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peteblue said:
Does the Labour Party or Jeremy Corbyn even have a view on any of the above.......
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I think he does but hasn't been successful at getting what he thinks across in clear and simple terms that everyone understands.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) he is not supported by the majority of his party. The members want or wanted Corbyn. The Labour MPs largely don't. Result: Complete stalemate and lack of potency in the party.
 
JonS said:
I think he does but hasn't been successful at getting what he thinks across in clear and simple terms that everyone understands.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) he is not supported by the majority of his party. The members want or wanted Corbyn. The Labour MPs largely don't. Result: Complete stalemate and lack of potency in the party.
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good summing up that, seems he and his cabinet, are trying to get something out there while the rest of the party just looks on waiting for them to get hammered in an election, or at best looks half hearted in defending there stance just to save face.
 
...well, I'm a 60 year old and for the first time in my life I will genuinely look for an alternative vote than Labour in the forthcoming election. This party reminds me so much of Militant inspired politics of yesteryear, politics of bullying and aggression. I can't bring myself to support the Conservatives so it could be Monster Raving Looney.
 
Eggs said:
...well, I'm a 60 year old and for the first time in my life I will genuinely look for an alternative vote than Labour in the forthcoming election. This party reminds me so much of Militant inspired politics of yesteryear, politics of bullying and aggression. I can't bring myself to support the Conservatives so it could be Monster Raving Looney.
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Which policies couldn't you bring yourself to vote for @Eggs?
 
Eggs said:
...well, I'm a 60 year old and for the first time in my life I will genuinely look for an alternative vote than Labour in the forthcoming election. This party reminds me so much of Militant inspired politics of yesteryear, politics of bullying and aggression. I can't bring myself to support the Conservatives so it could be Monster Raving Looney.
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I don't see Labour like that, though despite me liking Corbyn for some reason I'm going to find it hard to vote for him/Labour, so maybe you have a point.

To be honest I like his genuineness and non-cruel non-bullying or manipulating nature. But most of the rest of the left are a bit as you say and that's the problem
 
flibbyflob said:
June 9th he resigns then I guess. Just hope there is enough of a party left to regroup in the future.
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..my thought is that Momentum inspired Labour have always known Corbyn will lose this election. Corbyn will resign and a Corbynist like Angela Raynor will take over so we will have 5 more years of the same politics. I fear it will only be post-2022 that Labour can regroup unless an alternative party rises from the mess.

Single party politics is unhealthy for everybody, even Conservatives.
 
Milkman said:
Which policies couldn't you bring yourself to vote for @Eggs?
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... the bullying and harassment going on at constituency level is enough to put any decent voter off. When bricks are thrown through the windows of constituency MPs and others harassed, plus anti-semitism remarks it's hardly representative of a party who has always stood up for the right values and one that I have always supported.

I fear the party has been infiltrated in much the same way as Militant did. It needs to sort out its own problems.
 
Eggs said:
... the bullying and harassment going on at constituency level is enough to put any decent voter off. When bricks are thrown through the windows of constituency MPs and others harassed, plus anti-semitism remarks it's hardly representative of a party who has always stood up for the right values and one that I have always supported.

I fear the party has been infiltrated in much the same way as Militant did. It needs to sort out its own problems.
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Was the bricks thing true though. I thought I read that it was fake news and it was a neighbouring building that had been bricked?

EDIT - maybe it was true and the rumours it wasn't were fake news: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leaked-labour-probe-crushes-untrue-9076843
 
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