Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

JB.

From memory, Ald was too strange for me and you are of a similar ilk.

I would think both of you as from the same planet as the tinker!

Be nice if you stopped referring to people who don't hold your view as Hitler and a racist or a BNP/EDL sympathiser of which i am none . You show a very closed mind and lack of intelligence .

Or UKIP

I was praising you!

There was a 76.3% turnout in the Labour leadership election. Corbyn got 59.5% of the vote. That makes 45.4% of the Labour voters chose Corbyn. But that was only 251,00 of 422,000 the people who voted. There are 45.6m registered voters. That means 0.48% of the electorate voted for Corbyn. Not only is that a minute number of supporters, but they are all activists.

Can you remind us all, how many votes Cameroon got to become leader?

That is not relevant. I was talking about Corbyn's potentially low appeal to the voters.

It puts Corbyn's win into perspective when you think that Cameron took 68% of the votes of his party members in his leadership win in 2005. There is so much fuss about Corbyn because it was unexpected and so unpopular with Labour MPs.

Despite what he says and how he says it, his 'non-executive', open-shirted, even scruffy appearance, limits his appeal to a massive section of voters.

To get to the top strata of politics and gain true political power, so as to be able to use it and influence large numbers of other people, you do have to at least look the part and be able to set an example for others to follow.

For a good while, I think he will be surrounded by sycophants, who might hope to benefit from fashionably hanging on to his coat tails.

Can you tell the difference between One Wan Kenobi and Corbyn

Is this man more tatty than Michael Foot?

LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


'It's a f***ing disaster': Utter dismay from senior Labour MPs as Corbyn victory triggers EIGHT resignations from frontbench
Labour frontbenchers announce resignations within minutes of news hardline leftwinger had won leadership contest
Leadership rival Yvette Cooper confirms she will not serve under Corbyn, followed by Tristram Hunt and Liz Kendall
Rachel Reeves, Chuka Umunna, Jamie Reed and Emma Reynolds also refuse to serve under radical new leader
A total of 422,000 of the 550,000 Labour members took part in the vote, with Corbyn taking more than 251,000
By TOM MCTAGUE, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and MATT CHORLEY, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:26, 12 September 2015 | UPDATED: 16:14, 12 September 2015


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beware of what you wish for could apply to both sides in the present scenario

if fred was half-way balanced, it would be (have been) worth hearing his views
unfortunately he is just a rabid dog

for my part, i worry greatly about corbyn, for he speaks eloquently
he has clearly appealed to a younger audience, many of whom could have but did not bother to vote previously
one of the problems with being young is a lack of experience in life, though that said, it can also be a benefit

will corbyn's utopian visions (to most of which i certainly do not subscribe) have any chance of realisation?
most, from all sides of the equation, think not but that is not to say they are right

From the mantras being trotted out by the tories and haze it seems to me that they are shit scared of him and what he represents.

I must admit his packaging is for some wanting, but the content may go down, unlike Cameron, who is all packaging and lacking in content.

But the smearing tory smearing tactics have started, as one would expect, but may not work this time round.

I think he has enough sense to sit down and talk and question with other party members of what they would like the UK to be in the future and the practical changes they need to obtain their goal.

I would suspect he will go for the "quiet" game, rather than moves followed by u-turns.

My guess his following will be a lot higher than expected.

Good luck to him.

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The previous shadow ministers who resigned should perhaps consider, why they were rejected by the public and party membership.

Also, remember that 60% of the electorate reject the present tory party.


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How many votes did Cameron get in the tory leadership election and how many members has the tory party lost over the last 10years?

And how many of the tory party members are donating in the hope of peerages, or medals?

Buying a peerage is back in vogue under Cameron and crew.

How many moats can a toad have cleaned, before he is given a peerage?

Apparently, Cameron and his key advisors including some Cabinet ministers were discussing Corbyn earlier this week. They started out very seriously looking at various subject such as if this was a resurgence of Labour and whether there might be an SDP moment. Then suddenly, they all burst out laughing about the whole thing.

Which of the three tory parties were you talking about?

Corbyn is a gift to the Conservatives. There are so many policies that he can be attacked on. This must rank as the worst decision in the history of the Labour party. Choosing Michael Foot looks like a minor mistake compared to this.

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Good, all third rate if that. Perhaps he will get some people who are up to the job?


"Yvette Cooper confirms she will not serve under Corbyn, followed by Tristram Hunt and Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Chuka Umunna, Jamie Reed and Emma Reynolds."

Jeremy Corbyn elected as Labour leader: Photographer captures rivals' reactions


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-elected-as-labour-leader-photographer-captures-rivals-reactions-10497885.html

I thought the tories were in government, at the moment, they are the ones who need policies.

It is obvious the don't have any and are using diversionary tactics from their own failings for the last 5 and half years.

Smearing tactics of bully boys stunted in school and blown away by drugs in colleges.

Did they buy their degrees?