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I have learned so much from this thread. One thing I haven't learned yet is the state of the balance sheet: How many voters have switched into labour (from anywhere including 'don't or won't vote')? versus how many labour voters have swittched elsewhere? And how much of the switching is...

I'm nominally a labour supporter but I have never understood the justification of 'progressive' taxation, regardless of where the top rate kicks in or its % value. Before I explain, I would separate, completely, tax from benefits. Consider, ten percent of a hundred quid is a tenner; ten percent...

Good point. I think he has 3 choices 1. Take note of the fact he has not previously had any committee experience let alone as chair, and accept that the party can never be the embodyment of one person's view, and make some compromises 2. Refuse to compromise and attempt to force through his...

As another tired old cynic, I woke up this morning with a mix of excitement and aprehension. I also resigned from the party some time ago (over Blair's mad plan to give state funding to any religious school; my objection was that making more schools 'religious' under state sanction would foster...

I'm one of those who has said that a Corbyn labour party will never win a general election (and I would prefer a labour government). I listened to Jezza's acceptance speach this morning. The first thing I notoced (never having heard him speak previously, apart from when the Irish R5 bloke mugged...

I vave been commuting on the same line for 25 years. Privatisation looked like a good thing because the slam door trains were replaced. But these had all been bought before privatisation and were held back for 'ta da!' purposes. The first of the new trains were cheapos and the electric doors...

I may be wrong (occasionally :lolol:) but never disingenuous. I seem to recall that AJP Taylor made the same point, But I could be wrong.

Are you being facetious? German elected Hitler entirely because PR allowed the party to slowly increase seats and obtain credibility that FPTP would have precluded (as has not happened to UKIP here, and in the 70s theNational Front before them - lots of votes but no Westminster presence, and no...

Staggering incompetance on an interstellar scale. The first rule of democracy is you cannot change the rules half way through an election. The second is you should not nominate a candidate you would never vote for. The third is that if you are a member society, you should not let anyone join the...

I did think about it.....but I don't know if it is the case. It is a drama and circus, though....

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...

You are correctly explaining why Corbyn is a c unt. I agree with you (and I'm apparently a lefty). Fortunately he won't become labour leader, as today's polls say he is not labour member's top tit in the election. I have been smacking people at work today abou this, the young ignorati who think...

I'm not sure I agree with your reasoning. You equate the rise of Corbyn with the rise of UKIP (in terms of the wind of change, not the politics, of course). Yes, I agree. A labour party with Corbyn at the helm will do as well in the next general election as UKIP did in the last . . . . possibly...

Great left winger, sure. BUT like I said earlier, you have to appeal to the electorate to become PM, and that requires other skills. Foot didn't have them, and neither does Corbyn. I hope you don't think that Foot failed to become PM for reasons other than his lack of appeal to the electrorate...

Of course I believe in democracy. I don't believe in 'no compromise with the electorate'. That was the Foot labour way. That is the Corbyn way. He makes no effeort to reach out to the wider constituency and is stuck in a narrow leftist ghetto. I just hope that the internal democracy of labour...

There are numerous separate issues touched on here (fancy that on NSC, eh?). Let's have a bash putting it all together, with some personal sauce.... We have political parties, so if you think you have leadership qualities, you need to be in one. Preferable one of the two that can win. So you...