I think it’s the way in which thousands suddenly flocked into the labour party, whereas Miliband didn’t inspire such a thing.
The big thing the left, or Corbyn’s section of it, misses is any major media backing. Nothing like the Murdoch behemoth. The nearest they have is the Guardian and that’s more centre right/corporate.
Well, there’s always the Morning Star.
Bwahahahaha!
Ar last a mensch in British politics.
How few I would agree with him on anything, Corbyn is real; and he’s not a neoliberal social democrat slucking on to the demented policy of austerity for all.
The SNP are toast, and Cameron and his sad little crew will be condemned to the dustbin of history as much as those wretched little tory-lites slighted from Corbyn’s putative cabinet, running into the darkness.
Wasn’t it Pompey who, almost imprudently in the circumstances, — and definitely in bad taste, not something untypical for him ---- told Sulla that men worship the rising in preference to the setting sun ? Blairism is dead.
Are you for real? The situation is as such that people will start to mourn the demise of Blarism by Corbyns appointments of radical left-wingers.
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[/QUOTE]Forty seconds into that video and I still see nothing about “enhancing the political debate” or “playing the ball not the man” new politics from the left. Yet as soon as someone takes a verbal potshot at Corbyn it’s all so unfair.
Some will, of course, just as some would mourn if Labour had held the Blairist course.
Hey, maybe he can be elected and enact the kinds of policies that made Venezuela so successful under Chavez. Because nationalizing industry works so well.
No question about it, this Corbyn guy is a freakin’ radical. Here’s some of the crazy shit he says:
And:
What a hippie flower-child.
Yes, because the two countries’ situations are directly comparable.
Renationalising the railways is insanely easy - just let the franchise contracts expire. There are even mechanisms already in place for government operation, which were necessary in the event of contractual default.
The utilities are another matter entirely, although ironically some of the privatised British utility companies are now owned by other countries’ governments (i.e. EDF). Because privatising industry works so well.
Because traditional right-wing, capitalist-friendly juntas provide a better governance…
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.
So, when is the next election, and what will this sea-change mean for Labour’s prospects?
I think a drooling chimpanzee could have provided better governance.
Yeah? Where has it done better?
Of course nationalizing is easy. Efficiently running them is another matter entirely. But hey, maybe this new little Mussolini can make the trains run on time. All he needs is more power, and soon you’ll all be farting through silk.
And anyway, the UK did so well the last time it nationalized industry, why not try it again? Because everyone loved the 1970’s in the UK. All those rolling strikes and violence, the insane tax rates, the less than robust economy… What’s not to like?
I guess one good thing about this guys appointment is that the SNP has now to contend with a Labour party with a virtually parallel platform to their own, which could mean theoretically that Labour could win back some seats in Scotland, it would explain as to why Nicola Sturgeon made a proposal for a 2nd referendum in her 2016 manifesto, I also like how Corbyn has stated he and his deputy will spend one day a month in Scotland to show support as well.
I agree with the debacle that was the 70’s however, even some Conservatives want for example the railways re nationalised, which were not privatised until the 90’s.
Are they planning on holding a referendum every year then?
Thats my take on it too. We either have badly run private utilities, or badly run public utilities. Except in one of those scenarios its going to cost the taxpayer a barrel load of extra money for re-nationalisation.
I personally think Sturgeon doesn’t want to do it, but is being arm twisted by Alex Salmond into pushing for one.
Like Quebec, they’re going keep on holding referendums until they get the right result, and then stop.
The Tories see Jeremy Corbyn as the gift that keeps on giving. There’s so much in his past utterances to highlight that they don’t even have to search very hard. The fact that he doesn’t appear to command the support of much of the Parliamentary party (like Ian Duncan Smith leading the Tories) means that he’s likely to be even more vulnerable.