The Labour Party - After The Election...

[Ric.ror]

There seems to be a theory on twitter - the worse (seat wise) the Labour Party do the easier it will be to get rid of Corbin (yes I can spell it but choose not to). Could anyone explain it to me please? It was discussed by amongst others dan hodges

[mikey4444]

Hoppy....I am not sure there is an argument against the "swing back and forth"

Its our adversarial style of democracy that makes it inevitable. Every new Government that comes in, spends the first few months desperately trying to undo all the work of the previous incumbent.

Not sure if there is any other way of doing things !

[Deskdiary]

Mikey says people should play the ball and not the man.

I agree.

But...I assume irony is an alien concept then judging from his Trump posts.

[New Judge]

“I still maintain that this new Labour Manifesto has a lot of good in it.”

Let’s forget whose manifesto it is for a moment, Mikey. If that list of proposals was put under the noses of the electorate without the “Labour” label on it (so denying it the support of those who would vote Labour even if their manifesto included slaying all the first-born in the country) virtually nobody in their right mind would support it.

Many of the measures are badly thought through (so much so that it must be asked whether some of them were thought through at all). Some of them would encounter a legal minefield if attempted; many of them are simply idealistic dreams with no identifiable benefits for the electorate; the total cost of them will simply add to the huge public debt from which the country suffers.

The Labour Party must be applauded. For the first time in more than a generation people who vote for their candidates know exactly what they will get if they win the election. There is none of the duplicity and dishonesty that was stock-in-trade for Blair and his cronies. Unfortunately for those hoping to see a Labour government, the party has been hijacked by a faction which is intent on imposing a brand of socialism so severe it borders on Marxism (with many of the senior figures being closet Marxists). Fortunately most of the electorate realise that.

There's no justification to blame Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's plight. The party members elected him twice and they would almost certainly elect him again if he was challenged. Fortunately their ideology trumps their pragmatism. Who knows what will happen to the Labour Party and JC after the election? More to the point, who cares?