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Kelvin - he simply asked for evidence before accusation - and that was before we even knew what the poison was
Nevermind Jeremy, did you see his brother Piers on Russia Today talking about climate change and temperature?
Or people who think homeopathy is a good idea?
As a Critical Care nurse I look upon homeopathy with the contempt it deserves.
If an individual has a belief in homeopathy though it doesn't mean that everything they believe in is equally contemptible.
, did you see his brother Piers on Russia Today
Was his mother at Cable Street as well?
But its all corbyns fault – that weird man Corbyn who according to some on here simultaneously is completely incompetent and also a Machiavellian genius who has total control over the party
No, that's not fair. If he actually controlled his party we wouldn't be where we are now.
And your point is?
Just because he believes in homeopathy doesn't mean all his opinions are equally worthless (see my last post).
From the comments you post on political threads it appears you are a Tory, and a pretty inwards looking one at that, but I wouldn't discount your opinions on everything based on your political leanings.
Don't underestimate the power of the sugar pill
“They both come from organic matter”
Oh well that makes homeopathy completely legit then.
That is Trumpian stupidity.
If an individual has a belief in homeopathy though it doesn’t mean that everything they believe in is equally contemptible.
If an individual holds beliefs such as the above quote from Comrade Corbynichov, it calls into question their entire belief system and ability to make rational decisions.
Interstingly ( and I am not defnding it at all) but for some chronic conditions it was found that refferring people to homeopathy saved the NHS money - as they stopped taking up so much NHS time.
Pure placebo effect of course.
Rayban - good. That means we can happily ignore everything you say as yo have been proved wrong numerous times. Like over Lyme!
Hahah.
You didn’t manage to pin that on me.
I’ve only ever been against throwing antibiotics around like sweets based on flimsy or little data. It’s scientists who spend decades toiling away underneath fluorescent lighting and white walls to make these drugs work only to have clinicians and farmers piss the good work up the wall.
“They both come from organic matter”
Oh well that makes homeopathy completely legit then.
That is Trumpian stupidity.
To be fair to JC when you're an obscure back bencher with no chance of holding even the lowest government job saying thoughtless dumb things on social media to placate a constituent or two isn't that bad. It's akin to one of us sitting next to someone on a train and smiling and nodding to whatever mindless offensive bollocks they spout.
If we're looking for sticks to beat JC with he's provided dozens of *far* better ones.
Anyone know what rural bus fares are like in Ghana?
Anyone know what rural bus fares are like in Ghana?
Dunno.
I'm only here for the Current Popular Search Terms
I’m only here for the Current Popular Search Terms
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A fine speech from him today
Sure TJ.
From the Guardian today.
Q: John McDonnell said this morning he would campaign for remain in a second referendum. Would you? And if not, can you see why remainers have doubts about your leadership?
Corbyn says McDonnell was giving his personal view.
He says the real issue is what must be done to end inequality in Britain
Still situation normal for Corbyn.
A fine speech from him today
Strong on “National Education Service“ and bringing back slashed youth services… but some other bits, especially when answering questions, were a bit, well, empty.
This is the policy the voters of places like Sunderland, Manchester and St Albans have been waiting for.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/labour-commits-to-total-ban-on-keeping-monkeys-as-pets
This is the policy the voters of places like
SunderlandHartlepool, Manchester and St Albans have been waiting for.
FTFY
Can't believe I missed that opportunity!
*hangs head in shame*
You can always rely on Corbyn and the Labour party to be campaigning on the issues that really matter.
You can always rely on Corbyn and the Labour party to be campaigning on the issues that really matter.
So what do you think of his speech and the various proposals in that or, as a random other labour action today, the request for the updated Yellowhammer strategy to be published?
The monkey story made me chuckle, until I wondered what they plan to do with the 5000 monkeys.
I assume the government won't be releasing them all into the wild so I guess the plan is to kill them all and Labour will enter the next Gen election [1] campaigning on a "kill 5000 monkey's" ticket.
