ephemerid wrote:refitman wrote:Fuck me! Headline on Cif:I know it's Ann Perkins, but FFS.Ladies! You won’t be leading the Labour party, so here’s a women-only train carriage
OMG!!!!!!!
She has white hair!!!!! She must be really really old!!!!! Cripes - she's over 60!!!!
Pointless arguing with her - she can't LEARN anything, you see.
For the people her who seriously believe that being older and not having any experience in the job one is applying for is a bad thing, perhaps they might like to consider that some of us might like to see someone with life experience and empathy in a leadership role.
Nobody knows how the decrepit elderly non-kowtowing-to-the-status-quo generally falling-to-bits Mr.Corbyn would fare in a new job.
Nobody knows how the younger but not-set-in-their-hubristic-ways (erm...) and muscular fit incredibly intelligent (?) others would either.
Nobody is asking this man to pilot a plane. Nobody is asking this man to run the country now. Nobody is asking this man to do owt.
He has chosen to stand up and ask his party to nominate him for a leadership contest. They duly obliged.
He has chosen to speak all over the country, and a lot of people have chosen to listen to what he has to say.
He has chosen to put forward ideas and a vision that people seem to be connecting with.
He has chosen not to engage in petty name-calling whatever the provocation.
He has chosen to conduct himself in a manner becoming to others who could learn from his example.
The people not doing the learning here are the other candidates who appear stuck in some New Labour time warp.
The people not doing the learning here are the party heirarchy who are engaged in some Spaddish Inquisition.
The people not doing the learning are both the above who are treating their own electoral system with utter contempt.
Corbyn is not too old to be open to ideas; he is not too old to be zapping around London on his bike; he is not too old to be travelling the length and breadth of the country on a daily basis; he is not too old to maintain his passion and energy in speeches and rallies he's attending every day; he's not too old to lead his party and he's not too old to marshal support. As the evidence shows.
I have read some patronising twaddle here on occasion, but this takes the biscuit. "Too old to learn" my arse. How dare you?
Quite right.
Mr Ohso retired from his regular job at 65 and trained to work with people with mental and physical disabilities including dementia.
He loved it. I don't need to say that it can be an extremely difficult job. He often used to say he wished he'd done it years ago.
But, I don't think he'd have been half so patient or good at it when younger. It took age and experience to give him the understanding and patience to tackle delicate situations that cropped up almost daily.
And finally. We get far more crafty as we get older. At least I have. And crafty's no bad thing in politics.