By Bones McCoy
#110616
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 9:27 pm You know I'm not convinced this woman was a great loss as an MP. Streeting did grow up in a single parent family in Stepney.

She knows full well that Redbridge Council had big cuts from central government and couldn't raise rates.

As a son of Redbridge, there are working class bits, and plenty of extremely gentrified bits.
You wouldn't expect an outer London borough with 320,000 people to be any different.
Fucks-sake Ian Duncan Smith is one of the MPs in Winston Churchill's old Constituency.

I find Wikipedia's "Famous people from ..." an interesting insight into an area's social mix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... _Redbridge

Warning: list includes "Friend of the forum" Richard Littlejohn.
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By Bones McCoy
#110617
Abernathy wrote: Thu May 14, 2026 1:07 pm Wes has now resigned. Didn't mention a leadership challenge apparently, but that's what's next.
Oh shit: #1 son is/was chief economist on one of his pet health initiatives.

I wonder what that means for that job.
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