YouSaid · the spoken record

Gloria De Piero

lines on the record: 51
first: 2019-02-15
most recent: 2019-02-15
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Well, when I was told then, 18 year old Gloria DiPiera was told that as a trot, we want to labour government so we can attack that Labour government. You see it, because that's when you get a revolution.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know it's boring, but I'm a Labour lawyer. I want a Labour government. I know from personal experience what that can do for my own family. I know that more kids are going back into child poverty as a result of government. I want a Labour government and I'll do everything I can to get one.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's really, really unhealthy and unhelpful and we've got to find a way to get through this together, to bring the courage. If we can't do it, what chance have we got of bringing the country together?”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know about the numbers, but obviously it could deprive, I don't know, I mean, maybe it wouldn't because the Labour candidate would win again, but it's just a split on the left only benefits the Tories. But I would equally say for those harassing MPs in difficult, I have a very kind membership. But, you know, colleagues, when they say, my gosh, I go to my party meetings and I'm shouted at and screamed at we got to respect each other here. Gotta respect each other.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not the Lab Party preferred option to second referendum as that motion made clear. I really hope not because this is the only vehicle in town for changing people's lives in my view. People will contest that. The Labour Party is the only vehicle in town.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, well, okay, it gets back to my point about the belief in the ballot box for giving people a voice, but also what... What if we get one a tiny result or remain result the other way? 52 48. What why should that result stay remain? Now maybe I think you let this one stay, you try and make a good job of it. You know, people can change their minds, but you've got to let this one respect this one.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Whether a democratic vote stands or not. I'd need people to be telling me every day. Every day, this is wrong. I want to go. And then I'd be the first to come back and say, do you know what? People are coming up to me in their droves. You'd feel it. You'd know it. You don't need an algorithm, which I get sent all the time. You would know it in your constituency. Got this one wrong. Let's have another go. And I'd be coming down and arguing for it.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm against her. I'm absolutely against no deal. By the way, and I have arguments with my constituents about this, so many of them say just clean break, no deal. I'm very willing to have arguments about that.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was very sad when the result came through My attitude is well, you've got to make the best fist of this, which is why I believe in a close working relationship with the European Union. How will I feel when we've left? Really hope that we will use all the powers that we can to make it a success because I sort of think that's our job.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I believe in the power of national governments to change things. And, you know, throughout the last Labour government, there was a booming economy for a lot of it, but it didn't boom. The rewards of that economic boom were not distributed equally across the country. And I will be the first to say that. And there must be the priority this time around.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I believe in the power of national governments as well and being in the EU didn't stop those things happening either. It didn't stop the fact that... So it can't be that brilliant. The problems in my constituency are neither going to be solved by staying in or leaving. That is, you're right about that.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That you know is far from Nirvana. It's going to be even tougher for areas like this. Can I convince you to change your mind? Now they looked at me a bit perplexed as if like no, of course you can't. This is what we think So this idea that I can say I mean people know I voted to remain but this idea that you can I mean it's really pretty patronising I've never changed my mind if someone said Gloria you are talking rubbish and you are wrong it makes you more entrenched doesn't it”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People tell me people say this thing all the time to me. You're a leader in your constituency. You tell them that they're wrong. So the Guardian came up actually and I thought, do you know what? Because there's a reporter here, I'm going to do this. I'm going to try it, see how it goes. And I wanted, I don't even actually think she did end up reporting it as it happens. So I said, you know. Can I just try and make an argument to you? All the statistics are that this is going to make things worse.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I probably, yeah, on the left were pretty angry with me. And I just think, look, if you've got unions, businesses, let's talk about how we manage and make a fair system.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people just suppress wages and people didn't like it. He'd said it. I mean, you know Me, I was like, blind me.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think people just want to be able to manage migration. I mean, the former boss of Liddle, God, I've got so much to stick for this. I was quoting, so he was on moneybox the other day, and he said that he was able to keep wages down because of freedom of movement. I thought, well, that's worth like, why? Can we get, and I just, you know, I think most people have pretty...”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Go back to what you're exposing at the beginning. No, it's, do you know what? You have to be like if you want to live, I've got a lovely house, right? I lived in a flat in London. I had a really good job. In television, I couldn't, you know, I lived, I had a flat without a garden, which is what we all live in. And I just want, you know, it's really, it's absolutely ridiculous that even on a TV reporter, I couldn't afford a house. So I just, I love being having a lovely house which I can afford, which was cheaper than, you know, the flat that I was renting in London.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would, you know, if I didn't get elected again, I can't see myself living full-time here. I don't, I actually don't, I wonder if I hate, I'd had London by the time I was, I left London, I'd sort of felt that I... Did it, but maybe, yeah, hate's a bit extreme, but I'm pleased that I don't live here for half.