General Erection - 12th December 2019

[Jacko51]

This could be quite interesting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50474626

[Howjy04]

Interesting letter sent by John Thomas re Leicester East.A Labour Party member of 30 years telling how it is .Coco Corbyn?

[Jacko51]

I think it's desperately sad and reflects extremely badly on the current state of politics, that the debate on here is not about policies but which of the party leaders tells the biggest porkies.

[For Us All]

1 hour ago, mr.hobblesworth said:

Oh, FFS. You and your lot come out with a load of lies, repeatedly, about Corbyn. I counter those lies with FACTS and all you can do is sneer and come out with the BS above. I've been very respectful towards you in the past but that's just <ovf censored> behaviour more worthy of the forum dunces.

Crikey,that love-in with BB didn't last long?❤🤔

[Mario]

5 minutes ago, Jacko51 said:

I think it's desperately sad and reflects extremely badly on the current state of politics, that the debate on here is not about policies but which of the party leaders tells the biggest porkies.

And that, in one short sentence sums up my problem, Comrade Corbyn promising the world or Bungling Boris who can't lie straight in bed.

The standard of politicians in this country, who in the main have never done a days work outside politics is abysmal.

[Fosse69]

2 hours ago, geosname said:

Socialism in its extreme does not work...... capitalism in its extreme does not work..... is it so difficult to contemplate that something in the middle might work?

Like a mixed economy?

[Heatwave]

2 hours ago, geosname said:

Socialism in its extreme does not work...... capitalism in its extreme does not work..... is it so difficult to contemplate that something in the middle might work?

Exactly - and as I understand it that's what Jeremy Corbyn is offering - a mixed economy along the lines of that we had until Thatcher took us on a free market walk into private sector anarchy. 

[geosname]

1 minute ago, Heatwave said:

Exactly - and as I understand it that's what Jeremy Corbyn is offering - a mixed economy along the lines of that we had until Thatcher took us on a free market walk into private sector anarchy. 

You mean when the unions were in control?

[Fosse69]

14 minutes ago, Jacko51 said:

I think it's desperately sad and reflects extremely badly on the current state of politics, that the debate on here is not about policies but which of the party leaders tells the biggest porkies.

And once elected don't last very long, and then  their successors are  elected by far fewer.

[geosname]

6 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:

Like a mixed economy?

Something between jezza and boris

[Heatwave]

6 minutes ago, geosname said:

You mean when the unions were in control?

It might be news to you but trades unions are made up of ordinary people who elect people to represent them in trade disputes. 

They only came to the fore in the 1970s because of runaway inflation caused by the oil crisis and the reluctance of employers to meet their justifiable demands that their wages keep pace with it. It suited the Conservative cause to portray them as revolutionaries and the label appears to have stuck, despite low inflation keeping wage demands down and strike days the lowest in a generation.

[Mario]

4 minutes ago, geosname said:

You mean when the unions were in control?

Some have short memories,some weren't born,but surely we wont go back to those times.......Will we ?

[Heatwave]

2 minutes ago, Mario said:

Some have short memories,some weren't born,but surely we wont go back to those times.......Will we ?

The country is in a different place to then. There's a shortage of skilled labour now and employers are far more likely to listen to their employees' grievances. 

What would take us back to the bad old days would be if they stopped listening. 

[Fosse69]

1 minute ago, geosname said:

Something between jezza and boris

Difficult to know where Johnson stands, he turns with the wind, and what he says few believe. Corbyn is more fixed in a mixed economy.

[philpvfc]

11 minutes ago, Fosse69 said:

Difficult to know where Johnson stands, he turns with the wind, and what he says few believe. Corbyn is more fixed in a mixed economy.

Really? Where exactly is his stance? For Brexit, against Brexit? Oh hang on, he will make his mind up once everyone else have played their cards or maybe not. Corbyn will go against the Government every time doesn’t matter that they may be correct.