Corbynomics: A Dystopia

Arklight

DiggerUK wrote: »

The Jimmy Saville investigation failed to question Corbyn about the deaths of the Princes in the Tower either. Commie cop infiltrators from Momentum defending the guru..._

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36886157

As I predicted. Rational Corbynism is beginning to take root. I predict that many of the defectors will be quietly asking to return to the fold.

ukcarper

Arklight wrote: »

As I predicted. Rational Corbynism is beginning to take root. I predict that many of the defectors will be quietly asking to return to the fold.

You really don't understand I've been around long enough to see the effect the far left can have on the Labour vote.

Arklight

ukcarper wrote: »

You really don't understand I've been around long enough to see the effect the far left can have on the Labour vote.

Can you tell me what about Corbynism you find far left?

The vast majority if Corbynites are not radical lefties. Its just that the political dialogue of the country has shifted so far to the right that anyone who suggests we insist employers pay a living wage, rich people pay more than 0.5% tax, and we renationalise our awful railways, seems to now be a radical Marxist.

Thrugelmir

Arklight wrote: »

The vast majority if Corbynites are not radical lefties. Its just that the political dialogue of the country has shifted so far to the right that anyone who suggests we insist employers pay a living wage, rich people pay more than 0.5% tax, and we renationalise our awful railways, seems to now be a radical Marxist.

Made me chuckle when I read this. There's a whole generation that remember old Labour. Not appealing I'm afraid to say. Certainly not middle ground politics.

seven-day-weekend

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Made me chuckle when I read this. There's a whole generation that remember old Labour. Not appealing I'm afraid to say. Certainly not middle ground politics.

An article from the Telegraph from a year ago has just popped up on my Facebook page. Might be relevant to this discussion....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11762773/Ive-lived-under-Jeremy-Corbyns-rule-it-turned-me-into-a-Tory.html

TheNickster

posh*spice wrote: »

Except that changed after 9/11 when it was no longer acceptable - i hope gerry adams and martin mcguiness feel sick every time they witness a terror attack by IS - because it will make them realise that they are no better. Scum.

I have just seen PM Theresa May shaking hands with Martin McGuiness on the news. Perhaps you think she is scum as well.

Time you moved on.

CLAPTON

Arklight wrote: »

Can you tell me what about Corbynism you find far left?

The vast majority if Corbynites are not radical lefties. Its just that the political dialogue of the country has shifted so far to the right that anyone who suggests we insist employers pay a living wage, rich people pay more than 0.5% tax, and we renationalise our awful railways, seems to now be a radical Marxist.

I'm quite rich but I pay a lot more than 0.5% tax:
where am I going wrong, can you give some advice, I'ld make it worth your while.

setmefree2

Alan_Brown wrote: »

Yes, and I guess because they were not part of the same tribe. I've looked at the historical documents and I can't find any Corbyn involvement in the massacre. I also couldn't find any Corbyn involvement in the battle of Seringpatam.

I'll keep looking, I'm sure that I'll find something. Corbyn has flat refused to condemn these massacres and so he must have as much blood on his hands as the perpetrators.

To be fair it was you you Corbynistas who took the thread in that direction with the following posts.

Arklight wrote: »

If you lot want to think if an "antidote" to him, maybe you should address those issues rather than agitating over the end of the embarrassment of the British Empire and its restive colonial scrag ends.

All you are doing is pointing out that an avowed socialist isn't very keen on the British establishment's centuries old predilection to invade other countries.

Who knew?

Arklight wrote: »

So anyone who disagrees with you is a terrorist?

How would you feel if 14 Brits had been shot dead in a protest in Surrey, by Irish soldiers, after several hundred years of the Irish government having subjected England to a cruel and oppressive occupation? Or do the innocent people who were murdered and killed in their hundreds of thousands by British Imperialism not count in some way?

Or how would you take it if your grandfather had died in a Kenyan concentration camp in Hertfordshire, such as Obama's grandfather did at the hands of the British. Or been murdered running terrified and unarmed from Indian troops in Somerset, like the hundreds of people in the Amritsar Massacre did from British bullets.

Nothing happens in a vacuum, everything that happens had something else happening before it, and the bombs have, thank God, stopped. I am grateful to everyone involved in the peace process who saw sense on both sides. But the British government does not have a good record of paying much attention to peaceful protests by occupied peoples and if you want to blame someone for the existence of the IRA you might want to start by looking a bit closer to home.

setmefree2

I'm guessing everyone has read this.

A legal challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's right to automatically stand in the Labour leadership contest is being heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36886159

Labour could reopen leadership nominations if anti-Corbyn court bid succeeds

Leader likely to get chance to collect 51 nominations if challenge against decision to automatically put him on ballot wins

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/26/high-court-to-hear-legal-case-against-labour-leadership-ballot-decision-jeremy-corbyn

setmefree2

Labour leadership: MP 'unresigns' from Corbyn team

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36886157