{"id":18213,"date":"2019-06-11T10:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:56:26","slug":"len-mccluskey-peterborough-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18213","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Let&#8217;s unite the country&#8217; call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Polly Toynbee cannot help caricaturing herself as the metropolitan snob whose disregard for life outside north London still leaves her, three years on, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jun\/06\/labour-peterborough-byelection-brexit-party-remain\">struggling to understand the 2016 referendum result.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is her affair.\u00c2\u00a0 But she has no business caricaturing me as representing the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bold, white male with a regional accent\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, apparently a key figure in her demonology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would remind her of the tremendous diversity of the union I lead, and that it is those members that I speak for. I\u00c2\u00a0don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to make awayday trips to the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bnorth\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 to find out what working people are thinking, why so many voted \u00e2\u20ac\u015bleave\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 in 2016 and why, whatever their views on Brexit, they are cautious about a second referendum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Peterborough by-election result did not pan out as Ms Toynbee clearly anticipated. The result vindicates Jeremy Corbyn&#8217;s stance on Brexit, seeking to unite the country, leave or remain, so that we can get on with the urgent job of fixing the ills dividing us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would urge her to reflect on this misjudgement, and on her serial misunderstandings of Jeremy Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership.\u00c2\u00a0 Reflect, too, that every time she writes she alienates more ordinary people from the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bremain\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 cause she champions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A version of this comment first appeared as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/jun\/10\/jeremy-corbyns-stance-on-brexit-vindicated-by-peterborough-vote\">letter to the editor in the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> on\u00c2\u00a0Monday (June 10).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Toynbee cannot help caricaturing herself as the metropolitan snob whose disregard for life outside north London still leaves her, three years on, struggling to understand the 2016 referendum result.\u00c2\u00a0 &nbsp; That is her affair.\u00c2\u00a0 But she has no business caricaturing me as representing the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bold, white male with a regional accent\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, apparently a key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"Peterborough result \u00e2\u20ac\u0098vindicates Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance on Brexit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, says Unite GS Len McCluskey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25219,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18213\/revisions\/25219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}