I seem to recall it was cheaper to buy and import coal from Australia than we could get it out the ground for. Gas, water, leccy and public transport should be public owned (IMHO). Other industries should be free enterprise. We don't want to get sucked into all that coal/steel/Leyland nonsense again with out of control union demands. Remember the toilet paper strike? Red Robbo? Even his union were glad to see the back of him when he was sacked.
I do like the idea of the taxpayer of a foreign country subsiding exports for the rest of us, that sounds like a great idea. If Corbyn sorts that out with the Northampton shoe industry and the Salvile Row house's he gets my vote.
I don't think the Northampton shoe industry needs any subsidies? Hopefully not!
All quiet on the Corbyn front today, not much sartorial action going down.
...and the making of a hypocrite.
That too.
I see they're back tracking over treating meat eaters like smokers now.
The cracks are beginning to show and looks like this sucker's going down very soon. Leaving the Tories in the field of one: no strong opposition, just a collection of odd, screw balls and barm-pots doing what they do best - joining protest marches and singing The Internationale in pubs while supping on their Perrier water.
No worker brigades for Tooting it seems!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIqzYkW9ZQ
Interesting that McCarthy understands "markets". Just a shame she can't apply her milk market conclusion to the issue of unskilled migrant labour. Are these people real?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/food/11887317/Treat-meat-eaters-like-smokers-warns-Jeremy-Corbyns-new-vegan-farming-minister-Kerry-McCarthy.html
They were seen entering Peckham community center at 4. I think they're discussing the current crisis in the UK socialist revolution since Shell got a 65% share of world trading in the Soya bean market today following Ms. Mac's statement. Main Guest speaker is Derek Hatton who has taken out time for the cause from his hectic schedule of selling time share apartments next to a golf club in Cyprus. (or whatever big bucks deal he's doing at the mo) I can't make it myself as I'm due to throw bricks at the local Starbucks in an hour. But I'd like to convey my best wishes to comrade Hatton and warmly welcome him back to the party.
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Now your getting the idea Woof.
Populist voting is never any good. Corbyn was a protest vote, like a freak bye election. The problem now is the party is stuck with him.
I don't remember anyone kicking up a fuss when Labour dropped cause 4 in the 90s. I do remember moaning about it in the pub and on one giving a shit. Also, I believe the left of the party had opposed EU membership before and after the UK joined. Thinking being that the UK would have to give up to much policy making for its own people. How true that has turned out to be. Now no one says any thing. The party has always struggled with direction since post war. Its flirting with CND being a prime example. It doesn't seem to be able to get a middle ground between the center right and the far left.
The blue print for modern working class life was drawn up a long time before Mrs. T. The Selsdon pact was the start of it. In truth Blair and Brown were happy to continue on that route, they just couldn't manage the purse strings. Same as the banks, same as most people with a credit card. Corbyn is "in" because he has the smallest expenses in da house and gets the tube to work and back. He is a populist reaction against modern day life. He is not the answer. He's a hypocite and should be shown as such.
Here I agree with much of what he says, however, he doesn't mention the fact that thousands of Iranians fled when the Shar was over thrown. Neither does he question any of the abuses that are carried out daily in Iran. Only yesterday in Oslo there was a rally about the hangings that are taking place there. Voting Labour has always been about compromise between what I'd like and what I can get. This bloke is a complete cock. There is no way I'll vote for him.
If you don't wanna watch it all at least forward to the last two minutes, comrades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zerSQ2W9o
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/07/irans-staggering-execution-spree/
Just a few numbers.
Number of people eligible to vote in 2015 election: 29.7m approx.
Number of people who voted Labour at 2015 election: 9,347,304
Size of Labour Party leader electorate: 554,272
Number of people who actually voted: 422,664 Turnout 76.3%
Number of people who voted for Corbyn: 251,417.
Number of people who joined in the run up to the leadership election: >100,000
All this worry bout poor old Jeremy's boring wardrobe, yet no discussion of the fact the Prime Minster may have attempted to fellate a decapitated pigs head?
As a radical politician there is plenty of material about Jeremy Corbyn to dredge up, much of it as about as relevant as the story about David Cameron putting his cock in a dead pigs mouth.
Cornyn condemned Iran's human rights record on Andrew Marr Show this morning.
The reason the Selsdon Pact came about was because people were looking for an alternative to the status quo at that time. The question 'whats the alternative?' (To the current status quo) has been posed a couple of times on this thread because people have swallowed the consistent message from governments of both colours that the current philosophy of neo liberal economics is the only viable option. The reason for Corbyn's sudden popularity is that he is propounding an alternative, whether there is any substance to it will become apparent over the next few months. One thing is for sure...he has got the establishment worried.