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To actually want a labour government

146 replies

Oopupsideyourhead · 26/09/2018 21:55

As there is a Corbyn bashing thread, I thought I would start an opposing one.

I want a Labour government. I think they offer more of a vision for a fairer country that the current shambolic Tory visionless one.

I want nationalised railways and for the rich corporations to be taxed more to pay for it. I would like to see disabled people treated fairly and not sanctioned and made to live in poverty. I want proper housing regulation for people who rent.

Theresa May pretty much said today in New York that the Uk will become a deregulated tax haven. The NHS will be sold off.

I want labour in power because at the moment they offer some hope an a vision of a different country. The Tories offer nothing but out of touch privileged etonians who want to strip the country bare.

So, aibu?

OP posts:
WTBE · 27/09/2018 22:17

Anyone remember lord buckethead? He will fix it!

Like many people I am politically homeless.
Never could I vote for Grim Tories, But labour isn't much better.

zsazsajuju · 27/09/2018 23:23

What about the fish finger guy? Is he still going?

Smallhorse · 27/09/2018 23:23

Yes, very

SillySallySingsSongs · 28/09/2018 11:38

Corbyn / Momentum are doing more harm to the Labour party than Derek Hatton / Militant did in the 80's

Well Hatton has just been allowed to rejoin. Says it all.

MrsStrowman · 28/09/2018 11:43

I think more people are opposed to Corbyn et al than Labour generally. I know several long term active party members who have quit recently.

sarahC40 · 28/09/2018 11:47

So fed up at being politically homeless with Corbin in charge...now Hatton has rejoined, even more disillusioned.

sarahC40 · 28/09/2018 11:47

*Corbyn

Jayfee · 28/09/2018 11:50

I assume you were not an adult in the 70s. I am just watching Derek Hatton on BBC as he has been allowed to join the Labour party having been banned in the 80s.I do remember the 70s and early 80s. Please, please watch the drama by Alan Bleasdale GBH. Bleasdale is left wing, but that is what Hatton, Corbyn et al. will bring. We need a different govt.but not Corbyn. Alan Johnson described Momentum as Malice disguised as Virtue. They are deselecting moderate Labour MPs. I dread having to choose between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 28/09/2018 11:53

Hatton has just been allowed to rejoin

Yes, I noticed that; it would be hilarious if it wasn't so worrying

madeoficecream · 28/09/2018 11:53

yanbu i will be voting labour. I wouldve liked us to remain in the EU but im doubtful as to the lib dems claims that they could stop that, plus I think its a wasted vote as they will never get in...
If we leave the EU id much rather it be under a labour government.

I dont agree with self ID however I think the tories would do far worse things to the rights of women.

Ta1kinpeace · 28/09/2018 13:18

Hatton rejoining is even more reason not to trust Corbyn.

SillySallySingsSongs · 28/09/2018 13:38

Hatton rejoining is even more reason not to trust Corbyn.

I agree. Problem is there is s generation who don't realise how bad militant really were.

Taxi for Hatton Wink

Puzzledandpissedoff · 28/09/2018 13:48

I take it back - as I said elsewhere, apparently Hatton's applied to rejoin rather than actually been accepted (though I can hardly imagine they'll refuse)

Taxi for Hatton

Love it - though you have to be a certain age to get that reference Wink

SmallState · 28/09/2018 14:01

I don't, it's one step closer to communism and I think enough of My finances are drained by taxation as it is.

GerdaLovesLili · 28/09/2018 14:13

I'd love a Labour government. What a shame we won't have one as long as Corbyn's in charge.

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! Get rid of him.

(I don't want a quasi-communist, misogynist, anti-semitic government).

randomsabreuse · 28/09/2018 14:27

Corbyn has whipped the labour party to abstain on welfare related bills (rather than oppose the Tories). His stance on Brexit (pre referendum) was inexcusable and had he opposed Brexit at the subsequent general election I expect there would currently be a labour government (and no messy Brexit situation- NI and Gibraltar being the biggest issues)...

Justanotherlurker · 28/09/2018 14:31

Hatton has just been allowed to rejoin

I assumed he'd rejected Trotskyism when he became a property tycoon.

He must have had another change of heart.

akerman · 28/09/2018 14:37

YANBU.
I am in despair at the moment. I cannot vote for any party that is pro Brexit, as the leadership of Labour still are BUT I also cannot bear any more of the fear, callousness and despair that the Tories bring to ordinary working people. I shall vote Lib Dem, but with a sinking feeling that simply not enough people vote Lib Dem.

Ucantpo1ishaturd · 28/09/2018 15:02

I too am the age that remembers the 70’s/80’s it was a scary time, I long for a Labour Party that’s actually for the Working Class and not full of Champagne Socialists.

RomanyRoots · 28/09/2018 15:04

YANBU it's people voting conservative that got us into brexit.
wouldn't have happened with a labour gov, even Corbyn wouldn't have called one.
conservatives are evil Grin

Dontsweatthelittlestuff · 28/09/2018 15:12

I wouldn’t mind a labour government but that is not what you will get as long as JC and his bunch of rabble rousers have hold of the Labour Party.
Labour is no more and the terrifying thing is that no one is doing anything about it.

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