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Corbynomics: A Dystopia

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  • setmefree2 wrote: »

    This is of course the same bloke who demands loyalty from Labour MPs while having voted (IIUIC) more than 500 times against Party instructions or guidance?

    Loyalty? Clearly no dictionaries in the Corbyn household....:cool: .

    WR
  • Arklight
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    setmefree2 wrote: »

    And yet again, the media won't look at the actual issue, so fixated are they on smearing the man.

    The issue, is equal pay for men and women.

    The answer is even in the article:
    A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said: "Staff salaries will be published by the Labour party under new short money rules.

    "Before that happens, consent has to be sought from staff and trade unions have to be engaged in a process of consultation.
  • Generali
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    Arklight wrote: »
    And yet again, the media won't look at the actual issue, so fixated are they on smearing the man.

    The issue, is equal pay for men and women.

    The answer is even in the article:

    Jeremy Corbyn, feminist warrior:

    -No senior women in his cabinet.
    -No women in his SPAD team.
    -Labour have never had a permanent female leader.
    -Women that disagree with Mr Corbyn are threatened with being raped while Mr Corbyn stands alongside the misogynists.
  • Thrugelmir
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    Arklight wrote: »
    And yet again, the media won't look at the actual issue, so fixated are they on smearing the man.

    The issue, is equal pay for men and women.

    The answer is even in the article:

    Sounds more like Labour Central Office spin to deflect the news of the day. As there's no insufficient evidence to give a precise answer.
    Because the ONS data does not, and cannot, take account of job demands the headline figures for the gender pay gap should not be treated as an indicator of whether women are receiving equal pay for equal work.
  • Arklight
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Sounds more like Labour Central Office spin to deflect the news of the day. As there's no insufficient evidence to give a precise answer.

    You can't suddenly release the salary details of all your employees just because some journalist from one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers asks you to.

    I am sure it will come out. Considering Scotland has been waiting for two years to hear the Tories explain exactly why they weren't conned into voting No, I am sure JC can have some time to look at this.
  • TrickyTree83
    TrickyTree83 Posts: 3,930 Forumite
    Arklight wrote: »
    You can't suddenly release the salary details of all your employees just because some journalist from one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers asks you to.

    I am sure it will come out. Considering Scotland has been waiting for two years to hear the Tories explain exactly why they weren't conned into voting No, I am sure JC can have some time to look at this.

    I'm all over that, where did the Scottish get conned?
  • Moby
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    edited 22 July 2016 at 2:22PM
    Arklight wrote: »
    Jeremy is absolutely smashing it in his leadership campaign launch today.

    The Owen chap is already a busted flush.

    I should think we will see 70% plus for Corbyn if not more. Then the MPs will have to get behind him and the battle for the next election can begin in earnest.

    Exciting times!
    I'm a member of the Labour Party and have been for many years. I don't have a problem with Corbyn's views as such. Many people in the Labour Party hold similar views. That doesn't make him special or different. My problem with Corbyn is that he is a hopeless leader who has no ability to turn campaigning into serious policy. He has also shown himself to be self serving and arrogant in that he doesn't listen to what his parliamentary colleagues are telling him. The Labour Party is a Parliamentary based Party which aims at govmt to change things. Without support from the majority of your MP's a leader has no hope of progressing this .......so what's his plan?

    By the way the 500k of members mean nothing in the context of the elecorate generally. He has to draw support from tory swing constituencies in the Midlands......what evidence do you have of him being able to do that? Many of the new members are entryists who don't care whether Labour is ever in govmt again; incidentally I don't think Corbyn cares about being in govmt either.....he just cares about taking over the Labour Party. He won't succeed, he will probably win this leadership election and then there will be a new vote of no confidence next year and the year after if necessary. We will sit tight and outlast him. he is a doddery old bullying fart who hopefully hasn't got too long left in active politics!;)
  • Moby
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    edited 22 July 2016 at 2:48PM
    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/22/corbyn-denies-threatening-to-phone-mps-father-over-row
    'McGinn continued: “Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that because of the much-publicised fact that my father was a Sinn F!in councillor Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me. Thankfully, others dissuaded Jeremy from taking this course of action. The call was not made, and it would not have been well received.”

    Clapton ......you may be right about Corbyn and McDonnell having links with the IRA after all. This article would seem to indicate this. If it's true...... I apologise for believing you were talking crap!
    https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/77559/conor-mcginn-i-can-no-longer-tolerate-jeremy
    'In the last fortnight, Jeremy's supporters have subjected me and other Labour MPs to a torrent of abuse and threats. In my constituency, a group of people gained access to my shared office building under false pretences and filmed themselves protesting outside the door of my office, in an incident that has been reported to the police. They threatened to disrupt my surgeries and events I was attending, requiring me to have a police presence at those last weekend'.

    'Last week, a Twitter account using the name Frank Ryan posted a privately-taken picture of Jeremy and his legal team adding "with JC and the core team". The same account subsequently posted late on Saturday night that I was a "traitor" and no longer welcome in my home village of Camlough, county Armagh. To date, I have not had any answer from Jeremy about his relationship with this person or an explanation about how s/he obtained the photograph.'
  • chaostheory
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    Moby wrote: »
    he is a doddery old bullying fart

    He really is old. He will be 71 in 2020 and 76 by 2025.

    Time will probably sort this problem out ;)
  • Moby
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    He really is old. He will be 71 in 2020 and 76 by 2025.

    Time will probably sort this problem out ;)
    I apologise to other posters for being ageist:)
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