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Labour, Least Of All It's Leader, Has No Idea.

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anotheoldgit | 12:24 Sun 23rd Jul 2017 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4722162/Corbyn-admits-no-cost-wiping-student-debts.html

/// Corbyn admits he had no idea how much it would cost when he told students he would 'deal with' their existing debts and denies the pledge was ever meant to be a promise ///

/// He told the BBC's Andrew Marr: 'I pointed out we had written the manifesto in a short space of time because there was a surprise election ///

Oh so organised aren't they, do you want them ruling this country?
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TCL, "and under a Labour government it will be free here too."
It's clear that the right-wingers on this thread have never quite grasped what many English words actually mean or the significance of the language's tenses.
a. "Under a Labour government"...Well, IS there a Labour government? Not yet, as far as I know, so what are they whingeing about?
b. It WILL be free"...'will' is a future-tense verb, so no one with any sense can rationally complain that it has not yet happened.
Let's all do the sensible thing and vote Labour next time - which might be closer than we think! - and see what happens to Corbyn's claims.
I dare you!
//It's clear that the right-wingers on this thread have never quite grasped what many English words actually mean or the significance of the language's tenses. //

More despicable assertions. We know only too well, that is what rattles the marxists. Corbyn said in a pre-election
interview that saddling university students with a massive financial burden after graduation was excessive and vowed to deal with it. The implication was clear. As well as abolishing tuition fees, he would write off outstanding loans. And it worked. Young people went to the polls in record numbers. Two thirds of under 30s voted Labour. Despite having ample opportunity to retract the promise before the polls were conducted he continued to brazen it out and encouraged our young people to vote based on a blatant lie. They won't forget. Only now, in true Abbott fashion, does he admit that he had no idea of the financial or social implications of such an irresponsible sound bite Mind you he made pledges to borrow £250billion for infrastructure projects, an extra £30billion to be given to the NHS, 10,000 more police officers, extending free child care, and a £10 minimum wage. All vote winners within the groups with a vested interest. He well knows, as does even the most ignorant of our electorate, that these promises would bankrupt Britain. These promises were carefully costed, and it is obvious that the crippling tax increases proposed to cover them would come nowhere near funding a public spending orgy, which is of course the usual modus operendi of the left wing fifth column. Meehh.
In a nutshell, If you are brazen enough to promise the Earth, you are bound to be stupid enough to promise the Sun and Moon as well. :))
The link does not load Danny.
Looks like the "Independent" have taken it down. Wonder why? Perhaps it is now an embarrassment. :))
Sorry Togo, pity because it showed a clip of John McDonnel announcing that they would abolish student fees.
Just googled it again and it is still there,this is what Mc Donnel said
"And yes it means scrapping tuition fees once and for all so we don’t burden our kids with debt for the future.”
As nearly 70% of student debits are never repaid anyway , writing them off is not as expensive as some think, especially when you add in the cost of trying to recover them.
https://www.ft.com/content/55f4a6f6-3eab-11e6-9f2c-36b487ebd80a
I've said it before, but I'm starting to want the Jeremessiah to win.

It'd be a travesty if he went down in history as the man who was denied his chance to drain the Westminster swamp and make Britain great again thanks to the evil mainstream media and treacherous Blairite filth columnists.

After a short honeymoon period in power he would surely be exposed as the snake oil merchant he so clearly is.
Bl***dy FT you need to subscribe to read the link, but you can see the headline, 2/3rds of students will never repay their loans.
What amazes me about this affair is that when the adverts on the bus, that said that by leaving the EU, we could use "the £350m that goes to the EU every week, and spend it on the NHS" we were told that it didn't really mean that after all.

But when Corbyn quite clearly doesn't promise to wipe out all student debts, it is presumed that he did !

Much more to the point, what are the Tories going to do about all the student debts ?
It does, for anyone interested in what was said and what it will cost.
Mikey, read my post at 14.33
Danny...yes, he said that on the Andrew Marr show, on Sunday morning, but nowhere did he say that Labour would wipe out extant student debt, which is the subject of this thread.
John Mc Donnel did.Is he not a member of the Labour Party?
Danny....I have read your post, and I am not denying that is Labours policy, which Corbyn reiterated on Sunday.

But it still doesn't say that all the debt that students have built up since the Student Loan system first started was going to written off.
mickey - your business about the bus has been ironed out more than once as having been misinterpreted. It was a placard which it would seem everybody but labour understood the meaning.
The promise about student fees was verbal and clearly understood by all. It has been said that they were playing the old game of Bait then Switch.
Danny... do you have a link to where it said that in Labours Manifesto of a few weeks ago ?

Here is the manifesto :::

http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/manifesto-2017/Labour%20Manifesto%202017.pdf

( Higher Education begins at page 43 by the way )

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