Corbyn’s Power To Unify
THE historic decision taken yesterday by the Fire Brigades Union to reaffiliate to Labour shows the real story of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Well done to the Morning Star there.
Corbyn has been a civilising influence in Parliament, gifting us with the novel spectacle of serious debate at Prime Minister’s questions.
Yes, well done.
Well given that the Labour Party is historically the *party of labour* [clue is in the name] and that Corbyn has been asking questions that matter to voters by crowdsourcing questions at PMQs, I’d say the Star are right on both points here.
[Awaits roasting from resident right wing loons 🙂 ]
Where does he crowd source his questions from, KJ?
Pathetic second comment, belongs in a primary school play yard. As mature as “no returns to the end of the world.”
Given the scum he surrounds himself with and the fact he never met a socialist tyrant he didn’t like, Corbyn is indeed a rising star of true socialism. The greatest evil to exist in the modern world.
Don’t worry yourself about the wrath of “right wing loons” KJ–worry about what will happen to you and those you might care for ( should there be any such ) if Corby and his gang of cunts ever get power over them.
I love Corbyn. The leadership contest was entertaining but the 8 or so weeks since then have been fucking thrilling: utter lunacy every time he opens his mouth.
Manhole covers (!), red books, Diane Abbot, radical posturing that had the twitterati ejaculating so hard that the world slowed it’s spin, nationalisation, illiterate economic theory, the IRA: it’s just so gloriously unhinged I never want it to end.
Aside from the way that the online left are being vigorously reminded how far off national opinion the are with each successive poll, my favourite bit is discovering how astute the public actually is.
11 points adrift in the polls, lower personal ratings than Milliband, a predicted swing to UKIP in Oldham- this is real worst case scenario stuff.
I just pray he holds on forever.
John Square – radical posturing that had the twitterati ejaculating so hard that the world slowed it’s spin
That was ruddy brilliant.
“a predicted swing to UKIP in Oldham”
I’m not a huge fan of UKIP, but I would be delighted if they won Oldham, despite 25%+ of the electorate being ethnics. The best thing that could happen in UK politics over the next 10 years would be UKIP replacing Labour.
If we’re pointing out clues in party names, does that mean KJ will accept that the Nazis were socialists?
After all, they were the National Socialist German Workers Party.
The “Morning Star” doesn’t say whether the FBU balloted its members over the reaffiliation… If it didn’t then I’d venture to suggest that all the move shows is that the leadership is as out-of-touch with reality as the rest of the extreme left.
“Corbyn has been asking questions that matter to voters by crowdsourcing questions at PMQs”
Now you could have a point there. If JCs strategy at PMQs was allied to a Chancellor who didn’t quote Chairman Mao and lick the boots of terrorists, a foreign policy that didn’t jump at every chance to agree with the UKs enemies and endanger the security of the UK and its people, and an ability to manage his PR such that every week wasn’t a clusterfuck of epic proportions, then his PMQs performances would indeed be something to look at positively.
As it is the ship is dead in the water and listing heavily to port, the boilers are about to blow, the crew are manning the lifeboats and abandoning ship, and you’re declaring that the ships bell has never been shinier.
But keep going if it makes you happier.
I don’t know enough about British politics to have anything to serious to add. Those who still watch South Park understand Jimmy will call this article an ad.
So a union has renewed its connection with the Labour Party- and this is news?
I presume that since the Prime minister has remained unchanged, any alleged improvement to prime ministers question time reflects poorly on Harman and Milliband.
Theophrastus: The best thing that could happen in UK politics over the next 10 years would be UKIP replacing Labour.
I’m afraid that David Cameron’s Conservatives have already taken that slot.
Steve: you’ve got a worthy competitor there in the pithy comments stakes.
UK politics hasn’t been this entertaining since, oh, probably for ever. It is rather a pity that it’s Schadenfreude at the total implosion of what was once a serious party, but that always had a certain instability which has now deranged it.
A bit like spontaneous nuclear fission really.
Disappointed with the standard of riposte thus far, though the idea of Ukrap replacing labour did make me chortle. Everyone knows they’re a one man band and even old Nige’s cymbals are starting to show signs of rust now.
