- Apr 5, 2014
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The problem with capitalism is that a large number of people don't have access to that money in the first place.
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The problem with capitalism is that a large number of people don't have access to that money in the first place.
Such a drama queen, Arundel Seagull.
You'll be storming the walls of your local castle soon, no doubt followed by all your fellow class warriors.
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,587
Yes. For an errant Marxist like me this manifesto smells of THATCHER
Bloke on the wireless this morning said much the same thing.
'In insolation these individual policies are what people really want.
Just maybe not when they're all put together under a socialist banner'.
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
Labour - can't see it happening.
Tories - Cannot stand that it's happening.
It's a tough one.
Tories - Cannot stand that it's happening.
It's a tough one.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
And I wouldn't expect anything less.
Socialist government is riddled with corruption on an unprecedented scale, they run a command economy but fail to diversify and get it spectacularly wrong, replace democracy with a dictatorship and it's the fault of capitalism. Strange how the Brazilian and Mexican economies haven't tanked so spectacularly.
Oh well, I suppose renationalising the trains would mean that Jezza would be guaranteed a seat.
Maybe as 'Chairman Jezza' , he would warrant a whole carriage to himself and his flunkies.
Good old socialism in action!
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,587
I think you are referring to corrupt government rather than socialism itself.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
We appear to be looking at complete opposites in the choices being offered by the 2 main parties. If only there was a 3rd option offering the best bits from each. Now that may well be worth voting for
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Because they're the only issues aren't they
Everyone knows that free parking at hospitals is undeliverable. Parking is either outsourced or tied into PFI, usually on long contracts. In both cases you can't just get out of the contract so they would have to directly pay whoever owns/runs the car park until the contract runs out.
I suspect this will be a common theme throughout jezza's manifesto.
If the Jezza brigade got hold of power and actually attempted to carry out out their 'leaked manifesto' pledges, the country would be crippled by huge taxes, vast borrowings , militant unions and no doubt plagues of locusts, looking for a free meal.
Does anyone really believe that the likes of Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott are capable of running this country?
Ruining it, yes, but not running it.
Marshy
Well-known member
Leaked.... yeah right, no one is falling for that surely
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,220
The bulk of these policies quoted look to me like long term noble aims for the benefit of the many. But that degree of change would need to be incremental and implemented over the course of many parliaments. Bundling them all up into a single manifesto just risks Corbyn being laughed out of town and accused of uncosted flights of fancy. It doesn't help when Diane Abbott has already been publicly humiliated as being no good at sums.
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bWize
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- Nov 6, 2007
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Governments across the globe (all partys) are generally riddled with corruption, to single out socialist governments is a bit unfair?
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
No, I don't think so. The socialist experiment in Venezuela has failed and is directly responsible for the food shortages, the hyperinflation and a rapidly shrinking economy. The oppression is just this particular government trying to cling onto power, it's not the cause of the desperate need for food, it's a symptom of it.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Indeed I'm not sure even he knows what he is offering apart from the reversal of a democratic process, which if he was elected, could result in the reversal of a democratic process to chuck him out again.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Governments across the globe (all partys) are generally riddled with corruption, to single out socialist governments is a bit unfair?
Okay. Let's take the corruption out of the equation with this Venezuelan government. As I posted just now, the food shortages, the hyper inflation and complete mismanagement of their economy would still have occurred.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,220
All the more breathtaking a failure when you consider the vast reserves of oil they're sitting on.