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Any Brits worried about SJW Jeremy Corbyn?
09-15-2015, 12:02 PM
Corbyn strikes me as a Bolshevik LARPer. He even wears Lenin's hat. It's like if there were some right-wing politician sporting a Hitler-stache. It's completely idiotic.
"Men willingly believe what they wish." - Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book III, Ch. 18
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Any Brits worried about SJW Jeremy Corbyn?
09-15-2015, 12:07 PM
The man calls terrorist groups his "friends", supports giving the Falklands to the Argentinians and is economically illiterate.
Beautiful.
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Any Brits worried about SJW Jeremy Corbyn?
09-15-2015, 12:15 PM
He's a better leader than Miliband, however he will lose by even more than Miliband did. This isn't the 1970s anymore. The Labour Party doesn't stand up for the common man, in blue collar jobs or supporting football/sports fans. They just care about some 'minimum wage' nonsense for jobs which are actually incredibly unproductive.
The fact is that since the start of the 90s we have become much less left wing, yet the Labour party doesn't recognise this.
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09-15-2015, 06:16 PM
I view Corbyn winning as great news. No matter what, the neoliberal globalist establishment represented by both the center-right and center-left parties (Democrats and Republicans; Conservatives and Labour; UMP and PS -- take your pic) is the enemy. I view attacks from the left, far-left or new-right as equally worth supporting. Same reason I was in favor of UKIP during the last elections even though I thought their economic policy was garbage. Same reason I support the FN in France, whose economic policy is actually quite good and who probably represent a strong way forward for Western politics (nationalist anti-immigration + pro-welfare state).
Still I disagree with the whole bunch on a lot. Corbyn too. He really is an orthodox lefty true-believer, and while I'm with him on most economic issues he makes a lot of mistakes there (his tax plan is bad; his People's QE is very good indeed though not perfect) I think he's gravely mistaken on a lot of social issues and immigration. But, it's a big strike against the neoliberal 'Blatcherite' British establishment, so I'll take it and be happy about it indeed.
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Any Brits worried about SJW Jeremy Corbyn?
09-16-2015, 09:28 AM
I really hope someone throws him off a helicopter