Be Excellent To Each Other

He has a mandate. he said that a lot. This is Very Important.

[Government fails at something]

People: "Say something, Corbyn!"

[Corbyn remains silent]

People: "Oh FFS!"

[Government in shambles]

People: "DAMN IT, SAY SOMETHING, CORBYN!"

[Corbyn posts on Facebook generically supporting the NHS]

People: "Oh FFS!"

[Government continues to be a terrible farce]

People: "DO SOMETHING CORBYN! PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY!"

[Corbyn announces multiple interviews]

People: "YAY! Here it comes!"

Corbyn: "Wouldn't it be nice if we all had unicorns?"

People: "Oh FFS!"

Fair enough, apologies.
You're very late to the party though, I'd have to say old chap.

That'd be better and more deliverable than most of the shite they come up with.

Yes. I typed that on my iPhone and it turns out I'm rather more accustomed to Android's text entry these days.

Title

Me in 2011, regarding mining closures in the 80s:


Also 2011:

Oh, christ, they are going to kiss

Heh. I agree, naturally.

If you posted more stuff like that in general, we'd be agreeing an awful lot more, I'd say Doc.

What do you mean "going to"?

I...I...I don't think the images in my mind can ever be removed.

And they're both in a sink with Julie Bradley.

You mean if you read what I wrote, instead of what you imagine I wrote?

No more kissing

Too far. Too far, dude.

Damn.
I fancied an endless supply of BBQ sauce and very well cooked rare fillet steak.

My mistake Doc: I mistook your obvious right wing leanings these past 10 or more years, huh.

I left off a , to be fair.

Fillet is a bit blah, though. I'd rather medium-rare ribeye.

I'm a lot more right leaning than you think I am. I'm a long way left on social issues but centre-right on money. I think public infrastructure should mostly be public owned (I opposed, and still opposed, privatisation of the utilities and railways because unless you lay duplicate infrastructure there can be no functioning market) but I think in other sectors appropriately regulated private markets can deliver great solutions too (I would laud OfCom's management of mobile telecommunications as an example where it has worked brilliantly.)

I often have political debates with a friend of mine who's such a hardcore Eurosceptic libertarian that he worked for UKIP (yes, really. No, he's not racist.) Despite that, we have common ground -- for example, he's liberal on social issues like gay marriage, and we were both boilingly angry about the bank bailouts. Socialising the losses of private businesses is an abject failure under any political model.

Hence why my lifetime GE voting score is Labour 1 (strictly a tactical vote, and one I now regret), abstaining 1 (due to my incompetence), and LibDem 3.

More kissing; a bit of a trouser fondle

Presumably, it would be below, oh, I dunno, £137k pa

He wouldn't be drawn on £1m, but said £50m was too high.

It's a pointless exercise. Income inequality is not even remotely driven by a cabal of people with a £50m+ basic salary.

It seems we're all in agreement for once. *starts frenching everyone*

On the radio, he wouldn't be drawn at all. It's worse than Quiet Bat People.

Well, bugger me sideways, I didn't see this one coming.
Cigars and brandies all round.

I see he cited footballers' salaries as an example. I can't see capping their salaries achieving anything positive.

Corbyn seems a nice chap but I'm not sure I'd put him in charge of a geography department, never mind a whole country.

Because you were sideways.

Unlikely, the state of the subsidies is entirely due to the UK. The EU just give a bunch of cash to each country, most countries do a simple handout based on some simple rules they cooked up. It's only the UK that has over a thousand different schemes you can apply for, and the money handed out is not fixed, its dependent on how many people asked for it in your area, in a lot of cases.
The subsidy chaos and bureaucracy is entirely of our own making.

On the plus side, I bet he comes with his own tweed blazers with leather patches on the elbows.

I think there is quite a lot of shared common ground between most of the posters here.

We're just a bunch of argumentative pricks.

Oh no we aren't!

(Coughs)

Corbyn is not MaliCool.

I would say he's proto-MaliCool. He was wearing tweed blazers before you were out of your Burberry nappies.

I have never seen Corbyn and Mali in the same room.

Sadly it appears there are no existing photos of Corbyn and Julia Badbury.

Over to you, DavPaz!

I'm not entirely sure why. I don't think I've ever substantially deviated from the philosophy I wrote above, in however many years I've been posting about politics here.

We differ in a few places, however. I'm less willing to compromise my lefty social ideals in order to get centre-right economics than you are. You are, I think, willing to tolerate social conservatism to get financial conservative. I am not. I'd compromise the economy (a bit) to get social justice.

I also have less faith in the inherent efficacy of the private sector than you do, and I suspect I'm generally keener on regulation as a consequence.

This is also why, setting aside the disaster of Iraq, I'm more positive about Blair's governance than many.

Blairite scum!

Yes, our politics are probably further apart than Cavey's and mine

Oh my god

Peterborough market - actually quite a bit of backing for Corbyn's maximum wage, and firmer stance on EU migration https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/ ... 81/photo/1

Eg Joe: "I'm for Corbyn because country needs someone like Trump to get rid of elitism"..backs pay/ migration limits https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/ ... 40/photo/1

Oh. My. God.

It's almost as if they haven't thought through what a maximum wage would actually lead to...

Busy! Soon!

People obviously have a totally different definition to the word "Elite" to the one I'm familiar with. What do people like May or Farage actually mean when the say "the elite" - I'm honestly not certain.

Probably not. I don't necessarily disagree with most of what you've posted today.

Readers.

3 day weeks!

Disco! Abba! Brown woodchip!

I would love a 3 day week.