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Jeremy Corbyn

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Ruth23 · 05/11/2018 23:11

What's everyone's opinions on Jeremy Corbyn?

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Perch · 05/11/2018 23:12

Why? What’s yours?

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Ruth23 · 05/11/2018 23:17

@Perch Personally i'm all for Labour and there beliefs of equality. I think Corbyn sometimes has a lot of sense behind some of the points he try's to portray! What's yours?

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littlebillie · 05/11/2018 23:21

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Ruth23 · 05/11/2018 23:24

Have you got any opinions on labour @littlebillie

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Perch · 05/11/2018 23:34

Very sceptical about grassroots seeding on forums but I’ll bite...

Jeremy Corbyn has spent his life obstructing and opposing everything and everyone. It is hard to consider him a serious leader. Life is easier in opposition.

Labour (to me) died the day David Milliband was stabbed in his back by his brother, the unions provinding and extra long knife. He was the only credible altenative to the post-Blair mess. If it wasn’t for Tom Watson, it would have been even more of a shit show than it currently is.

Any person that takes Corbyn seriously needs a reality check and a long hard look at the real world out there.

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mrsmuddlepies · 05/11/2018 23:38

I don't think he is a great poster boy for the Labour Party. He was privately educated (2 E grades at A Level). His sons have been privately educated and at least one has been given a job by him as John McDonald's Chief of Staff. He has been married three times.
I have heard that he is very patronising to women, both in the Party and those in a professional capacity.
He is probably a nice enough guy in his own privileged way. Has he ever had a 'proper' job?

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BackWhenIWas4 · 05/11/2018 23:45

I'd love to be able to vote for Labour, but JC made it clear that he doesn't give a shit about women, by vilifying those who objected to Lily Madigan's appointment as a women's officer. I won't be voting for them until he either changes his ways or is replaced by someone capable of effectively representing the uterus-bearing half of the population.
I am not holding my breath.

I had no idea he and his kids were privately educated. Doesn't really sit well with his attempted 'man of the people' image, does it?

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Maddy70 · 05/11/2018 23:47

I really find him refreshing. He is honest even if it loses him the popular vote. He sticks to his conviction

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Ruth23 · 05/11/2018 23:54

I think JC is what society needs sometimes! He brings honesty and realistic views maybe in harsh ways yes but he's truthful and people who live sheltered life's can't cope with that!

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Bourdic · 05/11/2018 23:55

mrsmuddle he was only educated privately at prep school level ( not that that decision had anything to do with him anyway) His secondary education was in a state funded school ( voluntary aided). His sons were educated at a state grammar and in fact his wife’s wish for that versus the local comp was a big factor in their marriage ending. But please don’t let any facts get in the way of your prejudices will you?

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dalmatianmad · 05/11/2018 23:55

Ruth23 you sound about 70 years old??

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Ruffina · 05/11/2018 23:58

If he could find a cause that isn’t motivated by hatred of the West and blind devotion to present and former communist states it might be a fresh start.

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CottonTailRabbit · 05/11/2018 23:59

Do you really think that the only reason a person would disagree with JC is because they live sheltered life's ?

Sheltered from what?

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Ruffina · 06/11/2018 00:06

Sheltered?

Being a professionally oppositionist MP - as in made a career out of opposing everything his opponents and his own party stood for - who’s done nothing in his life but draw a state salary - that’s sheltered.

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DameSquashalot · 06/11/2018 05:38

I don't find him honest at all. I find him really insincere.

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moredoll · 06/11/2018 05:48

He brings honesty and realistic views maybe in harsh ways yes but he's truthful and people who live sheltered life's can't cope with that!

I'm sorry but you're living in a parallel universe if you think Jeremy Corbyn has realistic views.

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Theworldisfullofgs · 06/11/2018 05:52

Given Brexit.

Complete waste of space.

And I voted labour at the last election.

He is fiddling whilst To be burns.

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Theworldisfullofgs · 06/11/2018 05:52

Rome

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Labradoodliedoodoo · 06/11/2018 05:55

I used to like JC And labour but not any more. They are not listening to women’s concerns about safeguarding and safe spaces. They don’t represent me.

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bellinisurge · 06/11/2018 06:09

He's a "useful idiot" to coin a politico phrase for all sorts of scumbags who support extremist views. I am old and the "shaking hands with Gerry Adams" photo makes me sick. Poor judgement. Doing outrageous stuff to look cool. I wouldn't trust him to run a local raffle. I grew up listening to toe-rags like him on the fringes of the Labour Party. Watching him sit back and let that tosser go off on an anti-Semitic rant at the launch of Labour's Chakrabati report into anti-semitism just showed he hasn't changed. Teenaged Adrian Mole given responsibility he's not capable of taking.

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Fradishes · 06/11/2018 11:35

He divides people rather than bringing them together - not a good leader, and would be a disaster as PM.

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horizonglimmer · 06/11/2018 12:38

Said it before and will say it again, he completely failed to learn the very obvious lesson from Rotherham (and similar abuses in other authorities) that people need to be able to feel comfortable raising safeguarding concerns without fearing they'd be labelled racist and have their careers and reputations adversely affected, when he pushed out one of his ministers for talking about this issue.

He puts his politics, and maintaining his self created 'inclusive' image over reality and the safety of women and girls.

He utterly failed to handle the anti-semitism debacle. it's no coincidence that people with openly anti semitic views now feel at home in the labour party under JC.

Honestly means being able to look at yourself honestly and he doesn't appear able to do that. as shown under the whole anti-semitism episode. He appears to lack any ability to self-reflect.

Politics means being able to listen to and work with people with different views from you. HIs whole career has involved doing the opposite. He's an activist not a political leader.

I have come to actively dislike him. I don't respect him.

I will not vote Labour whilst he is leader.

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SillySallySingsSongs · 06/11/2018 12:40

Neither I nor my family will ever vote Labour whilst he is in charge. Previously we have always voted labour and campaigned for them.

Membership was stopped the day he got in

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SillySallySingsSongs · 06/11/2018 12:41

but he's truthful and people who live sheltered life's can't cope with that!

If you say so dear.

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littlebillie · 08/11/2018 06:31

I think it's all the talk of bringing down profitability of private business through tax. Most people are employed in private enterprise, yet those in state sector scream about salary increases and their FS schemes. I think just come over to the private sector and see how "generous" it is I know if labour get in most privately owned business will have to freeze salary increases. I have NEVER had a state sector equivalent pay rise.

I just think JC and Labour at the moment lives in a (communist) dream world and the promises he makes are unrealistic as his economic understanding is idealised and fantasy .

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