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Willow904 wrote:Voters are looking for easy answers, some kind of shangri-la.
Will they become as disillusioned by the new boys as they did with the old? Who knows, but what I do know is that the austerity economics being peddled by Osborne is coming to the end of the road. If Labour are aping Tory economic policy when the next crash hits, how will they be able to offer the alternative that voters will be craving when the (Greek default/Deutsche Bank collapse) shit hits the fan? Corbyn may not be the leader to take Labour to election victory but he is dead right about one thing - it wasn't Labour's social policy that was wrong, it was their 'sounds just like the Tories' economic policy that was the problem for swathes of voters unable to process the small print.
I look forward to see what kind of party takes shape. If it's a good party, it will win power.
I often wonder why I bother actually posting here. Willow always says it better.
Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
I didn't agree with another commentator here suggesting it was a bad idea. I've thought more about it. I still think Labour's open vote is a good idea.
RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
thatchersorphan wrote:http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canad ... t-election Trudeau announces plan to kill first-past-the-post by the next election. (Canada - they have elections in a few months, like us they currently have pro- austerity tories)
Very interesting.
One avenue open to Labour is to campaign on a binding promise to:
1. Introduce PR.
2. Take big money out of politics (state funding, very limited budgets, media regulation).
3. End all commercial lobbying.
4. Introduce an accurate and up to date mandatory to register electoral register.
They can then talk to Lib Dems and UKIP about collaborating to make that happen.
They can even argue a motivation for PR is to limit the influence of the SNP.
Willow904 wrote:Voters are looking for easy answers, some kind of shangri-la.
Will they become as disillusioned by the new boys as they did with the old? Who knows, but what I do know is that the austerity economics being peddled by Osborne is coming to the end of the road. If Labour are aping Tory economic policy when the next crash hits, how will they be able to offer the alternative that voters will be craving when the (Greek default/Deutsche Bank collapse) shit hits the fan? Corbyn may not be the leader to take Labour to election victory but he is dead right about one thing - it wasn't Labour's social policy that was wrong, it was their 'sounds just like the Tories' economic policy that was the problem for swathes of voters unable to process the small print.
I look forward to see what kind of party takes shape. If it's a good party, it will win power.
I often wonder why I bother actually posting here. Willow always says it better.
RogerOThornhill wrote:Incidentally, Tories paying £3 (including Toby Young I notice) to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to - in Young's words "consign Labour to electoral oblivion" is the very best reason that open primaries for selecting party candidates are a really, really bad idea.
And why Corbyn should never have been allowed on the ballot.
I seriously hope Labour call time on this now and pull the plug on allowing new sign-ups to vote.
So do I. Can't understand how it happened.
And now look at this. Not even sure if he's joking or it's real. Whatever, Labour has to make sure it's a fair contest.
Iain Martin @iainmartin1 4m4 minutes ago
Tory donor tells me he is even prepared to pay for election-winning duo Lynton Crosby + Jim Messina to run #Tories4JeremyCorbyn campaign.
Willow904 wrote:Voters are looking for easy answers, some kind of shangri-la.
Will they become as disillusioned by the new boys as they did with the old? Who knows, but what I do know is that the austerity economics being peddled by Osborne is coming to the end of the road. If Labour are aping Tory economic policy when the next crash hits, how will they be able to offer the alternative that voters will be craving when the (Greek default/Deutsche Bank collapse) shit hits the fan? Corbyn may not be the leader to take Labour to election victory but he is dead right about one thing - it wasn't Labour's social policy that was wrong, it was their 'sounds just like the Tories' economic policy that was the problem for swathes of voters unable to process the small print.
I look forward to see what kind of party takes shape. If it's a good party, it will win power.
I often wonder why I bother actually posting here. Willow always says it better.
