Communist Corbyn

[darmstadt]

The most worrying thing about Corbyn is his car-crash naivety, we live in a globalized economy. The moment he does any of this the global markets will dish-out a monumental punishment beating and none of his dreams will be realised. He'd also need to leave the EU in order to be able to try.

He can thank New Labour for this. National governments are no longer autonomous.

I wonder if the Tories realise that we live in a globalised economy and that is why they want to leave the world's largest trading block? BTW, are you American?

[darmstadt]

The whole point of this thread really was to show how ****ed up the British right wing media is and how gullible, you, the general public are

It has all happened before but the right wing media are just basically tulip scared of Corbyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stonehouse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mawby

BTW, here's good old Boris with an actual Russian spy:



And here he is with 'a person of interest' to the FBI in regards to Russia-Trump:

[Antman]

So what you're saying is <some strawman argument>?

FTFY

[WTFH]

That statement isn't only content free, but evidence free. If that were the objective, they're doing a terrible job.

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-anal...nts/whos-in-he

Or here:

Your link backs up my claim, your graph, which doesn't have any source data behind it, also shows a MASSIVE drop the year the future loving tories tripled the bill for going to university.
Also, if my statement was so wrong and the idea of increasing the uni fees as high as possible was such a great idea, then why does your beloved party who can do no wrong think that their idea of tripling fees hasn't worked and that they should now review it?

[NigelJK]

Lets get one thing straight. Universities are for academic pursuits. If you want a career in academia then it's the place for you (unless you are independently wealthy and do not require any career). If on the other hand you want a career in the real world there are plenty of options.

[d000hg]

Do you really think we can support as PM someone who, two weeks after a terrorist group tried to murder the British government, invited their leaders to a meeting in the House? Or could wander around East Germany with his girlfriend unaccompanied? Or had to think twice about swearing allegiance to the Queen (i.e. the UK) as a Privy Councillor?

The man's a nonentity and a figurehead. Look to his paymasters.

Sure we can on those grounds, they're hardly important compared to the real issues. He's definitely not a figurehead, or we wouldn't have all these attempts to remove him. Milliband could be a nonentity figurehead, the problem with Corbyn is he does actually believe what he says

Inequality? He will do that? By making everybody poor?

It doesn't cost much at all to make the poorest twice as well off since 2x FA is FA

[malvolio]

Sure we can on those grounds, they're hardly important compared to the real issues. He's definitely not a figurehead, or we wouldn't have all these attempts to remove him. Milliband could be a nonentity figurehead, the problem with Corbyn is he does actually believe what he says

Except the people trying to remove home are the rank and file MPs and other Labour members who don't want their party run by Momentum and their union paymasters. OR haven't you been paying attention

And I dispute that the history and opinions of someone who actively supports people that are trying to subvert democracy and holds up the ruin that is Venezuela as a model society to aspire to are "hardly important". He is a fool fighting battles that were over 50 years ago. Which is why the people behind him - who, you notice, have a very low profile despite being in the shadow cabinet - are the real danger.



Corbyn, like Millipede, is the Tories best election asset.

It doesn't cost much at all to make the poorest twice as well off since 2x FA is FA

Except that is bollocks as well. Improve everyone's standard of living by 10% and the number in poverty goes up by a similar amount. There will always be people below the average as well as above it: that's why it's called an average.

[northernladyuk]

This continuing assertion that the Tories are incompetent is beginning to irritate.

Yep. They're completely acing Brexit.

[jamesbrown]

Your link backs up my claim, your graph, which doesn't have any source data behind it, also shows a MASSIVE drop the year the future loving tories tripled the bill for going to university.
Also, if my statement was so wrong and the idea of increasing the uni fees as high as possible was such a great idea, then why does your beloved party who can do no wrong think that their idea of tripling fees hasn't worked and that they should now review it?

Graphs aren't your strength, I see.

Beyond that, the "massive drop" was, in fact, a marginal decline after a marginal rise the prior year, which preempted the announced change. No different to a warned change in tax policy. Some students delayed their gap years.

Truly, an unpredictable event.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-year-students

why does your beloved party who can do no wrong

Graphs, no, strawmen, yes.

The reality is that UK universities are well-funded, based on international comparisons, and that the system is highly progressive, because those students that benefit least, financially, from their choices, end up paying the least.

To answer your question directly about "why": because this government is swinging in the wind of misguided public opinion more than your average government. Ordinarily, comrade Corbyn would be correctly dismissed as a total fruitloop, but the polling suggests otherwise. In that sense, I agree with darmstadt about the "general public". They're idiots. Particularly those that can hear no wrong from the absolute boy.

[malvolio]

Yep. They're completely acing Brexit.

We won't know that for another year at least. Come to that the cracks are showing very clearly on the other side of the channel, where the various governments and the EU's civil servants appear to be heading in different directions from each other. So yours is an inaccurate and pointless contribution.