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AIBU to wonder why Corbyn hasn't got the boot yet?

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marsbarsandtwix · 15/08/2018 18:00

After all this recent stuff. Please could we have someone else and make labour electable again. Why is he still there and do we think he still will be for the forseeable?

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crunchymint · 15/08/2018 20:27

I am more left wing than Corbyn. I have met men like him all my life. Misogynistic, jumps on all the left wing fads of the moment, but too thick to really understand them.

birdsdestiny · 15/08/2018 20:28

That you are stupid and don't understand worked brilliantly with Brexit didn't it? Glad to see you are using those tactics.

Amanduh · 15/08/2018 20:29

Everybody I know who is a Labour voter bar one doesn’t want to elect Corbyn. I am talking at least 20 people I’ve spoken to.
It’s sad. He is dragging them down but his supporters won’t have it.

Bluntness100 · 15/08/2018 20:31

because people like you are gullible and believe this shitte

Oh I'm the gullible one? And shite only has one t...

😁

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marsbarsandtwix · 15/08/2018 20:31

There are plenty of Jews who back JC. I find that surprising if not implausible

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SmartMeter · 15/08/2018 20:32

He tweeted 12 minutes ago about building new social housing. In my very long term Labour MP run area in South Birmingham, the Kings Norton 3 estates area is being knocked down and are full of new private build developments with affordable housing being shared ownership properties.

Vicky1990 · 15/08/2018 20:32

Corbyn showed his support for the IRA, remember them?.
He also thinks the way Venezuela is run is how we should do it here, that country is now in ruins.
If Corbyn ever got his hands on the levers of power we would be stuffed.

medusa83 · 15/08/2018 20:44

I've always thought he was a disaster and have watched my Facebook newsfeed with despair when the last election was on as it was cultishly Corbyn "he stands for peace and love! How can anyone not want peace and love - how evil can you be!" type comments.

I know one of his advisers, or used to, personally. When I was at uni I was very anti what was the potential war in Iraq. I met the SWP and joined that and movements like Stop the War Coalition, went on demos etc. The main SWP organiser (a communist) now works for him - or did in his 2015 election campaign anyway.

There is such an issue where blindness to islamism/jihadism is concerned. The guy I knew teamed up with Salma Yaqoob (later to be one of George Galloway's Respect candidates), and the SWP dropped their commitment to women's rights and gay rights as they wanted the mosques on board - this led to many traditional SWP members leaving in protest. I myself went on Palestinian demos at the time and there was certainly a lot of hysterical comparing it to a Nazi state / genocide / racism etc. I left in the end as I found their solutions to issues untenable and disliked their character assassinations of people for having different (reasonable) viewpoints. It does not surprise me in the least that JC has been caught up in this - he believes that the West - US/UK/Israel/imperialism/capitalism are the biggest evils on the planet, all groups that fight against these (such as jihadist groups) are freedom fighters rather than terrorists, and therefore he is blind to the rampant anti-semitism in Hamas and similar organisations. EG here: t.co/cCF2AildsS he was unable to state that Hamas were antisemitic, despite it being manifestly clear in their charter.

He is a liability and a danger to this country.

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marsbarsandtwix · 15/08/2018 20:50

That's very interesting medusa

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FranticallyPeaceful · 15/08/2018 20:55

Lol what a load of shite.

I know someone who was friends with Jeremy Corbyn and she tortures puppies. omg omg

medusa83 · 15/08/2018 20:56

FranticallyPeaceful - I have never met Jeremy Corbyn - just one of his advisers. I am telling you the worldview that his adviser has, and it certainly seems from his behaviour that he has these same beliefs.

FranticallyPeaceful · 15/08/2018 20:57

*he

medusa83 · 15/08/2018 20:59

I suppose it isn't a big secret. His name is Ger Francis. We had a very close relationship at the time.

SillySallySingsSongs · 15/08/2018 21:03

I kid you not. Yesterday on tape his supporters were saying he has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Well he hasn't declared the trip in the register so he could be in trouble. There is no way the trip and the 5* hotel was less than the £600 threshold.

RhythmStix · 15/08/2018 21:05

What bluntness and bombadier said, in spades.
It's very very grim, reading the clueless remarks of the Dacre-ites.

SillySallySingsSongs · 15/08/2018 21:32

What bluntness and bombadier said, in spades.
It's very very grim, reading the clueless remarks of the Dacre-ites.

That's right because anyone who doesn't think Corbyn is some sort of saint, must read certain papers and be Tories. Hmm

Pathetic rubbish.

jasjas1973 · 15/08/2018 21:50

Vicky1990

He never supported the IRA, unless meeting Jerry Adams counts as that? Something many politicians have done over the years, including John Major, maybe you should google the comforting words May said after the McGuinness funeral ?

He also doesn't think the UK should be run like Venezuela either.
Giving support to someone is not the same as saying you admire their economic policies!

Personally, i'd much prefer JC and Labour in power than this awful austerity Government that is tearing this country apart, listening to ch4 and the closure of Womens Refugees was heart breaking, caused by gov under funding.

BUT as i said, he is now damaged goods and needs to step aside.

Mayday01 · 15/08/2018 22:20

Considering how shit/silent/meh he's been at being the Leader of Opposition during the debacle that is Brexit, proves to me he puts his own ideologies/party before country.
If he was truely principled he'd be jumping all over the Tories not smugly sitting by to score political points.
The whole Boris Johnson burqa comments and Labour not being able to capitalise on it because of the antisemitic antics did smack of a In the Thick of It farce.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 15/08/2018 22:33

Becuase Momentum have a strangle hold on Labour at the moment sadly

I think his days are numbered and no doubt someone is being lined up but not sure who is would be can’t see it being McDonnell

Let’s hope other Labour MP’s are working together to get behind a challenger but still it’s party member voted and many people have left he party becuase of Corbyn and Co

Waste of three years when we have needed more that ever an opposition that will challenge the government he has been utterly useless

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 15/08/2018 22:43

He never supported the IRA oh give over

Three weeks after the Brighton Bombing he invited IRA ex prisoners to the Houses of Parliament- what an utterly disgraceful thing to do but that’s Corbyn for you he should have been chucked out of the party there and then

Brambleboo · 15/08/2018 23:07

He seems to have some kind of cult-like hold over the newer members of the party, and the more realistic members have mostly left. I can't wait till he's gone, personally. He has made the party I used to love look ridiculous, not credible and absolutely unelectable. I can't vote for them while he is leader and that saddens me.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 15/08/2018 23:16

I wish some of his supporters would at least acknowledge his lack of opposition to the government regarding Brexit and admit he isn’t up the job

HowManyGenerations · 15/08/2018 23:17

I voted Labour at the last GE, I will not vote for a Momentum lead Labour party again.

Yvest · 15/08/2018 23:27

There are plenty of Jews who back JC.

I’ve never come across one.

SillySallySingsSongs · 16/08/2018 06:21

I’ve never come across one.

Not me.

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