the ordinary working man by praising the Fire Brigade. Corbyn and Dent-Coad decided that the Fire Brigade should be EXALTED, regardless of the evidence presented to the Inquiry by Queen's Counsel
DeleteHow dare Moore Bick look at the evidence!
Just look at the video evidence of Dent-Coad having an attitude, (with a furious face) to the woman whose husband had died in the fire and who appealed to Dent-Coad to keep her mouth shut about the Fire Brigade. Dent Coad said, " I haven't decided what my position will be" but she had decided.
The only finding acceptable to Mrs Dent Coad would have been
Delete"it is all the bastard Tory Council's fault; and the money grabbing firms' fault who did the work."
Emma did that poor woman down when she ignored her request not to praise the Fire Brigade. She should have that on her conscience for the rest of her days. Emma told BBC Radio London that she opposed the appointment of Sir Martin Moore Bick because he constituents had asked her to do so and she had always done this. Not true Emma is it? You do what you want to do in politics.
DeleteThis of course is the right conclusion & at some point this century this is what the enquiry will find ( but dressed up in thousand upon thousand words ) Unfortunately nobody in the current Labour Group is capable of summing up the truth as succinctly as the previous commentator
ReplyDeleteEspecially not Dent Coad who is as inarticulate as she is intellectually challenged . ( It was not without reason that the previous Labour Group dubbed her 'Err')
ReplyDeleteThe Dent Coad thing is personal not political. She's a throw back to inadequate Labour politicians of the mid-eighties -the type that cost Labour the 1987 and 2002 General Elections
DeleteNow don't forget, the Inquiry with all the brilliant lawyers and Technical Advisors found the Brigade wanting. I prefer their opinion to that of EDC.
DeleteNow don't forget, Emma Dent Coad, everyone's cuddly Trot, is a very temperamental person with an inflated view of her own talent or importance. A me, me, me, person.
Delete£150 million already spent on the inquiry. £400 million of Council Tax spent by RBKC to rehouse 200 families. 3 families still in temporary accommodation. It is time for Tory Councillors to dump dizzy who was a Cabinet Member while all of this was brewing. The hussy was then brazen enough to step into the Leader's shoes after the ineffective Paget-Brown quit in disgrace.
ReplyDeleteAn average of £2 million to rehouse each family. OK for some
ReplyDeleteWhat a shocking thing to say ! You have obviously never seen any of the misery and damage done to all those who lost EVERYTHING in the Grenfell fire & heard the screams of their dying neighbours . "Alright for some "you heartless bastard . & the victims have no influence or say in the cost of the rehousing
DeleteA heartless comment. But also a huge cost for Council Tax payers
DeleteDear Emma,
DeleteThank you for your comment at 18.10 above. I agree with you that the previous comments on costs seem heartless.
Were you pleased that it cost an average of £2 million to rehouse each family?
What was the Labour Party doing to expose this Tory profligacy? Labour is supposed to be the opposition.
I doubt very much that the costs of rehousing will eventually be paid for by the Council Tax Payers ( The Council ,unlike so many of those who lost their homes, is insured ) . But are you suggesting that the innocent victims of the fire should just have been left to fend for themselves? (Build themselves a shanty town in Holland Park perhaps ?)
DeleteOf course the victims of the fire should not have been left to fend for themselves. But the £600 million penalty to taxpayers (including the £150 million inquiry and rising) should not have happened as a result of Tory incompetence and negligence. And the failure of the Labour Opposition to scrutinise the Tory Administration. All £230 million of Council Reserves already spent on buying new houses and flats for the displaced. An average of £2 million a pop
DeleteIt was Theresa May who issued an unachievable promise that all those affected by the fire would be permanently rehoused in equivalent housing within a mile of the tower within weeks. No thought or consultation went into the warm words. No wonder that the victims quickly became disillisioned with establishment oromises
DeleteAnother damaging promise was that the enquiry would issue its first findings & recommendations 'before Easter '. Of course the first report has now been made but liar Johnson feels no obligation to implement the recommendations of the Enquiry . Unexpectedly it is Michael Gove who seems to have some idea what now needs to happen
DeleteThe failings of the Labour Party to challenge the Tory Administration over malpractice in housing management was an historic practice going back to 2008, nine years before Grenfell went up in flames. The one, who played along with the Tories was none other than the one and only, Emma Dent Coad, everyone's "cuddly" Socialist. She did not speak out when she was on the TMO and by doing so she knew that tenants were being done down. Come to think of it, Emma Dent Coad did nothing about the excesses of the TMO when she was off the TMO. She is no better than the Tories whom she likes to vilify.
