Jeremy Corbyn wins economists’ backing for anti-austerity policies

DiggerUK

CLAPTON wrote: »

teenagers always think they are the first generation in 10,000 years to think for themselves

We ain't talking teenagers here....those born in 1980 are now 35 and middle aged. Get to grips with this debate and stop arguing like a teenager.
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CLAPTON

Graham_Devon wrote: »

But your generation always knows better, right?

Knew better when you were teenagers in the 60's/70's and still know better now.

what I said is what I meant

it was a timeless and universal comment

DiggerUK

CLAPTON wrote: »

what I said is what I meant ,it was a timeless and universal comment

Clueless and useless comment.........Neanderthal teenagers, pah! what did they know.......get with the zeitgeist sweetheart.
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ruggedtoast

Corbyn slaps down supporters who behave poorly:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stop-making-personal-attacks-on-each-other-jeremy-corbyn-tells-labour-supporters-10470476.html

"Jeremy Corbyn said he had deliberately focused on policy rather than personality and that he expected his own and others' supporters to do the same.

“If anybody is making personal attacks in my name then it’s wrong,” he said. “I don’t do personal abuse and I don’t expect anybody else to do it either."

This is why Corbyn is riding high in the polls. While the other candidates can only rage and stamp their feet, Corbyn refuses to be caught up in the maelstrom.

Its nice to see he is distancing himself from the trolls in a way that the SNP and Salmond consistently failed to. I suspect if he wins in September, as he should. There will be a few more Labour MPs returning to Scotland.

Shakethedisease

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Corbyn slaps down supporters who behave poorly:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stop-making-personal-attacks-on-each-other-jeremy-corbyn-tells-labour-supporters-10470476.html



This is why Corbyn is riding high in the polls. While the other candidates can only rage and stamp their feet, Corbyn refuses to be caught up in the maelstrom.

Its nice to see he is distancing himself from the trolls in a way that the SNP and Salmond consistently failed to. I suspect if he wins in September, as he should. There will be a few more Labour MPs returning to Scotland.

Corbyn is doing exactly the same thing as Sturgeon and Salmond do with trolls. You just never hear it reported. But we see their responses on Twitter/Facebook etc.

I agree Corbyn should win and is indeed riding high in the polls... however, it looks like Labour are hell bent on preventing him from winning one way or another.

Labour leadership race: Acting leader Harriet Harman admits up to 100,000 members could be purged from vote

The Labour purge is expected to reach a six-figure total, the party admitted today. Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said as many as 100,000 people could be blocked from the party's leadership vote..... the former home secretary said Labour believed that one in five registered voters could be infiltrators attempting to skew the vote.


...Jeremy Corbyn, the frontrunner in the race, has meanwhile rejected these claims as “nonsense” on BBC Radio 5’s live hustings in Stevenage.

Way to go Labour. 100,000 of votes at the next election gone already, and it's only August 2015. Scottish Labour might want to hold off celebrating for a bit. What a mess.

michaels

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Way to go Labour. 100,000 of votes at the next election gone already, and it's only August 2015. Scottish Labour might want to hold off celebrating for a bit. What a mess.

I wonder if they will give the money back, seems pretty contrary to consumer law to charge for something and then deny it for political reasons.

Also an interesting take on democracy, one person, one vote...but only if that vote is likely to be for one of the right people. Reminds me a bit of democracy in HK where the communist party have not reneged on their promise to curtail the right to vote, but have decided that they will control the candidate list....

ruggedtoast

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Corbyn is doing exactly the same thing as Sturgeon and Salmond do with trolls. You just never hear it reported. But we see their responses on Twitter/Facebook etc.

I agree Corbyn should win and is indeed riding high in the polls... however, it looks like Labour are hell bent on preventing him from winning one way or another.



Way to go Labour. 100,000 of votes at the next election gone already, and it's only August 2015. Scottish Labour might want to hold off celebrating for a bit. What a mess.

I voted Labour last time, for the first time. Not that it made any difference, its all Tory / UKIP voting well off pensioners and Tory / UKIP voting white van men around my way so it was Con for the 7000th election running in my ward.

If Corbyn isn't gerrymandered out of his place next month I will join Labour and will probably actually support them properly, at least to volunteer my time. If they cheat him, and everyone else, from being elected I will never vote for them again.

Rinoa

Harriet Harman, 18 May:

“We will allow people who are not party members or who are not affiliated supporters to have a vote. Anyone – providing they are on the electoral register – can become a registered supporter, pay £3 and have a vote to decide our next leader.”

Harriet Harman, 25 August:

“If they don’t support the Labour Party’s aims and values, they don’t get a vote.”

michaels

Rinoa wrote: »

Harriet Harman, 25 August:

“If they don’t support the Labour Party’s aims and values, they don’t get a vote.”

Are those the aims and values as espoused by Jeremy Corbyn or those espoused by the other candidates?

How can anyone possibly know what aims and values I support, even if I have in the past told a canvasser that I did or didn't support labour I might have lied or have changed my mind since.

Or is it only true that people who have supported labour all their lives and published their ballots (an offence?) are welcome in the party and anyone who has ever supported another party is not welcome?

Rinoa

michaels wrote: »

Are those the aims and values as espoused by Jeremy Corbyn or those espoused by the other candidates?

Good question. Who has the authority to decide what they are?

Labour's aims and values changed beyond recognition between Michael Foot's leadership and Tony Blairs just over a decade later.