Corbynomics: A Dystopia

westernpromise

There is an alarmingly high cross-country correlation between the election success of far-right parties and immigration.
http://voxeu.org/article/immigration-and-far-right-voting-new-evidence

so assuming immigration into the EU continues it's really only a matter of time.

As to which country elects a fascist government (and I don't mean a 1930s style fascist government; they've rebranded), take your pick:
http://time.com/4504010/europe-politics-swing-right/
http://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/03/rise-nationalists-guide-europe-s-far-right-parties

antrobus

News from Manchester Gorton.

Good old Galloway is going to stand in the by-election. It will be the "Mother of All By-Elections". Allegedly.

http://www.westmonster.com/george-galloway-enters-mother-of-all-by-elections-in-manchester-gorton/

Out,_Vile_Jelly

antrobus wrote: »

News from Manchester Gorton.

Good old Galloway is going to stand in the by-election. It will be the "Mother of All By-Elections". Allegedly.

http://www.westmonster.com/george-galloway-enters-mother-of-all-by-elections-in-manchester-gorton/

Why are international issues so "particularly important in Gorton"? Honestly, the choice of modern MPs is so poor we may as well all give up and let ourselves be run by robots.

westernpromise

I remember reading a few years ago, a propos of the council elections, about how the top issue that came up on the doorstep in parts of Birmingham was Kashmir.

No, me neither. But apparently there was for a few years a party aspiring to local government - bin collections, schools, libraries, etc. - in Birmingham called the People's Justice Party. To quote from Wikipedia, it:

promised single-sex schools, changes to housing grants, and improved street lighting beside commitments to campaign for self-determination for Kashmir, the formation of a Palestinian state and the release of two Kashmiris (Mohammed Riaz and Quayyam Raja) imprisoned in 1984 for their role in the killing of an Indian diplomat. Indeed, it was that very issue that prompted their formation—before being named Justice for Kashmir, the group was entitled, the Free Riaz and Quayyam Campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Justice_Party_(UK)

Local politics 21st century stylee.

wotsthat

mrginge wrote: »

Why bother?

Now that Brexit is almost underway they'll only go if they get a sniff that jezza is on the verge. Otherwise might as well hang on and eat up the current term before starting a new one.

I don't believe for a minute a government would give up an assured landslide in favour of 3 years of a slim majority.

The world could look very different for the Tories in 3 years.

More likely, IMO of course, that they've assessed that a landslide isn't assured.

mrginge

wotsthat wrote: »

I don't believe for a minute a government would give up an assured landslide in favour of 3 years of a slim majority.

The world could look very different for the Tories in 3 years.

More likely, IMO of course, that they've assessed that a landslide isn't assured.

I always look forward to your cheery optimism on whatever subject it is that is under discussion.

The glass isn't just half empty, it's cracked, leaking, covered in !!!!, buried under 15 ton of rubble and attached to a small nuclear device.

Have you considered becoming a support worker for the samaritans?

setmefree2

Labour loses 70,000 members

Labour membership expected to fall below half a million Party unsure if those leaving are Jeremy Corbyn supporters, who joined just to back him, or opponents of his reign

Labour membership is expected to fall below half a million for the first time since its peak under Jeremy Corbyn because about 40,000 people are in arrears.
The unusual number of lapsed payments was discussed at a meeting of Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) on Tuesday, as the drop will hit Labour’s budget.
A source present at the meeting said the number of members who are up to date with their payments is now about 483,000, with about 40,000 having fallen behind.
The peak of party membership under Corbyn was 554,000 members as of last July, which had fallen to 528,000 by December.

However, senior party figures warned at the time that this lower figure might not reflect the scale of people leaving the party, as some might have simply cancelled their direct debits without informing the party formally that they wanted to leave.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/21/labour-membership-expected-to-fall-below-half-a-million

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4337976/Fresh-blow-Corbyn-Labour-loses-70-000-members.html

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mrginge wrote: »

I always look forward to your cheery optimism on whatever subject it is that is under discussion.

The glass isn't just half empty, it's cracked, leaking, covered in !!!!, buried under 15 ton of rubble and attached to a small nuclear device.

Have you considered becoming a support worker for the samaritans?

That post didn't half cheer me up :rotfl: .

WR

setmefree2

We shouldn't be afraid of debt, says Jeremy Corbyn

At the end of the Second World War the Labour government of Clement Attlee didn't say, oh dear, debt is 250% of GDP, let's park those grand ideas about public ownership, a national health service, building council homes, or creating the protection of social security."No, they built a country to be proud of. They established the institutions that made out country fairer, more equal, and stopped people being held back, because of the poverty of where they were born."

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Be afraid - very afraid....


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39392683

Zxcv_Bnm

Debt was 250% of GDP because that was the cost of defeating a historic, existential danger.

What have we got to show for the debt we have now apart from tax credits?