I, Daniel Blake' is a powerful and moving film. But it is a political polemic and is particularly unfair on the public sector professionals who work in Job Centre Plus, in my experience they are proactive and helpful. Completely at odds with their portrayal in the film.
There is nothing inherently left-wing about young people in the U.K.
You've got to have a winning mindset.
Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.
I don't want to be the Grinch.
I'm going to say yes, I reckon we'll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.
When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns.
I regularly help constituents who have had problems with the benefits system.
We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.
It shouldn't be the case that young people feel they have to go to London to get the good quality jobs. We have to make sure those jobs are available everywhere in the country.
Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.
So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.
Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.
We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.
My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the ballot box, then they may regard disappointment in that as a trigger to initiate other methods of change.
The Cabinet makes collective decision and when the Cabinet speaks it speaks with one voice.
It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.
The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.
Because the referendum in 2016 wasn't just about our relationship with the E.U., it was about millions of people and their relationship with politics as a whole.
A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.
