Remember when labour was made up of people like him who had served their time on the shop floor and in the unions.
Proper guy that seems like he is a genuine good guy that cares about his charges.
I would probably vote for him if he came out with a decent set of promises and I’ve voted lib Dems and plaid the last couple of votes.
Why does everything have to result in an attack on Labour? Even from the Guardian honestly,
Pretty easy to see why. He doesn’t get bogged down with all the fancy fencing style argumentative bullshit that politicians get involved with.
If you are talking shit he will tell you. If you are asking a daft question he will tell you you are asking a daft question.
He talks sense and doesn’t bullshit you.
Simple – he knows his stuff and believes in what he’s saying. There’s no guile, no double-think, no trying keep both sides happy.
He also has extremely fluid recall and can summon an answer to anything ppl throw at him.
He would get monsterfied by the media like Corbyn
Backbencher privilege.
I like Mr Lynch and support the strikers. But many here are falling into the same bubble mentally we saw with Corbyn.
Lynch’s approach has made him a minor celeb, but he appeals to the same people Labour already have the support of. They general public aren’t falling in love with Lynch, just the people that are already sympathetic to his cause.
Labour needs to win an election, not get magic internet likes and points. This, rightly or wrongly, means they have to appeal to the widest base possible.
He avoids waffle and is happy to call people out on their bullshit directly. People like politicians who tell it like it is. While the likes of Johnson and Farage don’t actually do that, the perception that they did got them a lot of support in the past. Starmer needs to replicate that, albeit sincerely, it will win him over a lot more supporters than abstaining from anything that could be seen as controversial.
I like his media stance, but it wouldn’t necessarily work for Labour.
Being a union leader and fighting for your members isn’t the same thing as selling yourself to a mixed audience.
I’d agree that Labour spokespersons should be better at standing up to hostile media and taking less of their shit, but union leader and Labour MP are not as interchangeable as people might think (I can’t recall any union leader becoming even a backbench MP).
I’m not a fan of strikes or pickets, but Mr Lynch seems to be behaving better than his interviewers. His calmness under fire is reassuring, and gives hope that the dispute will be settled sooner rather than later in a reasonable fashion, without acrimony.
Because he doesn’t pander to fucking inane media questioning. He just answers straight and gives no BS.
It’s kind of the same reason people liked Trump.
The complete stupidity of the media and the way they infantilise the discussion and patronise the viewers pisses people off and they like it when someone tells them to do one.
My talking point amongst friends for a long time has been that Labour NEEDS someone no nonsense with a regional accent. This is what I mean. He’s like Prescott.
Labour voters are typically going to be made up of young people interested in left wing economic and social policies, and older white northerners interested in economic policy and with no interest or even a negative interest in social issues. To appeal to those people, you obviously need the economic policies, but as long as you present the social policies from someone who looks and sounds like them, you should be ok.
This is the type of character the Labour party needs to aspire to.
He just seems so normal and can answer question without giving the same old tired scripted answers like most politicians
Trying to recall why bob crow was so popular? Was he like this guy?
Anyone here think Mick Lynch is great and that all those that voted to leave the EU are morons? Well, I’ve got news for you…
A really good article.
Media everywhere only survive because people continue to watch them. There’s a cloo in that.
Watched a funny compilation of Mick on YouTube shredding these MSM terrorists to pieces.
I’d skip the part where he still thinks Brexit was a good idea though.
‘Much to learn’ = ‘just speak plainly and not fall into the traps by the media.
Goes on TV and says exactly the same things Ash Sarkar has been saying for years, except is a straight white man
He didn’t seem to come across very well on Question Time last night.
>In part this is simply because Lynch is a brilliant communicator and strategic thinker,
Starmer maybe a good thinker, but FML he is a poor communicator. I dread to think how those TV interviews would have turned out if Starmer was the leader of the RMT.
Make your mind up Guardian, I thought the media hated him for running rings around them.
He is old school unionist just like Jimmy Knapp. Calls a spade a spade and lets the idiots use their own words to show themselves as fools. Knapp was the same.
It’s not really rocket science, just be a normal person not some politico droid
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Remember when labour was made up of people like him who had served their time on the shop floor and in the unions.
