Corbynomics: A Dystopia

ruggedtoast

A nice balanced view of today's events from the Daily Mail.

Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader was today branded a 'f***ing disaster' by senior members of his own party.
Modernisers who hoped to find a candidate who can take on the Tories are utterly dismayed at being led by the Marxist throwback who opposes austerity, the monarchy and Britain's membership.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231825/It-s-f-ing-disaster-Utter-dismay-senior-Labour-MPs-face-reality-led-Corbyn.html

Personally I am delighted those 8 have left. Weeds out the rightists.

Their names have been taken.

Thrugelmir

MacMickster wrote: »

We have seen the resurgence of left wing anti-austerity parties across Europe.

Even in Greece common sense eventually won the day. Hot air can never replace real actions.

Thrugelmir

Generali wrote: »

Out of interest what would it take for you to vote for a Corbyn led Labour Party at the next election or would you simply not vote for Labour with Mr Corbyn at the helm?

Will Corbyn still be at the helm?

DTDfanBoy

Excellent stuff, you have to love a bit of good solid Democracy in action :beer:

Now how exactly do I go about getting my name removed from the Labour party supporter list

chucknorris

Great news that Corbyn won! The more labour move to the left, the less votes that they will get in the next GE, the Tory party must just be loving this.

ruggedtoast

chucknorris wrote: »

Great news that Corbyn won! The more labour move to the left, the less votes that they will get in the next GE, the Tory party must just be loving this.

They don't look like they're loving it. Cameron looks like he's trying to swallow a thistle.

chucknorris

ruggedtoast wrote: »

They don't look like they're loving it. Cameron looks like he's trying to swallow a thistle.

Oh they are loving it, and I am too. I didn't want someone capable of winning the middle ground vote, and I got exactly what I wanted. The sensible labour voters will be disappointed, whereas the simpler ones will be rejoicing.

CLAPTON

nicola wanted Cameron to win
cameron wanted Corbyn to win
corbyn ... oh dear didn't actually want to win

gadgetmind

I must admit that when I heard that Corbyn had won the leadership of Labour, I had to look the name up on wikipedia.

It seems this party was in power for the 1st decade of this century but little has been heard from them since then.

Fella

I wouldn't necessarily say it's good news for the Tories. They'll be dragged to the left (there is plenty of scope for it if Corbyn sticks to his guns). So fag-packet analysis might suggest a Tory win is now more likely, but on a much more centrist manifesto than they might otherwise have fought on. So in a roundabout way Corbyn might achieve some of his aims even by losing.

Of course it's faintly ridiculous to make precise predictions on how something so far off might pan out, especially in these fairly unknown waters.