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Stop Corbyn Plan

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Redkite2015 · 22/08/2015 10:36

Only way to stop Corbyn from Labour leader is to cancel the election, re-invite the nominations and make sure that 'morons' don't nominate Corbyn again.

See the plot. AB camp is calling for urgent meeting with Labour HQ. Many genuine Labour supporters being denied vote. What else 'any one but Corbyn' can do now?

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claig · 09/09/2015 09:50

If Corbyn wins, it will "happy hour" all day long for the people. Just looking at the spinners' sour, scheming, plotting faces will cheer up every citizen in the land. If the spinners don't resign en masse, maybe a petition should be set up asking them to leave immediately and shut the door behind them. It would be the biggest landslide petition in British history.

claig · 09/09/2015 09:53

Abbott is very good on some issues and misguided on others. Hopefully she will rein in her bad policies and stick to people's common sense. But either way, Abbott will be a breath of fresh air compared to the Blairites, the Tory-lites and the spin machines.

Funinthesun15 · 09/09/2015 09:54

'misguided' there is an understatement.....

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Redkite2015 · 09/09/2015 12:07

When, not if, Corbyn becomes the Labour Leader, he will serve best if he stays far away from extreme left and not take any knee jerk policy changes.

Tories stole the Labour's minimum wage policy. Labour should abolish inheritance tax al together and increase the higher tax rate to 50%. While most people owning house in London and around would benefit, the very same people earning high income will have to pay more tax.

Something would needs to be to be done to curtail investment in property by non-dom foreigners and by buy to let owners. Perhaps increase in stamp duty, higher council tax on holiday homes etc. At the same time, all local councils must be required to build homes to replenish as much as the numbers bought by tenants.

Corbyn should also keep distance from professional union leaders. They exist to stir trouble, earn very high salaries and pension and live in social housing.

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Redkite2015 · 09/09/2015 13:50

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34198261

Funny story, one could see the establishment game. A fictional senior supporter telling Corbyn, 'this has gone too far' and urged to withdraw fro the leadership race.

Well done, BBC. It would be good to abolish licence fee and let BBC find the money itself.

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Redkite2015 · 10/09/2015 06:19

AB complaining about thousands of Labour supporters not receiving ballot papers. Does AB agree that, statistically, most of these could be JC supporters? JC has remarkably avoided complaining, despite personal digs at him by other candidates and open refusal to work with him by some shadow ministers.

Hope JC wins. Vote for JC, if you have not already done so.

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Shutthatdoor · 10/09/2015 07:18

Vote for JC, if you have not already done so.

No thank you

Bubblesinthesummer · 10/09/2015 07:19

JC may not 'do personal attacks' however some of his supporters certainly do!

claig · 10/09/2015 19:29

Great interview with Jeremy Corbyn on Channel 4 News just now. He is remarkable and this is the most amazing leadership election ever. The people have spoken, the elite have panicked.

The Establishment have got their favourite Labour MP, Jess Phillips, coming on Channel 4 News later in the show, but it's too late, it's all over bar the crying of the Blairites.

claig · 10/09/2015 19:42

Oxbridge Labour MPs, denizens of Davos, private school pupils and moneyed, pampered progressives are dialling the phone number of the elite in panic and asking them what they should do now, where their carreers are heading now.

"Down the toilet" is what the elite reply. "Sorry," say the elite, "we can't help you now, we can't offer you anything any more, there are no more guarantees, no more gravy trains, we're darned if we know what is going on, we never saw this Corbynmania coming. The people have spoken, and now we are worried about ourselves, so you Oxbridge Labour MPs will have to fend for yourselves. It's every man and woman for themselves now, it's abandon ship, it's pandemonium. The people have spoken."

After these sobering words from the elite, Oxbridge Labour MPs were seen wandering bedraggled, dazed and confused through House of Commons corridors, making their way to the nearest subsidised bar to drown their sorrows at public expense for maybe the last time.

Meanwhile in Islington, the people held all night celebrations and erected statues of the people's hero - Jeremy Corbyn. Things would never be the same again.

suzannefollowmyvan · 10/09/2015 23:21

ooh err!

Shutthatdoor · 10/09/2015 23:26

Meanwhile in Islington, the people held all night celebrations and erected statues of the people's hero - Jeremy Corbyn. Things would never be the same again.