Proper guy that seems like he is a genuine good guy that cares about his charges.
I would probably vote for him if he came out with a decent set of promises and I’ve voted lib Dems and plaid the last couple of votes.
Why does everything have to result in an attack on Labour? Even from the Guardian honestly,
Pretty easy to see why. He doesn’t get bogged down with all the fancy fencing style argumentative bullshit that politicians get involved with.
If you are talking shit he will tell you. If you are asking a daft question he will tell you you are asking a daft question.
He talks sense and doesn’t bullshit you.
Simple – he knows his stuff and believes in what he’s saying. There’s no guile, no double-think, no trying keep both sides happy.
He also has extremely fluid recall and can summon an answer to anything ppl throw at him.
He would get monsterfied by the media like Corbyn
Backbencher privilege.
I like Mr Lynch and support the strikers. But many here are falling into the same bubble mentally we saw with Corbyn.
Lynch’s approach has made him a minor celeb, but he appeals to the same people Labour already have the support of. They general public aren’t falling in love with Lynch, just the people that are already sympathetic to his cause.
Labour needs to win an election, not get magic internet likes and points. This, rightly or wrongly, means they have to appeal to the widest base possible.
He avoids waffle and is happy to call people out on their bullshit directly. People like politicians who tell it like it is. While the likes of Johnson and Farage don’t actually do that, the perception that they did got them a lot of support in the past. Starmer needs to replicate that, albeit sincerely, it will win him over a lot more supporters than abstaining from anything that could be seen as controversial.
I like his media stance, but it wouldn’t necessarily work for Labour.
Being a union leader and fighting for your members isn’t the same thing as selling yourself to a mixed audience.
I’d agree that Labour spokespersons should be better at standing up to hostile media and taking less of their shit, but union leader and Labour MP are not as interchangeable as people might think (I can’t recall any union leader becoming even a backbench MP).
I’m not a fan of strikes or pickets, but Mr Lynch seems to be behaving better than his interviewers. His calmness under fire is reassuring, and gives hope that the dispute will be settled sooner rather than later in a reasonable fashion, without acrimony.
Because he doesn’t pander to fucking inane media questioning. He just answers straight and gives no BS.
It’s kind of the same reason people liked Trump.
The complete stupidity of the media and the way they infantilise the discussion and patronise the viewers pisses people off and they like it when someone tells them to do one.
My talking point amongst friends for a long time has been that Labour NEEDS someone no nonsense with a regional accent. This is what I mean. He’s like Prescott.
Labour voters are typically going to be made up of young people interested in left wing economic and social policies, and older white northerners interested in economic policy and with no interest or even a negative interest in social issues. To appeal to those people, you obviously need the economic policies, but as long as you present the social policies from someone who looks and sounds like them, you should be ok.
This is the type of character the Labour party needs to aspire to.
He just seems so normal and can answer question without giving the same old tired scripted answers like most politicians
Trying to recall why bob crow was so popular? Was he like this guy?
Anyone here think Mick Lynch is great and that all those that voted to leave the EU are morons? Well, I’ve got news for you…
A really good article.
Media everywhere only survive because people continue to watch them. There’s a cloo in that.
Watched a funny compilation of Mick on YouTube shredding these MSM terrorists to pieces.
I’d skip the part where he still thinks Brexit was a good idea though.
His parents are Irish, [can we still call him Mick](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/v3f2tq/bbc_commentator_sparks_criticism_after_referring/)?
‘Much to learn’ = ‘just speak plainly and not fall into the traps by the media.
Goes on TV and says exactly the same things Ash Sarkar has been saying for years, except is a straight white man
He didn’t seem to come across very well on Question Time last night.
>In part this is simply because Lynch is a brilliant communicator and strategic thinker,
Starmer maybe a good thinker, but FML he is a poor communicator. I dread to think how those TV interviews would have turned out if Starmer was the leader of the RMT.
Make your mind up Guardian, I thought the media hated him for running rings around them.
He is old school unionist just like Jimmy Knapp. Calls a spade a spade and lets the idiots use their own words to show themselves as fools. Knapp was the same.
It’s not really rocket science, just be a normal person not some politico droid