How long before Korbyn is head of the People's Republic of Brittania?

[shaunbhoy]

Corbyn is the risk to the country from using other people's money?

He is like the drunken Uncle that takes the kids out to the shops with their parents' credit cards and spoils them rotten.

And the kids fail to grasp why the parents are none too keen on inviting him around again in a hurry.

[scooterscot]

He is like the drunken Uncle that takes the kids out to the shops with their parents' credit cards and spoils them rotten.

And the kids fail to grasp why the parents are none too keen on inviting him around again in a hurry.

Yes because all the parents of this land don't have any credit card debt.

Keep em coming...

[original PM]

True. But we ruled by raping and murdering indigenous peoples and forcing them, on pain of death, to follow our rules in their own country. As an ex squaddie you probably don't see anything wrong with this. We made our riches by destroying other cultures. Not something we should be looking to move back to you dumb idiot.

Not really we 'civilised' all of the countries in the empire.

But yes there was some barbarism.

But on the flip side let's say you arrive in a country where the ruling elite are treating the non elite like goods and chattels then there probably will be some barbarism in removing that and freeing the masses.

Whilst giving them medicines and technologies in return.

[Whorty]

Not really we 'civilised' all of the countries in the empire.

But yes there was some barbarism.

But on the flip side let's say you arrive in a country where the ruling elite are treating the non elite like goods and chattels then there probably will be some barbarism in removing that and freeing the masses.

Whilst giving them medicines and technologies in return.

What right did we have, or do we have, to force our culture and rules on other countries? We argue about others coming here and not integrating and following our culture, yet when we go to other countries we don't do the same. This is so arrogant.

Much of our empire had nothing to do with 'freeing the masses' - it was about control of trade and forcing those countries to buy our goods even if they didn't want it. India, China, SE Asia, Africa are all prime examples of this. We didn't free the masses in India, or remove the caste system, in fact the Raj were more than happy to work with that system and it's abuses.

Yes, let's bring back the Empire. The world should bow to our greatness

[sasguru]

He is like the drunken Uncle that takes the kids out to the shops with their parents' credit cards and spoils them rotten.

And the kids fail to grasp why the parents are none too keen on inviting him around again in a hurry.

I don't like him but he'll get to power eventually.
Because the Tories are going to get the blame for the coming Brexit fiasco.

[original PM]

What right did we have, or do we have, to force our culture and rules on other countries? We argue about others coming here and not integrating and following our culture, yet when we go to other countries we don't do the same. This is so arrogant.

Much of our empire had nothing to do with 'freeing the masses' - it was about control of trade and forcing those countries to buy our goods even if they didn't want it. India, China, SE Asia, Africa are all prime examples of this. We didn't free the masses in India, or remove the caste system, in fact the Raj were more than happy to work with that system and it's abuses.

Yes, let's bring back the Empire. The world should bow to our greatness

We did it in a different time with different rules.

Not saying it was right in all cases but many still see it as a benefit.

[AtW]

I don't like him but he'll get to power eventually.
Because the Tories are going to get the blame for the coming Brexit fiasco.

They are to blame!!!

[BlasterBates]

It's almost "poetic", Britain will end up after Brexit almost exactly where it was just before it joined, ridden with division, moribund industries, almost bankrupt and run by a "traditional" Labour government.

dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

[shaunbhoy]

I don't like him but he'll get to power eventually.
Because the Tories are going to get the blame for the coming Brexit fiasco.

Well if he does then Brexit will be the least of our worries.

[OwlHoot]

The UK is borrowing 'other people's money' daily at the minute just to keep the wheels turning.

The Tories tripled the debt and yet Corbyn is the risk to the country from using other people's money?

So you're complaining about Tory extravagance when we all know Labour would be ten times worse?

At least the Tories pay lip service to austerity, despite its unpopularity, and make sustained efforts to rein in spending (which are gradually succeeding).

Labour would completely open the floodgates, if they kept to their manifesto, and borrowing and spending would rocket until the money ran out completely.

Are you really so utterly pig-tulip thick and deluded you can't see that? (That's a rhetorical question by the way, because I think I already know the answer.)