Not getting enough attention on the BBS, Matthew? Never mind. You know you're always going to get some here and here it is. Welcome back.

I trust you have come to terms with UKIPs failure now after so much wasted energetic effort on here.

Big chest and massive boobs

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1) That's the nature of politics, it's inherently tribal. If it depresses you why read comments on a political thread?

2) Do you think I just plucked those statements out the air? I read a fair amount about Corbyn and those statements come from somebody who used to work for him, who eventually became a Tory she was so fed up with Corbyn's extreme politics.

Edited by fed up eagle (28 Jul 2015 4.00pm)

I have first hand experience of Corbyn from way back - at the time I was a bit of a leftie, Labour party member, trade unionist and all that jazz and we (BT)went on a national strike - prob about 1991-ish

Anyhoo the POEU got JC and The Beast of Bolsover down to give us a pep talk in London - utter dogmatic. polemic gibberish without any foundation in the real world from start to finish from the pair of them...

Edited by The Sash (28 Jul 2015 4.01pm)

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Does anyone think he will get over 50% of the votes and as a result there won't be any need for the lowest candidate to drop-out and the voters re-distributed etc etc ? And what will be his chances if indeed the latter situation occurs ?

I must say I haven't given this much thought hence interested to know what people think. Perhaps I should join #ToriesForCorbyn !!!!

Edited by Willo (28 Jul 2015 6.48pm)

1) Nationalising the railways? That didn't work - privatization isn't working. We are paying more to subsidize a railway that gives out a dividend to share holders for investing in something that doesn't work. Not really Hayek more of even more welfare for the rich.

2) "He wants to return to the politics of the eighties" - this is just a very tired old cliche

3) "He's another union stooge" - another tired old cliche.

4) "Has utter contempt for the middle class, which makes up a big swave of the population" - this is not based on anything he actually says. He does want to tax the very wealthy in a more equitable way to redistribute wealth. But they will still be well off.

5) "He won't deny that he's a marxist and has the support of extreme left factions, need I say more" -
its not illegal to be a Marxist but I wouldn't say he is a Marxist, for example he doesn't believe in a revolution of the proletariat. Maybe he has some sympathy with the Marxist diagnoses but not the prescription. Marx was brilliant at the diagnosis. But you are just applying "Marxist" and "extreme left factions" in the tired bogeyman cliche way.

The Telegraph article is an embarrassment for anyone who questions what they read or isn't a full on Tory just waiting to grab hold of any bunch of tired old cliches.

Neo-libralism was new and shiny in the 80s but it doesn't work for enough people. It works for a few people amazingly well and they are getting richer and richer and richer, but the wealth is being sucked up and not trickling down. Its time there was a political party to properly challenge it.

Why not look at his policies. If you don't like them argue against them. That's fair enough. But why just regurgitate tired old cliches that solidified in your head as a result of reading a bias newspaper over an over again? Its as if you repeat them without even thinking anymore.

Maybe / maybe not....you are hardly going to see Comrade Jeremey stand in the light.

As far as the rules go, it's a website not a democracy - Hambo 3/6/2014