Jeremy Corbyn

[Hacker Khan]

They class "rich" as earning £70K plus and will tax them accordingly. Good vote winner there.

Or potentially one way of making society a little bit fairer in his view. As if all your policies are purely aimed at 'winning votes' as opposed to what you think is right then you just end up with pseudo populist policies and politicians flip flopping based purely on the whims of the latest opinion poll or headline in The Daily Mail. And believe it or not, 70K is quite rich for a lot of the population.

 

[Crazyface]

TB did alright doing this!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

£70k is £43k more than the average British salary, so yea £70k is rich in my book.
Perhaps not average on a middle class golfers forum though.

 

[IanM]

Hold up....wasn't the Left attacking Populist Politics last summer?

£70k isn't a bad salary.... everyone should pay their fair share of tax ok, but 1970 politics of envy is a bit "1970s" even for Corbyn,

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It is a lot but if you are single it doesn't buy much of a house nowadays. Sobering thought.

 

[USER1999]

The usual rubbish though. A couple on 60 k each escape, and a person with a stay at home partner and a couple of kids pays more tax.

 

[Crazyface]

The usual rubbish though. A couple on 60 k each escape, and a person with a stay at home partner and a couple of kids pays more tax.

ok they maybe should revise this to a more realistic figure, say 90K. If you really think the same argument works for 90K then you spend too much.

 

[Crazyface]

And the footballers? I'd tax them at 100% on all money earnt over 50K per week if they are not already.

 

[spongebob59]

At least his mate, red Len, got reelected.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

At least his mate, red Len, got reelected.

I quite like him since he has come out in favour of Scottish workers rights to be devolved to Scotland.

 

[SocketRocket]

I quite like him since he has come out in favour of Scottish workers rights to be devolved to Scotland.

Only Scotland?

 

[Tashyboy]

Five of us ex Colliers were Sat at a table yesterday and a PP said " what's that all about wi TM calling an election".
Another PP said exactly what my thoughts were. The Tories shut over 200 pits since 1984, over 200thousand mining jobs were lost. Villages, now called communities have been devastated. Yet Theresa May and the Tories are more attractive than Jeremy Corbyn and his pathetic Labour Party. He went onto say that he is a Labour man through and through and for the first time ever he will not vote for Him and Labour.
There in lies a massive problem for me and it appears quite a few others. Outside of Jeremy Corbyns close friends, he is simply unelectable.
It sticks in my throat that with all the problems that the Tories have caused me throughout my adult life. They are the only ones that are prepared to fight for us in the EU and and on a world stage when it is full of crackpots.
The sooner Labour and JC have there butts kicked and " New Labour " are reborn again after the election, we may finally have a decent opposition to fight the Tory government. If not the Torys will be in for a long long time. Especially if the Get Brexit right.
Quite frankly at this moment in time I would not trust Jeremy Corbyn to post a letter, never mind run the country.

 

[delc]

Sorry, but just can't see Corbyn as a Prime Minister, in the same way as I couldn't see Ed Miliband as PM. Mind you, I also have doubts about Theresa May!

 

[jp5]

Villages, now called communities have been devastated. Yet Theresa May and the Tories are more attractive than Jeremy Corbyn and his pathetic Labour Party. He went onto say that he is a Labour man through and through and for the first time ever he will not vote for Him and Labour.

I don't understand that - you've seen first hand what Tory policy does to areas like yours.

Surely the alternative has to be better?

 

[Tashyboy]

I don't understand that - you've seen first hand what Tory policy does to areas like yours.

Surely the alternative has to be better?

That is what is troubling us that we know what the Tories are capable of. I have seen things happen on this green and pleasant land ( Orgreave and other picket lines) that quite frankly where horrific. They were carried out under the orders of a previous Tory female prime minister. At the pit reunion last night it was brought up again. A comment was said that Labour is no longer for the working class, but more for the non working. Not one ex collier spoke highly of Corbyn. Don't get me wrong, I lived in Notts and the miners were split right down the middle re striking and working. There were hard core people on both sides. Some of these people danced and went to parties in Yorkshire when Maggie Thatcher died. I kid you not. But not one miner spoke well of Corbyn or the Labour Party.
We have crackpots in North Korea doin there best to get nukes and Corbyn don't want ours.
The trouble is that Labour had there chance under Mr Blair and quite frankly it was dire. The Labour Party just do not and cannot connect with the common man.
For the first time ever I can see me not voting 😟

 

[Papas1982]

I don't understand that - you've seen first hand what Tory policy does to areas like yours.

Surely the alternative has to be better?

Im not old enough to rememeber all the pits closing. But imo, most polictial parties deal with the hand they are dealt. If labour were in power when the outs were closed, I'm not convinced they'd have done any different. They may have said so at the time to gain brownie points. But by and large in my time of paying any attention to politics. All parties in power look after themselves first and foremost.

Thatcher is hated by many for her stance in regards unions (as well as other things that have come to light) but Blair was at one point massively popular and no some call him a war criminal.

Imo, no matter the party we will still all basically get what they decide. But imo, much as I'm not overly impressed by her. I'd rather May was around a table with world leaders tha the others. Irrespective of so called policie differences between parties.

 

[SocketRocket]

I don't understand that - you've seen first hand what Tory policy does to areas like yours.

Surely the alternative has to be better?

Bankrupt Country, High Taxes, High unemployment, Nanny State, anti business, Union domination of politics. Oh yes! I'm sure that would be better.

 

[Tashyboy]

Bankrupt Country, High Taxes, High unemployment, Nanny State, anti business, Union domination of politics. Oh yes! I'm sure that would be better.

I have always classed myself as a floating voter. Sitting on a fence looking at both sides. Worst that happens is you get splinters in yer ass. Over the years I have seen some Rammel Labour leaders, Foot, Kinnock, Blair and this prat that is in now. In that time I have seen John Smith who unfortunately had an Heart attack and passed away before his time. He for me was the man, the man that could of changed politics for Labour in the same way that Tony Blair should of done.
Jeremy Corbyn and his deluded followers are turning me off politics.

Without sounding condescending, I voted for Brexit. I asked the question what the EU does for me. It could of saved my job but it didn't so for me it was easy. I would love to know what Jeremy Corbyn and his Party would try to do for me because I am not seeing it.

 

[MegaSteve]

Bankrupt Country, High Taxes, High unemployment, Nanny State, anti business, Union domination of politics. Oh yes! I'm sure that would be better.

Think you'll find we are pretty well bankrupt already...

Too many tax concessions to the already rich and big business methinks...

 

[MegaSteve]

Jeremy Corbyn and his deluded followers...

I quite like the state of being deluded...

Beats, hands down, the feeling of being reamed out by the tories any day of the week...