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Topic History of: Why I far prefer Corbyn to May
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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hedda |
Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are the only ones who have a policy to turn around one of Margaret Thatcher's most destructive policies- the sale of council housing and the ban on councils investing the sale money in more housing.
Social Engineering at it's most destructive and most insane (and she was insane)..as she attempted to mold society into her perceived view of how people should live.
As a result you now have most of inner London turned over to the ghastliest nouveau riche and governments pumping billions of taxpayer's money into private landlord's bank accounts.
And still Tory supporters screech about socialism??  |
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JK2006 |
Not sure about that, Pete - though pretty sure my way will not happen, sadly. I suspect more and more Brexiteers have gone right off it; I think the millions (including me) who refused to vote in the referendum as they thought it was a matter for elected government, not populist sloganeers, would rather like a reversal. Of course some things (like stopping this vile anti-immigration approach) will be hard to tweak so they satisfy the loonies whilst allowing full immigration. We shall see; but we are in a dire position whichever way the hedgehog jumps in the road. |
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pete |
I think you might get a rather different view from Yannis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who tried to negotiate a viable deal for his country but was forced to accept positively Carthaginian terms ... by ruthless EU bullies. I was a remainer, too JK, partly because I believe gigantic global corporations need some form of co-operative trans-national democratic governance to keep them in their proper place. But now that the vote, no matter how dubiously informed, has been cast, I think it may wisest to pull together in making as much of a success of Brexit as it's possible to achieve. Trying to reverse the vote by stealth will almost certainly elicit widespread rage. That reaction may be neither wise nor constructive, but I fear it would be very real and very destructive. |
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JK2006 |
I'm far from convinced that Junker and the EU lot are bullies; being a Remainer I don't think we should have even considered leaving the EU and my hope would be that Corbyn, rapidly, would reverse the stupid referendum result (probably by technically leaving and then joining under a different title like "Associate Member"). |
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pete |
It’s not so much Mr Corbyn himself that puts me off Labour (until Blair, I was a life-long Labour supporter). It’s the middle class social justice warriors, as unhinged as they are infantile, and the grim-faced 1970s Trots of Momentum who elected him that do it for me.
But, while I agree with you that he comes across as a calm and decent man, he shows some worrying naivetes. If Jeremy thinks that all you need to do is be nice and sit down and talk cordially with ruthless EU bullies like Juncker, he’s misguided. If he thinks that the same approach will get him anywhere with the bloodthirsty maniacs of Islamism, he’s deluded – although since his head would shortly be separated from his body with a large knife after sitting down to talk nicely with them, he may never have the chance to appreciate this.
The world has some very nasty people in it and, alas, sitting down and talking nicely will probably get you nowhere, as Neville Chamberlain was to discover with Herr Hitler.
I’m trying not to be cynical about voting; and yet the words of the late Auberon Waugh keep coming back to me:
Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.
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Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law. |
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