Reply to: Jeremy Corbyn receives Unison's backing for Labour leadership

[DimPrawn]

Bodies unburied for weeks, streets piled high with rubbish.

Sunny Dave returning from the Caribbean with a nice tan.

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FTFY

We'll see the bodies thing again when the peace lovers in the UK do the "lone wolf" thing enmasse. Rubbish piling high when the next ridiculous set of EU recycling laws arrive.

[stek]

Let's hope Corbyn wins, it will mean the largest defeat in history in the next general elections for labour

Yeah like Cameron will get a landslide lol!!

[OwlHoot]

I think it's interesting that we are now seeing how the generations that had to leave Uni with massive debts and practically no hope affording their own home, are starting to influence the political landscape. As usual the winners in any economic system will vote for things to stay as they are, however the number of 'losers' is starting to grow and their political influence will correspondingly increase. There is still a widespread feeling across the country that the fallout from the financial crises has fallen disproportionally on the lower paid and young. Corbyn's candidacy is feeding into that, just as the SNP have done in Scotland. Interesting times ahead that's for sure

Yup, been saying it for years.

edit: Oh, as quoted in the previous post I see

Doesn't that depend on nobody else aging during those four years, how are you going to stop people turning into old timers ????

The newer old timers are that much more disilllusioned about how things are for them, and the memory of the last left wing Labour government in the 70s is fainter or non-existent to an ever larger proportion of voters.

[MicrosoftBob]

WHS

and by the next election four years' worth of "keep things as they are" old timers will have fallen off the end of the conveyor belt, to be replaced at the other end by at least the same number of increasingly disillusioned and irate first time voters.

Doesn't that depend on nobody else aging during those four years, how are you going to stop people turning into old timers ????

[Eirikur]

We tories are very happy labour is unable to elect a capable leader for many years now first Brown, then Millipede and now Corbyn (hopefully)

[SandyD]

Bliar is anti Corbyn... and therefore he must be a good man!!

[Eirikur]

Let's hope Corbyn wins, it will mean the largest defeat in history in the next general elections for labour

[SandyD]

If you'd like to vote for Corbyn, do join the labour party, deadlines today at 3 pm

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[bfg]

For our younger readers, maybe a look at what a Socialist Labour run Britain looked like before a certain Margaret Thatcher stepped in might be in order.

London's Science Museum's Making Life Worth Living photo exhibition captures the squalor of Britain's slums | Daily Mail Online

You may have missed reading this bit:
'Many of the scenes that Nick captured are from places that have long since been regenerated, but conditions not a million miles from these exist in our communities even now, with poor housing, sky-high house prices, rogue landlords and a housing safety net that's being cut to shreds leading three million people to turn to Shelter each year.'

[OwlHoot]

.. we are now seeing how the generations that had to leave Uni with massive debts and practically no hope affording their own home, are starting to influence the political landscape. ...

WHS

and by the next election four years' worth of "keep things as they are" old timers will have fallen off the end of the conveyor belt, to be replaced at the other end by at least the same number of increasingly disillusioned and irate first time voters.

[PurpleGorilla]

Jeremy Corbyn receives Unison's backing for Labour leadership

Money makes money. :

Best of luck when the crash comes...

[DimPrawn]

Key: Boomers are shaded red & yellow

Money makes money.

[MicrosoftBob]

Wot, no 79" curved OLED TV?

79" INKSPE!

[AtW]

Teachers house today

Wot, no 79" curved OLED TV?

[PurpleGorilla]

When you consider that in some parts of East and South London property has gone up by over 400% over the last 20 years, it's no surprise that not only teachers, but most public sector workers can barely afford anything worthwhile these days.

Key: Boomers are shaded red & yellow