And back in the real world...... Wink

claig · 10/09/2015 23:32

Wait and see on Saturday. Grin The celebrations of the people will be like nothing we have seen - far greater than when Douglas Alexander, Ed Balls and Michael Portillo lost their seats.

LightningOnlyStrikesOnce · 11/09/2015 20:16

How many chickens do you have there now Claig?

Whoever is picked I don't think they can pretend the left is dead and gone now. Thanks JC.

claig · 11/09/2015 21:41

'How many chickens do you have there now Claig? '

Do you mean in the House of Commons? About 650 of them, just about all of them apart from Corbyn, I would say.

Apparently the Labour left wing socialist group of MPs went round the table to decide which one of the left wingers would stand. Diane Abbott said "I did it last time" and it ended up with Corbyn being the one chosen. Amazing stuff, and lucky it was Corbyn because he is so self-evidently principled and decent and full of integrity that he will end up being unstoppable, which the others around that table would not have been.

Apparently Cameron has given orders for Tory MPs not to gloat as it may end up making the public sympathetic to Corbyn. The public is sympathetic to him anyway. The time is now right for a real left wing, and Corbyn is the best person to make it happen.

claig · 11/09/2015 22:05

From 100-1 outsider to odd on favourite. Amazing.

"Parliament's worst dressed MP" with a beard and old (not the fashionable young) has defeated all the suits, all the Oxbridge certainties, all the ones tapped on the shoulder and winked at and told don't worry, it's in the bag. At the beginning there was talk of Dan Jarvis and even Chuka who chucked it all in after 3 days because of the media. All of the great and the good, the slick and the smarmy, the suits and the teeth have been eclipsed by a man on a bike with an allotment. Historic stuff, and I am happy fot Owen Jones who was laughed at and mocked (including by me sometimes). He stuck to what he believed, he always had integrity amd now he will get the place in the sun which he deserves. I hope we see the back of all the suits and all the teeth and all the slick and the slimy. I hope we get new faces, left wing and for the people.

suzannefollowmyvan · 11/09/2015 22:11

I'm all agog to see what transpires :o

claig · 11/09/2015 22:51

There is a picture of Corbyn in tomorrow's papers of him in shorts and a stripey shirt. He looks like Dennis the Menace - awesome! All he needs now is a dog, Gnasher (a role which Len McCluskey could easily fill) - tremendous. The Tories are in utter panic, they don't understand what is happening and what is coming towards them next. The people are back!

CherryPicking · 11/09/2015 23:17

i think the Greens would welcome Jez with open arms if he lost and couldn't face another day of bloodletting. Might have to have a quick chat about perhaps not reopening the coal mines after all, but by and large I think he'd fit right in.

Isitmebut · 12/09/2015 00:19

No Tory panic as most Tories over 50-years old ARE Tories as they actually remember, or had to pay for, the legacy of 1970's Corbynomics.

Time will tell if 'the people' follow Labour's hard left/trade union optimism re choice of Labour Leader and London Major and vote for their candidate choices.

Corbyn is anti EU, the people only need one anti EU champion to lead the country, so Corbyn and the up and coming EU Referendum makes UKIP/Farage totally irrelevant - and so voters should take back from Farage the UKIP at the next ballot box their MEP financial gravy train that has achieved nothing - never mind vote for Farage at the next General Election.

ALassUnparalleled · 12/09/2015 01:09

Might have to have a quick chat about perhaps not reopening the coal mines after all, but by and large I think he'd fit right in

Oh is he in favour of legalising brothels too?

There will be no Tory panic if he wins. Where are you getting this notion that Labour lost the election because it wasn't left wing enough?

MollyLair · 12/09/2015 01:22

What....what??? You think Corbyn will lead the anti-EU campaign and...???

claig · 12/09/2015 01:33

'Where are you getting this notion that Labour lost the election because it wasn't left wing enough?'

A real left wing manifesto (not a metropolitan elite two kitchen Miliband one) would have won the election - nationalisation of railways and the Royal Mail and some banks, energy companies and water companies, a People's QE, huge housebuilding scheme, investment in manufacturing, a National Investment Bank, taxation of the rich and business but not the middle class, opposition to fracking and TTIP, no privatisation for the NHS, more workers' rights, free childcare, free education (no tuition fees), an end to austerity etc would have won the election.

LuisCarol · 12/09/2015 03:06

Where are you getting this notion that Labour lost the election because it wasn't left wing enough?

Scotland.

ALassUnparalleled · 12/09/2015 08:06

That is not why Labour lost in Scotland