Once again you have to wonder if Labour's strategy is to lose so a) Brexit happens b) Labour don't get the blame.
[1] Which could be any day now.
Trump has said he's planning on buying the monkeys. He wants to repopulate Greenland with those more likely to support him.
They’d rather see Britain crash out of the EU under Boris Johnson than risk departing from neoliberalism under Jeremy Corbyn.
False dichotomy fallacy.
Ken Clarke & Harriet Harman are available plus any number of other candidates. It's not JC or nothing. (Mind you, JC knows that and is just using it as a way to get the Brexit he's been advocating for 40 years.)
Nor has JC said its him or nothing! But of course this is all part of the false narrative around him.
Nor has JC said its him or nothing!
All the more reason why it's a false dichotomy.
It’s almost like the author of this has been reading this forum
Oh, it's by Dawn Foster...If you mean written with all the style and substance of a 6th former, then yes, I agree with you, Centerist Ultras, I ask you...
Jezza uniting the nation again.
Centerist Ultras
Oh how I laughed. So so so funny.
If you’re not quite at uni but have finished your GCSEs. 😊
If you’re not quite at uni but have finished your GCSEs
Yup, about as mature as using the word comrade to belittle anyone with a faintly left of centre view on anything.
I don't look at politics news much because it just indicates the same paralysis most days, but excluding the Tory leadership circus, what I've picked up from the past six months or so is:
- A few MPs stand down, the Labour ones citing their deep and principled hatred of racism as the cause, and form what eventually becomes Change UK
- At their launch, one of the Change UK MPs immediately says something racist on stage
- Lib Dems demand second referendum
- Jeremy Corbyn says he'd back a second referendum
- New Lib-Dem leader loudly states absolute refusal to work with Jeremy Corbyn.
- Not many weeks later: Lib Dems and Tom Watson condemn Jeremy Corbyn for not working with others
- Corbyn very explicitly states willingness to work with others, making specific concessions
- Everyone stares at their feet before resuming mutters of "corbyn iz bad"
- Change UK polling at 0%
So we appear to have commies willing to actually make concessions to centrists for the sake of progress. Meanwhile, the Extremely Sensible Centrists seem continuously willing to set everything on fire and drive it off a cliff while going "LALALA NOT LISTENING", and not even trying to hide their hypocrisy. While claiming they're the adults.
You're all ****ing bonkers.
– New Lib-Dem leader loudly states absolute refusal to work with Jeremy Corbyn
Or more to the point won't put him into number 10.
I don't think anyone sensible would, the simple reality being, corbyn is the least* liked person in Westminster behind even bojo. No matter how sensible he might be in practice he'd not make it past the gates of downing Street before any government he led (given the current make up of Parliament) was subject to a no confidence vote. He'd have a margin no bigger than Boris consisting of mainly people who don't trust or like him and he wouldn't get to Brussels to negotiate an extension before he wasn't in charge of negotiating one any more. He's simply to devisive.
Like him or loathe him, at present he's not capable of doing the job he's offering to do if only because not enough people would let him. Petty tribal infantile behaviour it may be but the that's the reality. I'm not alone in continually expecting the children in the playground to suddenly behave like adults only to be surprised when they continue to behave like children exactly as they always have in the past, but let's be honest, that makes me the fool not them.
As for him making concessions, when he publicly backs [before the 11th hour] someone with a chance of forming some sort of united unity government I'll be happy to to eat my hat however being the man/party who "saved Britain from brexit" is too much of a prize for him or anyone else in his position to give it to someone else.
(I'm also not convinced that, in a wonderful parody of bj's blaming the EU for brexit because of the backstop, JCs not quite happy to watch brexit happen so long as the tories are to blame, especially with the now added bonus of being able to blame the centre for not backing him to save the day)
*maybe not least, but certainly of those who might head a unity government.
