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Original poster

To ask you what you think would be bad about a Corbyn government?

381 replies

catdoctor · 26/09/2019 22:48

Please be specific.

OP posts:

sall74 · 28/09/2019 06:26

Immigration and benefits - This current supposedly right wing Tory govt seems to be quite happy to welcome the worlds dregs to come and live here whilst generously rewarding people (both UK citizens and immigrants) for choosing to have children they can't afford... I don't even want to imagine what a Corbyn led govt would be like.

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 06:41

One good thing about people on the left- they never use language like “the world’s dregs”.

flowerycurtain · 28/09/2019 06:59

The risk to women's sex based rights.

Appropriation of property - I think that has long term concerning risks for my industry. (Agriculture).

Workers rights. I employ people. I try my hardest to be a good employer. I will happily pay my staff more if the public will pay the equivalent more on their food shop every week. Everyone on MN will clamour of course they're happy to pay more for their food but the reality most people don't.

I'd love to invite the Labour cabinet to come and work on my farm to see how a 32 hr working week would work at harvest!!

Els1e · 28/09/2019 07:20

The union control of Corbyn when I have not voted for them and am not a member. Diane Abbott doesn’t seem to know what is going on in the world and does not come over genuine or credible. If Corbyn and Abbott were to go, I probably would go back to voting labour. Corbyn just says things we want to hear like free HE education, free over 65 care, nationalisation of public transport etc with no indication of how this is going to be funded.

flowerycurtain · 28/09/2019 07:21

No BertrandRussell - just Tory Scum.

VashtaNerada · 28/09/2019 07:27

I would be so happy if Corbyn became PM! It won’t happen but in desperate times I like to imagine it to keep myself sane It has been so long since we had someone who put disadvantaged people first. We need someone like that so badly.

WeshMaGueule · 28/09/2019 07:29

I'd rather have union control than control by billionaire hedge fund managers.

derxa · 28/09/2019 07:35

I'm everything the Corbyn Labour party despises. Farmer with two homes and sent DC to private school. If Corbyn comes in then I'll stop farming and retire to one house. That means a lot of local businesses will miss out on the money I pay them - vets, feed salesmen, fencers, auctioneers, agricultural contractors, seed merchants, agricultural equipment manufacturers and salespeople, accountants etc.
He has no interest in agriculture. His BFF is Gerry Adams
However if he stops No Deal he'll be the greatest bestest thing ever.

jasjas1973 · 28/09/2019 07:37

I'd be happy.

end of UC,
life long education service,

end of tax breaks for the wealthy on their school fees,
scrapping even lower corporation tax,
return of nursing bursaries.

Labour costed their policies, Cons just plucked figures out of the air.

Perhaps a return to boring politics, brexit was all about trying to solve tory infighting, nothing to do with helping the average uk citizen and has caused division and anger across the country...unforgivable.

oh and we'd get rid of that lying and dishonest Johnson

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 07:40

“f Corbyn comes in then I'll stop farming and retire to one house”

Why?

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 07:42

“No BertrandRussell - just Tory Scum.“
I wouldn’t say Tory Scum either- but at least it’s an insult based on a person’s personal life choices and political attitudes.

jasjas1973 · 28/09/2019 07:43

Corbyn just says things we want to hear like free HE education, free over 65 care, nationalisation of public transport etc with no indication of how this is going to be funded

The Cons tax cuts add up to approx 18 billion per year, each and every year, they've already cut corporation tax by 5 billion, to one of the lowest in the G20, that would pay for the adult social care all on its own.

They also have said they wouldn't do the nationalisation bit until it was affordable and over time.

mclover · 28/09/2019 08:09

Mainly because he's a leaver

phlebasconsidered · 28/09/2019 08:28

I'd be radiant with joy. I cannot carry on for much longer in my public sector job under this lot. I sincerely hope it happens.

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 09:15

“Mainly because he's a leaver”

May and Johnson are remainers- they’re doing a grand job....

jasjas1973 · 28/09/2019 09:18

Corbyn might be a leaver (debatable) but he isn't a no-dealer and is bound by his parties policies on Brexit, which is remain and/or a 2nd vote.

Unlike the tories who seem to make it up as they go along.

reginafelangee · 28/09/2019 10:07

I dislike the hypocrisy of Labour criticising the Tories for being public schoolboys when Corbyn and a number of his cronies are themselves public schoolboys and members of his shadow cabinet send their children to public schools.

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 10:11

Have labour actually criticised the Tories for being public school boys (Corbyn isn’t, by the way) or criticised them for cliquey, entitled and out of touch attitudes?

reginafelangee · 28/09/2019 10:41

Have labour actually criticised the Tories for being public school boys (Corbyn isn’t, by the way) or criticised them for cliquey, entitled and out of touch attitudes?

Yes to the first - frequently daily even.

Yes to second he was privately educated at fee paying establishments. I appreciate that terminology is different in England but is that not why you refer to as 'public schools'?

Oliversmumsarmy · 28/09/2019 10:43

f Corbyn comes in then I'll stop farming and retire to one house

Why?

Because if the playing field is going to be levelled then you might as well not do anything or strive for anything because it will just be taken away from you.

derxa · 28/09/2019 10:58

Because if the playing field is going to be levelled then you might as well not do anything or strive for anything because it will just be taken away from you. Precisely. My DC will suffer through new inheritance tax on working farms I should imagine.

CendrillonSings · 28/09/2019 11:01

Because if the playing field is going to be levelled then you might as well not do anything or strive for anything because it will just be taken away from you.

The curse of socialism in a nutshell.

PencilsInSpace · 28/09/2019 11:10

Misogyny, antisemitism and momentum.

I've been politically homeless for a couple of years now.

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 11:12

I am not a Corbyn fan- but “Yes to second he was privately educated at fee paying establishments.“ is not entirely true. He was privately educated until the age of 10.

Do you think it’s right for anyone to be held accountable for decisions they had no control over

BertrandRussell · 28/09/2019 11:16

There is a difference between levelling the playing field of opportunity and levelling the playing field of achievement.
And a slight increase In taxation of the rich is hardly “taking everything away from you”!

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