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I enjoyed it. Who wouldn't enjoy a wonderful, fulfilling job in journalism where you can get paid to go out for posh lunches, drink nice wine? Who wouldn't do that? And actually, I want people from my constituency to be able to do that as well. But I say this. John Humphreys is leaving the Today program. He left school at 16, worked in his local paper. Now, I think about my local paper, The Chad, and I think, well, first of all, are you going to employ somebody who's just left school at 16? That's the first barrier, because mostly now all graduates. But then say you do, are they going to be end up present? What are the chances of them presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 political program?”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's what they mean. When people say to you, you're all the same, which you hear on the doorstep for, if you canvas as long as I ever, you've heard it forever. And they don't mean ideologically.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We all thought that. That was the common wisdom. We all thought that because big industry had gone, because the pits were going, that the working class would go. But actually the working class was reinvented. Care workers, Amazon pickers and packers, people who were working in supermarkets, it just changed. Actually, it's much more feminized. And where are their voices in Parliament? you know, today. Yeah, Angela Reyna was a care worker, of course, but I struggled to think.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I've always been very acutely aware of it and always keen to talk about it and always keen to put it on the agenda. Of course, you need to represent everybody to get a Labour government, but absolutely the working class is still there. It has changed and it is still shafted perhaps worse than it was before.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, of course, I have to accept that. It might be because I was a rubbish interviewee, but actually, I think it was pretty, Ulabia was pretty elitist. It was pretty Oxford. It was pretty bailey-all. It was pretty, you know, people who worked in number 10.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Couldn't get a job working for the party. I applied for jobs as political advisors. I applied for jobs at think tanks. I applied for a job at trade unions. Nobody, that's how I ended up in journalism. Nobody would give me a job in politics.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always been big on class. Class hugely matters, and this is what's always driven me. And by the way, I wanted to work for Tony Blair's Labour Party. I would have made the tea for Tony Blair's Labour Party, but I couldn't get in.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We are all on the left, which is why we're in the Labour Party. Do you know what I think, Nick? I just wonder if some of these definitions... We sort of assign to ourselves for inter party political advantage. Because like, right, Richard Bergen, I am now one of Richard Bergen's junior ministers, junior shadow ministers. I'd never spoken to Richard Bergen. You would say if you wanted to do this sort of shorthands, Gloria Blair write, Richard Bergen carbonite. Me and Richard, who have worked together now for whatever a year, we have never once had a disagreement about policy, politics. We can get on very well, actually. And I think, you know, if me and Richard can do it.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do vote for Tony Blairth to be leader because that was in my Beckett was the campaign group candidate then. I've never voted for a winning Labour leader ever. A great trial.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I was at you. No, I can't be on it. So, where was I? I must have been early, well, pretty soon after the Labour government came, the early 2000s or something. Can you imagine the difference that makes? So when I go back to my childhood home, it is warm.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I never did that, but I went on the summer schools, and it was a very, you know, it's a very idealistic. It takes you to a different world. There is a different way that things can be done. And I still believe all of those things, but I can't wait for, you know, I can't wait for those changes and only a Labour government. That's why I'm so desperate for this Labour government. And incidentally, when I talk about the cult house, right? When we got that Labour government, and I never remember this policy announcement happening, by the way, so my mum and dad still in this freezing house in Bradford. They got free central heating and they got double glazing and they got their round pins plugs because they were still been rewired. They got all that done.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I never sold a newspaper. I thought that was ridiculous. They sold him outside Marks and Spencer's in Bradford, which I could never understand why.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you see, I got involved in Bradford politics before I went to university. So when I got involved in the student union, I think that brought me to the Labour Party and to the hard left, actually.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I made it to university. I only got five, but some people would be happy with this, but because of the work that my parents did, despite the fact that I had went to school, I still managed to get the five GCSEs, which is remarkable given that I barely went to school. So yeah, I got to university, which is like, oh my God, I cried so many nights because I was just, I didn't know anybody I'd been to. This is Birmingham Poly, by the way. This is not Oxford. I just felt, I mean, I was just beside myself. I felt so out of place. I went with Perm Tere and I was like, why has nobody else got permed hair? Everybody in Bradford has got permed hair. I just felt like a stuck out like a sawthon.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. By the way, the fact that I got to university at all was something of a miracle because I sort of went little, I stopped going to school as often as I ought to between the age of about 14 and 16. And I remember the social worker coming around, thankfully my dad wasn't in, I don't think he knows about this, but saying, you know, she's missed a quarter of her lessons.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You just want to fit in at that age. So actually, you just want to eat college past in chips. You don't want to, so when we stopped having holidays at around the age of eight, but we did go to Italy to see the family, because obviously it's cheaper apart from anything else. And it's lovely. But, you know, after the school holidays and people were going to Skegness, Butlin, Skegness, real. And these were just like these magical places where everyone has been over the summer and I went to boring old Italy. Of course, I didn't go anywhere after that. And then”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did they sit at the assisted place, you know, to go to Bradford Grammar, which was private school. And yes, I was a bit difficult. Was a bit difficult, but you know what? I've done all right, and maybe I wouldn't be the same person. But yeah, they were fiercely ambitious for me to have a better life than them.