DeleteThe short point is that Grenfell happened as a result of Tory incompetence and neglect. And this incompetence and neglect was aided by the complete failure of the Labour opposition to scrutinise the party in power and hold them to account. The situation was further exacerbated by operational failures by the Fire Brigade.
ReplyDeleteRBKC was in a dire state and remains in a dire state. The twin evils of monopoly power by the Conservatives and perpetual failure of Leadership which continues with dizzy Campbell
Emma Dent Coad's interview with Zoe Williams of The Guardian on the 17th June is now on-line for all to read.
ReplyDeleteIn that interview, Emma Dent Coad stated she voted for the first time in 1975 and "she voted to join the EU." I am very concerned to learn that this incredibly stupid woman thought she was voting to join the EU back in 1975. Under the Referendum Act 1975, the electorate was invited to vote on the question of remaining in the Common Market referred to as the "European Community" not on joining it. It beggars belief that Emma sat in parliament as our MP debating Brexit and she did not know that we entered the European Community on 1st January 1973 by virtue of the European Communities Act 1972. I have never thought this before but there is something to be said for politicians having to learn their letters before being let loose in the political arena.
I would expect a former Member of Parliament to understood what she voted for the first time that she went to the ballot box. This the trouble when people with degrees in Architecture start playing politics. Kensington has had some great guns representing it in Parliament over the years - Emma called them "Giants" in her maiden speech to the House of Commons and she was right. I am thinking of Alan Clark, Michael Portillo, and Malcolm Rifkind. Felicity Buchan MP has a Law Degree from Oxford. She wasn't old enough to vote back in 1975 because she was a child of five. But at least Felicity knows what people voted on back then whereas our Emma voted in that Referendum and thought she was voting on joining the EU.
I am sure Emma would do very well completing her Ph.D In Architecture.
She obfuscates, in that Guardian article, more than Lord Geidt did over his resignation as an Advisor on the Ministerial Code.
ReplyDeleteBoris,
DeleteObfuscation? What do you mean?
Obfuscation- I'll tell you what I mean, what I really, really, really, mean.
DeleteDent Coad told The Guardian,
“My socialism is Corbyn’s socialism, but that doesn’t make me a Corbynite,” She is trying to square the circle and finding it impossible.
She knows that Corbyn's Marxism cost Labour the last General Election; particularly amongst affluent voters. She knows that Marxists like to hear that her Socialism is Corbyn's Marxism. Those Marxists will vote for her any way with that seed firmly planted in her minds, win, win for Dent Coad amongst Marxists.
She knows that the liberal Guardian reading Social Democrats in their Notting Hill Salons, in their Campden Hill Morning Rooms and in their Holland Park Lounges are not impressed with Marxism. She needs to soften the Corbyn agenda and her image as a Corbynista to get their votes. They voted Gymiah last time.
She says, she has always supported the leadership? Saying she did not understand Keir Starmer is not what I would call support.
That's it. Gymiah would have protected the wealth of the wealthy but made sure that those at the bottom of the pile got a fairer slice of the cake.
DeleteShe also wants to divorce herself from Corbyn on Brexit. All very clever for a politician in a Brexit leaning constituency who wants to get back in.
DeleteThe article was all about her.
Gymiah and the Lib Dems would protect the wealth of the wealthy because, to quote Edmund Burke, they know that "cutting the throats of the rich would not provide one bit of bread and cheese for the poor." Corbyn and Dent Coad embrace Robin Hood's morality, take from the rich top give to the poor.
DeleteAll far too late . EDC lost her seat simply because she put her loyalty yo Corbyn way before her loyalty to the electorate that initially elected her. She had pne of the most pro European constituencies in the country but simply refused to clearly endorse remaining in the Union. This is why the European movement refused to give her their endorsement & why she lost her seat. + she was crap at helping people ( especially the victims of the fire)
DeleteWhy is everyone on here obsessed with Emma Dent Coad? A lot of misogyny on this forum.
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ReplyDeleteMy dear good and gracious lady, the Dame Hornet,
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