Anti-austerity, renationalisation of the railways, investment in new affordable housing and public infrastructure projects, introduce a living wage... Nothing there for a floating voter?
You can get 8/1 for Corbyn to be the next Prime Minister. You want to be lumping on if you think there are a lot of people as enlightened as you.
Bloody hell a Labour leader supporting working people and actually putting forward Labour principles instead of being a pink Tory. What a terrible thing.
Well Said NYR. Not in the nation's best interests to have weak opposition but sadly Labour and the Lib Dems are just that.
I'm not saying he will win at all. I'm saying Labour are far less likely to win if people who purport to support Labour, and members of his own party, don't accept that he has a mandate and continue to undermine him. IMHO, if they stop sniping and help to get the message out about what he actually believes in and not what the Murdoch media tell people he believes in, then they have a better chance of winning than under the Tory-lite message that lost the last two elections.
You think democracy is the only thing that works then, same thinking as those missionaries going to Africa in the nineteenth century to preach their only true religion? Here the politics actually work a treat for most, the leader gives houses to the locals every year, gives them interest free loans, dishes out more foreign aid per capita than any other country, much coming out of his own pocket, everyone has medical aid, the country has less violent crime than most, poverty is almost non existent for the locals, standard of living is good, infrastructure world class, so who wouldn't be happy with the situation? No Arab Spring here mate. You can argue that with unlimited resources this can be done most anywhere, but do you think the locals want the vote when life is so good for them? I think not sir.
Not going to be allowed to though is he ? Just look at how 'commentators' on Twitter etc jump all over anything he says/does and put their own Murdoch/Mail spin on it. Not saying for one minute that Corbyn & I are 100% politically aligned - but ffs we need to grow up and accept there are other views beyond the 10% deviation rom the 'middle' and engage and debate, whether they are left or right- especially over things like Europe, Terrorism, health, transport etc.
He's an idealist I get that but he doesn't come across as somebody who can run his own party let alone the country.
Cameron fcuks pigs heads. Gideon is smacked off his tits most days. Reight party. Cutting everything to ribbons, leaving the north to fend for itself. Aye, let's just accept it and moan when the Labour leader is ridding the party of watered down Tories.
I think that's a stronger argument. But people said the same about Cameron when he become leader of the Conservatives AND there's not much point having someone with good leadership qualities if you think everything they do is fundamentally wrong. Also its an interesting point about leadership. Cameron's offer of free votes on the EU to his cabinet - something he previously stated he would categorically not do - is arguably far more telling than Labour's over-hyped reshuffle which in reality is looking to reflect the growing consensus within the party.
Is he **** !!! Hew is a jumped up pilliock, He caved in because some of his cabinet wanted a free vote on Europe .
Three MP's you'd probably have been hard pushed to recognise visually or by name before today. All three have had their 5 minutes of fame today and will be fish and chip wrapping paper a few days from now.
He is a Jumped up pillock yes but imagine letting Corbyn loose as Prime Minister perish the thought! Cameron caved in no question, but Corbyn is just as bad with his reshuffle because certain folk disagree with him. The Labour party are a dead duck, sitting duck at PMs questions, with Corbyn as leader.
Weak opposition? Is this the same opposition that blocked the tax credits cut and has nearly doubled the party membership in the short time Corbyn has been leader? I really don't get the weak opposition what people get on about the mans doing a fantastic job in my opinion with the right wing media hounding him about anything and everything they can get there scummy claws into. Hes building a party that will work in the way he wants and will work towards his policies but he cant do it overnight. Step back from what the media are printing and look at what he stands for and wants to achieve.
If he wants to lead the country he will have a long wait and as regards the party membership suddenly doubling how many of these are actually Labour supporters?
Is that how politics should work then? You just blindly criticise the other party and do the opposite of them on everything regardless of what you actually think? There's no wonder the house of commons is full of pathetic little babies who behave worse than a class of 5 year olds. For once it would be nice if a member of the 'other' party stood up and said you know what? The other party absolutely right on this and we support their stance 100%. If we get into power we will do exactly the same. And you know what. It never happens. Why doesn't it ever happen? I don't believe for one second that it is because a member of labour never ever agrees with a member of the Tories because that is ********. The reason it never happens is because they aren't actually interested in doing what is right, they are interested in power. they are power hungry little Hitler wannabes who argue and scream and shout solely to try and gain power because they thrive on it