Jeremy Corbyn's Conference Speech

[joggerjayne]

I can't bear the man, or the toady, obsequious trots who follow him ...

And I think his policies are hair-brained pie in the sky.

But, to give credit (reluctantly) ...

... even though he was talking nonsense ...

I thought he spoke very well at the conference this afternoon.

[Quizmonster]

Bit of a double plural there! Thesauri OR thesauruses, of course.

[mushroom25]

actually QM, "thesaurus" is, according to the Grammar Police (Q/V) one of the few examples of a singular noun treated as a plural.

[Ancientreg]

I have to agree, but this can only pump up his supporters more, who are already over devoted. I haven't seen such slavish adoration since Sinatra first arrived on the scene. I remember that still, that's why my trade name is
( all the best),

Ancientreg

[Quizmonster]

For a variety of reasons, I could not conceivably accept 'thesaurus' as either singular or plural, I'm afraid, Mushroom, though I'm perfectly happy to accept the two variants of the plural as mentioned earlier.

[dave50]

I have never seen a bigger group of deluded people than at the Labour conference, listening and cheering JC's speech. They really do think they are going to win the next election and change the world. Where do they find these people? Obviously not from planet earth.

[whiskeryron]

//And they need to ditch ‘The Red Flag’ too! That’s also well past its sell-by date.// All tergever nah, The workin' class can kiss my ****, I've got the Foreman's job at last. 

[Ric.ror]

For the first time in the last year or so the hairs stood up on the back of my neck when I heard Tom Watson's speech the day before - I actually wanted to get off my chair and applaud him.

[mikey4444]

What was Corbyn supposed to have said then ?

That he would dismantle the Health Service ? Or privatise more of our national assets ( if there are any left to sell off ) Or that he wouldn't build more affordable houses ?

This is the Labour Party, and what he said is what they do. Some of our right-wingers seem to forget that Labour polled 9,347,304 votes in 2015, and succeeded overwhelmingly, in getting a Labour Major for London.

There are some that have said, in recent years, that there is not enough difference between the Tories and Labour. Well there is now and if the huge increase in Labour Membership is anything to go by, its looking rather popular.

I am not sure if AB was around in the lead up to the 1997 Election, but, if it had been, I wonder what the opinion would have been then ?

And again in 2001, and 2005.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Or that he wouldn't build more affordable houses ? This is the Labour Party, and what he said is what they do. //

They don't. They're leading you up the garden path as usual - and as usual, you're falling for it.

//the Blair and Brown governments built 7,870 council houses (local authority tenure) over the course of 13 years. (If we don't include 2010 - the year when David Cameron became PM - this number drops to 6,510.) Mr Copley has contrasted this figure with the record of Mrs Thatcher's government, which never built fewer than 17,710 homes in a year.//

https://fullfact.org/economy/who-built-more-council-houses-margaret-thatcher-or-new-labour/

[naomi24]

Mikey, out of interest I tried to see what people here were saying about the election in 2005, but posts in 'News' don't seem to go back before December 2013. Don't know what's happening there. I thought all posts were retained.

[hereIam]

Be quite happy to have the railways renationalised, BUT I still won't vote for this man !

[mikey4444]

hereIam....then you wish to see the railways re-nationalised will never happen ...'coz the Tories will never admit that they were wrong when they privatised in the first place will they ?

[naomi24]

mikey, My post at 15:25 not to your liking? ;o)