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So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - firefinga - 28th July 2015
As stated repeatedly, I am not British but tend to follow European politics a bit.
Listened to public radio again yesterday, programme on the scrap for new Labour leadership. So according to the programme, this Jeremy Corbyn guy is the candidate who is most popular with voters in opinion polls, yet the party-"establishment" is bashing him as "un-electable" ?
Admittedly, I haven't heard of his guy before. May some folks post opinions about the matter.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 28th July 2015
Corbyn threatens the status quo - so people are just queueing up to dismiss him as some left-wing nutter
but as Ally Fogg tweeted: "I'm not hard left. I'm an oasis of gentle moderation in a world of right wing extremism."
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 28th July 2015
then there's this:
Jeremy Corbyn is favourite for Labour leadership because party has 'wimped out', says Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nobel-prize-winning-economist-joseph-stiglitz-is-not-surprised-at-success-of-the-corbyn-campaign-10418090.html
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 29th July 2015
https://twitter.com/corbynjokes/status/624242616880771072
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 30th July 2015
just signed up to vote for Corbyn
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - noisemonkey - 31st July 2015
Already signed up to vote for him. It's about time labour sorted itself out and remembered what it's supposed to be doing as an opposition party. Not just agreeing with so much of the shite the tories are trying to push through.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 3rd August 2015
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Muttley - 3rd August 2015
I am yet to analyse Corbyn properly but as ever any mirror is a head-spinning receiver.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 10th August 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/09/jeremy-corbyn-labour-overspending-did-not-cause-financial-crisis
of course
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 11th August 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/11/jeremy-corbyn-close-deficit-poor-labour-economy
quite so
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - firefinga - 12th August 2015
(11th August 2015, 19:59)Statto Wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/11/jeremy-corbyn-close-deficit-poor-labour-economy
quite so
Yep, it's dawning slowly to a lot of people that "austerity"= socialism for the rich
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 12th August 2015
just in case I wssn't convinced to vote for Jeremy Corbyn before...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/12/even-if-hate-me-dont-take-labour-over-cliff-edge-tony-blair
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - firefinga - 13th August 2015
(12th August 2015, 23:42)Statto Wrote: just in case I wssn't convinced to vote for Jeremy Corbyn before...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/12/even-if-hate-me-dont-take-labour-over-cliff-edge-tony-blair
Political satire at its best. you could have posted this reply in the Friday thread just as well
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - firefinga - 13th August 2015
That Tony Blair "warning" had me thinking a bit tho. Why does that guy even care? Is this another case of pretending?
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 14th August 2015
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-new-supporters-labour-is-on-the-verge-of-something-big--what-a-complete-disaster-10454504.html
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 17th August 2015
On the process of political smearing...
https://edinburgheye.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/on-the-process-of-political-smearing/
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 17th August 2015
We don’t need a messiah; all we needed, it turned out, was one very naughty MP.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/16/jeremy-corbyn-corbynomics-cosy-consensus-debt-radical-fear
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Muttley - 17th August 2015
On a less fuzzy note, I read the aav rebuttal of Cooper and straw. It seems a very casual argument in part - that is, quantitative easing is percolated by a refusal to stick to a status quo. Essentially people are getting rosy eyes about the possibility of less welfare cuts and economic expenditure, but to do that Labour needs to liquidate what the pound is worth when they are thinking of pressing more money for both sides to reach a balance judgement.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Muttley - 17th August 2015
Or as Adrian Finch would say: 'full steam ahead!'
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 18th August 2015
George Monbiot...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/18/jeremy-corbyn-rivals-chase-impossible-dream
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - firefinga - 19th August 2015
The most important aspect of the current Corbyn-Hype IMO is the fact that for the first time in decades actually Thatcher-ite dogma's appear to be questioned on a larger scale. This is important beyond the UK, bc Thatcher/Reagan together shaped large chunks of politics all over the Western states that are still in effect. Favoring the financial sector (well, not really "favoring", but shaping the political sphere to serve exactly one purpose - to have the financial sector benefit from it). Call it "austerity", call it "neoliberalism".
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 19th August 2015
(19th August 2015, 08:44)firefinga Wrote: The most important aspect of the current Corbyn-Hype IMO is the fact that for the first time in decades actually Thatcher-ite dogma's appear to be questioned on a larger scale.though not by the other candidates in the leadership contest
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Muttley - 19th August 2015
Yeah wot firefinga said. Although, my main qualm with the electoral resume is what Skittles most recent Corbyn FB link by Monbiot writes about - Tony Blair has created a wall of 50 years old minimum for any likely voting for candidates within the government's sustem. Thats wrong and fiddly, like those antiquated CD racks that don't store digipaks.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Muttley - 19th August 2015
I understand 'relative age = experience', but lots of the experience government candidates get is bums on seats then up ranting and raving circularly at each other, barbarous broadsheet bile, antiquated complaint lobbying...you know, in the end all the stuff you read in books.
RE: So Jeremy Corbyn is the new boogie-man? - Statto - 20th August 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/jeremy-corbyn-coalition-labour
