Corbynomics: A Dystopia

ruggedtoast

Generali wrote: »

It wasn't a poll so much as people jabbing at their remote controls during Mr Corbyn's speech:

http://news.sky.com/story/1561050/sky-pulse-53-percent-can-imagine-corbyn-as-next-pm

Here's a thought for you. Perhaps the people that watch the Labour Party conference are more likely to be pro-Corbyn than the population at large seeing as many are probably Labour Party supporters who...just voted for Mr Corbyn! What do you reckon angry smilie?

:mad:

Yup, she's still angry at the sloppy reporting of straw polls and about sample bias. And who can blame her?

That's how people vote now. If it's good enough to give the UK 2 points in Eurovision it's good enough for Election 2020.

The coloured buttons on the remote control even match up.

Generali

ruggedtoast wrote: »

That's how people vote now. If it's good enough to give the UK 2 points in Eurovision it's good enough for Election 2020.

The coloured buttons on the remote control even match up.

Haha. I'm not sure sample bias matters in Eurovision voting. It does when trying to predict the next PM!

What do you think of sample bias select group of smilies?

:mad::eek::sad::beer:

They don't like it at all. It's even driven two of them to drink!

Mistermeaner

I reckon your average corbyn supporter is more likely to be at home on the sofa at 2:30 than your average Tory who was most likely busy earning a wage and paying tax

setmefree2

cells wrote: »

If corybn wiki is correct it says he divorced his second wife with whom he had 3 boys when the eldest was 11 and the mother wanted him to go to a grammar school and corybn a state school.

Now that's principle! Or frackin stupid

Boy ended up going to the grammer school once the wife ended up with the kids

Don't laugh

Is that one of the one's that works for McDonnell now?

Jeremy Corbyn's son Seb appointed as John McDonnell's chief of staff

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyns-son-seb-appointed-as-john-mcdonnells-chief-of-staff-a6669996.html

Nepotism rocks.....

Looks like he went to Cambridge and studied something PPE ish.

setmefree2

gadgetmind wrote: »

I'm not sure what a Red Tory is?

Anyone who isn't "a Corbynista" is a Tory. You could have been in the Labour Party for 50 years but if you don't support "The Left" then you are a Tory.

The left of the Labour Party (and all the other Trots,etc ) have always thought like this. Nothing new.

Tooting Popular Front forever.

setmefree2

Mistermeaner wrote: »

lots of hatred.

Class war is where it's at Comrade. This is the politics of hate and envy.

Mistermeaner

anyone see that muppet from 'class war' get destroyed on newsnight last night. She started off being proud of that shameful and idiotic attack on the cereal bar, ended up back tracking a little, talked !!!!!!!! and then climbed up her own a$$hole and disappeared. Beautiful.

michaels

Labour party policy on Trident replacement hasn't yet been agreed but Corbyn rules out pushing the button - so potentially they could spend 100 billion on a white elephant if the party decides it wants to buy it but the head of govt is committed to not using it.

I thought democracy meant the party would decide on policy not the leader dictate it but clearly I have a different understanding.

You really couldn't make it up.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Labour party policy on Trident replacement hasn't yet been agreed but Corbyn rules out pushing the button - so potentially they could spend 100 billion on a white elephant if the party decides it wants to buy it but the head of govt is committed to not using it.

I thought democracy meant the party would decide on policy not the leader dictate it but clearly I have a different understanding.

You really couldn't make it up.

Apart from the tie thing, it's increasingly hard to tell the difference between the old politics and the new politics.

setmefree2

Austerity debate

And another thing: the Office for National Statistics has decided that the economy grew more strongly in the last parliament than it thought.
Now this is very much a mixed blessing for the government.
On the one hand, the argument of the critics of the government - such as the economists Paul Krugman and Simon Wren-Lewis - that George Osborne's austerity choked off economic recovery doesn't look as persuasive as it did.
The ONS today says that the economy grew 1.5% in the general election year of 2010, then 2% after austerity bit in 2011 - revised up by the ONS from 1.6% - and then 1.2% in 2012, when the eurozone's economic crisis imposed maximum pain on us.
The previous picture, of austerity reducing growth from 1.9% in 2010, to 1.6% in 2011, to 0.7% in 2012, has been magicked away by the official statisticians.
And they have also revised up their estimate of growth for 2013 from 1.7% to 2.2%.
Anyway, if these statistics are more reliable than the last lot, a particular school of Keynesian economists may choose to re-examine their contention that only a fool or a liar would say there is a legitimate debate about whether George Osborne's policies were good or bad for the recovery.
And if you think economic performance determines general elections, voters may not have been mad or irrational to vote Tory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34402234