Oh Jeremy Corbyn

[abacucat]

To think adults singing this at conference, sound childish and idiotic?

Back on thread...

Corbyn got lucky at the last general election - he peaked at just the right moment with the tuition fee ‘promises’

Interesting to see what happens next time!

I will be surprised if he is still around by the next GE, but that depends on momentum. The facade of being principled and honest talking not a career politician has been proven to be false apart from his loyal supporters and with Brexit round the corner things could possibly be worse. He loves to play opposition hence the fee promises (ignoring that he wasn't going to undo the majority of the benefit restrictions implemented) but instead of holding the tories to account its just endless foot in mouth comments, the shadow front bench is a joke and Milne's (and the hard left tbf) rose tinted glasses re russia have shown there heads a fair few times.

Thing is people are wanting a change, going back to just different coloured ties isn't going to help, but Corbyn is not offering something concrete to the politically aware swing voters.

economically illiterate.

You will of course be aware @5YearPlan4000 that Labour's economic advisors include Ann Pettifor, Steve Keen and Yanis Varoufakis. As Mr Corbyn described privatisation as a scam (quite rightly) I suspect he's also been influenced by Mitch Feierstein.

I'll trust these economists rather than the bankers that are advising Theresa May's Tory party on how to make them richer and the rest of us poorer, thanks.

I'll trust these economists rather than the bankers that are advising Theresa May's Tory party on how to make them richer and the rest of us poorer, thanks.

If you are going to try and paint a picture then the bankers who are advising the Tory party (and not just a seperate set of economists) are also the ones who are saying how bad brexit is.

Also if you really want to paint the correct picture then you will remember that many independent economists went through both manifesto's during the last GE with a fine tooth comb and said both were a shower of shit with missing numbers, magic numbers and extrapolations and labours still came out slightly worse than the tories.

Economically illiterate is abundant across the board, JC and labour are just as guilty as is evident from his last "workers dividend" debacle

Also Yanis Varoufakis who said:

"Democracy had indeed died the moment the Eurogroup acquired the authority to dictate economic policy to member states without anything resembling federal democratic sovereignty"

Yup mental gymnastics at play for many Corbyn supporters...

Yanis was right. Democracy was overruled in Greece in 2010 by the EU, the ECB and the IMF who went against the wishes of the Greek people.

The only thing I agree with Farridge ever is that the EU parliament is anti democratic. It is purely there to rubber stamp decisions made by the EU Commission, who appear to be former businessmen (bankers).

Again, I'll take the view of economics professors over those of greedy selfish fuckers.