Corbynomics: A Dystopia

ruggedtoast

Corbyn bounce in full steam. Labour up by 3 points at 28,000 new members since Saturday.

I am enjoying watching the anger and bemusement of the right wing press as they are completely dismissed by Corbyn, whose popularity grows by the day.

.string.

cepheus wrote: »

He was the strong preference for all groups of members. The £3 supporters would have made no difference to the result, in fact he would still have won on the first ballot. The job of Corbyn now is to win back the narrative from the dominant right wing media which keeps feeding the electorate propaganda. The difference with Labour supporters is that they rely less on Sky and the press and more on social media where the debate is more balanced.

Yes you are correct on the first ballot point. So I withdraw my remark about the new registrants shading it.

I should also withdraw my sympathy for the Labour Members, they really deserve what they get.

This particular floating voter has drifted away from Labour and now remains grounded on the Tories until, or if, Labour recover their sanity and they can offer something sensible for the UK.

ruggedtoast

.string. wrote: »

Yes you are correct on the first ballot point. So I withdraw my remark about the new registrants shading it.

I should also withdraw my sympathy for the Labour Members, they really deserve what they get.

This particular floating voter has drifted away from Labour and now remains grounded on the Tories until, or if, Labour recover their sanity and they can offer something sensible for the UK.

The days of Labour trying to ape the Tory party to attract Tory voters are over.

It appears this is going to take longer to sink in for Conservatives than immediately thought, and that they will undergo a painful and noisome grieving process while it does.

Generali

ruggedtoast wrote: »

The days of Labour trying to ape the Tory party to attract Tory voters are over.

It appears this is going to take longer to sink in for Conservatives than immediately thought, and that they will undergo a painful and noisome grieving process while it does.

The fact that a majority of Labour members seem to have no interest in their party winning power and simply want to snipe from the sidelines as their support dwindles away to nothing is unlikely to cause grief among Conservative voters.

I think most Conservatives are quietly pleased that Labour are basically unelectable tempered with a fear that Mr Corbyn might get in as a result of some terrible mistake or fluke of history.

Have no doubt that a Corbyn led Government would be a terrible mistake.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

So where is Corbyn anyway? Poor old Radio 4 are reduced to asking anyone they can find who might have bumped into him in the street what Corbyn might be planning and thinking. Reckon he'll be having a crash course in media interaction and be receiving the party line on how to win the election ie say the same as the Tories but act a bit more sad about it, all past promises will be forgotten otherwise Boris will win the net election by a mile.

Tromking

Generali wrote: »

Pithy and completely missing the point. I hoped for better from you frankly.

Just merely making the point that all politicians meet and cultivate relationships with people that I as an ordinary citizen wouldn't dream of mixing with.
It's just overly partisan to critisise one politician and ignore the other when they're all guilty of the same thing. In your defence however, in a game of misogynistic murderers top trumps, I prefer Cameron's friends to Corbyn's! Close run thing though! 😀

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

So where is Corbyn anyway? Poor old Radio 4 are reduced to asking anyone they can find who might have bumped into him in the street what Corbyn might be planning and thinking. Reckon he'll be having a crash course in media interaction and be receiving the party line on how to win the election ie say the same as the Tories but act a bit more sad about it, all past promises will be forgotten otherwise Boris will win the net election by a mile.

I would find it very refreshing to have a political leader who has not been trained in "media friendly" responses (ie vague waffle that a SPAD made them memorise). Just because 24 hr news channels have aching voids of airspace to fill, doesn't mean we have to have politicians spouting guff non-stop. Some of them are so pathetically desperate to get on telly they'd comment on Kate Middleton's new fringe !!!!!!.

Go and check Boris' winning margin at the last mayoral election. He only managed to beat 70s relic Livingstone by ~3%. He's not the unstoppable juggernaut of relentless popularity he would like you to believe.

Thrugelmir

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Corbyn bounce in full steam. Labour up by 3 points at 28,000 new members since Saturday.

At the expense of how many of the wider electorate?

Generali

Tromking wrote: »

Just merely making the point that all politicians meet and cultivate relationships with people that I as an ordinary citizen wouldn't dream of mixing with.
It's just overly partisan to critisise one politician and ignore the other when they're all guilty of the same thing. In your defence however, in a game of misogynistic murderers top trumps, I prefer Cameron's friends to Corbyn's! Close run thing though! 😀

You honestly believe that there is a equivalence between the PM meeting the Head of State of another country and an obscure back bencher meeting with terrorists and appearing on state networks of theologian states? If you do then you deserve Mr Corbyn. We all know how the Trotskyite story ends: poverty, oppression and violence.

gadgetmind

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