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ChrisDR68
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« Reply #511 on: March 16, 2016, 01:38:58 PM » |
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On This Week last Thursday there was a telling exchange between Andrew Neil and union leader Mark Serwotka. Here's an excerpt (from about 14 mins 45 secs in): Neil "If Jeremy Corbyn goes to the country in 2020 on a proper socialist manifesto of the type you approve of and gets thumped like in 1983 would you accept that there is not an appetite for that kind of socialism in Britain?"
Serwotka "What I will say is at that particular point the electorate will have made a particular choice and I'm a great believer that you continue to campaign for what you believe in and hope to convince people and if at first you don't succeed then you keep trying until you do succeed".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3XFU1zsyDgWhat Serwotka fails to understand is that the sort of platform he and his leader believes in will only mean an extended period of Conservative government just as we had between 1979 and 1997. Their views are poisonous to the electorate and being stubborn about it won't change that.
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ChrisDR68
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« Reply #513 on: March 16, 2016, 03:03:00 PM » |
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Wouldn't, say, a Tory manifesto in 1966 advocating monetarism have been poisonous to the electorate? Ah but the clever thing about the Conservative Party is that they shape their appeal to what they believe the mood currently is of the British people at any given time. That's why they allowed all those nationalised industries to stay nationalised during their 1951-64 period in power even when they almost certainly didn't agree with them being nationalised. The only time that wasn't true was during the monetarist experiment by the Thatcher government between 1979-83 (although not surprisingly they didn't spell out their economic policy during the 1979 general election campaign). On that occasion they were bailed out by the ludicrous decision of Labour MP's to elect Michael Foot as leader instead of Denis Healey which ensured their undeserved victory in 1983.
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« Reply #514 on: March 17, 2016, 07:04:31 PM » |
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YouGov: Lab - 34 Con - 33 UKIP - 16 Lib Dems - 6 Let the history books say that a Jeremy Corbyn-led party led in an opinion poll.
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Slow Learner
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« Reply #520 on: March 18, 2016, 04:08:32 PM » |
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« Edited: March 18, 2016, 04:10:45 PM by Battenberg »
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In Deep Shyt has resigned, apparently.
Over disability cuts, apparently. Good to know he has some standards.
Err...I think it's because they aren't going far enough. EDIT: NVM you're right. Wow.
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