Jeremy Corbyn - new leader of Labor Party - memorable quotes on twitter

[Axulus]

Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.Cx1a1Jn7.dpuf

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992

I believe that homeo-meds works for some ppl and that it compliments ‘convential’ meds. they both come from organic matter… - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.Cx1a1Jn7.dpuf

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/10038528258

Talk about out of touch delusional.

 

[fromderinside]

Talk about out of touch delusional.

Yes, you seem to be.

 

[Axulus]

Talk about out of touch delusional.

Yes, you seem to be.

Hmm, so you think homeopathy works and Chavez was a hero?

LOL, and you call yourself a rationalist?

 

[fromderinside]

LOL, and you call yourself a rationalist?

No. This is a political forum and I call myself a flaming liberal. You, sir, can call me fromderinside. I just don't go out of my way to indict people with labels based on their comments.

 

[Axulus]

LOL, and you call yourself a rationalist?

No. This is a political forum and I call myself a flaming liberal. You, sir, can call me fromderinside. I just don't go out of my way to indict people with labels based on their comments.

Why not? If they say extremely stupid things, shouldn't it be pointed out and their rationality questioned, especially when such a person is in a position of power?

 

[Trausti]

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992

I believe that homeo-meds works for some ppl and that it compliments ‘convential’ meds. they both come from organic matter… - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.Cx1a1Jn7.dpuf

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/10038528258

Talk about out of touch delusional.

The problem with a bleeding heart is it deprives the brain of oxygen.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

No. This is a political forum and I call myself a flaming liberal. You, sir, can call me fromderinside. I just don't go out of my way to indict people with labels based on their comments.

Why not? If they say extremely stupid things, shouldn't it be pointed out and their rationality questioned, especially when such a person is in a position of power?

The Republicans had one most simpleton leaders in our history lead the nation for 8 years. He said stupid things, he ran incredibly stupid occupations, he is responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 Iraqis and for the gross instability in the Middle East today.

You don't get to make fun of others!

 

[Tigers!]

The problem with a bleeding heart is it deprives the brain of oxygen.

 

[SimpleDon]

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/309065744954580992

I believe that homeo-meds works for some ppl and that it compliments ‘convential’ meds. they both come from organic matter… - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/#sthash.Cx1a1Jn7.dpuf

https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/10038528258

Talk about out of touch delusional.

The Labour party in the UK is faced with the same dilemma as the Democrats are in the US, should they be marginally competitive in elections as conservative-lite (sane-conservative?) or should they return to their roots as liberals and try to convince the voters of their positions and risk losing it all? The Brits seem to have decided to go all in on full flaming liberal.

 

[Derec]

The Labour party in the UK is faced with the same dilemma as the Democrats are in the US, should they be marginally competitive in elections as conservative-lite (sane-conservative?) or should they return to their roots as liberals and try to convince the voters of their positions and risk losing it all? The Brits seem to have decided to go all in on full flaming liberal.

Remember George McDoesn'tGovern?

 

[fromderinside]

The Labour party in the UK is faced with the same dilemma as the Democrats are in the US, should they be marginally competitive in elections as conservative-lite (sane-conservative?) or should they return to their roots as liberals and try to convince the voters of their positions and risk losing it all? The Brits seem to have decided to go all in on full flaming liberal.

Remember George McDoesn'tGovern?

Funny. I read the only portfolio liberals get is the economic portfolio. The rest went to more traditional inclusive Laborites. His cabinet doesn't look anything at all like the one issue results you post for comparison as your point. You're not slanting your view are you? Of course ....../lookingovertheshoulderposter.

 

[Derec]

Funny. I read the only portfolio liberals get is the economic portfolio. The rest went to more traditional inclusive Laborites. His cabinet doesn't look anything at all like the one issue results you post for comparison as your point. You're not slanting your view are you? Of course ....../lookingovertheshoulderposter.

Well, he did give the "Environment, Food & Rural Affairs" shadow portfolio to a fucking vegan.

