Someone needs to ask him how much increasing corporation tax an it will raise, people will avoid the tax so tax revenues will fall. People seem to view things in a two dimensional world without looking beyond the simplicity of things. If you can't understand the alternative viewpoint in an argument then you don't end up with the right conclusion
Yet every step towards balancing the books has potential downsides, hidden costs or consequences that mean not as much is raised or not as much is saved as the government of the day might have hoped. The Tories have at least as many such blind spots.
@GregHands: Corbyn asked if UK under "imminent threat" from nuclear weapons and his rambling answer is probably longer than the 4 minute warning #BBCQT
So weak on trident, his answer is we won't ever get to that situation. The question was what would you do if the country was under threat from an imminent nuclear attack.
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Do you really think that LibDem activists from South West London are heading up to Cumbria to fight for Farron?
Farron and Robertson losing their seats but Corbyn doing well enough to stay as Labour leader but not well enough to win would be a very satisfying result for the Tories
Surely that depends rather on which other LibDems - if any - are elected.
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
And questions are about actions. She was pulling him up on how he handled the Livingstone incident. Too many people on my side concerned about Islamphobia and anti-black racism, and do not show the same concern when it comes to anti-semitism.
So weak on trident, his answer is we won't ever get to that situation. The question was what would you do if the country was under threat from an imminent nuclear attack.
He's a total moonbat. Yet incredibly a huge number of people consider him fit to be PM. Now the nuclear issue is unlikely to arise during the next Parliament, but terrorism will and Corbyn will have to make life or death decisions, would you trust him to make the right one?
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
The line that Ken Livingstone is anti-Semitic is made-up, dishonest, disingenuous garbage and hardly anybody gives a crap about it.
Sadly.
Racism tends to be an issue which minorities care the most about.
I wonder if this was a subject which concerned anti-black racism, would you be so at ease to say 'and no gives a crap about it' as if it's a good thing.
Rabid audience Tory oh so worried about the North Koreans bombing Britain to smithereens and the pinko Labour government responding by saying "Let's be politically correct and give the poor ickle North Koreans a chance". Did someone say "moonbat"?
It'll come down to a basic question. What's most important. That you can't pay your bills despite working hard? Or that "if some idiot in Iran has launched missiles at us 'ow will you stop them"
@DPJHodges: This is always Corbyn's response to what he would face Britain face nuclear attack. Pretend he'd already stopped it via negotiation.
You may as well ask him.how he'd deal with a zombie apocalypse or alien invasion, no one is worried about a nation state nuclear attack. Doesn't enter their thinking.
Below inflation pay rises, housing costs, education and health are what people care about
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
The line that Ken Livingstone is anti-Semitic is made-up, dishonest, disingenuous garbage and hardly anybody gives a crap about it.
Sadly.
Racism tends to be an issue which minorities care the most about.
I wonder if this was a subject which concerned anti-black racism, would you be so at ease to say 'and no gives a crap about it' as if it's a good thing.
Racism is always wrong - unless you're Jewish. Welcome to Corbyn's Labour Party doublespeak.
I am starting to think that the move to Corbyn is more Brexit related than an increase in the youth vote. Those wanting to remain can see a weak Corbyn rolling over and they get their soft Brexit. They know that medium term Corbyn will fail but at least the Country is still close to their EU and by 2022 socialism will have put the economy in a disaster zone and the conservatives will again have to return to sort out the economy.
For the first time I think Theresa will lose her majority and that there will a minority government.
I am sorry for her and have supported her but if that is the result she will stand down and a new leader elected
Not really - just seems a likely case to me and I am stating an honest opinion. I would be delighted to be wrong
Prepare to be delighted.
Thanks Jack - maybe I am reading the negatives too much
JackW is right. Sure mistakes have been made. The biggest in my view is not giving more info about Tory candidates from the off in the CCHQ literature. But there have been positives, when I suggested Farron was not very good 2 mths ago I was pilloried. He has been much worse than my wildest dreams. However, I think the polls exaggerate his unpopularity in the mirror of what happened in 2010. And I say that as someone who has expected him to lose his own seat from the beginning.
As with the Copeland by-election W&L is going to be a cliff edge result. Without national resource Farron would lose by about 5k. However, he will pull in help from anywhere to protect himself - forget any gains for the LDs from the Cons for that reason. He is struggling in Kendal but as with Copeland in the by-election it is in the remote areas where he is really losing it. Giving the same caveats as I gave for Copeland I think this will be a Con gain, with a similar majority, 2000 ish
Do you really think that LibDem activists from South West London are heading up to Cumbria to fight for Farron?
Farron and Robertson losing their seats but Corbyn doing well enough to stay as Labour leader but not well enough to win would be a very satisfying result for the Tories
Surely that depends rather on which other LibDems - if any - are elected.
