After the Queen’s Speech in May, a number of Labour MPs including Chuka Umunna and Rachel Reeves enjoyed a group trip to Nandos. Alas the invite didn’t manage to make its way to blunder-prone Lucy Powell who took to Twitter to awkwardly point this out.
Now it seems Ed Miliband’s former deputy campaign chief has put her foot in it once again. Last night Powell engaged in some gentle bitching about Jeremy Corbyn’s lack of social interaction with her. After Miliband’s former political secretary Anna Yearley (who says she will be voting for Liz Kendall) tweeted that Corbyn’s bad attendance record at Parliamentary Labour Party meetings would make it interesting for him to chair one if elected, Powell said that she had never even met the man of the moment.
@AnnaYearley I have never, ever met or spoken to him. At PLP, in Chamber, in voting lobbies, tea rooms, library, anywhere …
— Lucy Powell MP (@LucyMPowell) August 18, 2015
It seems she isn’t the only one, with fellow Labour MP Barbara Keeley replying with a similar story herself:
@LucyMPowell @AnnaYearley Same here. Never spoken to him – in 10 years as an MP.
— Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 (@KeeleyMP) August 18, 2015
This conversation attracted some criticism, with one user likening them to the characters in the teen film Mean Girls:
@KeeleyMP @Dannythefink @LucyMPowell @AnnaYearley Well you three sound a bit rude. pic.twitter.com/LU47WhWNkM
— Lineal Conker Champion of the World (@NUFC_OurClub) August 18, 2015
However, they insist that as the potential leader, it is Corbyn who ought to be doing the introductions:
@EmmampCo @LucyMPowell @AnnaYearley He's the leadership candidate.
— Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 (@KeeleyMP) August 18, 2015
Happily if they do wish to make the effort, Ukip’s Douglas Carswell has stepped in and volunteered to make the introduction:
https://twitter.com/DouglasCarswell/status/633755346171916288
Ukip helping inter-party relations in Labour… just when you thought it couldn’t get any more weird.
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