La straordinaria ascesa di Hannah Spencer: l’idraulica che lotta per diventare parlamentare e stuccatrice allo stesso tempo
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/remarkable-rise-hannah-spencer-plumber-33366397.amp
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I don’t know about anyone else but it’s nice to have a tradeswoman running to be an MP over an ex-banker, someone who works in a think tank or a GB news presenter.
Someone will be along in a minute to point out that she’s not a plumber like a tradey in white van, she’s a Heat Pump Engineer that works for AIRA. She isn’t working class because she has a partner that works for big pharma and lives in a gated mansion in Hale. Etc and blah blah..
And all that’s fine and dandy, my question is..
If the above is true, why would the Greens paint her as a working class plumber?
What is the obsession with all the MPs and people standing trying to be Working Class?
Where’s the pride in accomplishment in this country?
I don’t understand it.
50 years ago it was very very common for skilled manual workers to become councillors, then prominent local politicians and then stand to be Members of Parliament.
Her rise isnt remarkable, its the fact that she has become such a rarity that is remarkable. The Labour Party used to be filled with politicians like her (almost all men tho).
Can she give a quote for Westminster renovations for less than £40bn?
The media portrays her as some kind of working-class hero, when she is far from it. Every media article I have seen about her is not about her personal beliefs, but championing her for her background. I do think working-class representation is a good thing, but she isn’t working-class. I don’t know anyone who falls in that bracket whose boyfriend has a job title like “Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca” and lives in a gated community.
Let’s be honest, the Greens have shoehorned her in based on her stance on woke cultural issues and her position on the war in Gaza. Likewise, Reform has just shoehorned Goodwin in based on the fact that he has some clout and is on the TV often. This by-election is farcical.