 

[fromderinside]

Funny. I read the only portfolio liberals get is the economic portfolio. The rest went to more traditional inclusive Laborites. His cabinet doesn't look anything at all like the one issue results you post for comparison as your point. You're not slanting your view are you? Of course ....../lookingovertheshoulderposter.

Well, he did give the "Environment, Food & Rural Affairs" shadow portfolio to a fucking vegan.

You make my point. He did find portfolios for shadow cabinet positions for some who would have basically no effect on overall political discussion. I'm sure a vegan sitting around chirping about veggies is gong to be a real thorn in the side of the actual Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Cabinet member with almost no visibility to the press at all since if includes Rural (five percent of the population) in its title.

 

[bilby]

The Labour party in the UK is faced with the same dilemma as the Democrats are in the US, should they be marginally competitive in elections as conservative-lite (sane-conservative?) or should they return to their roots as liberals and try to convince the voters of their positions and risk losing it all? The Brits seem to have decided to go all in on full flaming liberal.

Remember George McDoesn'tGovern?

If you think that US politics is any guide to UK politics, then you are in for a big disappointment; and a comparison of the 1972 US Presidential result with the results of the UK General Elections of 1970 and 1974 demonstrates just how different Americans are from the British.

In 1970, the UK result was 46% CON to 43% LAB, giving the Tories a 14 seat majority (out of 630 total seats); In 1974 there were two elections - in February, LAB won a very close contest with 301 seats to 297 (from a total of 635), although the Tories got more of the popular vote, with 37.9% vs Labour's 37.2%; The Labour PM, Harold Wilson, went on to win a second election in October, picking up a further 18 seats, while the Tories lost 20.

Clearly while the Americans were rushing into the arms of Tricky Dicky Nixon to escape the terrifying spectre of a left winger (how did that work out for them?); the Brits were split almost evenly - but were prepared to support a Labour administration to the tune of increasing their vote on the second go-around.

Corbyn's position is far from unpopular in the UK, as we can see from the near panic in the right-wing press over his election to the Labour leadership. If they thought he was unelectable, they wouldn't be wasting so much energy trying to persuade everyone of that.

 

[Axulus]

Nick Cohen: Why I've given up on the left:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQQw5T2T94M[/youtube]

In 2007 I tried to make amends, and published What’s Left. If they were true to their professed principles, my book argued, modern leftists would search out secular forces in the Muslim world — Iranian and Arab feminists, say, Kurdish socialists or Muslim liberals struggling against reactionary clerics here in Britain — and embrace them as comrades. Instead, they preferred to excuse half the anti-western theocrats and dictators on the planet. As, in their quiet way, did many in the liberal mainstream. Throughout that period, I never heard the BBC demanding of ‘progressives’ how they could call themselves left-wing when they had not a word of comfort for the Iraqi and Afghan liberals al-Qaeda was slaughtering.

The triumph of Jeremy Corbyn has led to What’s Left sales picking up, and readers acclaiming my alleged prescience. Grateful though I am, I cannot accept the compliment. I never imagined that left-wing politics would get as bad as they have become. I assumed that when the criminally irresponsible Blair flew off in his Learjet, the better angels of the left’s nature would re-assert themselves.

What a fool I was.

Jeremy Corbyn did not become Labour leader because his friends in the Socialist Workers party organised a Leninist coup. Nor did the £3 click-activist day-trippers hand him victory. He won with the hearty and freely given support of ‘decent’ Labour members.

And yes, thank you, I know all about the feebleness of Corbyn’s opponents. But the fact remains that the Labour party has just endorsed an apologist for Putin’s imperial aggression; a man who did not just appear on the propaganda channel of Russia, which invades its neighbours and persecutes gays, but also of Iran, whose hangmen actually execute gays. Labour’s new leader sees a moral equivalence between 9/11 and the assassination of bin Laden, and associates with every variety of women-hating, queer-bashing, Jew-baiting jihadi, holocaust denier and 9/11 truther. His supporters know it, but they don’t care.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9637452/why-ive-finally-given-up-on-the-left/