I just checked in before going to bed and I'm all embarrassed now. Thank you very much. I'm flattered. I only write what I feel. And I just feel that pandering to the lowest common denominator (which is essentially what wooing Tories means) is unfair on the rest of us who wish for something better, but are considered unimportant because we don't live in a marginal. If that makes me a loser, so be it. Oh well. SH never did share quite what they see in Kendall, did they? I'll just have to go on wondering.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
I read this earlier. Shame there is nothing about the bloke who wrote it in the About section on his site. I'd like to know a bit more about his political background - which he says in the piece is very left wing - Marxist even.
Anne McGuire retweeted
Dan Walsh @DanWalshie 1h1 hour ago
"Liz Kendall is nothing like the person you have been made to think she is". Great write up of Liz https://brianbackblog.wordpress.com/201 ... z-kendall/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
Posting this comes under my heading of 'trying to remain open minded'. And I am - trying that is.
Donald Trump - President of the United States ... Can you imagine?
Today has definitely been 'one of those days'. Heard Trump telling the world (I'm sure he imagines the entire world is listening - hanging on every word - when he proclaims) he was entering the race to be the Republican candidate for President as I was carefully spraying the sickly tomatoes with Bordeaux mixture - good thing no other humans were close by at the time - they'd have been splattered. You'd think the Republicans couldn't have worse candidates or presidents than the last few they've installed - but no - Trump would trump the lot of them.
rebeccariots2 wrote:I read this earlier. Shame there is nothing about the bloke who wrote it in the About section on his site. I'd like to know a bit more about his political background - which he says in the piece is very left wing - Marxist even.
Anne McGuire retweeted
Dan Walsh @DanWalshie 1h1 hour ago
"Liz Kendall is nothing like the person you have been made to think she is". Great write up of Liz https://brianbackblog.wordpress.com/201 ... z-kendall/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
Posting this comes under my heading of 'trying to remain open minded'. And I am - trying that is.
He's a lecturer in sociology, and access co-ordinator, at Coleg Gwent – according to linkedin. Interesting article and she certainly seems to have impressed him.
This time, I'm gonna be stronger I'm not giving in...
rebeccariots2 wrote:Donald Trump - President of the United States ... Can you imagine?
Today has definitely been 'one of those days'. Heard Trump telling the world (I'm sure he imagines the entire world is listening - hanging on every word - when he proclaims) he was entering the race to be the Republican candidate for President as I was carefully spraying the sickly tomatoes with Bordeaux mixture - good thing no other humans were close by at the time - they'd have been splattered. You'd think the Republicans couldn't have worse candidates or presidents than the last few they've installed - but no - Trump would trump the lot of them.
And the Tories here think Corbyn is extreme!
Trump's incredibly popular in Scotland. They love him in Aberdeenshire. According to Trump...
This time, I'm gonna be stronger I'm not giving in...
rebeccariots2 wrote:I read this earlier. Shame there is nothing about the bloke who wrote it in the About section on his site. I'd like to know a bit more about his political background - which he says in the piece is very left wing - Marxist even.
Anne McGuire retweeted
Dan Walsh @DanWalshie 1h1 hour ago
"Liz Kendall is nothing like the person you have been made to think she is". Great write up of Liz https://brianbackblog.wordpress.com/201 ... z-kendall/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
Posting this comes under my heading of 'trying to remain open minded'. And I am - trying that is.
He's a lecturer in sociology, and access co-ordinator, at Coleg Gwent – according to linkedin. Interesting article and she certainly seems to have impressed him.
Ah, thank you Lady C. I know someone who might know him then - or of him - and I can ask them a bit more re his credentials and instincts.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0b49-M ... Lq.twitter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A GRIEVING mother was ordered to pay back £41.36 for her dead son’s overpaid benefits to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), it was revealed yesterday.
Rachel Degaetano received the letter last week after 21-year-old Chae Bennett committed suicide on April 15 this year in woodland near his family home in Barry, Wales.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 23376.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; UK Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, announcing her new 'behaviour tsar' during a speech at an academy in London, said his appointment was part of the government's "commitment to social justice" and a move to ensure "every single person in the country has access to the best opportunities Britain has to offer"
