To be looking forward to my free unicorns when labour get into power

[Thegrinch2019]

I’m very excited about my unicorns come Friday that will be arriving on Friday when labour get into power. I just need a big enough garden for it but I’m hoping Labour will give that to me too along with my free broadband and everything else they have promised!!

What makes you think they don't listen to the membership @user1471510720?

I'm pretty sure the UN knows quite a lot about poverty actually. I'm still not sure why you're just calling everyone names.

*Why insult, just listen to @ knowbetter above.

He/she clearly thinks that are Country is poverty stricken and not even registered how ludicrous this is.

Has he/she seen true poverty in Africa, of course not, and so I don’t mind insulting idiots.*

Idiot? Are you sure? You know better than the United Nations, then?

Yeah, I lived in Africa as a teen. I have also been homeless with my baby, after fleeing domestic violence. I regularly help out at food banks, and participate in a scheme which hands out clothes, food and flasks to people on the streets. I have lived poverty, and I have seen it. It is absolutely rife, for a developed country. We have increasing levels of extreme inequality. Maybe you don't see it, but I promise you that it is there.

Noted your disabilist language earlier upthread, also. And your shit banter. Not sure you're in a position to feel any sense of superiority, to be quite frank.

@fromthefloorboardsup you are only enforcing my point, perhaps you should volunteer and offer your services to help the Poverty stricken streets within the UK. There you go something we can both agree on. Glad to find common ground.👍

It's not about sodding broadband
You do realise the broadband thing will cost thousands of people their jobs.

Doesn't matter a fucking bit though does it.

Disingenous @Floorboards, John McDonnell is the real live reason I will not consider voting for my otherwise acceptable Labour candidate.

And Labour policy is voted on by committee not one or two people.

Wish I hadn't googled this - NEC elections 2018 - Labour Party Marxists:

"The Momentum-supported candidates in the elections for the three newly-created positions on Labour’s national executive committee were always going to be shoe-in.This is good for the left as a whole – which is why we recommended a critical vote for the Momentum team of Jon Lansman, Yasmine Dar and Rachel Garnham."

"As expected, it was a clean sweep for the trio, with Dar collecting 68,388 votes, Lansman 65,163 and Garnham 62,982"

"This Momentum victory underscores (again) the new reality of today’s Labour Party: the new mass membership is miles to the left of the Parliamentary Labour Party and the ‘old guard’:"

"It seems Corbyn and his advisors still seem to believe that by accommodating to the right...they will finally get their ‘party unity’ with the PLP and the right. It will not happen, comrades."

labourpartymarxists.org.uk/nec-elections-now-democratise-the-party/

Please never.

I don't find it funny at all.

Utterly utterly terrifying.

A hamas backing, Kremlin appeaser , IRA supporter, anti semetic condoner for a prime minister.

Fuck. No

Ok boomer

@KnowBetterDoBetter

Yes nice story, tell someone who lives in real poverty unlike yourself.

That you can compare the UK with Africa is breathtakingly arrogant.

Dreary op and not funny.

@user1471510720 you'll be pleased to know I already do then. But I still don't agree with just flinging insults, it's not a great communication style and does make me think you don't have any actual points to make other than you think everyone is stupid.

@xingming what's disingenuous? That's fine if that's your reason but I still disagree that Labour is a Marxist party by definition.

@CharlottesPleb How will it cost people their jobs? The people working for broadband companies will likely just be TUPE'd over to the government. We're still going to need all the jobs. Similar to teachers working in academies.

Labour isn't a fully "Marxist" party by definition.

It is our nation's main left wing party, and it has recently been hijacked by the same posh left wing student types that have plagued British politics and power structures for the last 100 years or so.

Kim Philby they ain't, but nor are they riding a surge of popular appeal. They exploited the Party's regulations and took Labour away from us all for their plaything, leaving the country with no viable opposition when it was needed the most.

Pass the wine darling for the many not the few, yuh

As the only poster to state my age on this thread (63, to say it again), the OK BOOMER flip off is unnecessary. I know how old I am, and I know there is inter-generational unfairness (i have a child age 20, so DFOD). I also have a parent and a pil, both over 85 and both more than 200 miles away.

@clavinova I'm not sure what point you're making? This isn't an official party website, it's a group of people saying what they think. There's some Marxists in the Labour Party but that doesn't make it a Marxist Party. The whole point of the party is that it's a broad church. I don't think the "mass membership" are Marxists, at least the ones I've met (and I've met a few) aren't.

At least there'll still be an NHS when you pass out from the disappointment.

*Yes nice story, tell someone who lives in real poverty unlike yourself.

That you can compare the UK with Africa is breathtakingly arrogant.*

I didn't compare them, you did - you absolute wally. I said that I had lived in Africa, so I have witnessed horrific poverty over there. I then said that the poverty levels in this country, considering we are a DEVELOPED country with plenty of money, are shocking.

I'm not in poverty any more, so I guess you're right on that one. I fought my way through a shit ton of structural barriers of inequality to make it out. That's why no matter how much money I make in the future, I'll never vote for a party that thinks 'inequality is essential', and demonises the vulnerable and the poor.

There's not a lot of "posh, left-wing student types" where I live, that's for sure. All sorts of people in my CLP, of all ages, backgrounds, and opinions.

If we are putting our orders in my unicorn needs me to live in a mansion so it has lots of space

At least there'll still be an NHS when you pass out from the disappointment.

Is a third party going to sweep to power then? Or are you under the impression NHS privatisation isn't a Labour thing as well?

The current iteration of Momentum Labour that is the active campaigning voice for Labour Party at the moment, is so much at loggerheads with the one-man-band working class electrician/plumber/labourer....that they have little chance. Those people hope to prosper and thrive in the future. Telling them they can only aspire to Venezeulan prosperity is not a vote winner. And that they will face tax at or above 50% of their earnings isn't a vote winner either... just sayin

If we are putting our orders in my unicorn needs me to live in a mansion so it has lots of space

You're in luck because under Labour land, building work and building materials will be free for everyone. For the sake of the workers and the economy of course.

They can probably all be instantly employed by the public sector or something, and if they can't who cares they don't even want the work, yucky sun-reading bigots

Remember when we expected better and didn't just laugh at the fact we might want more than being forced into poverty, ill health and homelessness because our government is too busy spending our money on Brexit and shoring up their own business and bank accounts and those of their mates.

There are actually people posting things like get all of you, thinking you won't rely on food banks if you lose your jobs if you vote Labour! LOL! Probably the same people who think the global recession was caused by Gordon Brown.