Lib dems simply are scared of an election knowing they will lose seats including likely their leader. Thats why they oppose corbyn - he wants an election
"The similarities between Corbyn and Miliband are close, as people in both camps agree. One Labour frontbencher told me recently, “Our 2017 manifesto was basically the programme Miliband would have loved to have presented” – and when I ran that by a senior adviser to the previous Labour leader, they agreed. For all the hard-left epithets flung at today’s opposition, it offers the kind of European social democracy that Angela Merkel would recognise."
Thats why they oppose corbyn – he wants an election
If he's put into number 10 he'll be given one quicker than he can call for it.
(and I'm not honestly sure he does, unless he's a fool. What he wants is a JC led labour government which an election at the moment isn't especially likely to deliver. If he does get into government via a no confidence motion and he calls a GE within a month I'll buy you a beer TJ, at the moment shouting for a GE knowing he's not going to get one is easy. It'll be like clegg all over again [though JC is too old for a job in an evil empire afterwards]).
For what it's worth I think the LD are less bothered about losing seats than the firm realisation that a change in parliamentary arithmetic could see a very probrexit Westminster. I don't believe the great hype that is the brexit party landslide but I don't have to, just enough MPs worried about their 2nd home allowance do.
If you look at the polling in Scotland Swinson is going to loose her seat - and she is scared of that. SNP will put a huge effort into her seat.
I do love the way that whatever Corbyn says he must want the opposite. corbyn wants a short term interim government that gets an extension then a GE then a referendum
~Swinson wants it the other way round so she can present herself as the saviour of the county and maybe save her seat.
If he’s put into number 10 he’ll be given one quicker than he can call for it.
Since he would be going in and calling it the same day I find that somewhat unlikely.
Remember all he is saying right now is a government lasting five or so weeks which will
a)ask for an extension
b)call for a GE
c)in that GE Labour would be campaigning on the basis of a referendum.
For what it’s worth I think the LD are less bothered about losing seats than the firm realisation that a change in parliamentary arithmetic could see a very probrexit Westminster
No I think Swinson and a couple of others are deeply concerned about their seats.
They are highly vulnerable and although the libdems might do better overall that wont help their own political careers.
That they seem happy to risk hard brexit rather than compromise is rather telling.
Lib dems simply are scared of an election knowing they will lose seats including likely their leader.
I'm sure that's true. But Labour are *way* more scared of the Libdems. As soon as Swinson took over the Party Labour turned their guns on the liberals in a big way. The only reason they'd do that is if they saw the Liberals as their main threat. Given the lib dems are a non entity who won a mere 12 seats in 2017 and 8 in 2015!!! The were so inconsequential they haven't been worth a mention from the two main parties since 2015! Corbyn has run the party down to the point where a party that was on the edge of oblivion look like serious competition.
If he does get into government via a no confidence motion and he calls a GE within a month I’ll buy you a beer TJ,
I'll take you up on that. Mind you its very unlikely that the lib dems will allow this to happen as they are resolutely opposed to a corbyn led interim government and a election
Remember all he is saying right now is a government lasting five or so weeks which will
a)ask for an extension
b)call for a GE
c)in that GE Labour would be campaigning on the basis of a referendum.
...and D, he must be the PM.
If he dropped D then everyone could get behind a caretaker PM and achieve A,B & C. [1] Arguing the problem isn't Corbyn it's everyone else is flawed.
[1] Well I'm not sure that would work, [2] but for the sake of argument lets assume it would.
[2] Because any remainer Torys who voted against the govt would cease to be Torys at the next election. Essentially supporting a GOvt of National Unity would involve remainer Tory's purging the party of Remainer MPs. (Themselves.)
I see according to Swinson logic, Ken Clarke, who voted for Theresa May's brexit deal every time, is a remainer, and Corbyn, who voted against it every time, is a brexiteer. Right, got it. Nothing weird going on there at all.
That they seem happy to risk hard brexit rather than compromise is rather telling.
As someone much funnier than me said of the Lib Dems plans: "Hard brexit and a 5p tax on plastic straws"
Corbyn has not said he must be PM. He said he is the obvious choice. I am certain he would agree another figure if and only if the numbers looked right.