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[Video] Angela Rayner and Gordon Brown discussing how to end child poverty (flamingos-cant.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/uk_politics

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~~Sorry for the Twitter link, but I've not seen the video elsewhere.~~

EDIT: Twitter link now replaced, courtesy of !flamingos@feddit.uk.

Just thought this was really great! It starts off with Rayner talking about how much Brown's policies (like Sure Start and the child tax credit) helped her and her kids, then they move on to talking about how the next Labour government hopes to do the same. Then it finishes with the amazing detail that Rachel Reeves had a Gordon Brown poster on her bedroom wall as a teenager.

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[–] flamingos 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good God, the comments under that are vile.

Also, here's the video for the (sensibly) Twitter adverse.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, I never read the comments.

Cheers for the better link!

[–] Zombie 4 points 4 months ago

I haven't seen Gordon Brown in a long time, I thought he was Steve Coogan playing a character at first!