There is no trickle down that is just a myth. There is a hollowing out of the economy with more going to the super rich and disappearance of many of the half-decent jobs via off shoring.
My generation takes some of the blame. All those who came up and demanded early retirement. I spoke to one chap who retired at 47 with a pay off and survived on that and share options till the pension kicked in at 50. Now prospects are not so rosy for the remaining generations because someone in Noida or Chennai or Pune has a job a Brit would have done. Mea Culpa.
Wealthy types look after their own, so Tim Dim-but-Nice may not suffer but someone bright with no network ends up taking whatever they can get.
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Furthermore "Offshoring" is not so easy on the continent. The French are not big offshorers. And they had to invent "near shoring" to take the curse off it.
European Works Councils are quite an eye opener.
Jeremy Corbyn is not Dave Spart either - despite what you read in the press.
Some of his fans may be Spartist - but he is better than that.
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^Correct, you can't unscramble the egg, Corbyn is a comrade who will be shown to be a modern day parable of the emperor's new clothes fairytale. Let Labour have him as leader, they deserve him and they can reflect at great length on how if only they offered a viable socialist manifesto and vision they would gain power.
A politician who praises Chavez's Venezuela as a socialist utopia and has strong links to a holocaust denier is unfit to lead. The last real Left wing leader of the Labour party, Michael Foot was an intellectual heavy weight who makes Corbyn look like the light weight he is.
Corbyn is the Left's failure, this is the best they can come up with? Corbyn will be their epitaph.
A couple of years old...but no suprises here
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-stephen-hammond-wined-dined-2218142
It all fucking stinks..we know it does...they know it does...but its just we never had someone in mainstream politics to but a face to a movement which may begin to bring about democratic change..more than likely poor Mr Corbyn will suffer some terrible fate...those that try to bring about fairness in society normally do.
^ Another thing that Corbyn has pledged not to do is be rude about his opponents and rubbish their opinions. Of course when you're faced with simple undeniable truths there's little else you can do but try to redicule your opponents and rubbish their opinions, so Murdoch's empire has gone to town on Jezza. He is the only Labour leadership contender whose ideas represent a threat to the established order and it might just catch on, especially with younger voters.
What's the answer get the IMF in and spoon over hit lashings of public debt? Ala Argentina?
The conservatives arent holding centre though...many working and middle class will move left if they feel they have a better deal...you can approach it with as much dumbed down humour as you like, but he only need strike a chord and the cons will be shitting themselves
That is what they want you to believe.
Ask yourself this question: why is a 66 year old back bencher, who has never held any position of real authority, or responsibility in government or within the opposition, other than being a back-seat member of myriad of right-on Guardinasta approved groups and societies, suddenly the man of the hour and the embodiment of all the desires and hope of the Left? He's a well chosen patsy and the Left have fallen for it, hook line and sinker!
The middle class will not vote for him in a million years and as Labour found out during the last election, the immigrants who are making it, won't vote for him either.
He is an humunculus sent to destroy Labour and he's just the man to do it, along with Unite and all the other useful fools on the Left.
Anyway i feel like ive repeated the same point for about the last two pages...I believe in correction of imbalance so even if i didnt support Corbyn and my interests lied elsewhere I'd still be mindful of the amount of people a movement like his could drum up.