Jeremy Corbyn interview on Woman's Hour just now

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Very embarrassing, lost the figures for free childcare. Not giving me much faith to be honest! Are you listening?

And the biggest irony of all is that the 18-24 year olds are voting for the pabour party that bought in tuition fees in the first place!

Fair play to Corbyn though for standing up against this abuse of journalists

On that I agree. However they aren't stopping.

And the biggest irony of all is that the 18-24 year olds are voting for the pabour party that bought in tuition fees in the first place!

It would be ironic if Blair was still the leader of the Labour Party. Labour want to scrap tuition fees, conservatives will increase them, so regardless of what happened in the past people need to vote on what's happening now

I have warned to Jeremy I really have after thinking he was a complete idiot but he's not up to the job and the front bench with Abbotts and Thornbury etc are totally incompetent and useless.

he doesn't stand for any personal attacks at all

Err ... I wouldn't recommend mentioning that to Ruth Smeeth

No, but he lies . Like all politicians do when's there's a vote or two in it...

it is estimated between 36 to 45 million people died of starvation due to famine created by Communist policies

How many people die annually due to malnourishment and preventable diseases created by capitalist policies?

you've got to be kidding me. There were no gulags in Britain. There was no 'One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich'.

And the biggest irony of all is that the 18-24 year olds are voting for the pabour party that bought in tuition fees in the first place!
And then increased them beyond the range of many.

Institute of Financial Studies
Thing is caroldecker his costings do add up.

And then increased them beyond the range of many.
1998 - Tuition fees introduced £1000 a year - LABOUR
2004 - Tuition fees capped at £3000 a year - LABOUR
2010 - TORY GOVERNMENT - Tuition fees tripled to £9250
You can't just make shit up you know. It's very bad form.

Thing is caroldecker his costings do add up.

Lol - is that what it means when they point to Labour's income estimate being at least £11 billion too high?!

Jimmy My post wasn't clear enough, apologies, I meant that the Tories increased them beyond the range of many.

spin To say that you lack any sense of perspective is too kind.

DawnDonna - as charmaggedon says, did you read the IFS report? It is at least £11bn (over 20%) wrong.

Well said charmageddon.

Even if the costings added up, it's still too much of the wrong sort of change, being implemented too quickly.

Even if we can afford Corbyn's policies now (that's a huge IF), how can we afford these commitments in 10 years with the aging population, NHS and pensions time-bomb ticking away? To say nothing of the economic consequences of Brexit - don't we think the highest ever peacetime increase of taxes will cause firms to relocate given that + brexit?

Corbyn's schedule of changes, if pushed through on a small majority is highly likely to be unpicked within 5 years by subsequent governments and just cause mayhem in the meantime.