Jeremy Corbyn

[turbobloke]

otolith said:

When opposition politicians want to express clear, simple solutions to complex problems, I am reminded of HL Mencken;

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Albert was in agreement down the line.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

That wasn't Gore, obviously

[Esseesse]

ianrb said:

Well I'm a centre-righty, but my main concern about Corbyn is that he will not be able to form an effective opposition, and so allow the Tories to do more or less as they please. Which for a democracy is not a good idea. I would have the same concerns about a powerful Labour government and a week Tory opposition.

If the Labour Party falls apart, will the Tories be able to maintain support without their bogeyman?

[motco]

Daily Telegraph editorial on Saturday 5th regarding the dangers of Corbyn.

[IroningMan]

citizensm1th said:

otolith said:

Yes, hence the caveat. But Corbyn's views on Israel and the friends he chooses are by no means unusual. There are many to whom Israel is as much a pariah as South Africa was, and they're not drawing distinctions between the sin and the sinner.

I am one of those who view some of Israel's domestic and foreign polices to be as bad as those of apartheid South Africa (I seem to remember they were quite close allies).
How ever that dose not make me anti Semitic how ever much the Israeli government likes to paint people who object to their polices as being.

Corbyn is a necessary evil for the labour party. The current crop of leadership candidates are completely substandard. I think some time getting soundly pilloried in parliament and the press will allow I hope time for far better candidates to emerge.

It seems fairly clear that either there's no-one there at all or there's no-one there who wants to lead the Labour Party in opposition: presumably all the ambitious ones are angling for the opportunity to ride to the rescue at the 11th hour of Spring 2020?

[KingNothing]

I voted for Corbyn yesterday, can't wait to the see the fallout

[Twilkes]

I've read a lot about the contest from arm's length, but thought I should have a dog in the fight - so if Yvette Cooper or Andy Burnham come out on top Bet365 will pay me £100, and if it's Jeremy Corbyn he will apparently reinstate the cardboard tray in Bounty bars, so either way it's win-win.

[audidoody]

I revised my view. I think Corbyn will be a disaster for the Right as well as the Left.

A naive militant Socialist who believes that the UK is inherently a White-dominated evil imperialist regime has no place in the front-line politics of a democratic western nuclear power.

[Frybywire]

audidoody said:

A naive militant Socialist who believes that the UK is inherently a White-dominated evil imperialist regime...

Hmmmm....

[Asterix]

Frybywire said:

audidoody said:

A naive militant Socialist who believes that the UK is inherently a White-dominated evil imperialist regime...

Hmmmm....

Interesting that there's 2 Asians that attend Cabinet meetings that's 6.6% - guess what the consensus tally was for British Asians, 6.92% - pretty much bang on. The rest don't really have enough presence, maybe one black person would have squared everything away but basically, the cabinet is near enough represented as per the UK's population ethnicity.

[iphonedyou]

Asterix said:

Interesting that there's 2 Asians that attend Cabinet meetings that's 6.6% - guess what the consensus tally was for British Asians, 6.92% - pretty much bang on. The rest don't really have enough presence, maybe one black person would have squared everything away but basically, the cabinet is near enough represented as per the UK's population ethnicity.

Did wonder what he thought he was proving with that photo.

[Andy Zarse]

iphonedyou said:

Asterix said:

Interesting that there's 2 Asians that attend Cabinet meetings that's 6.6% - guess what the consensus tally was for British Asians, 6.92% - pretty much bang on. The rest don't really have enough presence, maybe one black person would have squared everything away but basically, the cabinet is near enough represented as per the UK's population ethnicity.

Did wonder what he thought he was proving with that photo.

I'm guessing the percentage is higher now the LibDems are no longer in cabinet?

Also I wonder how many were state educated as opposed to posh-boy Jeremy who went to both private and grammar schools.

[zygalski]

Asterix said:

Frybywire said:

audidoody said:

A naive militant Socialist who believes that the UK is inherently a White-dominated evil imperialist regime...

Hmmmm....

Interesting that there's 2 Asians that attend Cabinet meetings that's 6.6% - guess what the consensus tally was for British Asians, 6.92% - pretty much bang on. The rest don't really have enough presence, maybe one black person would have squared everything away but basically, the cabinet is near enough represented as per the UK's population ethnicity.

[ph]Never mind about the Asians, I count 5 playthings in that pic[/ph]

[BlackLabel]

This is going round twitter at the moment. It's unbelievable that Corbyn reported the conman to the police (well I assume he did) given Corbyn would have to then admit to giving money to a man he thought was an IRA bomber.



https://twitter.com/JHunters_Corner/status/6266728...

Edited by BlackLabel on Friday 11th September 11:37

[NoNeed]

If an IRA bomber asked you for a small'ish sum of money would you give it him then call the police with all the details or take a risk and refuse knowing he is more than likely armed?

[Camoradi]

NoNeed said:

If an IRA bomber asked you for a small'ish sum of money would you give it him then call the police with all the details or take a risk and refuse knowing he is more than likely armed?

Because if he'd refused, the guy was going to shoot him in the House of Commons?

Any decent MP would have given him £50, got a receipt, and put it on expenses.

[number 46]

NoNeed said:

If an IRA bomber asked you for a small'ish sum of money would you give it him then call the police with all the details or take a risk and refuse knowing he is more than likely armed?

Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anonymous-user]

Camoradi said:

Any decent MP would have given him £50, got a receipt, and put it on expenses.

A real MP would have promised him £50, printed his own receipt, and claimed £12,900 on expenses.

[RedTrident]

And then later transpire that said IRA con man was really his lover.

[drainbrain]

drainbrain said:

I have never heard of this person but it appears that Labour have chosen a completely unelectable radical leftist chap to lead their party. Anyone have any idea why they've done this?

lol@ 'completely unelectable'!! I take it back and actually quite like him. In fact I think I'll vote for him if he carries on the way he's started.

[eatcustard]