Jeremy Corbyn

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Funk said:

Asterix said:

Funk said:

P.S. Anyone hear Diane Abbott's appalling appearance on the Today programme? She makes my skin crawl and her devotion to the (st) party line was comical: http://order-order.com/2015/10/13/diane-abbott-lau...

number 46 said:

Yes it was truly embarrassing, how she got into Cambridge is amazing, perhaps she went up there as a cleaner and got lucky!!!

She's certainly a special case - I always assumed it was to meet some quota.

They had some windows that needed licking?

She was defending various stuff and putting me to sleep the other day. Then she said something about tackling obesity...

That woke me up...

[CorbynForTheBin]

Funk said:

They had some windows that needed licking?

I wonder what they tasted like

[iphonedyou]

el stovey said:

At least Corbyn is making an attempt to do it. All David Cameron appears to be interested in is using PMQs to get his own MPs to ask him if he agrees with his own planted questions.


Conservative back benchers laughing at "Mathews questions" unfortunately just look like out of touch MPs scoffing at the general public.

It doesn't make them look out of touch at all. It makes them look as though, justifiably, they find Corbyn's methodology humorously inane. I'd wager most of the populace can determine, rightly, that the MPs are laughing at Corbyn's delivery and not at the public themselves.

I laughed too, and I'm a member of the general public. 'Out of touch' has little do with it; it's now a tired, clichéd phrase that has in effect lost much of its meaning through being used as a catch all insult against politicians on all sides.

[anonymous-user]

iphonedyou said:

el stovey said:

At least Corbyn is making an attempt to do it. All David Cameron appears to be interested in is using PMQs to get his own MPs to ask him if he agrees with his own planted questions.


Conservative back benchers laughing at "Mathews questions" unfortunately just look like out of touch MPs scoffing at the general public.

It doesn't make them look out of touch at all. It makes them look as though, justifiably, they find Corbyn's methodology humorously inane. I'd wager most of the populace can determine, rightly, that the MPs are laughing at Corbyn's delivery and not at the public themselves.

I laughed too, and I'm a member of the general public. 'Out of touch' has little do with it; it's now a tired, clichéd phrase that has in effect lost much of its meaning through being used as a catch all insult against politicians on all sides.

Seriously?

I'm sure you work for the Conservative party. You appear to slavishly support everything they do and say. Are you even a real person? Have you ever disagreed with anything they've done?

Before you call me a lefty or a communist hand wringer or any other cliché. I happily voted conservative, I'm just not a party robot.

[audidoody]

If he identified the questioners by full name and post code I'd start to believe it was genuine and not just the latest wheeze by his SPad (AKA Sebastian Corbyn)

Having submitted a question myself I now find myself being spammed by the Labour Party.

[audidoody]

"You appear to slavishly support everything they do and say".

Spend a couple of minutes on labourlist.co.uk if you want to see Olympic-standard slavishness.

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audidoody said:

"You appear to slavishly support everything they do and say".

Spend a couple of minutes on labourlist.co.uk if you want to see Olympic-standard slavishness.

No thanks.

But it would be nice if this forum didn't become the Conservative version.

[legzr1]

Too late was the cry....

[sirtyro]

To be fair to the PM, he didn't have any notes on the despatch box and he was very statesman in his reply. Could you imagine having Jeremy Corbyn represent us around the world?

You can imagine him starting a press conference with the US president 'I've had an email from Jane in Dunstable....' He isn't PM material.

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el stovey said:

Justayellowbadge said:

killingjoker said:

Of course, what a giggle eh? I mean, actually having to consider questions by normal hard working people who wonder when they will feel the benefits of our 'booming economy'.

Normal hard working people deserve someone competent to represent them in the house of commons, not a local radio DJ who reads out a couple of cards and then hands over to Dianne for the traffic.

At least Corbyn is making an attempt to do it. All David Cameron appears to be interested in is using PMQs to get his own MPs to ask him if he agrees with his own planted questions.


Conservative back benchers laughing at "Mathews questions" unfortunately just look like out of touch MPs scoffing at the general public.

Edited by el stovey on Wednesday 14th October 13:06

Agreed on both counts. Those Tory backbenchers need to engage a brain cell or two before they embarrass themselves.

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el stovey said:

No thanks.

But it would be nice if this forum didn't become the Conservative version.

I was under the impression that this forum considers the Tories to be dangerously left-wing.

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iphonedyou said:

el stovey said:

At least Corbyn is making an attempt to do it. All David Cameron appears to be interested in is using PMQs to get his own MPs to ask him if he agrees with his own planted questions.


