is everybody who's visited the British Museum Reading Room a closet Marxist really?
Bet you didn't go to the reading roomI was there last week so you never know! First time I'd been, really good museum (to go off topic a bit!).
It seems to be the rather simplistic way we play politics - split into 'left' and well... 'others' and then decide anyone with a left leaning outlook is a murderous communist!
(We won't even get into the debate as to how Stalin took a movement and corrupted it, as that would be rather boring really)
Just in case Grendel's lurking too, I'll slip in my condemnation of Stalin and his murderous, genocidal ways too. Bit unfortunate we had to have the lefty murderous genocidal madman on our side in WW2 to fight the righty murderous genocidal madmen really!
Centrist yes, Blair-like fucking NO!What I want is a centrist Blair-like figure leading the party!
Strange how under Lenin murder, torture, rape and pillage is justifiable.
Notice anything odd...
Yes it is from May 2015.
It's a well attended event?Notice anything odd...
It's a well attended event?
Is it In a Mosque?
Just guessing.
Anything else?
Oh dear..
Notice anything odd...
I think it might be the seating arrangements?
why is this on Corbyn thread?
Anyone watch House of Saud: Family t war the other night?
Presented plenty of evidence to prove the point me and others have been making on here for ages, you won't stop militant Islamists until you stop letting the Saudis fund the spread of Wahhabism, but while western leaders keep cosying up to their regime I can't see it happening anytime soon.
David Cameron ordered an inquiry into these links at the behest of the Lib Dems, but it has been repeatedly stalled. No shit as to why.
can't think why
Labour have replaced Ann Black as Head of Disciplinary Matters with Momentum Director Christine Shawcroft. On the very same day, it seems that Jared O'Mara has recovered from his long illness and is now fit to face his disciplinary investigation. I wonder if Keith Vaz has also recently recovered and will be returning to work soon?
they missed a trick to try and unite the warring factions within the party here and I think there is also an element of trying to get revenge for the 'left wing purge' of a few years back.
They should be focusing on their main purpose which is holding the tories to account for their inept running of the country instead of getting involved in all this infighting.
I have defended Corbyn a lot because some of the accusations thrown at him have been absurd and in some cases just plain bullshit but he is the party leader, this is 100% on him - he needs to sort it quickly.
Because with an incompetent government and toothless opposition you never know who might come along to fill the vacuum.
Well, as you know, I think that 'you never know what might come along' is already here. Just before I left this discussion last time, someone stated that I was 'hysterical about Corbyn'. I'll dispute the word hysterical, because I don't do panic and screaming, but he's right that I am very deeply concerned about where this is going.
LOL, there is a purge underway,. "night of the long knives" will follow soon.they missed a trick to try and unite the warring factions within the party here and I think there is also an element of trying to get revenge for the 'left wing purge' of a few years back.
They should be focusing on their main purpose which is holding the tories to account for their inept running of the country instead of getting involved in all this infighting.
I have defended Corbyn a lot because some of the accusations thrown at him have been absurd and in some cases just plain bullshit but he is the party leader, this is 100% on him - he needs to sort it quickly.
Because with an incompetent government and toothless opposition you never know who might come along to fill the vacuum.
LOL, there is a purge underway,. "night of the long knives" will follow soon.
well for me it will be the continued entrenchment of neo liberalism or more worryingly something to the right of that.
I think you may be referring to you worrying about how far to the left Labour goes, but it it does it will be even less electable than it is now.
Corbyn did well at the last election but for me he needed to do two things to continue the momentum, (no pun intended), make his position clear on Europe and hold out an olive branch to the centrists and blairites in the party and he's done neither.
Meanwhile captain May continues to steer the ship onto the rocks.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
I agree about trying to engage the centrists, but they have to be willing to get involved as well - which a lot of them still won't do. Both need to do more to find common ground.
He's not going to unite the party; he's not going to even try. He's going to entrench his position and Lansman et alia are only the start. This is a formula that the extreme left always follow.
I wish he weren't electable but I fear he is. If there were an election today Labour would win a majority, even if 42% of the population voted Conservative (see my other post about boundaries). Whilst there are videos around showing what he and McDonnell really want to do and what they believe, they've now stopped that and are on a full-scale attempt to persuade people that they are moderate Social Democrats. I wrote somewhere else on here something that Northern Wisdom objected to, but it wasn't intended to be inflammatory: he has the young who, generalising, don't have the knowledge or experience to know what they are voting for. He has a huge number of people who will vote Labour irrespective of their policies, many of whom also wouldn't understand the policies. And he has some people who believe in real socialism or think that it cannot be worse than capitalism. It looks like they add up to 42% of the population and I cannot see that changing anytime soon. If the Lords decide to reject the Brexit exit bill in autumn (and let's not forget that it is stuffed full of Liberal and Labour peers) then I've read that a General Election might need to be called.
A few days ago I researched the advisory committee of economists that McDonnell had put together to support his claim that he was fiscally responsible. Although it was filled with left-leaning economists I learned that it was disbanded in 2016 as they all quit. David Blanchflower said: "I advised Corbyn’s economics team to learn fast. They didn’t". Behind the mask, McDonnell hasn't changed one iota from the man that described some socialist activists giving people a 'good kicking' as 'the best of us'.
David Blanchflower puts the boot into Hammond and Brexit as well!
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