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Corbynomics: A Dystopia

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  • gadgetmind
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    Dear Jeremy: Three Resignation Letters In Full

    http://news.sky.com/story/1617872/dear-jeremy-three-resignation-letters-in-full
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
  • Spidernick
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    I shouldn't do, but I do find this very funny:

    http://newsthump.com/2016/01/06/labour-reshuffle-to-be-dramatised-by-samuel-beckett/
    The Labour Party reshuffle is to be dramatised as a sequel to Waiting for Godot, it has been announced today.

    Waiting for Jeremy, as the play will be known, will feature two minor backbench MPs endlessly waiting for news about their careers which never comes.
    'I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my father. Not screaming and terrified like his passengers.' (Bob Monkhouse).

    Sky? Believe in better.

    Note: win, draw or lose (not 'loose' - opposite of tight!)
  • Generali
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    Spidernick wrote: »
    I shouldn't do, but I do find this very funny:

    http://newsthump.com/2016/01/06/labour-reshuffle-to-be-dramatised-by-samuel-beckett/

    It really is amazing to watch the Labour leadership shoot the party in the foot (pun intended) repeatedly. Half of the north of England is flooded and a gazillion refugees are planning on storming Lambeth and the lead in the newspapers for two days has been a entirely manufactured internal party row.

    Mr Corbyn is the gift that keeps on giving.
  • Thrugelmir
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I willing joined trade union

    So did I. As now the hard core elements are politically extreme. So I left.
  • ukcarper
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    So did I. As now the hard core elements are politically extreme. So I left.
    In some unions maybe but not all just because they are to the left doesn't make them extreme.
  • Generali
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    In some unions maybe but not all just because they are to the left doesn't make them extreme.

    The big trade unions in the UK are pretty much to the extreme left of the mainstream political spectrum. There is a fringe that is more extreme than that but that's a vanishingly small number.
  • CLAPTON
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    the unions no longer have the power to destroy the country but they still have sufficient to destroy the Labour Party
  • ukcarper
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    Generali wrote: »
    The big trade unions in the UK are pretty much to the extreme left of the mainstream political spectrum. There is a fringe that is more extreme than that but that's a vanishingly small number.
    They might be to the left but not so far as oppose trident.
  • ukcarper
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    the unions no longer have the power to destroy the country but they still have sufficient to destroy the Labour Party
    I think labour are doing a good enough job without the help of the unions.
  • kinger101
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I think labour are doing a good enough job without the help of the unions.

    Indeed. The Parliamentary Labour Party made this mistake. An MP required backing from 15% of the PLP to be included on the ballot. Corbyn got 15.5% (36 votes), but 14 of these didn't want him as leader.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
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