Conservative back benchers laughing at "Mathews questions" unfortunately just look like out of touch MPs scoffing at the general public.

It doesn't make them look out of touch at all. It makes them look as though, justifiably, they find Corbyn's methodology humorously inane. I'd wager most of the populace can determine, rightly, that the MPs are laughing at Corbyn's delivery and not at the public themselves.

I laughed too, and I'm a member of the general public. 'Out of touch' has little do with it; it's now a tired, clichéd phrase that has in effect lost much of its meaning through being used as a catch all insult against politicians on all sides.

Really! I can't see anything wrong with the J.C. approach, politicians are, when in opposition, supposed to hold the Government to account. By using M.O.P. questions directly the P.M. is forced to answer in a credible manner and with some integrity.
O.K. the methodology may need tweaking and I am quite certain that will happen.

[technodup]

crankedup said:

Really! I can't see anything wrong with the J.C. approach,

Miliband started this garbage with his crap story about meeting Gareth on Clapham Common, which worked out well for him...

Corbyn doing the same patter just make him look like a wker tbh. An old man with no ideas of his own. Well none that are palatable to the masses.

I read on the Telegraph sit there's a mechanism to get shot of him next conference, it seems technically they have an leadership election every year. That could be the PLP's way of getting rid, I wonder how much damage he can do in the meantime.

[anonymous-user]

williamp said:

From a left wing website http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/10/11/the-a-z-of-co...

That is not a left wing website, but the comment and humour are spot on!

[legzr1]

crankedup said:

Really! I can't see anything wrong with the J.C. approach, politicians are, when in opposition, supposed to hold the Government to account. By using M.O.P. questions directly the P.M. is forced to answer in a credible manner and with some integrity.
O.K. the methodology may need tweaking and I am quite certain that will happen.

Did you see Cameron's face as the first 'email' was read out?

He's good at the shouty, bolshy non-answers - they need a rethink on the new style and 100+ pages of anti-JC bile won't change that

[turbobloke]

Breadvan72 said:

williamp said:

From a left wing website http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/10/11/the-a-z-of-co...

That is not a left wing website, but the comment and humour are spot on!

Some modern history.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/06/07/helpful-ad...

[otolith]

Breadvan72 said:

That is not a left wing website, but the comment and humour are spot on!

It's arguable, but I'd say that the right wing of the Labour Party is still left wing.

[turbobloke]

anonymous said:

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Skewering? Way o.t.t. and as to the numbers, what does your arithmetic say?

"MPs backed a motion enacting the changes by 325 votes to 290 although two Conservatives - David Davis and Stephen McPartland - voted against the government while another, Andrew Percy, abstained. Treasury minister Damian Hinds said 8 out of 10 households would be better off by 2018-9 as a result of measures announced in the Budget to introduce a national living wage from next April, to further increase the personal tax allowance to £12,500 and to extend childcare subsidies."

By the same token, presumably that's Corbyn on a skewer.

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technodup said:

crankedup said:

Really! I can't see anything wrong with the J.C. approach,

Miliband started this garbage with his crap story about meeting Gareth on Clapham Common, which worked out well for him...

Corbyn doing the same patter just make him look like a wker tbh. An old man with no ideas of his own. Well none that are palatable to the masses.

I read on the Telegraph sit there's a mechanism to get shot of him next conference, it seems technically they have an leadership election every year. That could be the PLP's way of getting rid, I wonder how much damage he can do in the meantime.

Not over concerned with who it is or the politics they support TBH. What I dislike is the past performance of a rabble seemingly out of control, so rowdy and bawdy that its almost impossible to decipher anything that is said.
At least, at the moment, I am able to actually hear the questions and answers, so its a good start by J.C. for actually having an influence on the proceedings.

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legzr1 said:

crankedup said:

Really! I can't see anything wrong with the J.C. approach, politicians are, when in opposition, supposed to hold the Government to account. By using M.O.P. questions directly the P.M. is forced to answer in a credible manner and with some integrity.
O.K. the methodology may need tweaking and I am quite certain that will happen.

Did you see Cameron's face as the first 'email' was read out?

He's good at the shouty, bolshy non-answers - they need a rethink on the new style and 100+ pages of anti-JC bile won't change that

True, they urgently need to adjust to the J.C. style of P.M. questions, whatever the politics he is winning on the issue of having the higher ground. The Tories laughter at an earlier question marks them out as disrespecting M.O.P.