Think you will find she grew up in Cas mate

Went to school in Hampshire [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_CooperWIKI.[/url Not the most reliable source, obviously. Not that it really matters where she's from.

Interesting bit of info (to me and probably binks only). My lad designed her christmas cards when he was 4.

never been near the place till she got a house in the potteries so she could stand has our MP

Bit like the Cockney toss pot in Hull West, Alan 'so smug' Johnson

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She doesnt live in the potteries she lives up queens park hill.

She does now but when she first came as MP she got the place in the potteries as her constituency house.

Ah right, only know she lives near me because my dog once invaded a garden party for local bigwigs at her house!

I dont think its right that someone who is not from our area should be entitled to represent us,

Even thought the people of the area voted for her? Sod democracy hey … what do the voters know?

I agree, to a certain extent - I think there should be a rule whereby a candidate should have lived in the area for at least 5 years, otherwise you get party bigwigs and mates of the leaders parachuted in.

Eeeh, bit of politics on an RL forum! We are intelligent!

If labour put osama bin laden up as a candidate people would vote for him , the people of cas always vote labour, the actual MP is largely irrelevent, for what its worth i think cooper does a good job by and large.

Nothing tb or they wouldnt vote for .
not wanting to get all political here cos i could go on and on. but the only thing that affiliates her to the labour party is her membership of the TUG iirc, now many people in this area vote labour because labour represents the working man, well not any more, the new labour party is a mush of Labour and tory to apease and hopefully claim both sets of voters, some members still hold true labour values but not Yvette and her husband a Blairite (spit) and a Brownite (bigger spit) in a couple both given easy seats. NEW LABOUR are more in the pockets now of businesses than most unions infact a number of unions know this and have either reduced or even stopped contributions to the party coffers.

ok too much sun this weekend i was thinking of Winny Mac . Just had it very officially she came to cas with a safe seat. That being said i do think she has done some good stuff for Cas as a town , she isnt scared who she upsets to get her way and that should be good for the stadium>

So yes sorry for being wrong it was mon morning i was still tired.

Politics has been this way for years and years. It's not a New Labour thing at all - every party does it - and Cas certainly isn't the only town with representation from 'outside'.

What's important here is that not one but two very senior politicians are interested in the town and the Rugby club. That's influence which in the right hands could be very wisely used, so (wherever she or Ed actually originate) perhaps a bit less of the slating and a bit more of that famous Yorkshire welcome would be in order?

not harsh at all, anyone and i mean anyone who seeks to be a career polititions should be refused point blank, the position should be held by someone who does have the constituants at heart. not someone playing games and networking (new name for brown nosing) for their next promotion, the whole government system at the moment is a closed shop. i had the privelidge of meeting lord Lofthouse prior to him being side moved to the house of lords for the new dynamic face of new labour, and Yvette is a poor replacement. a stooge put in place for the easy ride to westminster just like her hubby.

so we think we will get our stadium because THE COOPERS LOVE CRLFC

Too true Disco, and I actually believe she does care about the area as she gets involved in everything she can and doesn't just show her face now and again.

By the way, it's a good job she didn't change her name to her husband's when she got married as we' d have two local politicians that are a right pair of Balls (I thank you!)

I believe Yvette was fast tracked into becoming candidate for Cas & Pont and flat capper MP Geoffrey Lofthouse pensioned off.
A rising star and I for one am pleased she's our local MP, puts Cas on the Map and I believe she fights for the local community and being quite high profile is more effectively able to do so.

you are Ed Balls and i claim my £5

You're the typical doom and gloomer, Mr Negative of the forum and i claim all sorts on my expenses.

Personally she along with every other MP should of been investigated for fraud and jailed ...... instead we get an apology......she clearly tried to claim monies for twice the amount she actually spent...in my eyes that is stealing.... if I did it I would be arrested....and you can bet your bottom dollar an apology would not of helped me one bit......

Still why should she worry we only pay over £1000 a month interest relief on her £665K home in London.....

She is nothing more than a freeloader ...... Cas deserve better


From the Telegraph::::The Cabinet couple designated their London house as their “second home” rather than their constituency properties, despite their three young children going to school in the capital.

While the pair’s expenses claims were lower than most of their colleagues, they each claimed around £300 a month for food.


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The couple denied flipping after switching their second home designation three times, saying that they had not sought to maximise their expenses and that, unlike some colleagues, they had paid capital gains tax on selling their home.

Miss Cooper, who was first elected in 1997, eight years before her husband, initially claimed on a modest house in her constituency of Castleford, West Yorkshire, where the mortgage interest payments were £530 a month.

After Mr Balls was elected to the neighbouring seat of Normanton, she switched her designation to London, and they each submitted half of the £1,466 mortgage interest payments.

:2hqkwfh9Two years later, in May 2007, the pair moved to a larger £655,000 property in north London which they designated their second home. Their mortgage interest payments increased to £1,031 each.

id rather be classed as a realist Marshy unlike yourself who is more a sheep, and to be fair with apathy like yours for mediocraty its no wonder we have so many theives as MPs, but hey its not like you cannot see the wood for the trees when it comes to CRLFC....

You're far too repetitive mate, a parrot could come up with more lines. You never ever read a post correctly and just assume your opinions from nothing. Go back and read my opinion (if you can find one) and then rattle on about it, i might debate with you then. But since you always wish to make things up to make yourself feel better i'll just laugh you off mate.