let's talk about the Labour leadership
battle now Jess of course is in the
running to be the new Labour leader the
other candidates are Lisa Nandi Emily
Thornbury Rebecca long Bailey and kissed
Armour he wants to lead the Labour Party
now we've all got questions for you Jess
so one by one we're gonna go through in
this political grilling Alex first
so election night yeah when the exit
polls came out who was it that broke the
silence on the Labour what's that group
genuinely check what can you hold on
what the first person said was it like
I thought you something was Jeremy
Corbyn just with the little monkey bits
hands over I'm not on and what's up
group with Jeremy Corbyn I'm afraid so
was there another one that you're a part
of what like you know yeah there was I'm
part of one where there were loads of
Labour MPs that had lost their seats
well yeah to be honest that did happen
afterwards alright yeah there's Caroline
Flint Bret I think in the in The Times
today there was an interview and it said
or you know she got booted off all the
what's up great oh this brutal isn't it
it's absolutely brutal it was a lot of
just like well I'm gone then
well I'm gone imagine having a job
interview in front of you know the
viewing audience I've seen Jeremy Corbyn
wasn't in that group so he wasn't saying
all because I can imagine you all just
sat there just waiting for Jeremy is
typing and thinking here we go
your question there well I've got to say
this question actually the the unions
and the control of the units or the
perceived control of the unions within
the selection of the labelee these do
you think that's something that needs to
be understood more by the wider public
well I mean for the first time ever in
this contest it's like a very serious
I'm sorry this has meant to be like a
bomb the truth is is that for the first
time in this leadership election the
unions have a role in who gets onto the
ballot so they have a direct role in you
know who the candidates can be and so do
see el piso constituency labor parties
at grassroots levels and that's before
members even get a say in the ballot and
I think that I don't think there's
anything particularly to be worried
about because the union movement is the
backbone of the labor movement I think
that people think that the Union Barons
and there's loads of nefarious things
the dust the reason I asked it because
people who are not labor support like I
am so I can have an understanding about
it
choose your thoughts musical yeah but
the union's sort of let me cross you
runs everything you think that's not
really the case I think that you know
the unions for some reason people I
think it's based on basically sort of
Liverpool in the 1980s everyone thinks
that the unions are
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I think that people think that they
really like and we call them Union
Barons as well as if there's some sort
of like weird hierarchy and they're all
having a big meeting with like little
sort of wooden men on tables moving them
around they're just people who defend
workers rights and like take the
government to court when they do bad
things don't be too worried about the
unions in fact join one during the Labor
Party all right I've got one question
for you so that this leadership whole
contest will be done by April 4th April
5th yeah ok so the next day there'll be
a new labor later you could be kissed on
my Rebecca Long Bay League emily Thorne
be whoever it is ok the following day
will labor get its together and
stop fighting amongst ourselves we
become a great opposition or are you
gonna just keep like the fighting and
the rest of it I mean I can't speak for
the entire Labor Party and no matter who
wins some idiot on Twitter will be
really upset about it
I have literally no control over the
Twitter accounts of every single member
of the Labour Party as a party can you
make me this promise that regardless of
who comes becomes leader you'll all get
your together oh absolutely because
you know do you know what if the Labour
Party doesn't get it together it
doesn't you know it doesn't deserve to
exist anymore and this is it's sort of
existential for the Labour Party of this
contest and the last election we have
basically got a chance to get our act
together take on the worst government in
so so long you know what the last Tory
government is done is worse than what
Thatcher did in lots of cases
she wouldn't have dreamed of doing some
of the things that the last that David
Cameron well what you said before is
Boris Johnson is a very good
communicator and he won the election by
over a single message easier to get
brexit done so now you can you can go
into the next election saying getting
our together
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