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I’ve never been convinced by the above style approach to campaigning which is quite common – a mock leaflet that looks as though it has come from your opponent.
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(1) I've never heard Corbyn argue for any restriction on immigration
(2) He wants (at best) to drastically reduce the armed forces - perhaps he might let us have a part-time militia
(3) He's on the record as wanting that - even the Queen knows that
(4) He would almost certainly start immediate negotiations with Argentina to that effect
It might be more accurate to say they are personal positions, rather than official UK Labour Party policy positions, but when the guy is up as the main alternative candidate for Prime Minister, that stuff still matters.
http://labourlist.org/2015/11/labour-mps-will-not-get-a-free-vote-on-syria-intervention/
under the headline "Danger to National Security, Good for Manhole Manufacturers"..
"Oh, you're the Labour Party candidate? I see you've been busy here but why did you put out a leaflet attacking your own leader?"
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2015/11/16/time-to-get-ready-for-the-second-biggest-decision-in-300-years/
What an absurd notion... these kippers huh.
Jeremy Corbyn MP @jeremycorbyn 26m26 minutes ago
Got a question for @David_Cameron? Help @UKLabour hold @Conservatives to account at #PMQs http://www.labour.org.uk/page/s/question-for-david-cameron …
Given the events of the past few days, is he really going to raise Colin's wait on the NHS to have his ingrowing toenails removed?
Karen Armstrong — "Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism
Although IS is certainly an Islamic movement, it is neither typical nor mired in the distant past, because its roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia that developed only in the 18th century."
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-arabia-exported-main-source-global-terrorism
The loto has the privilege of asking 6 questions because they are his own questions, not someone else's. It's assumed he has the ability and ambition to know himself what are the important issues of the day.
http://rattle.scot/snp-independence-is-dead-start-again-or-shut-up
From the guy that wrote the White Paper
This point has probably already been made by someone else, but I've always liked how in those polls people apparently trust government ministers to tell the truth more than politicians generally. I guess it's because the consequences of getting caught are higher, making it not worth the risk.
A 20% approval rating last month is reflective of his performance.
"Can the PM confirm that no one will lose out over tax credits?" Opposition hyperbole and elephant trap all in one - there was nowhere for Cam to go because of course he couldn't and wouldn't be able to confirm that _no one_ would lose out, even I imagine after GO's statement.
But in the hands of Jezza it evaporated like the morning dew on a midsummer day.
Lab really do need a proper leader for the sake of the country.
"He's done ONE thing right. And it's the opposite of what his UK oppo would have done. I'm not sure you can yet say he has become a 'very impressive leader'."
When he first appeared on the scene the same things that are being said about Corbyn here were being said about Hollande. They're not not seeing him like that any more
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So he was head of policy, tasked with creating a new social model, but none of his stuff made it into the White paper...
Right.
If you read the other piece, you will see that the Bella Caledonia piece is irrelevant
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So he was head of policy, tasked with creating a new social model, but none of his stuff made it into the White paper...
Right.
You do realise the stretch in your logic?
Either you don't or you do, and either way no point in arguing the matter with you. Goodnight.
But in a nutshell ... Brent crude = $45 / barrel. US crude is just holding above 40. Oil inventories are at a record high.
On a related topic.
Strange how ISIS's apologists on the left never claim that their actions are 'all about oil'.
Nothing changes...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT9BpRXXIAEvtPJ.jpg
Hollande isn't anyone's choice as a war leader, but he finds himself there. As a Frenchman defending France I'm sure he'll do well.
What odds will you give me Corbyn is still in place on Jan 1st 2016?
(He then went on to say we shouldn't take refugees come what may but at least he started well)
Paul Waugh @paulwaugh 1m1 minute ago
John Mann told Corbyn his neice, a Lab party member, was locked in Paris toilet for 3 hrs 'thinking she was going to be murdered'.
Nevermind Oldham, Corbyn ought to be on his way out.
Douglas Carswell MP @DouglasCarswell now4 seconds ago
I think the full implications of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are sinking in to the Labour Parliamentary party.
I heard about the manhole thing, but assume that's not it.
I think if the PLP can be so stupid, imagine what would they do to the country. It's not as if any alternative to labour would be very clever either. Corbyn's three rivals all looked pretty stupid. I
If our politics were less polarised towards either/or---In my experience, for instance, many folk say they hate the LDs because "you don't know where they stand"---I could imagine a place for a minority Corbynite faction with no real power and with the rest of us spread in a balanced spectrum to their right. But here we like to have a simple test, with a winner standing over a bloodied loser. Here, we expend our energies, and create employment, on interpreting laws and customs within an evolved unwritten constitution.
Just theorising.
(Then) http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/Freedom-daniel-cohn-bendit.jpg )
(Now) http://www.chronicle.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Daniel-Cohn-Bendit.jpg
The Labour leader told the BBC such an approach could "often be counter-productive".
He also declined to answer what he called the "hypothetical question" of whether he would ever back military intervention against extremists.
"I'm not saying I would or I wouldn't," he said.
Unless it's about regional economic cooperation and improved trade, which is absolutely up for negotiation.
Corbyn has called this badly wrong.
Trust the country to this man and his bunch of hard left cronies and clowns, no thanks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34836439
If all of the mainstream French politicians swing to the Right on security, defence and immigration, that should lock Le Pen out fairly comfortably.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/666340297576718337
Kevin Schofield @PolhomeEditor 10m10 minutes ago
Yvette Cooper was among those who criticised @jeremycorbyn for saying he opposed shoot-to-kill for terrorists.
Kevin Schofield @PolhomeEditor 15m15 minutes ago
Tonight's PLP was brutal for @jeremycorbyn. One MP: "I've never seen that level of discontent. I've never seen the PLP so angry."
PM rips into Corbyn, who then stands up
"I have a question from Dorris about Tax Credits..."
Corbyn's prevarication on these issues are self evidently a symptom of his unsuitability for office.
He's a danger to this country, and a traitor. He in no way deserves to be leader of HM Opposition and is constantly debasing the office and our reputation overseas.
I want him out.