KJ: As compared to your Stalin -sucking buddy and his friends?
Only the “My Dad voted Labour” morons keep your gang alive. That and a direct sanctimony-smeared connection to the dark side of human nature.
“though the idea of Ukrap replacing labour did make me chortle.”
Chortle away then.
But if I was you, having just seen how a hollowed out political heartland can evaporate inside just a few years up in Scotland, I’d be shit scared of the same happening to Labour in the North of England.
What you social justice types need to remember is that Old Labour is economically socialist (hence why the workers voted for the Labour Party in the first place) but socially very conservative (no gays or immigrants please, and women know your place). So Labour having moved over the last 30 years to a very socially liberal stance (which plays well in Islington, on the BBC and in the Guardian), and a less socialist economic stance leaves it very exposed up North.
All it takes is an alternative that is both economically leftist and socially conservative to show up, and Labour are in trouble. UKIP is already beginning to make the transition from a low tax libertarian freedom sort of party to a socially conservative authoritarian nationalist party. If it gets the blend right Labour are toast. They’ll be left with the RoPers and the unwashed SJW types. Everyone else will have left the building.
I think you could call it Jeremy Corbyn’s 20% strategy.
A few years ago I was working on a project in one of India’s dry states. Being forewarned we’d all taken a bottle of spirits or 2 with us. Working in the hotel room one evening an Aussie on the team who had brought Gin with him has a rather bizarre conversation with room service:
Aussie: “I’d like a bottle of tonic water, please.”
Room service: “Sorry, sir, this is a dry state.”
A: “Yes, I know, I’m just after a bottle of tonic water.”
Rs: “Sorry sir, this is a dry state.”
A: “Yes, I know….”
This went on for a few more rounds with the Aussie getting ever more exasperated. In the end he had to resort to gin and water. He said it wasn’t very nice.
No tonic? Put the gin in the fridge, and drink it neat.
Ooops, wrong post.
The Meissen Bison – “I’m afraid that David Cameron’s Conservatives have already taken that slot.”
No they haven’t. They talk like UKIP every now and then but they don’t mean it. Look at the powers Cameron wants back from Europe. Nothing of any importance. Does he ask for an exemption from the CFP for instance? Does he f&&k.
Cameron wants the Lib-Dem slot. Except half the Lib-Dems are more fiscally conservative than he is.
Ukrap got 4 million votes at the last GE yet won only one seat [And that was only because a tory crossed over]. Since then, they’ve suffered serious financial woes and once Britain says an overwhelmingly yes to staying in the EU, that’ll be the final nail in the coffin and not before time.
KJ – “Ukrap got 4 million votes at the last GE yet won only one seat [And that was only because a tory crossed over]. Since then, they’ve suffered serious financial woes and once Britain says an overwhelmingly yes to staying in the EU, that’ll be the final nail in the coffin and not before time.”
Getting more votes than the Greens, the Scottish Nats and Plaid Cymru combined is something to be ashamed of?
The Labour Party is only afloat because they plundered the Co-op. How is that working out?
We shall see how the voting goes. I am willing to bet either way it is not overwhelming.
@SMFS
“Getting more votes than the Greens, the Scottish Nats and Plaid Cymru combined is something to be ashamed of?”
Not at all, just highlighting how our voting system does not work in favour of any party other than the big two by design.
As for the referendum, I’d wager the vote will be at least 60-40 to stay in (FWIW, I’ll be voting to leave for sure)
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Lib Yank: South Park season 19 is the best one yet in my opinion.
‘Corbyn has been asking questions that matter to voters by crowdsourcing questions at PMQs’.
And as a former Labour voter, I was really impressed that Steptoe’s main priority at the last session was to ask a question about fucking solar panels.
That seemed to me to be really in tune with the concerns of folk today.
Manhole covers (!), red books, Diane Abbot, radical posturing that had the twitterati ejaculating so hard that the world slowed it’s spin, nationalisation, illiterate economic theory, the IRA: it’s just so gloriously unhinged I never want it to end.
Well yes, though i find his passion for manhole covers rather endearing and for Diane Abbot max respect. Also think he’s right that we should stay our of Syria.
So, will the English working class finally abandon the labour party, we can only hope.