I rather like the policy on private schools. Perhaps if our political elite had to put their own sprogs through the state system, they might actually value it.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Yep, I like them getting rid of OFSTED too.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

But,....but....their MP's are representatives, not delegates so they should not be influenced at all by the membership but do the very best they can for all their constituency members, whether they voted for them or not.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

The whole argument is just pure disingenerous nonsense.

If MPs were pure representatives and not delegates then you wouldn't have a whipping office. Yet all parties operate one.

Far nearer to reality is that they are both.

My take is that with referendum results is that MPs should be operating as delegates for that specific result. So if your constituency voted remain instead of leave and vice versea then on specific votes on that question you should be representing that vote.

I'm being politically naive of course but that's my take anyway.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Dianne abbot has made me laugh this weekend.
She started of with a statement about the Tories insulting people's intelligence!
Then had to agree to a labour policy of closing private schools down whilst her own child goes to a private school.
You couldn't make it up !

When Corbyn was elected, the Mail ran a piece imagining what would happen if he became PM. As you can imagine it wasn't that sympathetic, ending with an economic crash which lead to food shortages, medicine shortages, riots and an increasingly paranoid government fleeing the country.

Now, we have a government whose own documentation predicts that their policies will do exactly that. I think it really raises a lie we've all bought in recent times, which is that only Socialism leads to social turmoil and inflation. In fact, unregulated capitalism can do so far more severely.

That's the choice we have now. Allow neoliberalism to go on unchecked, or attempt some form of redistribution of the obscene levels of wealth coming in to this country. I have always had reservations as to whether it could be done given how entrenched the elite are in this country. But Now, given the f*cling mess of the past few years, I actually think there's a sliver of a chance.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4