Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Oh please. I honestly thought better of you than the old 'Daily Mail' insult.
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Jeremy Corbyn.
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Oh please. I honestly thought better of you than the old 'Daily Mail' insult.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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Corbyn's a politician first and foremost and any longstanding politician is a Jedi master at not answering questions. If you want to sack interviewers for not getting straight answers out of politicians then you'd have no interviewers left. I and others disagree that he's been clear in his answers and I've given that Duns response as my justification for that view. As I say, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
You can agree to whatever you want, I just put up his interview, I thought its good, listen to it and make up your own mind, not some tweeter opinions who's trying to sell his latest book, he has a chance of winning a political parties leader position, on these arguments, it that put the willies up some people, so be it.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Just watched it. It honestly looks like he can't remember who JahJah is. Either that or he's a far better liar than other politicians. Who knows?
I wasn't being facetious [MENTION=5200]Buzzer[/MENTION], I just hadn't seen the clip.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Eh? I did listen to it. I listened to it and posted my views on here before Duns tweeted.
Perhaps, i shall wait for the hundreds of pages on "7 Point lead for Labour" thread when this chap who can not remember who he's shared a platform with, leads the party.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
Article about the same themes in Radio 4 phone in/Interview today
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-calls-suggestions-of-racism-deeply-offensive
Asked if he had made “misjudgments”, Corbyn said: “You’re putting a lot of words into my mouth about misjudgments. Any form of racism is wrong, the need to talk to people to bring about a peace process is absolutely right.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-calls-suggestions-of-racism-deeply-offensive
Asked if he had made “misjudgments”, Corbyn said: “You’re putting a lot of words into my mouth about misjudgments. Any form of racism is wrong, the need to talk to people to bring about a peace process is absolutely right.”
That's an interesting point. Were Corbyn ever to lead Labour into a General Election (which personally I don't believe he ever will), what percentage share of the vote do you think the party would achieve. I reckon it would be below 20%. Probably about 17 or 18% at best.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Oh i thought this was another player we are going to sign that i have never heard of.....carry on
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Lol i was just about to amend my post to exactly that! beat me!
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The more I read about him ..the more I think he will be elected labour Leader(Those not in power can promise everything to anybody and robbing the rich to give to the poor is another classic leftwing votewinner ) yet it is unthinkable that he or indeed Labour with him in charge could/will ever form Government...Does anyone seriously believe Corbyn could be Prime Minister of this country ?
nicko31
Well-known member
Hopefully Labour boot JC out before the next election or it will be the Tories with a massive majority, as good as a one party state
Really, really unlikely. In 1931, after the the Labour party split into two after a particularly nasty bit of blood-letting, it polled 30% and in 1983, after the SDP split off from the party, after a slightly less bit of blood-letting, it polled just under 28% (its worst ever performance).
My gut feeling is that JC won't be leader by the next election (although he'd have stepped down rather than be kicked out) and that the party will increase its share of the vote - but by enough to win. I'd go for something like 31 to 32%
That could all change, however, if there's another massive split in the party but even if that happened (and I don't think it will), I still reckon they'd get 25%
portslade seagull
Well-known member
Its fantastic news as it more or less rules them out of Government for years as they keep dreaming up weirdo ideas
No. The press will have a massive lot of cuttings about his previous activities. The radio tonight mentioned him sitting next to a vehement anti Israel campaigner at some rally in 2009. Apparently he can't remember meeting the bloke. No, JC will be done up like a kipper by the media.
Most of the younger people rah rahing him right now are the sort who don't vote, because it implies complicity with 'the system' (aka too lazy to vote).
One of my neighbours has a 'support Jeremy' poster in her window. Her partner (a good labour man) shook his head sadly when I mentioned it to him.
I blame the idiot MPs who nominated him 'for the sake of a broad spectrum of candidates'. The only hope labour have if they elect JC is if the tories elect Boris 'hang Nelson Mandela' Johnson. Then Labour will walk the North. And probably London too, now London has seen Boris for what he is (an opportunist - the opposite of JC).
.......blind optimism.
Wish on sunshine!!!
