Corbynomics: A Dystopia

Mistermeaner

It's easy to promise stupid !!!! when you'll never have to implement it

antrobus

davomcdave wrote: »

Foot was a fiercely intelligent man and funnily enough if you read the 1983 manifesto there are a few things that were done by the Blair/Brown Governments and continued by the Cameron one (e.g. nationalisation of banks, minimum wage). ...

The 83 manifesto's only committment was to "discuss with the TUC the possibility of introducing a minimum wage". Which was a bit on the feeble side really.

There was no commitment to the "nationalisation of banks" either. They simply threatened that if the "major clearing banks" failed "to co operate with us fully" on their "reforms",that they were "ready to take one or more of them into public ownership".

And I'm not quite sure that is the same thing as feeling obliged to bailout/rescue/recapitalise some banks that had lent to much money to the wrong kind of people.

Of course, the one thing Labour was committed to was the following;

The next Labour government, committed to radical, socialist policies for reviving the British economy, is bound to find continued membership a most serious obstacle to the fulfilment of those policies. In particular the rules of the Treaty of Rome are bound to conflict with our strategy for economic growth and full employment, our proposals on industrial policy and for increasing trade, and our need to restore exchange controls and to regulate direct overseas investment. Moreover, by preventing us from buying food from the best sources of world supply, they would run counter to our plans to control prices and inflation.

For all these reasons, British withdrawal from the Community is the right policy for Britain - to be completed well within the lifetime of the parliament. That is our commitment.

So there you go, Brexit will now deliver that promise.:)

http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/lab83.htm

westernpromise

Although leaving the EEC in 1983 is nothing like leaving the EU in 2019.

antrobus

westernpromise wrote: »

Although leaving the EEC in 1983 is nothing like leaving the EU in 2019.

The desire to "restore exchange controls and to regulate direct overseas investment" and the "plans to control prices and inflation", would have been frustrated by either.

P.S. Why haven't these radical, socialist policies been revived by the new Corbynistas?:)

Malthusian

davomcdave wrote: »

Foot was a fiercely intelligent man and funnily enough if you read the 1983 manifesto there are a few things that were done by the Blair/Brown Governments and continued by the Cameron one (e.g. nationalisation of banks, minimum wage).

Manifestos are very long and wide-ranging documents. Even the most hare-brained and extreme manifesto will contain plenty of boring policies which will have been duplicated, or near-duplicated, by any number of centrist elected governments.

It's the wrist-cutting that makes a suicide, not the running a bath beforehand.

Fella

Amusing clip. Corbyn cannot control his temper when anybody dares to even suggest criticism of him. He also seems to believe it's the job of the Meeja to make the opposition heard. Surely that's the job of the opposition.......

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jeremy-corbyn-angry-itv-reporter-leader_uk_58e3d5d9e4b0f4a923b2939b

antrobus

According to Dan Hodges in the MoS;

Jeremy Corbyn’s initiative to impose VAT on private-school tuition fees caused a temporary panic among his colleagues. ‘A couple are thinking they might want to send their own kids private,’ an MP informs me, ‘and they were worrying it might affect them. Then someone said, “Look, it doesn’t matter. We’re not going to win the Election, so what have we got to worry about?”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4393408/If-member-Labour-tomorrow-RACIST.html

Allegedly.:)

antrobus

Jeremy Corbyn to resign on 9 June 2017?

The end of Corbynomics as we know it?

Conrad

Great call by Mrs May, get before Labour replaces Corbyn, win a bomb proof Brexit mandate, all good.


Whinging Lib Dums and SNP will find out their weak wishy washy politics has had it's day.

TrickyTree83

Crunch time.

Does the UK communist dream die in 2017?

We can only hope.