From Private Eye at the time:
“MILLIONAIRE newcomer to the House of Commons Margaret Hodge has had a tricky time with some of her fellow Labour MPs … A former leader of Islington Council and now a devoted Blairite member for Barking, Hodge agreed to debate Clause 4 with hard left MP Jeremy Corbyn in front of an earnest crowd at the Red Rose Centre in Islington”.
“Corbyn argued to retain the public ownership clause while Hodge said electoral victory must come first. Corbyn won the crowd over completely - at which point Hodge turned from cool pragmatist into fuming maniac. She rose to reply and completely blew her gasket: she called the astonished crowd stupid and accused them of loving being in opposition and of having their heads in the sand.” And the conclusion of this encounter?
“Of the hundred or so present, only two voted in favour of Hodge, one of them being Stephen Twigg, ex-president of the NUS (and now Hodge’s researcher).”
From this article from last year:
http://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2018/09/margaret-hodge-reveals-corbyn-obsession.html |
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on March 6, 2019, 5:32 pm, in reply to "Reminder of Hodge's beef with Corbyn from 1995"
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