Corbynomics: A Dystopia

Malthusian

Comrades! This is a humanitarian emergency. We must dig up 200 tonnes of landfill from nearby sites and then dump it on Worthy Farm, so that our Czech brothers can be productively employed clearing it away again.

setmefree2

Jeremy Corbyn attacks 'zero-hours' Glastonbury contracts

Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, his spokesman has said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40498235

Thrugelmir

The man is far too quick to open his mouth. One day is well and truly going to fall into it. Understandable now why he's never held a ministerial position.

Fella

Daily Politics today was an eye-opener. The Labour MP on there tried to trot out the usual "our manifesto was fully costed" line only this time Andrew Neil snorted with derision at him. When he continued to try to claim it was costed Neil shut him down & said how Labour might have called it costed but not a single reputable economist agreed. That none of them thought Labour would raise remotely what they claimed with their tax ideas.

So finally Andrew Neil says what we knew all along. But where was that during the campaign? I watch most episodes of DP & I lost count of the amount of times various Labour MPs were allowed to trot out that line to Andrew Neil or Jo Coburn unchallenged. Neil in particular is usually pretty good at being unbiased but throughout the campaign Labour were allowed to get away scot-free with their nonsense costing claims. And finally today we get confirmation of that (when it's too late to effect the vote).

Let's only hope that whenever the next election is we see proper scrutiny of whatever fantasy economics Labour put in their manifesto. That alone would see them hammered out of sight. IF it happened.......

Thrugelmir

Fella wrote: »

Let's only hope that whenever the next election is we see proper scrutiny of whatever fantasy economics Labour put in their manifesto. That alone would see them hammered out of sight. IF it happened.......

Populist politics is a fad. Soon disappear once the reality becomes clear. Banker bashing was once the order of the day. Now it's becoming apparent that under Brown there was no economic miracle. Just a huge contribution from the City of London to the Treasury. That won't be replaced by the low wage unskilled economy that's beneath the surface. As a Nation we are becoming poorer.

Fella

https://order-order.com/2017/07/19/corbyn-deletes-tweet-attacking-labour-run-welsh-nhs/

Oh dear. So turns out when Labour do get the chance to run something this is what they do.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why Corbyn would delete his Tweet. Surely if he cared about families, patients, and NHS staff he wouldn't have?

It's almost as if, instead of actually caring about those people, he's just a nasty extremist exploiting every bit of misery he can for political gain.

And utterly incompetent with it.

.string.

Corbyn plotting?

Methinks he lost the plot a long time ago.

Seriously, I suspect he is just a pliable and gullible figurehead, pushed to the front by the far left. There are some parallels with Trump from the other side of the left / right divide: eg myopic and ingrained gut-instinct reactions on Twitter and in public statements, ability to grow the disenchanted and mobilise the result.

setmefree2

The papers picked up on Corbyn's SL lies. But nobody seems to have picked up on this (below) which I find seriously disturbing (from the Andrew Marr interview.)

“There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I’m looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-student-loans-debt-manifesto-pledge-amnesty-cancel-tuition-fees-a7856161.html

Lengthen the period of paying it off? That would make things worse for students not better. He clearly has no understanding of the SL system. And he wants to be PM. So disturbing.

Not that I think he'll ever be PM.

Fella

setmefree2 wrote: »

The papers picked up on Corbyn's SL lies. But nobody seems to have picked up on this (below) which I find seriously disturbing (from the Andrew Marr interview.)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-student-loans-debt-manifesto-pledge-amnesty-cancel-tuition-fees-a7856161.html

Lengthen the period of paying it off? That would make things worse for students not better. He clearly has no understanding of the SL system. And he wants to be PM. So disturbing.

Not that I think he'll ever be PM.

He's utterly floundering on this. As he would be on virtually any policy that happens to be put under a bit of spotlight. Like we've mentioned before, he got a free pass throughout the election campaign by a media that either wanted him to win or thought he had so little chance of winning that there was no need to seriously question the fantasy manifesto.

It hasn't been mentioned on here but Dianne Abbott demonstrated her utter lack of understanding of her own party's spending yet AGAIN this week (no this isn't a repeat of the clip of her during the campaign, this is her STILL not having the faintest idea):

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/831298/Diane-Abbott-stops-ITV-interview-Labour-Party-police-spending-numbers

It bears repeating that this is the Shadow Home Secretary we're talking about. The Home Secretary if Corbyn won. And even after the utter ridicule she faced when she didn't know her sums during the campaign, she hasn't taken the time (or is literally incapable of remembering actual facts) to learn her brief.

Fella

You know what I haven't heard for awhile? One of Corbyn's adoring fans telling us how his manifesto was "fully costed".

I guess with Jezza himself admitting he had no idea what his policy on student debt would cost, and his own party belatedly admitting that writing it off would cost a whopping £100 BILLION they didn't account for, their claims of everything being fully costed look rather silly.

Gosh I'm glad I wasn't one of the people who repeatedly said he'd costed everything.