Emily Benn

[H block]

Benn's granddaughter runs for MP


A-level student Emily Benn, who turns 18 next month, has been chosen as the party's candidate for East Worthing and Shoreham, in West Sussex. Ms Benn first campaigned with grandfather Tony when she was two
The 17-year-old granddaughter of Labour veteran Tony Benn is to contest a seat in the next general election.


Great news. I will definetly vote for her. She came across as a very smart and articulate young lady yesterday on five live even though the interviewer was cringingly patronising. Why not give youth a chance.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Pics?

 

[Uncle C]

Great news. I will definetly vote for her. She came across.

Well under those circumstances she would get my vote too

 

[beorhthelm]

Great news. I will definetly vote for her. She came across as a very smart and articulate young lady yesterday on five live even though the interviewer was cringingly patronising. Why not give youth a chance.

Really? what the hell does she know about life? shes never had to pay a bill in her life, not done a days work and hasn't even finished her education yet.

 

[Grendel]

Really? what the hell does she know about life? shes never had to pay a bill in her life, not done a days work and hasn't even finished her education yet.

And lives in South Norwood.

 

[Brovion]

Really? what the hell does she know about life? shes never had to pay a bill in her life, not done a days work and hasn't even finished her education yet.

Much as I'd love to see another Benn in the Commons there's a lot of truth in that. I hate it when you look at the CVs of a lot of MPS and it says something like, 'school, university, party worker, MP.' You need people who've lived a bit and know that politics is about people's lives, not just dogma and beliefs.

 

[Simster]

Really? what the hell does she know about life? shes never had to pay a bill in her life, not done a days work and hasn't even finished her education yet.

What he said.


What a f***ing bag of shit.

 

[tedebear]

I wouldn't know a darn thing about her - but she's just too young...

 

[Frutos]

Pics?

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

What he said.


What a f***ing bag of shit.

100% agree,what a joke

 

[Lokki 7]

So not only is she way too young, she comes from Croydon and looks like a man. I can only assume she is very good in bed.

 

[Nibble]

What a load of shit. I heard her saying she wants to get her friends to vote her as the youngest MP ever. Surely you should try and get that accolade for being the best not the youngest?

And agree she knows cock all about life and of course she is a lady!

 

[Meade's Ball]

It's funny how we assume that because we have lived longer we know the answers to life, when, in fact, we just know of a few more errors we perhaps oughtn't make again.
Of course i wouldn't automatically respect her, or adhere to her surname's will, but i like the idea of being told what to do by a youngster, her eyes sometimes full of tender tears, still embraced by the passions that time hasn't yet dismembered.

 

[Questions]

With years comes wisdom............. bollox.

 

[Lokki 7]

With years comes wisdom............. bollox.

You are living proof of that.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

You are living proof of that.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

MPs, as a whole, are supposed to reflect all of the electorate.

Far too many of them are middle aged men who haven't been inside a school in possibly twenty years. This is not what the population is like.

 

[magoo]

i like the idea of being told what to do by a youngster, her eyes sometimes full of tender tears, still embraced by the passions that time hasn't yet dismembered.

are you Gary Glitter?

 

[MattBackHome]

I think a little smidge of unblinkered naivety can't hurt.

 

[Meade's Ball]

MPs, as a whole, are supposed to reflect all of the electorate.

Far too many of them are middle aged men who haven't been inside a school in possibly twenty years. This is not what the population is like.

I am unsure whether MPs should really look like us. Ideally they'd be our moral heroes as well as the representatives of our collective viewpoint, but as time has moved my opinions are rarely spoken of in mainstream politics, my hopes individualised and intoxified.
Over time i have had to fantasise more of who addresses my concerns, the perfect face being that of a morbid dog, all glum and envious at the many canines who parade in human clothes on overclicked websites their photos dizzy with applause; or of snakes who gulp themselves to death, so loving of that last giant egg they swallowed to their depths it's shell must be nibbled; or two-faced wrestlers, their faces bearded and hirsutely browed on one side and naked on the other, grappling and flogging their twinned persons with poles, posts and folded chairs until one falls limp and dethroned. Humanity, i suppose, departed my wishes as it became more hidden on front pages.