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V8A*ndy said:
I know someone who paid £3 to vote for him because Russell Brand said so on the internet.
That is all you really need to know.
I know some fairly senior city types who paid their 3 quid and voted for him... excellent mischief making but I can't help but worry that even the slightest chance he becomes PM probably wasn't worth the risk.That is all you really need to know.
otolith said:
Vaud said:
Not necessarily. Use would not automatically create an exchange, it depends on nature of the threat.
We would nuke somebody who hadn't already launched on us? I don't see that playing out.Vaud said:
otolith said:
Point is that if he ever has to push it, we're all buggered anyway. So we don't gain anything from it. The entire value is the threat.
e.g if North Korea took the initiative with battlefield nuclear weapons, you could respond with a significant strike without a subsequent counter strike?
fblm said:
I know some fairly senior city types who paid their 3 quid and voted for him... excellent mischief making but I can't help but worry that even the slightest chance he becomes PM probably wasn't worth the risk.
Even if the vote was restricted to "proper" labour members he would have won easily. The stats have been published for each group of voters.He wouldn't have had enough support from the Parliamentary party without some gifted votes though.
desolate said:
Even if the vote was restricted to "proper" labour members he would have won easily. The stats have been published for each group of voters.
He wouldn't have had enough support from the Parliamentary party without some gifted votes though.
Oh well. No accounting for leftys. Interestingly my TUC/TGWU convener of 20+ years father in law thinks Corbyn is a ridiculous caricature stuck in the 70's... He wouldn't have had enough support from the Parliamentary party without some gifted votes though.
More importantly is that your Bristol Fighter? Very, very cool Sir!
Vaud said:
My point was that it needn't create an exchange - as in a full on "we are buggered" nuclear war. A rogue state could be responded against on a targeted military basis with selective nuclear exchange.
e.g if North Korea took the initiative with battlefield nuclear weapons, you could respond with a significant strike without a subsequent counter strike?
I think it's unlikely that we would escalate without a direct existential threat. e.g if North Korea took the initiative with battlefield nuclear weapons, you could respond with a significant strike without a subsequent counter strike?
anonymous said:
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Without looking at the link, given that wiki is hardly platinum plated source material, was it not the case that he would have won - but not outright on the first vote? Either way it's great that he won. A pantomime that gives something new every day (almost) and Labour unelectable in the wilderness beyond 2020 unless they kick him out.bad company said:
Anybody else think he looks like Catweazle?
I every photo it looks like he has just rolled out of bed and he still isn't doing up his top button when he has a tie on.I assume he is ignoring his 'style advisors' advice as well but he really doesn't look like someone who is in charge.
zygalski said:
If he looks smart, he's a sold out faker.
If he looks scruffy, he's disrespectful & not leader material.
HTH
Actually, I wonder if he's all that well and needs to keep his neck free to aid his breathing or something? Might explain the very deliberate, unnatural calmness that he maintains and his reluctance to engage in one to one arguments, which might put him under stress. If he looks scruffy, he's disrespectful & not leader material.
HTH
REALIST123 said:
zygalski said:
If he looks smart, he's a sold out faker.
If he looks scruffy, he's disrespectful & not leader material.
HTH
Actually, I wonder if he's all that well and needs to keep his neck free to aid his breathing or something? Might explain the very deliberate, unnatural calmness that he maintains and his reluctance to engage in one to one arguments, which might put him under stress. If he looks scruffy, he's disrespectful & not leader material.
HTH
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