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, you're going to look shabby. Stand in a different queue with your free school meal tickets. I mean, this was in the 19”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if you unlock it, the bed was quite warm. If you were unlucky, which happened quite often, these bottles leaked. So not only you're getting into a cold. It was wet bed as well. So, you know, you remember not going to school on your way you're on close to school days? Why do schools do that?”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Been poor. The other thing is your house is freezing because my mum and dad work, so it wasn't at Cow's house. So we had. Two electric bar fires to heat the entire terrace So the house was flipping, go upstairs. It's absolutely freezing. And my mum had this ingenious idea because it was so cold getting into bed of filling pot bottles or like bleach bottles with boiling water, which, if you'd had a night out and my friends used to say over quite a lot because it was quite a welcoming house, despite the poverty, there was always a plate of pasta, you know, if you came at the right.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, so The gyro, which is your benefit check, I think I'm corrected, it was for two weeks. So on day one of gyrodair, you can go to the supermarket and it's a little bit like you wouldn't go, I wouldn't shop like I do now, but there's a bit of relaxation. That gyro does not last those two weeks. So It might be your mum going to the shop at the end of the street and saying, Is it possible to just get a bit of boiled ham? Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes the answer is no. Imagine walking, you know, my poor mum. I mean, I was there sometimes when that happened. Your mum going without towards the end of that Jared Day. But I mean, going without, I mean, it might have been sugar on toast. You know, there might have been bread and there might have been sugar and you are so acutely aware.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I think my mum, God bless. This is why, and it's really important. Before we were in the EU, you could come and work in this country. And that's to be welcomed. So my mum left her little village in Italy aged 17 to work in the mills in Bradford. When I say mum, what would you have done if you hadn't have come? She would have been a goat herd. So I can see why she came to Bradford. Was money in my early years, like, really, because they were working. From about It's a bit haze because it's a long time, but I think from about eight. Nobody worked”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel like they are like me and I am like them. And once you make this journey from Bradford to university in Birmingham, all cities that I've lived in before incidentally, then to London journalism via Labour Party activism. You've changed and you go back to a community. It's different from Bradford. Of course it is. Bradford was a city. But where I feel the people... Or identify with the people, it does bring you back to reality.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not you, Doug. There was, you know, I'm not going to say the leadership didn't come up, but Brexit was also a big issue. But I have penetrated, because actually at the last election, even though my majority is tiny, more people voted Labour than in a long time.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't stand. You went out perhaps for the first time in decades, perhaps for the first time in your life. It doesn't count. So the reason why it is not about self-preservation, the idea that if the result had been 52, 48% the Is ridiculous”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, no 441. I love every one of them dearly. But this is argument absolutely infuriates me. The way we make decisions in this country is we go to a ballot box and we make our voice heard. People did that at that referendum in droves. And by the way, the left has always been talking about we need to get these non voters voting. Well, they did it in this one, in their droves. It's over two million, the academic research suggests non-habitual voters voted in that referendum. And I've met many of them, I suppose some of them, in the new statesman piece. The other thing about the other sort of academic evidence is that the people that voted to leave are the most likely people to say, most likely to say, that they do not believe politicians listen to people like them Imagine compounding that and saying you're right”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I voted Remain. They're about sovereignty, feeling that we were being too many decisions were taken in Brussels. So they made very coherent arguments about why they voted to leave. And they also, the ones that were old enough voted to go into the common market. So they say trade every day. We're happy with that, which is why actually, and this is not a political line program, but I am actually very comfortable with the Labour position.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, actually, and I know you have read the new statesman's piece, they make very coherent arguments about why they wanted to leave the European Union. They're actually not particular arguments that I agree with, but they were coherent.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, when you live in London, as I did, people moan about the tube. To come up to Ashefield and try and get about the place”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was a dumb friendly when I was growing Yeah, and there are many good things about those. I mean, when I say community, it is a genuine community spirit, lovely green spaces. Our high street could be improved, but we've got I represent three big towns and some rural bits in the middle. And, you know, there's a lot that is good to say about the community and the people that I represent. But when you ask why, you know, their wages are below not just the national average, but the regional average. And that is exactly the point about the discrepancy between cities and towns. If I can just say, I cannot get a bus from one side of my constituency to the other side of my constituency after about quarter to five in the evening. I can't get one at all on Sundays. I mean, and by the way, it's twice as much as it is in London for half as good a service.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Life is much tougher, the pits have gone, the jobs that have replaced those jobs. By the way, the men work down the pits, the women largely worked in hosery. The jobs that have replaced those jobs, less well paid, less status, less secure.”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's interesting that you make the point about nostalgia. I remember reading a pollster had said this. This was some years ago. It was about the UKIP vote. And he said, I read it in a newspaper. He said, the problem with these people is they want to turn the clock back. And I thought about that. And I thought about communities like mine where, you know, in recent memory, they had good jobs in terms of stable jobs with status, which were well paid, which were unionized. And I thought, well, I'm not surprised I want to turn the clock back because in many of my constituents' eyes, not all, of course, it's a mixed constituency”
2019-02-15 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Gloria De Piero One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source