ALi-B

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Yes I have... Most round here built 40-50 years ago had to be knocked down or reskinned due to concrete rot.

Now pre-1920's Terraces...different story. They'll outlast anything current, private or council.

Sad Weevil

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Shirley's back in Westminster apparently, in a £1.5m flat bought with family money. She eventually coughed up £12m in settlement of the surcharge. The Westminster Council "Building stable communities" initiative was not so much gerrymandering as social cleansing. She grew up in a council house in Hackney. Her father Jack Cohen was one of c_maguire's not very bright underachievers. Oh wait, he founded Tesco.

markjmd

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Bring on the new socialist utopia

JTaylor

Wow. Massive step-change in British politics!

Paben

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Unless there is a sea change in voter attitudes the Labour party can now look forward to more wilderness years a la Michael Foot. I wonder if Corbyn has purchased his donkey jacket yet?

dpb

Swotting that "journalist'” trying to stop him making a getaway on the bike yesterday was quite funny.

dpb

Will Red Ken get an appointment.?

alcazar

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I think this is marvellous.
Lieing Labour in the wilderness for years to come.

Unless, of course, he does a John Smith and suddenly dies??????

warrenm2

Greatest oxymoron ever

Turbohot

Oh, well. May the headmaster type do well, eh. Good luck to him. He does have a sweet face.

PS: Thank God I haven't commented that 'sweet face' thing on his Linkedin page, or I would have been in trouble. I don't take him as a piece of meat, I promise.

ALi-B

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Hail Corbyn the new leader

Most interesting thing in politics since, well, the last interesting thing.

Seriously, I think its a good thing, even if I were a true Labour supporter I'd vote for him

JTaylor

I vaguely recall you having some Trotskyite leanings, Ali.

ALi-B

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Sort of, on a theoretical basis at least. I lean in many directions though, depending on my mood

Dirk Diggler 75

Looks like it's gonna be a long time before Labour rule the roost again .......

Henrik

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Good on Corbyn, and two fingers up to to the "Labour Leadership" who did everything they could to discredit everything he had to say. Very, very infantile and poor show by them, in my opinion. They should be talking about why they're the best candidate, not playground mud slinging.

I can't vote in the UK GEs anyway, but it's good for the UK to actually have a socialist type choice, assuming he stays as leader over the next election.

hodgy0_2

Its called democracy

For better or worse he got 60% of the vote

Interesting times ahead

lordharding

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He tripled the nearest opposite
It's a fantastic percentage
Politics will be fun again
If only Norris could replace cameron the clown


The futures bright ukip

jods

You need your head testing. Labour under that (swear word) Blair has already been identified as a disaster. He is a ****. Makes millions for himself and sends our boys and girls to die or be injured for no good reason. Look at the legacy for those of us that love the United Kingdom, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Osimabu

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I think Mr Corbyn got in for several reasons. The youngsters who voted for him can't remember the 1980s so have no idea what 'left wing' actually means, then there are the older people who can, who joined just to vote for him to ruin Labour's future electoral chances, and of course there will also be the old lefties who saw a chance for some power at last.

Having Mr B. Liar and Gordon Brown saying 'don't vote for him' will also have helped considerably!

However, he'll have to lose the beard if he wants to be PM....

ALi-B

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Jods where did I say in my post that I was a Labour supporter?


clue: "even if I were a true Labour supporter"

Find a post on this forum where I've supported Blair. You won't, I promise you that. You will however find plenty of posts making quite clear my hate for Blair, Brown, Millipede, Burnham, nu Labia etc..

Alan Jeffery

Corbyn's manifesto?
Give Argentina the Falklands (Or as he calls them, the Malvinas). Hand Gibraltar to the Spanish. Pass Northern Ireland to the Republicans he calls "Friends". Of course, we'd be a republic as well as he hates the Monarchy. (President Corbyn has a nice ring to it, don't you think?)
Naturally Scottish democracy would result in a split, along with our Welsh Lefties. He'd decimate the Armed Forces, lose our Nuclear Deterrent, and turn the country into Greece as nobody will want to lend us money by the time he's finished printing his own.
Great Britain doesn't look so great now, does it?

dpb

Not quite sure why they lend us cash to start with, if thats the premise

Sad Weevil

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Wrong. What he actually said:
‘the dispute between the UK and Argentina over the Falkland Islands could be resolved with "some degree of joint administration". In an interview with the BBC in 2013 he said other territorial disputes had been settled in this way, and under such an arrangement the islanders' British nationality could be maintained.


Wrong. What his actual position is:
He is a committed republican, but he would not seek to end the monarchy. He told the New Statesman: "It's not the fight I'm going to fight - it's not the fight I'm interested in."

Do you write for the Daily Mail?

markjmd

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Firstly, why do you think we should concede a single thing to Argentina with regards to the Falkands, and secondly, do you seriously think "joint administration" could ever work? I mean come on, the population is just a few hundred, and the sole economic activity there is sheep-farming and fishing, how much "administering" is there to actually do? Corbyn is either just completely deluded, or he's contrived this as a way of giving them back little by little through the back door.

Either way it's all pretty academic, as there isn't a snowball in hell's chance Labour will get elected with him as leader (that's if he even gets to stay as leader until the next election).

Sad Weevil

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I've not said I agree with him. Just pointing out that he hasn't said he wants to "give the Falklands to Argentina".


Whatever. My point is that making stuff up about him is pointless and unnecessary, there's plenty of things that he actually does stand for that could be discussed.

Alan Jeffery

I write for myself in all things.

As the Argentines took the Falklands by force, and killed our troops in defence of their action, I'd say any dialogue on that subject is a no go.
IF the islanders decided they wanted to work with them, crack on, but they don't. As Corbyn has no interest in maintaining a defence over there, or anywhere else for that matter, it's tantamount to capitulation.

Being a committed Republican he wants to dissolve the Monarchy. Which of course would mean installing himself as President. When he says he isn't going to fight it, he means he knows he'd lose, and big style.

f1_fan

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Precisely what we should have done decades ago

alcazar

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And forced the indigenous population to accept it?

They were given the choice and choose to be Brits.

RS_Matt

My facebook feed is Corbyn crazy

Pro-Islamist
IRA backer
Holocaust denier
Hamas friend
Hezbollah friend
Peado protector
Anti-UK forces
Anti-Semite

He'll fit in well in the anti-indigenous Labour party!

f1_fan

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I suspect the migrants coming here would choose to be British too, but you don't seem to like them!