Corbynomics: A Dystopia

gadgetmind

And think all of the good a Conservative government can do in that time by dismantling our benefits culture and healing the economy.

Thrugelmir

gadgetmind wrote: »

And think all of the good a Conservative government can do in that time by dismantling our benefits culture and healing the economy.

At least we don't have to worry about the damage a left wing Government would cause.........

Fella

I can think of at least two ways Corbyn could well get in, one of which is in his control.

(The other one is another financial meltdown coming just at the right time for his campaign).

antrobus

For those of you interested in Saint Jeremy and Saint John's attitudes to the IRA, the Telegraph has been digging through the archives and dropped a cluster bomb.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11924431/Revealed-Jeremy-Corbyn-and-John-McDonnells-close-IRA-links.html

They have Corbyn sitting on the editorial board of a periodical that supported the IRA bombing campaign, and McDonnell going on record opposing the Good Friday agreement. Amongst other things.

Generali

antrobus wrote: »

For those of you interested in Saint Jeremy and Saint John's attitudes to the IRA, the Telegraph has been digging through the archives and dropped a cluster bomb.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11924431/Revealed-Jeremy-Corbyn-and-John-McDonnells-close-IRA-links.html

They have Corbyn sitting on the editorial board of a periodical that supported the IRA bombing campaign, and McDonnell going on record opposing the Good Friday agreement. Amongst other things.

They and Ms Abbott really were gimps for the IRA.

Shakethedisease

U-turn ahead. Press are having a field day.

Labour U-turn on fiscal charter to ‘underline our position as an anti-austerity party’

John McDonnell has just made his first U-turn as Shadow Chancellor, announcing that Labour will vote against the fiscal charter on Wednesday – having previously told the Guardian that it would support it. Labour’s support for the charter was previously to show that it wants ‘to balance the books, we do want to live within our means and we will tackle the deficit’, but in a letter today to MPs, McDonnell says:

‘I believe that we need to underline our position as an anti-austerity party by voting against the charter on Wednesday.’

http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/labour-u-turn-on-fiscal-charter-to-underline-our-position-as-an-anti-austerity-party/

Thrugelmir

Shakethedisease wrote: »

U-turn ahead. Press are having a field day.

Party conference was a sham.

Back to policy on the hoof.

Generali

Shakethedisease wrote: »

U-turn ahead. Press are having a field day.

http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/labour-u-turn-on-fiscal-charter-to-underline-our-position-as-an-anti-austerity-party/

This lot are going to get slaughtered at the election. Every QT, every PMQs the Tories are going to have a really simple message: in 2014 you said X, in 2015 you said Y, in 2016 you're saying Z. How can anyone have any clue what they're voting for.

Even if I'm not a Labour supporter myself I can see the appeal, even if I think the voters for it are naive. How can anyone vote for a party that has had 3 policies on many issues in as many months?

I worry where this is taking the UK. Hopefully to a resurgent Lib Dems as I'd hate to see any Government with untrammelled power for a very long time.

mumf

I have always been a labour voter, and a trade unionist too. Having Corbyn as leader, and potentially as PM is political suicide. He is a dinosaur. He will appeal to what my Grandad termed 'the sick, lame and lazy'. That is, those who take, and do not contribute.

Southend1

mumf wrote: »

I have always been a labour voter, and a trade unionist too. Having Corbyn as leader, and potentially as PM is political suicide. He is a dinosaur. He will appeal to what my Grandad termed 'the sick, lame and lazy'. That is, those who take, and do not contribute.

The "sick and lame" didn't ask to be disabled or unwell.

I suspect by the "lazy" you mean the unemployed, the overwhelming majority of whom would love to be able to find decent, secure work.

I'd vote every time for a society that protects and supports the welfare of the disabled, the sick and the unemployed over one that looks after only the more fortunate among us.

You should be ashamed to call yourself a trade unionist, as your views don't reflect the values of the labour movement.