Corbynomics: A Dystopia

CLAPTON

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Has Corbyn got a missus? I know he ditched one because she wouldn't cook gruel or something but has he got a new one.

Reason I ask is big daves is pretty foxy and isn't there some correlation between hot wife and votes?

he's on to number three now (not counting Diane as they weren't married)

Fella

ruggedtoast wrote: »

What is essentially happening at the moment is that Corbyn is meeting treachery and snakiness from within his own party.

Of course. Corbyn consistently refused to support his party leadership throughout his career. Why on earth would he (or you) expect the Labour Party to support him now?

N1AK

Mistermeaner wrote: »

However the feedback he's getting is clearly representative of the results of the recent election in that what people want is the policies the tories stood for - after all thats why they won.

The percentage of the electorate that voted for the current government was around 25% and it is nonsensical to believe this means the electorate wanted exactly what the government offered. Around 34% of the electorate didn't vote, so you could make a stronger case for the result meaning the population didn't want any government!

Mistermeaner

or they were happy to let others decide on their behalf. We get the government we deserve

antrobus

N1AK wrote: »

The percentage of the electorate that voted for the current government was around 25% and it is nonsensical to believe this means the electorate wanted exactly what the government offered. Around 34% of the electorate didn't vote, so you could make a stronger case for the result meaning the population didn't want any government!

But that would be a considerable improvement on, say 2005, when 38.6% of the electorate didn't vote, and the resulting government had a majority of over 60 despite only receiving the support of a mere 21.6% of the electorate.

antrobus

Fella wrote: »

Of course. Corbyn consistently refused to support his party leadership throughout his career. Why on earth would he (or you) expect the Labour Party to support him now?

Take the example of Trident. The recent Labour Party conference overwhelmingly rejected the idea of even debating the issue. Thus, as the Grauniad points out "Labour is still officially committed to renewing the deterrent".

Thus any Labour Party MP who voted for the renewal of |Trident would simply be acting in accordance with Party policy. The "treachery and snakiness" would lie with those MPs who took the opposite line.:)

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/27/corbyn-trident-vote-rejected-labour-party-conference

Fella

N1AK wrote: »

The percentage of the electorate that voted for the current government was around 25%

That figure is never that high. Labour only got 22% when they won in 2005.

gadgetmind

I can't believe you guys are trying to argue against left wing diatribe with facts and figures; you know that never works!

Generali

gadgetmind wrote: »

I can't believe you guys are trying to argue against left wing diatribe with facts and figures; you know that never works!

But it's a new, gentler kind of spitting at people.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

N1AK wrote: »

None of the other candidates struck me as having much chance of being PM either.

If anything Corbyn is exactly what Labour needed; If he loses that's the end of the belief a lot of Labour supporters have that they haven't been left enough in the past. If one of the other candidates had won then they'd be leading a disunited party with a large wing who would continue to believe that a more lefty candidate would do better.

What defeatest !!!!!!!!. It's great that you and ruggedtoast are obviously rich enough to have the luxury to wait another 10 years for even the possibility of a Labour government. Think of the damage that the Tories can do in that time; taking tax credits away from the poor and Chinese companies running nuclear power stations is just the thin edge of the wedge.

You and ruggedtoast, you're worse than Tories.