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[balggy]

I think this sums it up. Labour has been taken over by clever students and their ilk, having never done a days work in their lives. They love to protest because it looks cool and gives them a chance to throw something at a policeman without actually getting hurt. They are as far removed from Labour voters as Tony Blair.......

Clem Attlee was educated at prep school before going on to study History at Oxford.
Harold Wilson studied History at Jesus College Oxford.
Michael Foot, a giant of the left, read PPE at Oxford.
Barbara Castle, about as a Labour as you could get, studied PPE at Oxford.

Despite attending an independent preparatory school and passing his 11 plus, Corbyn achieved to E grades at A-Level, spent two years dossing about in Jamaica before enrolling on a "Trade Union Studies Course" at North London Polytechnic. He later dropped out after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum. Not really the clever student type.

 

[1966efc]

Clem Attlee was educated at prep school before going on to study History at Oxford.
Harold Wilson studied History at Jesus College Oxford.
Michael Foot, a giant of the left, read PPE at Oxford.
Barbara Castle, about as a Labour as you could get, studied PPE at Oxford.

Despite attending an independent preparatory school and passing his 11 plus, Corbyn achieved to E grades at A-Level, spent two years dossing about in Jamaica before enrolling on a "Trade Union Studies Course" at North London Polytechnic. He later dropped out after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum. Not really the clever student type.

Attlee also attended Haileybury College - a public school in Hertfordshire.

Tony Benn - Westminster School & New College, Oxford (PPE).

 

[tsubaki]

Clem Attlee was educated at prep school before going on to study History at Oxford.
Harold Wilson studied History at Jesus College Oxford.
Michael Foot, a giant of the left, read PPE at Oxford.
Barbara Castle, about as a Labour as you could get, studied PPE at Oxford.

Despite attending an independent preparatory school and passing his 11 plus, Corbyn achieved to E grades at A-Level, spent two years dossing about in Jamaica before enrolling on a "Trade Union Studies Course" at North London Polytechnic. He later dropped out after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum. Not really the clever student type.

Indeed, though it should be pointed out that of that lot only Attlee has any real claim to greatness. Castle might have been Labour through and through but she was an awful minister, Wilson was a terrible PM and Foot was a great journalist ruined by politics.

 

[peteblue]

Clem Attlee was educated at prep school before going on to study History at Oxford.
Harold Wilson studied History at Jesus College Oxford.
Michael Foot, a giant of the left, read PPE at Oxford.
Barbara Castle, about as a Labour as you could get, studied PPE at Oxford.

Despite attending an independent preparatory school and passing his 11 plus, Corbyn achieved to E grades at A-Level, spent two years dossing about in Jamaica before enrolling on a "Trade Union Studies Course" at North London Polytechnic. He later dropped out after a series of arguments with his tutors over the curriculum. Not really the clever student type.

Sums him up really......

 

[tsubaki]

This is the man that voted some 400 times against his own party during his parliamentary career. Hmm.

To be fair to him he was being asked to vote on a series of questionable wars, increasing the power of the state and reducing the accountability of the executive.

 

[peteblue]

Indeed, though it should be pointed out that of that lot only Attlee has any real claim to greatness. Castle might have been Labour through and through but she was an awful minister, Wilson was a terrible PM and Foot was a great journalist ruined by politics.

While Attlee usually comes out top or near the top of polls of Prime ministers, Wilson invariably is contained within the top 3 of Labour PM's......

 

[tsubaki]

While Attlee usually comes out top or near the top of polls of Prime ministers, Wilson invariably is contained within the top 3 of Labour PM's......

There have only been six.

 

[tonyhorne]

While Attlee usually comes out top or near the top of polls of Prime ministers, Wilson invariably is contained within the top 3 of Labour PM's......

Not forgetting he was MP for Huyton. Shook the fella's hand and he gave me my O Level English Language certificate at the "Official Opening" of Page Moss Comp...

 

[jal123]

I love Ste Rotherham like a brother for his hillsbrougj work but Jesus Christ he's testing my patience as my local mp these days, crawling up corbyns arse

 

[Bruce Wayne]

To be fair to him he was being asked to vote on a series of questionable wars, increasing the power of the state and reducing the accountability of the executive.

I'm sure the people who voted against his wishes this time did so equally out of principle.

 

[tsubaki]

I'm sure the people who voted against his wishes this time did so equally out of principle.

Sadly not. They all voted for the EU Referendum to take place, so to vote against the result just because they lost doesn't exactly fit the definition of a principled stand.

 

[Neveryourfault]

Labour are finished! Jeremy Corbyn lets be honest he's a joke and who is their to replace him Owen Smith he couldn't even hold a conversation on question time! I actually think the best leader would be Andy Burnham but he has an a big issue in staffs

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

A man leader of iron gave written warnings instead of sacking his front benchers who voted against a three line whip!
Is he running the Boy Scouts movement?

Looking through the eyes of fixed term parliament, not sure sure it matters, well until mid 2018. Still May has been brought to task by a disorganised Labour. If Corbyn is part of a process of realigning Labour to the centre left, so be it.

 

[peteblue]

There have only been six.

And he was one who actually kept the UK out of a war (Vietnam)........

 

[peteblue]

Not forgetting he was MP for Huyton. Shook the fella's hand and he gave me my O Level English Language certificate at the "Official Opening" of Page Moss Comp...

He was quite short wasn't he......