Jeremy Corbyn Vol. 2

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Hawking said:

I regard Corbyn as a disaster, his heart is in the right place and many of his policies are sound, but he has allowed himself to be portrayed as a leftwing extremist.

Bless him, he's perfectly competent, just misunderstood.

[anonymous-user]

Boring_Chris said:

What's the PH collective got to say about this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/07/s...

I heard he's a smart lad, that Stevie.

Compared to most Cambridge Dons Corbyn is a Tory.

[turbobloke]

Boring_Chris said:

turbobloke said:

Prof Hawking said:

many of his policies are sound

SH may know this because, like black holes, many of JC's policies are out of sight.

I'd go for risible hot air rather than sound and definitely no light.

Then again, JC's hot air is in the form of sound.

LSD? Meth? Weed?

All three?!

[turbobloke]

fblm said:

Boring_Chris said:

What's the PH collective got to say about this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/07/s...

I heard he's a smart lad, that Stevie.

Compared to most Cambridge Dons Corbyn is a Tory.

It's even funnier because it's true.

[anonymous-user]

turbobloke said:

fblm said:

Boring_Chris said:

What's the PH collective got to say about this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/07/s...

I heard he's a smart lad, that Stevie.

Compared to most Cambridge Dons Corbyn is a Tory.

It's even funnier because it's true.

IIRC (but CBA to google) Hawking is into a Star Trek style global, egalitarian one world government where there is no money and humanity works together towards common goals rather than personal wealth, etc... which is nice. It's not surprising therefore that he would support some of Corbyns most batsh!t crazy ideas as but a starting point.

[Burwood]

huge respect for Hawking but I find it amusing that people like him vote Labour. He should really just be honest and say he is ATory because it's fashionable to be so.

[Ganglandboss]

Comrade Corbyn saying he can win a General Election, but doesn't seem to be able to convince himself...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39193115?ns_...

...and using his tried and tested media technique of raising his voice to a journalist when she asks him a question he does not want to answer!

[Burwood]

Ganglandboss said:

Comrade Corbyn saying he can win a General Election, but doesn't seem to be able to convince himself...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39193115?ns_...

...and using his tried and tested media technique of raising his voice to a journalist when she asks him a question he does not want to answer!

Same coach as Dianne Abbott. Clearly the media interview him for sts and giggles. It's the same drivel over and over again. 1. Use interview to sneer at the Torys. 2. Don't answer any questions. 3. Roll out a prepared comment and just repeat it.

Anyone supporting this moron really does deserve ridicule

[KTF]

Ganglandboss said:

Comrade Corbyn saying he can win a General Election, but doesn't seem to be able to convince himself...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39193115?ns_...

...and using his tried and tested media technique of raising his voice to a journalist when she asks him a question he does not want to answer!

What on earth is he going on about. What a massive amount of waffle.

[number 46]

He is so deluded, that interview is 1'53" long and he looses his temper and just says the same ste over and over, there is just no way that he will survive TV interviews for a General Election!!!!! I think, form now on I will call him the Useless Idiot, rather than Useful Idiot!!!!

[anonymous-user]

KTF said:

Ganglandboss said:

Comrade Corbyn saying he can win a General Election, but doesn't seem to be able to convince himself...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39193115?ns_...

...and using his tried and tested media technique of raising his voice to a journalist when she asks him a question he does not want to answer!

What on earth is he going on about. What a massive amount of waffle.

They are taking 3 cases out to the electorate. My wife takes more than that for a weekend trip to the Lakes

[anonymous-user]

Burwood said:

huge respect for Hawking but I find it amusing that people like him vote Labour. He should really just be honest and say he is ATory because it's fashionable to be so.

These Cambridge Dons live in an odd world. I know a few of them. They have never left the collegiate environment since they were 18. They live in college accomodation, eat in college and work a short bicycle ride away. Some even socialise. In college. They are off the charts clever and completely clueless about the world around them. I bet half of them don't know or care how much they get paid. They certainly arn't Torys, they vote Labour but they arn't really Labour either; they are a kind of post capitalist/ultra communist where everyone just does what takes their fancy to the best of their ability, like they do. The solutions to the practical problems of this nirvana are considered too trivial to entertain. Which is probably why every previous effort to create such a fair and bountiful society ends up torturing and murdering everyone who has a different opinion.

[Burwood]

i get that Hawking lives in an academic bubble and has this utopian view. However he is a bloody hypocrite. He's happy to accept huge grants from dubious sources/people. He should STFU and continue looking for ET

[anonymous-user]

Burwood said:

...utopian

Damn it that was the word I was looking for!

Burwood said:

He should STFU and continue looking for ET

It's possible he's been hacked to be fair.

[Burwood]

fblm said:

Burwood said:

...utopian

Damn it that was the word I was looking for!

Burwood said:

He should STFU and continue looking for ET

It's possible he's been hacked to be fair.

I had to think about that for a few seconds :hehe" quite. That pesky CIA

[anonymous-user]

Burwood said:

...pesky CIA

I was thinking by a smelly CompSci momentum type student.

[turbobloke]

fblm said:

...they are a kind of post capitalist/ultra communist...

Which is one of the reasons why I got the hell out of Dodge.

Hawking's works in applied maths and theoretical physics are virtually unparalleled but his views on Corbyn and Labour are just that, views and no more or less worthy than the views of Doris at 23 Acacia Ave.

Due to his well-earned prominence, those views get almost as much airtime as Russell Brand.

[Welshbeef]

pingu393 said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08hcw6q/vict...

Full interview starts at 41:10.

Money tree lead-in question 45:45

Money tree question 46:05

Money tree put out nice and. Lear.

So Mr Corbyn you've spent the corporation tax many times over to the total of £14b. So where is the rest coming from.
Reverse he 50% reduction.
Ok that brings in an extra £100m
Corporation tax
Ok that brings in £7b over a 5 year term we have £14billion a year gap so what else?
We'd have to do a number of things and the UK public would accept the message.

So does this mean decreasing the starting point of the income tax threshold? Does it mean decreasing the starting point of NI? Does it mean increasing the 20% rate? Does it mean increasing the 40% rate? Does it mean decreasing the starting point of 40%.
The issue is where does it come from? You cannot keep saying clamp down on tax evasion...
Honestly what can they do?

Scrapping child benefit for over single earners over £60k resulted in a £2billion saving. How about lowering it to £40k or £30k?

[mybrainhurts]

Wow...just listened to part of Corbyn's budget speech.

Did he survive or did he expire in a cloud of steam?

He would now be safe to change his name to Buster Bloodvessel, Screaming Lord Corblimey or Angry Kid...

Dodgy Di must have gone orgasmic in short order...

[Murph7355]

Welshbeef said:

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Honestly what can they do?

Scrapping child benefit for over single earners over £60k resulted in a £2billion saving. How about lowering it to £40k or £30k?

Just scrap it. For everyone.

And then chop into pensions. Starting with those whose pension income excl. state pension is over the tax allowance.