baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
My apologies, Hywel - I should know you better than that by now! Was just being a bit dense.
no worries, plenty of people have made that same argument recently without being ironic
My apologies, Hywel - I should know you better than that by now! Was just being a bit dense.
Many if not most of the MPs in the Labour Party who want to get shot of Jeremy Corbyn have more in common with Tory MPs across the chamber in the House of Commons than with either Corbyn or most of the people who vote for them. They are the sturdy backbone of political Britain, and Jeremy Corbyn is -in the words of a New Statesman columnist- ‘a cancer‘.
This is not merely a matter of policy. You only have to look at the annual Spectator garden party pics and see the likes of Harriet Harman and Liz Kendall sharing a Pimms in the company of David Cameron and Theresa May to realise that for them, politics is both an elite profession and a social clique. It is a role and vocation for the cultivated and enlightened.
The hapless Angela Eagle was likely pushed forward to challenge Corbyn because, among other things, she went to a comprehensive before she went to Oxford. Hence the Parliamentary Labour Party coup plotters view her as the kind of figure who ought to know how to bridge the gap between elite political society and working class Labour voters, in a way that a braying calamity like Tristram Hunt, say, could not. The trouble is she hasn’t a notion. Leading media voices think she’ll do just fine, of course, but that’s because they haven’t a clue either.
Despite Jeremy Corbyn’s appeals, the time of kinder, gentler politics has passed. Gone are the days when a Labour politician could vote to bomb a country or to privatise elements of the health and education services or to punish welfare recipients, and feel insulated from public anger.
In this new climate of nastiness, when people sometimes seem more vocal in speaking out against such matter-of-course procedures as bombing the Middle East and impoverishing poor families, it is hard for people who, in bygone days, could pass themselves off as ‘conviction politicians’ who want to give shape to such nebulous concepts as ‘aspiration’. Their credibility has plummeted because they find it impossible to come straight out with it and say without qualification or prevarication that they’re against austerity. For them, when Jeremy Corbyn proposes that austerity is a political choice and not a self-evident necessity, it makes the task of convincing the Tory-voting parent in their head all the more difficult.
Responding to the news, Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: “Putting Boris Johnson in charge of the country is like putting the Chuckle Brothers in charge of Newsnight...“Perhaps he can do something useful with his time in charge, like finding the £350m a week for the NHS that he promised,” Farron added.
In 2011, Nick Clegg’s elevated role when he was deputy prime minister slipped his mind.
When asked in an interview if he was in charge, he said: “Yeah, I suppose I am. I forgot about that. I’m holding the fort but I’m hoping to take the end of the week off with my kids.
When you consider what a joke the lib dems are, and what a mess the labour party is, and what cunts the tories are, it's time for the diazepam.
Could someone with a Times account, copy and paste this for me please?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/the-bbc-is-leaving-its-audiences-in-the-dark-tvpd0s29g
Looking back over the last three decades, economic consensus has been largely right about the major issues.