Ideally you should reflect your principles..isnt that the idea of clothing? To be project who you are? Or who you want to be?

Milliband and Spencer Hart deserve each other.

Last edited by Goodyear welt (2015-08-06 12:54:37)

Corbyn would make an excellent PM....

....in Soviet era Russia.

He's no Stalin.

What's interesting is that he's portrayed as a progressive, he's no such thing, he's a conservative and a reactionary one at that. You cannot make the world a better place by going backwards.

More polite commentators would describe him as being on 'the wrong side of history' whereas I consider him a dinosaur.

If elected, he will be a disaster for the Labour party, and that is a tragedy not just for Labour, but for the country as a whole...A healthy democracy needs a strong opposition.

The covert coat issue has nothing to do with the French, rather it is the Arthur Daley association: a likeable rogue.

As for what is going on, the Brits love to denigrate everyone and anyone on the basis of accent, background and dress. As soon as you open your gob, put-on or take-off a tie, someone, somewhere is going to think you are a complete c%&t.

Politicians with a few notable & refreshing exceptions - the ageing Norman Tebbit, Farage of course and that chap in the Lords who dresses like Winston Churchill - all buy into this and dress as bland and as devoid of style as possible. As an example, Tony Blair, there's a lot to be said about him, but his sartorial style is not one of them.

I agree with Yuca's analysis.

Corbyn was a peripheral figure for years and branded as "extreme". However, he has shown that given the opportunity he is capable of putting his points across very well. He does not pause to calculate how the question fits in to official policy or how it may play in the media. He knows the media will not be with him.

None of the main parties work for the benefit of the electorate. They are all in the hands of wealthy lobbies who shape policy and indirectly give their MPs their marching orders.

If I had nothing, or 'poverty of aspirations' to be more accurate, Corbyn would appeal. Some of his policies appeal anyway. The main drawback is that he will take from the squeezed middle to give to the poor rather than go after the very wealthy.

Carlin sums up neo liberal set up in America and it applies in the UK also. Croney capitalism.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

Look at the other candidates. A jumped up SPAD like Liz Kendall? Someone who screwed up at the NHS like Burnham? Mrs. Ed Balls?

No thanks.

A danger of a managerial state is a burgeoning quango culture, but that is no worse than a government in thrall to the worst criminal excesses of The City.

We have no paleoconservative option in the UK. Globalists reign supreme.

Last edited by Kingston1an (2015-08-07 03:56:12)

I dunno, we seem (rather you in the UK seem) to be in reverse from the 70s now. Wasn't it the unions that were greedy back then? Now it's the fat cats and the inhumane faceless EU monster. I understand the unions had to be cut down by Mrs. T. and I can see why the national industries were sold off, clearly that was a bottomless pit. Though now, in hindsight, look at the cost. Now its the other way. And MPs from all parties are in the grabbing line. Quango's...didn't get the seat mate...you can do this for us.

Meanwhile in the unskilled job markets we have imported cheap labour and zero hour contracts? WTF use is that to anyone? 

Corbyn seems to be happy going to work and back on the tube. He's claimed the least in expenses when he's paid a decent wage? He might just be the man for the job.