If Farron goes so probably does Lamb and maybe even Clegg too
It'll come down to a basic question. What's most important. That you can't pay your bills despite working hard? Or that "if some idiot in Iran has launched missiles at us 'ow will you stop them"
The safety of the realm figures very highly for people.
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
The line that Ken Livingstone is anti-Semitic is made-up, dishonest, disingenuous garbage and hardly anybody gives a crap about it.
So, just to be clear, you say both that the claim that Livingstone is anti-semitic is unfounded (even though his own party suspended him for it), and that hardly anybody cares anyway. Is that because nobody cares about racism, or because anti-semitism is markedly less serious than other forms of racism, or for some other reason?
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
The line that Ken Livingstone is anti-Semitic is made-up, dishonest, disingenuous garbage and hardly anybody gives a crap about it.
Sadly.
Racism tends to be an issue which minorities care the most about.
I wonder if this was a subject which concerned anti-black racism, would you be so at ease to say 'and no gives a crap about it' as if it's a good thing.
Racism is always wrong - unless you're Jewish. Welcome to Corbyn's Labour Party doublespeak.
This is what happens when you let the hard left in
@DPJHodges: This is always Corbyn's response to what he would face Britain face nuclear attack. Pretend he'd already stopped it via negotiation.
You may as well ask him.how he'd deal with a zombie apocalypse or alien invasion, no one is worried about a nation state nuclear attack. Doesn't enter their thinking.
Below inflation pay rises, housing costs, education and health are what people care about
In the age of ISIS, Kim Jong Un, Putin etc it cannot be ignored
They could turn it around with posters showing May and Trump with a mushroom cloud.
This is just nonsense, the possibility of nuclear attack isn't credible in the way that it was when I was young. Which isn't to say things won't change, but it's hardly a salient issue right now, especially for anyone under 40. And the upsides of spending the money on something else are significant.
That is not what he said. He described the Holocaust as the biggest stain on human history.
There is a difference between words and actions.
Questions and answers are about words.
The line that Ken Livingstone is anti-Semitic is made-up, dishonest, disingenuous garbage and hardly anybody gives a crap about it.
Sadly.
Racism tends to be an issue which minorities care the most about.
I wonder if this was a subject which concerned anti-black racism, would you be so at ease to say 'and no gives a crap about it' as if it's a good thing.
Racism is always wrong - unless you're Jewish. Welcome to Corbyn's Labour Party doublespeak.
Jewish racism is just as wrong as any other kind of racism, and it's a far bigger problem at the moment (we're not in 1940) than anti-Semitism, as anybody who has seriously considered the question is aware. The end.
It'll come down to a basic question. What's most important. That you can't pay your bills despite working hard? Or that "if some idiot in Iran has launched missiles at us 'ow will you stop them"
The safety of the realm figures very highly for people.
You live in Switzerland outside NATO with no nuclear weapons. Do you lay awake worrying about the threat of being nuked by Iran?
It'll come down to a basic question. What's most important. That you can't pay your bills despite working hard? Or that "if some idiot in Iran has launched missiles at us 'ow will you stop them"
The safety of the realm figures very highly for people.
You live in Switzerland outside NATO with no nuclear weapons. Do you lay awake worrying about the threat of being nuked by Iran?
No, as most of the Iranian leadership probably have bank accounts in Geneva!!
It'll come down to a basic question. What's most important. That you can't pay your bills despite working hard? Or that "if some idiot in Iran has launched missiles at us 'ow will you stop them"
The nuclear question is a proxy for all security questions, and it's very simple, Corbyn can not be trusted to defend the UK.
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We'd all be dead before he got to the end of his first sentence.
#bbcqt #ge2017
Awful on security.
Racism tends to be an issue which minorities care the most about.
I wonder if this was a subject which concerned anti-black racism, would you be so at ease to say 'and no gives a crap about it' as if it's a good thing.
Openly being mocked by the audience is never a good look.
Then IGNORING THEM!
Why do these people keep getting reinstated?
The bubble has burst
Fookin Unilateralist Idiot
That was bad
My political antennae is awful, the minute it crossed my mind he could be PM... that!
But us Yorkshire people managed it.
#ProudToBeAYorkshireman
Below inflation pay rises, housing costs, education and health are what people care about
I have voted Lib dem more often than I have voted tory.
I know facts and yourself only have a very passing relationship.
DD: “Do you want to come back on that?”
JC: No.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trident-majority-of-britons-back-keeping-nuclear-weapons-programme-poll-shows-a6831376.html
Not every Briton is a warmongerer.
Clegg dynamics are different. Tories aren't for 500 seats to claim Hallam any more. He'll be under threat by this idiot on my TV.
She's a bit crap.
The fact that the media soft ball Corbyn when he lies through his teeth is a different matter.
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament Wanker